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Yaiba: Samurai Legend

“Young samurai Yaiba journeys from forest to city, battling demons and forging friendships to save Earth.”

Yaiba: Samurai Legend

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3,677 rank · 4,436 readers · 60 favorites
Shounen Samurai Adventure Award Winning
255 chapters · 24 volumes · 1988 - 1993 · Manga
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Young samurai Yaiba journeys from forest to city, battling demons and forging friendships to save Earth.

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)

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A Manga Publication

  • Format 255 × 24 ch × vol
  • Total read 34h 00m approx
  • Published Aug 1988 – Nov 1993
  • Source Manga media type
  • Ref. BS-M1466 catalog

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