HIDIVE to Stream Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho Anime
HIDIVE announced on Wednesday that it it will stream the television anime of Moto'o Nakanishi's Sword of the Demon: Hunter Kijin Gentōshō novel series for the spring 2025 season, starting on March 31 at 8:30 a.m. EDT with a one-hour special first episode. Future episodes will stream on Mondays at 11:00 a.m. EDT. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer: The anime was delayed from its July 2024 premiere after a planned one-hour special in June that same year, due to production delays.The anime stars Taku Yashiro as Jinta, Reina Ueda as Suzune, and Saori Hayami as Shirayuki.Kazuya Aiura (Assassins Pride, Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (OAV) is directing the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab. Deko Akao (Assassins Pride, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Noragami) is overseeing the series scripts, Taro Ikegami (Lapis Re:LiGHTs) is designing the characters, and Ryuuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi from MONACA are composing the music.Hilcrhyme are performing the ending theme song "Sen-ya Ichi-ya feat. Izumi Nakasone (HY)" (One Thousand and One Nights).Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing both the novel series and its manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:Nakanishi published the first novel volume, titled Suihō no Hibi (Days of Nothing), in June 2019 with art by Tamaki. The series' 14th and final volume shipped in November 2023.Futabasha published the first compiled book volume of Yu Satomi's manga adaptation of the novels in September 2021, and the eighth volume will ship on March 19. The manga runs in Monthly Action magazine.Source: Press release
