Citing production delays, “Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentoushou” is now scheduled to broadcast for two consecutive cours beginning in 2025.
Broadcasting was originally scheduled to begin with a 1-hour special this month on June 27, studio: Yokohama Animation Lab.
Synopsis:
For generations, a shrine has stood in the mountain village of Kadono, and for each generation the shrine has had an Itsukihimeβits shrine maidenβand 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 Godβs 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 heβs lost, and to find a reason to keep on fighting.
[Source: Seven Seas Entertainment]
