A Battle of Giants

Chronology
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Episode 16
Information
Title:	A Battle of Giants
Japanese Title:	巨大決戦 (Kyodai Kessen)
Original airdate:	July 26, 2025
Manga source:	Volume 9: Chapters 2-8 (081-087)
English version
English Title:	A Battle of Giants
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Musashi Miyamoto Kojiro Sasaki Sayaka Mine Shonosuke Kagetora Kumo-Otoko
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Eiji Umehara
Storyboard:	Itsuki Tsuchigami
Episode director:	Yoshitsugu Hosokawa
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Shotaro Tamemizu Masaru Oshiro Hiroshi Shinomoto Takeshi Maenami Masayuki Sato Ayaka Ofusa Yoshimichi Kameda Maki Kawake
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto Go Inoue as Kojiro Sasaki Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Isshin Chiba as Kagetora, Head monk (uncredited) Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Shuhei Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko Tomoaki Maeno as Ishikawa Goemon Shinya Takahashi as Old man Akihiro Tajima as Worker Hana Hishikawa as Woman Keina Yamada as Woman
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	ACTION!

A Battle of Giants (巨大決戦 ,Kyodai Kessen) is the 16th episode of the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

Characters introduced

Ishikawa Goemon
	Revived legendary thief Humanoid bear Onimaru's new henchman

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Musashi Miyamoto

Kojiro Sasaki

Sayaka Mine

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Kumo-Otoko

Others

Daibutsu
File:Nara Daibutsu.jpg	Great Buddha of the Tōdai-ji temple in Nara

Head monk
File:Nara monk.jpg	Head monk of the Tōdai-ji temple

Robot
File:Osaka Castle Giant.jpg	Mechanized Onimaru Osaka Castle

Location

Setting

• Nara Prefecture
  • Tōdai-ji
• Osaka
  • Osaka Castle (now Osaka Onimaru Castle)

Gallery

See also

• The World Renowned Thief, Goemon
• Huge Battle! Buddha vs. Osaka Onimaru Castle
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba