Darkness Orb Escape Training

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Episode 19
Information
Title:	Darkness Orb Escape Training
Japanese Title:	闇玉脱出特訓 (Yami Dama Dasshutsu Tokkun)
Original airdate:	August 16, 2025
Manga source:	Volume 10: Chapter 8 (097) - Volume 11: Chapter 4 (103)
English version
English Title:	Darkness Orb Escape Training
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Musashi Miyamoto Jubei Yagyu Sayaka Mine Shonosuke Kagetora Nadeshiko Yamato Takeshi Onimaru Kumo-Otoko Kerokichi Kerosuke
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Toko Machida
Storyboard:	Jun Shinohara
Episode director:	Rei Nakahara
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Ayaka Ofusa Yoshimichi Kameda Yuka Koiso Mana Uetake Yuki Kikuchi Jing Lou Yan Yuanjing Kozue Hiroshi Shinomoto Takeshi Maenami (action)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto Hidenori Takahashi as Jubei Yagyu Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Isshin Chiba as Kagetora Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Sayaka Senbongi as Nadeshiko Yamato Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru Shuhei Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko Hiroki Goto as Kerokichi Taiten Kusunoki as Kerosuke Tetsu Inada as Musashibo Benkei
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	ACTION!

Darkness Orb Escape Training (闇玉脱出特訓 ,Yami Dama Dasshutsu Tokkun) is the 19th episode of the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

Characters introduced

Ryujin
100px	Legendary god that holds the Ryujin sphere

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Musashi Miyamoto

Jubei Yagyu

Sayaka Mine

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Nadeshiko Yamato

Takeshi Onimaru

Kumo-Otoko

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Kerokichi

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Kerosuke

Others

Musashibo Benkei
100px	Legendary warrior Humanoid bull Onimaru's new henchman

Fake Kerosuke
100px	Kerosuke in Yaiba's mind

Location

Setting

• Nagano Prefecture
  • Nagano
    • Zenkō-ji
• Hokkaido
  • Sapporo

Manga to anime changes

• In manga, Kerokichi revealed the way out of the orb after being beaten by Yaiba. In new anime, Yaiba just keep shaking him until he decide to reveal it.
• In manga, Yaiba is the first who realized Kerosuke's weakness. In new anime, Jubei says about it first.
• Some scenes not adapted from manga:

• After Yaiba returned to Kerokichi's place, he tried to find if there is another exit, followed by Jubei tried to commit suicide because he failed to save Yaiba.
• Yaiba group's activity at Hokkaido
• Majority of the group's encounters with Benkei, including searching the new orb, Yaiba and Benkei baseball match, Ana Shioji doing interview with Yaiba.

• In manga, Musashi broke his back while fighthing Benkei. In new anime, he broke his back after being surprised by Benkei's transformation.
• In new anime, Yaiba immediately changes his sword's angle to control his spin against Kerosuke. This trick was used against Benkei during baseball match in manga.
• In new anime, after Yaiba uses the Ice Orb against Benkei, he immediately use Kazaguruma to finish him. In manga, it was Musashi who finished him.
• The new anime make Onimaru masters his new technique faster compared to manga.

Gallery

See also

• The Darkness Orb is the Entrance to the Dark World
• Throw Away Your Dream! Special Training Deadly Sword
• Fast Ball Match! Strike Out Benkei
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba