Heisei’s Samurai Yaiba Appears

Sayaka Mine
	High school student; Mine household daughter;

Yaiba Kurogane
	Samurai;

	Episode 1
	Information
Title:	Heisei’s Samurai Yaiba Appears
Japanese Title:	平成の侍ヤイバ登場! ; (Heisei no Samurai Yaiba Tōjō!)
Original airdate:	April 9, 1993
	Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane ; Sayaka Mine ; Shonosuke ; Kenjuro Kurogane ; Kagetora ; Raizo Mine ; Takeshi Onimaru ; Sayaka's Grandmother ; Shizuka Mine
	Staff
Director:	Kunihiko Yuyama
Screenplay:	Kenji Terada
Storyboard:	Kunihiko Yuyama
Animation Director:	Masashi Hirota (supervisor) ; Arihiro Goto, Takuya Matsumoto, Yuri Inoguchi, Koichiro Niiba and Kazumi Sato
Voice cast:
	Minami Takayam as Yaiba Kurogane ; Kotono Mitsuishi as Sayaka Mine ; Ryo Horikawa as Takeshi Onimaru ; Bin Shimada as Kenjuro Kurogane ; Unsho Ishizuka as Raizo Mine ; Reiko Suzuki as Sayaka's Grandmother ; Masaharu Sato as Sudo ; Hisao Egawa as Kagetora ; Kazunari Tanaka as Kendo Club member ; Hideo Ishikawa as Security guard ; Takahiro Yoshimizu as Driver
	Music
Opening song:	Yūki ga Areba
Closing song:	Shinchigakunaki Tatakai
	Chronology
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Characters introduced

Shonosuke
	Yaiba's pet vulture

Kenjuro Kurogane
	Yaiba's father Samurai

Kagetora
	Yaiba's pet tiger

Raizo Mine
	Mine household head

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

Sayaka's Grandmother
	Raizo's mother

Shizuka Mine
	Raizo's wife

Muto
	Mine dojo swordsman

Sudo
	Teacher School's kendo club coach