A Battle of Giants

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| **Episode 16** | |
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| **Information** | |
| Title: | A Battle of Giants |
| Japanese Title: | 巨大決戦   (Kyodai Kessen) |
| Original airdate: | July 26, 2025 |
| Broadcast rating: | 2.5% |
| Season: | 1 |
| Manga source: | [Volume 9: Chapters 2-8 (081-087)](/wiki/Yaiba_Volume_9 "Yaiba Volume 9") |
| **English version** | |
| English Title: | A Battle of Giants |
| **Story** | |
| Cast: | [Yaiba Kurogane](/wiki/Yaiba_Kurogane "Yaiba Kurogane")   [Musashi Miyamoto](/wiki/Musashi_Miyamoto "Musashi Miyamoto")   [Kojiro Sasaki](/wiki/Kojiro_Sasaki "Kojiro Sasaki")   [Sayaka Mine](/wiki/Sayaka_Mine "Sayaka Mine")   [Shonosuke](/wiki/Shonosuke "Shonosuke")   [Kagetora](/wiki/Kagetora "Kagetora")   [Kumo-Otoko](/wiki/Kumo-Otoko "Kumo-Otoko") |
| **Staff** | |
| Director: | [Takahiro Hasui](/wiki/Takahiro_Hasui "Takahiro Hasui") |
| Screenplay: | [Eiji Umehara](/wiki/index.php?title=Eiji_Umehara&action=edit&redlink=1 "Eiji Umehara (page does not exist)") |
| Storyboard: | [Itsuki Tsuchigami](/wiki/index.php?title=Itsuki_Tsuchigami&action=edit&redlink=1 "Itsuki Tsuchigami (page does not exist)") |
| Episode director: | [Yoshitsugu Hosokawa](/wiki/index.php?title=Yoshitsugu_Hosokawa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yoshitsugu Hosokawa (page does not exist)") |
| Animation director: | [Yoshimichi Kameda](/wiki/Yoshimichi_Kameda "Yoshimichi Kameda") (chief)   [Shotaro Tamemizu](/wiki/index.php?title=Shotaro_Tamemizu&action=edit&redlink=1 "Shotaro Tamemizu (page does not exist)")   [Masaru Oshiro](/wiki/index.php?title=Masaru_Oshiro&action=edit&redlink=1 "Masaru Oshiro (page does not exist)")   [Hiroshi Shinomoto](/wiki/index.php?title=Hiroshi_Shinomoto&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hiroshi Shinomoto (page does not exist)")   [Takeshi Maenami](/wiki/Takeshi_Maenami "Takeshi Maenami")   [Masayuki Sato](/wiki/index.php?title=Masayuki_Sato&action=edit&redlink=1 "Masayuki Sato (page does not exist)")   [Ayaka Ofusa](/wiki/index.php?title=Ayaka_Ofusa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Ayaka Ofusa (page does not exist)")   [Yoshimichi Kameda](/wiki/Yoshimichi_Kameda "Yoshimichi Kameda")   [Maki Kawake](/wiki/index.php?title=Maki_Kawake&action=edit&redlink=1 "Maki Kawake (page does not exist)") |
| | 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")   [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"), Head monk (uncredited)[](#cite_note-1)   [Kosuke Echigoya](/wiki/Kosuke_Echigoya "Kosuke Echigoya") as [Shonosuke](/wiki/Shonosuke "Shonosuke")   [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)")   [Shinya Takahashi](/wiki/index.php?title=Shinya_Takahashi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Shinya Takahashi (page does not exist)") as Old man   [Akihiro Tajima](/wiki/index.php?title=Akihiro_Tajima&action=edit&redlink=1 "Akihiro Tajima (page does not exist)") as Worker   [Hana Hishikawa](/wiki/index.php?title=Hana_Hishikawa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hana Hishikawa (page does not exist)") as Woman   [Keina Yamada](/wiki/index.php?title=Keina_Yamada&action=edit&redlink=1 "Keina Yamada (page does not exist)") as Woman | | |
| **Music** | |
| Opening song: | [BLADE](/wiki/BLADE "BLADE") |
| Closing song: | [ACTION!](/wiki/ACTION! "ACTION!") |
***A Battle of Giants*** (巨大決戦 ,*Kyodai Kessen*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is the 16th 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)
+ [1.3 Others](#Others)
* [2 Location](#Location)
+ [2.1 Setting](#Setting)
* [3 Manga to anime changes](#Manga_to_anime_changes)
* [4 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [5 Gallery](#Gallery)
* [6 Footnotes](#Footnotes)
+ [6.1 Notes](#Notes)
+ [6.2 References](#References)
* [7 See also](#See_also)