Crisis on Kawanakajima

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| **Episode 18** | |
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| **Information** | |
| Title: | Crisis on Kawanakajima |
| Japanese Title: | 川中島大決戦   (Kawanakajima Daikessen) |
| Original airdate: | August 9, 2025 |
| Broadcast rating: | 2.8%[](#cite_note-1) |
| Season: | 1 |
| Manga source: | [Volume 10: Chapters 5-8 (094-097)](/wiki/Yaiba_Volume_10 "Yaiba Volume 10") |
| **English version** | |
| English Title: | Crisis on Kawanaka-Jima |
| **Story** | |
| Cast: | [Yaiba Kurogane](/wiki/Yaiba_Kurogane "Yaiba Kurogane")   [Musashi Miyamoto](/wiki/Musashi_Miyamoto "Musashi Miyamoto")   [Kojiro Sasaki](/wiki/Kojiro_Sasaki "Kojiro Sasaki")   [Jubei Yagyu](/wiki/Jubei_Yagyu "Jubei Yagyu")   [Sayaka Mine](/wiki/Sayaka_Mine "Sayaka Mine")   [Shonosuke](/wiki/Shonosuke "Shonosuke")   [Kagetora](/wiki/Kagetora "Kagetora")   [Nadeshiko Yamato](/wiki/Nadeshiko_Yamato "Nadeshiko Yamato")   [Kumo-Otoko](/wiki/Kumo-Otoko "Kumo-Otoko")   [Ishikawa Goemon](/wiki/index.php?title=Ishikawa_Goemon_(Yaiba)&action=edit&redlink=1 "Ishikawa Goemon (Yaiba) (page does not exist)") |
| **Staff** | |
| Director: | [Takahiro Hasui](/wiki/Takahiro_Hasui "Takahiro Hasui") |
| Screenplay: | [Toko Machida](/wiki/Toko_Machida "Toko Machida") |
| Storyboard: | [Yoshiyuki Kaneko](/wiki/index.php?title=Yoshiyuki_Kaneko&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yoshiyuki Kaneko (page does not exist)") |
| Episode director: | [Maho Ishikawa](/wiki/index.php?title=Maho_Ishikawa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Maho Ishikawa (page does not exist)")   [Makoto Fuchigami](/wiki/index.php?title=Makoto_Fuchigami&action=edit&redlink=1 "Makoto Fuchigami (page does not exist)")   [Yosuke Hatta](/wiki/index.php?title=Yosuke_Hatta&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yosuke Hatta (page does not exist)") (asst.) |
| Animation director: | [Yoshimichi Kameda](/wiki/Yoshimichi_Kameda "Yoshimichi Kameda") (chief)   [Shosuke Ishibashi](/wiki/index.php?title=Shosuke_Ishibashi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Shosuke Ishibashi (page does not exist)")   [Kozue](/wiki/index.php?title=Kozue&action=edit&redlink=1 "Kozue (page does not exist)")   [Yoshimichi Kameda](/wiki/Yoshimichi_Kameda "Yoshimichi Kameda")   [Wan Yi](/wiki/index.php?title=Wan_Yi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Wan Yi (page does not exist)")   [Naohiro Osugi](/wiki/index.php?title=Naohiro_Osugi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Naohiro Osugi (page does not exist)")   [Hiroyuki Masui](/wiki/index.php?title=Hiroyuki_Masui&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hiroyuki Masui (page does not exist)")   [Takeshi Maenami](/wiki/Takeshi_Maenami "Takeshi Maenami")   [Hiroshi Shinomoto](/wiki/index.php?title=Hiroshi_Shinomoto&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hiroshi Shinomoto (page does not exist)") (asst.)   [Tsuroru](/wiki/index.php?title=Tsuroru&action=edit&redlink=1 "Tsuroru (page does not exist)") (asst.)   [Kumiko Nakata](/wiki/index.php?title=Kumiko_Nakata&action=edit&redlink=1 "Kumiko Nakata (page does not exist)") (asst.) |
| | Voice Cast: | | --- | | [Minami Takayama](/wiki/Minami_Takayama "Minami Takayama") as [Yaiba Kurogane](/wiki/Yaiba_Kurogane "Yaiba Kurogane")   [Junichi Suwabe](/wiki/Junichi_Suwabe "Junichi Suwabe") as [Musashi Miyamoto](/wiki/Musashi_Miyamoto "Musashi Miyamoto")   [Go Inoue](/wiki/Go_Inoue "Go Inoue") as [Kojiro Sasaki](/wiki/Kojiro_Sasaki "Kojiro Sasaki")   [Hidenori Takahashi](/wiki/index.php?title=Hidenori_Takahashi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hidenori Takahashi (page does not exist)") as [Jubei Yagyu](/wiki/Jubei_Yagyu "Jubei Yagyu")   [Manaka Iwami](/wiki/Manaka_Iwami "Manaka Iwami") as [Sayaka Mine](/wiki/Sayaka_Mine "Sayaka Mine")   [Isshin Chiba](/wiki/Isshin_Chiba "Isshin Chiba") as [Kagetora](/wiki/Kagetora "Kagetora")   [Kosuke Echigoya](/wiki/Kosuke_Echigoya "Kosuke Echigoya") as [Shonosuke](/wiki/Shonosuke "Shonosuke")   [Sayaka Senbongi](/wiki/index.php?title=Sayaka_Senbongi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Sayaka Senbongi (page does not exist)") as [Nadeshiko Yamato](/wiki/Nadeshiko_Yamato "Nadeshiko Yamato")   [Shuhei Sakaguchi](/wiki/Shuhei_Sakaguchi "Shuhei Sakaguchi") as [Kumo-Otoko](/wiki/Kumo-Otoko "Kumo-Otoko")   [Tomoaki Maeno](/wiki/index.php?title=Tomoaki_Maeno&action=edit&redlink=1 "Tomoaki Maeno (page does not exist)") as [Ishikawa Goemon](/wiki/index.php?title=Ishikawa_Goemon&action=edit&redlink=1 "Ishikawa Goemon (page does not exist)")   [Hiroki Goto](/wiki/index.php?title=Hiroki_Goto&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hiroki Goto (page does not exist)") as [Kerokichi](/wiki/index.php?title=Kerokichi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Kerokichi (page does not exist)") | | |
| **Music** | |
| Opening song: | [BLADE](/wiki/BLADE "BLADE") |
| Closing song: | [ACTION!](/wiki/ACTION! "ACTION!") |
***Crisis on Kawanakajima*** (川中島大決戦 ,*Kawanakajima Daikessen*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is the 18th episode of the *[Yaiba: Samurai Legend](/wiki/Yaiba:_Samurai_Legend "Yaiba: Samurai Legend")* anime.
## Contents
* [1 Cast](#Cast)
+ [1.1 Characters introduced](#Characters_introduced)
+ [1.2 Featured](#Featured)
* [2 Location](#Location)
+ [2.1 Setting](#Setting)
* [3 Manga to anime changes](#Manga_to_anime_changes)
* [4 Gallery](#Gallery)
* [5 Footnotes](#Footnotes)
+ [5.1 Notes](#Notes)
+ [5.2 References](#References)
* [6 See also](#See_also)