Joseph Luster
June 5, 2024 
Last month the Sword of the Demon Hunter anime announced plans to premiere on June 27, 2024, but that’s no longer the case. The production committee released an official statement saying that the broadcast has been delayed, and is now penciled in for sometime in 2025.
According to the announcement, the postponement came about due to “production delays.” The committee apologized to fans and thanked them for understanding.
A consecutive two-cour run is planned for the series when it eventually airs.
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:
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.
Via Oricon News
