The Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho anime adaptation, which had its hour-long June 2024 premiere delayed, will begin airing in Japan on March 31 JST. The reveal of its new premiere date arrived with a trailer, which previews the newly announced ending theme song “Senya Ichiya” by Hilcrhyme, and the announcement of its consecutive two-cour structure.
Sword of the Demon Hunter is based on the 2019 to 2023 Futaba Bunko fantasy light novel series written by Moto Nakanishi and illustrated by Tamaki, which begins in feudal Japan and advances into more modern times. Sword of the Demon Hunter was initially a web novel that was published on Arcadia and, later, Shousetsuka ni Narou. The story has inspired a manga adaptation by Yu Satomi and a stage play.
Synopsis:
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.
