Yaiba Appears (Yaiba: Samurai Legend episode)

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This article is about the first episode of the first season of the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime. For the Yaiba manga chapter with the same name, see Yaiba Appears.

Chronology
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Episode 1
Information
Title:	Yaiba Appears
Japanese Title:	YAIBA見参ノ巻 (Yaiba Kenzan no Maki)
Original airdate:	April 5, 2025
Manga source:	Volume 1: Files 1-5 (001-005)
English version
English Title:	Meeting Yaiba
English airdate:	March 8, 2025 (Emerald City Comic Con 2025) April 5, 2025 (Digital)
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Sayaka Mine Kenjuro Kurogane Kagetora Shonosuke Raizo Mine Shizuka Mine Fuji Mine Takeshi Onimaru Keiko Momoi
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Touko Machida
Storyboard:	Takahiro Hasui
Episode director:	Takahiro Hasui
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru Katsuyuki Konishi as Kenjuro Kurogane Isshin Chiba as Kagetora Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Atsushi Miyauchi as Raizo Mine Kimiko Saito as Fuji Mine Rina Sato as Shizuka Mine Hana Hishikawa as Keiko Momoi Hiroo Sasaki as Mutou Takayuki Nakatsukasa as Gorilla (Ruler of the Jungle) Masato Niwa as Worker Yuki Ominami as Announcer Shinya Takahashi as Security guard Risa Watanabe as Student Manami Hanawa as Student Hiroki Tochi as Narrator
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	pineapple tart

Yaiba Appears (YAIBA見参ノ巻 ,Yaiba Kenzan no Maki) is the 1st episode of Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime. It aired on April 5, 2025.

Characters introduced

Yaiba Kurogane
	Samurai

Kenjuro Kurogane
	Yaiba's father Samurai

Kagetora
	Yaiba's pet tiger

Shonosuke
	Yaiba's pet vulture

Sayaka Mine
	Middle school student Mine household daughter

Raizo Mine
	Mine household head

Fuji Mine
	Raizo's mother

Shizuka Mine
	Raizo's wife

Takeshi Onimaru
	High school student Kendo club member Yaiba's rival

Keiko Momoi
	High school student Sayaka's friend

Plot

Location

Setting

• Tokyo
  • Narita Airport
    • Terminal 1
  • Yaoya
    • Mine residence
    • Unnamed middle school

Other

• Tokyo
  • Tokyo Tower (only shown)
  • Tokyo Station (only shown)
  • Tokyo Skytree (only shown)
  • Kaminarimon (only shown)

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, Kagetora did not officially become Yaiba's pet since the start of the storyline. In the anime, he is shown to be pre-acquainted to Kagetora.
  • A backstory was added to explain how Yaiba and Kagetora met, with Kagetora unexpectedly helping Yaiba to catch fish in the jungle's river.
  • As for Shonosuke, Yaiba's pet vulture, doesn't appear until Chapter 7 of the manga, which is after the events covered in this episode.
• The wooden box Yaiba, Kenjuro, and Kagetora use to hide from the gorillas is filled with pineapples in the manga, but with bananas in the anime.
• The first breakfast Yaiba has at the Mine Residence is expanded in the anime to include the introduction of Yaiba and Kagetora's relationship.
• The manga details in on how Yaiba, Kenjuro, and Kagetora fell out of the shipment box and fought with the airport security squad, while the anime just shows them jumping out of the brawl.
• Yaiba's battle with Sudo, Sayaka's middle school teacher, is completely removed in the anime and instead skips to Yaiba and Sayaka at the school's kendo dojo.
• Yaiba's time at the school dojo is simplified/altered as follows:
  • Kumazawa, a top kendoka of the school, is absent from this scene in the anime, along with Kenjuro, Fuji, and Sudo (who is also absent from the previous scene).
  • Instead of taking on Kumazawa, Yaiba takes on Onimaru, but they do not engage in as much combat as the manga version has with Yaiba and Kumazawa.
  • The "Wild Beast Dance" that was successfully used on Kumazawa in the manga fails with Onimaru in the anime.
    • This dance, meant to provoke the opponent, was taught on-the-spot by Kenjuro in the manga. However, the anime shows Yaiba having known this dance since his time in the jungle, using this method to provoke and defeat the gorilla.

Trivia

• In Sayaka's room, there is a poster of Akira Shirazawa's film "Eight Samurai", which refers to Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai.

Gallery

See also

• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba