Joseph Luster
February 12, 2025 
Originally planned for a June 2024 premiere, a delay was announced for the Sword of the Demon Hunter anime that same month. Now a new date is officially in place, with the anime’s website confirming that the series will debut on March 31, 2025.
A new trailer arrived along with the news, previewing more footage and the ending song, which has Hilcrhyme performing “Sen-ya Ichi-ya feat. Izumi Nakasone (HY).”
Sword of the Demon Hunter Trailer
Sword of the Demon Hunter will premiere with a one-hour first episode and have a consecutive two-cour run.
The anime is being made at Yokohama Animation Lab, with Kazuya Aiura of Assassins Pride helming the project as director. The person overseeing the series scripts is Deko Akao, who, along with also working on Assassins Pride, has been involved with Arakawa Under the Bridge and Noragami. Credit for music goes to Ryuuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi from MONACA. Regarding character design, that’s being done by Taro Ikegami of Lapis Re:LiGHTs.
Sword of the Demon Hunter Kijin Gentosho started out as a light novel series by Motoo Nakanishi. There is also a manga adaptation. Seven Seas is publishing both, and gave this description for the plot:
Sword of the Demon Hunter Plot
In the Edo era, young Jinta and his sister must flee their home, finding refuge in a mountain village. Years later, Jinta has grown into a skilled swordsman, sworn to protect the priestess of the village shrine. Charged with slaying a demon that threatens the shrine, Jinta confronts the malevolent creature in the forest, only to learn a shocking truth. The demon speaks of events one hundred and seventy years hence, when Jinta must confront the demon in the future. Thus begins an epic fantasy journey that spans multiple eras as Jinta hunts a demon through time and must come to terms with his own dark nature.
Source: Anime News Network
