Yaiba Appears (YAIBA: Samurai Legend Episode)

This article is about the first episode of the first season of the [Yaiba: Samurai Legend](/wiki/Yaiba:_Samurai_Legend "Yaiba: Samurai Legend") anime. For the [Yaiba](/wiki/Yaiba "Yaiba") manga chapter with the same name, see [Yaiba Appears](/wiki/Yaiba_Appears "Yaiba Appears").
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| **Episode 1** | |
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| **Information** | |
| Title: | Yaiba Appears |
| Japanese Title: | YAIBA見参   (Yaiba Kenzan) |
| Original airdate: | March 13, 2025 (Toho Cinemas) [[N 1]](#cite_note-1)   April 5, 2025 |
| Broadcast rating: | 3.1% |
| Season: | 1 |
| Manga source: | [Volume 1: Chapters 1-5 (001-005)](/wiki/Yaiba_Volume_1 "Yaiba Volume 1") (**[h.a.](/wiki/Manga_Legend "Manga Legend")**) |
| **English version** | |
| English Title: | Meeting Yaiba |
| English airdate: | March 8, 2025 (Emerald City Comic Con 2025)[](#cite_note-2)   April 5, 2025 (Digital) |
| **Story** | |
| Cast: | [Yaiba Kurogane](/wiki/Yaiba_Kurogane "Yaiba Kurogane")   [Sayaka Mine](/wiki/Sayaka_Mine "Sayaka Mine")   [Kenjuro Kurogane](/wiki/Kenjuro_Kurogane "Kenjuro Kurogane")   [Kagetora](/wiki/Kagetora "Kagetora")   [Shonosuke](/wiki/Shonosuke "Shonosuke")   [Raizo Mine](/wiki/Raizo_Mine "Raizo Mine")   [Shizuka Mine](/wiki/Shizuka_Mine "Shizuka Mine")   [Fuji Mine](/wiki/Fuji_Mine "Fuji Mine")   [Takeshi Onimaru](/wiki/Takeshi_Onimaru "Takeshi Onimaru")   [Keiko Momoi](/wiki/Keiko_Momoi "Keiko Momoi")   [Keiko's friend](/wiki/List_of_minor_Magic_Kaito_characters#Keiko.27s_friend "List of minor Magic Kaito characters") |
| **Staff** | |
| Director: | [Takahiro Hasui](/wiki/Takahiro_Hasui "Takahiro Hasui") |
| Screenplay: | [Toko Machida](/wiki/Toko_Machida "Toko Machida") |
| Storyboard: | [Takahiro Hasui](/wiki/Takahiro_Hasui "Takahiro Hasui") |
| Episode director: | [Takahiro Hasui](/wiki/Takahiro_Hasui "Takahiro Hasui") |
| Animation director: | [Yoshimichi Kameda](/wiki/Yoshimichi_Kameda "Yoshimichi Kameda") |
| | Voice Cast: | | --- | | [Minami Takayama](/wiki/Minami_Takayama "Minami Takayama") as [Yaiba Kurogane](/wiki/Yaiba_Kurogane "Yaiba Kurogane")   [Manaka Iwami](/wiki/Manaka_Iwami "Manaka Iwami") as [Sayaka Mine](/wiki/Sayaka_Mine "Sayaka Mine")   [Yoshimasa Hosoya](/wiki/Yoshimasa_Hosoya "Yoshimasa Hosoya") as [Takeshi Onimaru](/wiki/Takeshi_Onimaru "Takeshi Onimaru")   [Katsuyuki Konishi](/wiki/Katsuyuki_Konishi "Katsuyuki Konishi") as [Kenjuro Kurogane](/wiki/Kenjuro_Kurogane "Kenjuro Kurogane")   [Isshin Chiba](/wiki/Isshin_Chiba "Isshin Chiba") as [Kagetora](/wiki/Kagetora "Kagetora")   [Kosuke Echigoya](/wiki/Kosuke_Echigoya "Kosuke Echigoya") as [Shonosuke](/wiki/Shonosuke "Shonosuke")   [Atsushi Miyauchi](/wiki/Atsushi_Miyauchi "Atsushi Miyauchi") as [Raizo Mine](/wiki/Raizo_Mine "Raizo Mine")   [Kimiko Saito](/wiki/Kimiko_Saito "Kimiko Saito") as [Fuji Mine](/wiki/Fuji_Mine "Fuji Mine")   [Rina Sato](/wiki/Rina_Sato "Rina Sato") as [Shizuka Mine](/wiki/Shizuka_Mine "Shizuka Mine")   [Hana Hishikawa](/wiki/index.php?title=Hana_Hishikawa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hana Hishikawa (page does not exist)") as [Keiko Momoi](/wiki/Keiko_Momoi "Keiko Momoi")   [Hiroo Sasaki](/wiki/index.php?title=Hiroo_Sasaki&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hiroo Sasaki (page does not exist)") as Mutou   [Takayuki Nakatsukasa](/wiki/index.php?title=Takayuki_Nakatsukasa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Takayuki Nakatsukasa (page does not exist)") as Gorilla (Ruler of the Jungle)   [Masato Niwa](/wiki/index.php?title=Masato_Niwa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Masato Niwa (page does not exist)") as Worker   [Yuki Ominami](/wiki/index.php?title=Yuki_Ominami&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yuki Ominami (page does not exist)") as Announcer   [Shinya Takahashi](/wiki/index.php?title=Shinya_Takahashi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Shinya Takahashi (page does not exist)") as Security guard   [Risa Watanabe](/wiki/index.php?title=Risa_Watanabe&action=edit&redlink=1 "Risa Watanabe (page does not exist)") as Student   [Manami Hanawa](/wiki/index.php?title=Manami_Hanawa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Manami Hanawa (page does not exist)") as [Keiko's friend](/wiki/List_of_minor_Magic_Kaito_characters#Keiko.27s_friend "List of minor Magic Kaito characters")   [Hiroki Tochi](/wiki/Hiroki_Tochi "Hiroki Tochi") as Narrator | | |
| **Music** | |
| Opening song: | [BLADE](/wiki/BLADE "BLADE") |
| Closing song: | [pineapple tart](/wiki/Pineapple_tart "Pineapple tart") |
***Yaiba Appears*** (YAIBA見参 ,*Yaiba Kenzan*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")), known in English as **Meeting Yaiba**, is the 1st episode of *[Yaiba: Samurai Legend](/wiki/Yaiba:_Samurai_Legend "Yaiba: Samurai Legend")* anime.
After its premiere in the United States on March 8, 2025, at the 2025 [Emerald City Comic Con](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_City_Comic_Con "wikipedia:Emerald City Comic Con") in [Seattle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle "wikipedia:Seattle") and in [Toho Cinemas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toho_Cinemas "wikipedia:Toho Cinemas") across Japan on March 13, 2025, it was officially broadcast in Japan on April 5, 2025, while being simulcasted by Netflix in other English-speaking countries.
Adapted from the [first five chapters](/wiki/Yaiba_Volume_1 "Yaiba Volume 1") of [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama")'s [original manga](/wiki/Yaiba "Yaiba"), it was written by [Toko Machida](/wiki/Toko_Machida "Toko Machida"), storyboarded and produced by [Takahiro Hasui](/wiki/Takahiro_Hasui "Takahiro Hasui"), and animated by [Yoshimichi Kameda](/wiki/Yoshimichi_Kameda "Yoshimichi Kameda"). The story follows the protagonist [Yaiba Kurogane](/wiki/Yaiba_Kurogane "Yaiba Kurogane")'s move back to Japan into the house of the [Mine family](/wiki/Mine_family "Mine family"), along with his pets [Kagetora](/wiki/Kagetora "Kagetora") and [Shonosuke](/wiki/Shonosuke "Shonosuke"). After following [Sayaka Mine](/wiki/Sayaka_Mine "Sayaka Mine"), he attends middle school for the first time, and later enters the Kendo dojo, where he meets national champion [Takeshi Onimaru](/wiki/Takeshi_Onimaru "Takeshi Onimaru"). This fateful meeting would later spark the beginning of a lifelong rivalry.
## Contents
* [1 Cast](#Cast)
+ [1.1 Introduced](#Introduced)
* [2 Location](#Location)
+ [2.1 Setting](#Setting)
+ [2.2 Other](#Other)
* [3 Story](#Story)
+ [3.1 Prologue](#Prologue)
+ [3.2 Origins](#Origins)
+ [3.3 Yaiba Meets the Mine Family](#Yaiba_Meets_the_Mine_Family)
+ [3.4 At the Mine residence](#At_the_Mine_residence)
+ [3.5 Yaiba vs. Onimaru](#Yaiba_vs._Onimaru)
* [4 Manga to anime changes](#Manga_to_anime_changes)
* [5 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [6 Gallery](#Gallery)
* [7 See also](#See_also)
* [8 Footnotes](#Footnotes)
+ [8.1 Notes](#Notes)
+ [8.2 References](#References)