Yaiba: Samurai Legend gets brand new life with a new anime this spring! Today, the upcoming series has revealed both the title of its ending song and the artist bringing it to life.
Singer/songwriter OTOHA will be in charge of the show’s ending theme, titled “Pineapple Tart.” OTOHA’s previous work include theme song composition and performance for Shangri-La Frontier and Black Butler, as well as theme song composition for BOCCHI THE ROCK!
“An encounter with something unknown that you’ve never experienced before can become a ray of light throughout your life,” OTOHA says of the ending song’s inspiration. “Pineapple Tart” aims to encompass the extraordinary making its way into everyday life. The artist adds that there are many scenes in which he related to Sayaka’s perspective.
Takahiro Hasui (Mob Psycho III) directs the Yaiba anime remake at WIT Studio, with series composition by Toko Machida (Kemono Michi: Rise Up), character designs and chief animation direction by Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100) and music by Yutaka Yamada (VINLAND SAGA) and Yoshiaki Dewa (Hell’s Paradise). The series is based on the Gosho Aoyama manga that ran from 1988 to 1993.
Viz has begun releasing English-language editions of the manga in expanded volumes, describing the story thus:
Yaiba Kurogane has spent his days training in the jungle in order to attain his goal of becoming a real samurai. By a twist of fate, he returns to Japan and starts living with the Mine family, who are connected to his father, Kenjuro. Yaiba constantly baffles the Mines’ daughter Sayaka as she witnesses his wild and reckless ways.
One day, Yaiba tags along with Sayaka to school and has a fateful encounter with Takeshi Onimaru, a kendo expert. Yaiba and Onimaru repeatedly clash, and as if in response to their search for strength, two ancient powers are unleashed: the Fujinken, the Wind God’s Sword, and the Raijinken, the Thunder God’s Sword. Both supernatural blades that have jolted the in world since ancient days have reawakened…and the truth behind them is revealed!
Source: Comic Natalie
