Showdown! Magician vs. Yaiba

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Episode 15
Information
Title:	Showdown! Magician vs. Yaiba
Japanese Title:	対決!妖術師VS刃 (Taiketsu! Yōjutsu-shi VS Yaiba)
Original airdate:	July 19, 2025
Broadcast rating:	Unknown
Manga source:	Volume 8: Chapter 5 (074) - Volume 9: Chapter 1 (080)
English version
English Title:	Showdown! Magician vs. Yaiba
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Musashi Miyamoto Kojiro Sasaki Sayaka Mine Shonosuke Kagetora Nadeshiko Yamato Takeshi Onimaru Kumo-Otoko Professor Kanabo Hitode-Otoko
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Eiji Umehara
Storyboard:	Masahiko Komino
Episode director:	Hiroyuki Tanaka Maho Ishikawa Rei Nakahara (asst.)
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Hideyuki Arao Masayuki Sato Yuko Yamamoto Tsuroru
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 Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Sayaka Senbongi as Nadeshiko Yamato Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru Shuhei Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Professor Kanabo Genta Nakamura as Hitode-Otoko Anri Katsu as Shiro Amakusa Manami Hanawa as Miporin Masato Niwa as Pilot Nodoka Hasegawa as Ana Shioji
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	ACTION!

Showdown! Magician vs. Yaiba (対決!妖術師VS刃 ,Taiketsu! Yōjutsu-shi VS Yaiba) is the 15th episode of the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

Cast

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Musashi Miyamoto

Kojiro Sasaki

Sayaka Mine

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Nadeshiko Yamato

Takeshi Onimaru

Kumo-Otoko

Professor Kanabo

Hitode-Otoko

Other

Shiro Amakusa
100px	Revived legendary samurai Humanoid fox Led the Shimabara Rebellion of the Christians Onimaru's new henchman

Miporin
100px	Humanoid starfish Hitode-Otoko's wife

Koichi
100px	Humanoid starfish Son of the Hitodes

Location

Setting

• Mount Fuji
• Shizuoka Prefecture
  • Fuji
    • Fuji City Hall
• Kumamoto Prefecture
  • Mount Aso

Others

• Yamanashi Prefecture
  • Fujiyoshida
    • Honcho 2-chome Shopping District
• Tokyo
  • Taito
    • Ameya-Yokochō

Manga to anime changes

• In manga, after Yaiba's group arrived at Kumamoto, they stayed at onsen that Kumo-Otoko already arranged, so that he can find the orb with Shiro Amakusa. While the beginning part was partially adapted in Episode 5, the later part where they figured out the orb location is not adapted. In the new anime, after the group arrive at Kumamoto, they immediately meet Hitode-Otoko and his family instead of the next day during their journey to Mount Aso. The group also decide to stay at Hitode-Otoko's house. This change also lead to Kumo-Otoko using his gadget to follow Yaiba to find the orb after Shiro Amakusa failed to find it (in manga they know the location from the onsen owner).
• Some scenes not adapted in new anime:

• Oni minions parachuting to Kumamoto
• Ana Shioji wondering where is Yaiba and call him idiot, which lead to Yaiba sneezing
• Shiro Amakusa attacking Yaiba with crows
• Kagetora trying to help Yaiba figthing against Shiro Amakusa who became tiger
• Yaiba trying to do fire-breathing when he became dragon.

• The scene where Yaiba transforms to Nadeshiko in bikini is unique to the anime.

Gallery

See also

• Legend of the Red Dragon!! Shiro Amakusa Appears!
• Feverish Hell! Steal the Flame Orb!!
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba