The Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho anime adaptation is set to premiere in the Summer 2024 anime season. A teaser trailer and visual have been released.
The trailer’s video description reveals that Kazuya Aiura (Assassin’s Pride) is directing with Deko Akao (Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp) on series composition duty, Tarou Ikegami (Legend of Mana The Teardrop Crystal) handling character designs, and MONACA’s Ryuuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi (all three worked on Shangri-La Frontier). Yokohama Animation Lab is the animation production studio.
The main cast members are Taku Yashiro as Jinta, Reina Ueda as Suzune, and Saori Hayami as Shirayuki.
Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho is based on the Futaba Bunsho light novels written by Motoo Nakanishi and illustrated by Tamaki. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the fantasy series — which begins in feudal Japan and progresses into more modern times — as:
For generations, a shrine has stood in the mountain village of Kadono, and for each generation the shrine has had an Itsukihime—its shrine maiden—and the maiden has had her guardian. During the Edo period, a young man named Jinta protects the town and the Itsukihime. When he confronts a strange demon in the nearby forest, it tells him that in the distant future a Demon God will threaten all people, everywhere, and it claims that the the Demon God’s rise to power springs from this very time and place, in the village of Kadono. So begins the centuries-spanning journey of a man tainted by demons, hunting through time to seek justice for what he’s lost, and to find a reason to keep on fighting.
The first tankoubon volume of the series was released in 2019, and the 14th and last volume was released in November 2023. The books have inspired a manga adaptation by Yuu Satomi and stage play. Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho was originally a web novel, first published on Arcadia and later on Shousetsuka ni Narou.
Source: @kijin_anime