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Yaiba: Samurai Legend
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Yaiba: Samurai Legend

YAIBA

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Series Information

FormatManga
Chapters255
Volumes24
PublishedAug 24, 1988 to Nov 17, 1993
RatingN/A
AuthorsAoyama, Goushou

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Synopsis

The light-hearted manga is about an adventuring samurai named Kurogane Yaiba who knows how to be a samurai, and little else. Yaiba lives with his father, Kenjurou, in the forest. One day, while Yaiba was eating, a troop of gorillas came to attack. Yaiba and his father escaped and hid inside a box, but they didn't know that the box was full of pineapples and was going to be transported into the city. In the city, Yaiba finds out that he is a legendary warrior and has to fight the evil of a demonic looking high-school student named Takeshi. The people that Yaiba meets along his journey to become a true samurai encourage him, train him, or inspire him to greatness, though at heart he is still a child, and his incredible skill with a sword is matched only by his kindness towards his friends. Though, he tends to leap before he looks, and his thick-headedness tends to turn potential allies into enemies, though his friends soon clobber him, and salvage the situation. This unlikely group embarks on a host of incredible adventures where they meet legendary figures from Japanese history, and finally overcome impossible odds, and put everything on the line, to save the entire planet from a threat not of this world. It's a story of love, friendship, hard work, and never giving up. (Source: Wikipedia)

Production & Background Notes

Yaiba won the 38th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1993. The series has been published in English as Yaiba: Samurai Legend by VIZ Media under the Shonen Sunday imprint as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes since July 8, 2025.

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