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Viz Media Licenses Gōshō Aoyama's Yaiba: Samurai Legend Manga, Manga's New TV Anime
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Viz to release manga in print starting in July 2025
Yaiba manga. Viz Media will start releasing the Yaiba: Samurai Legend manga in print in July 2025.

© Gosho Aoyama/Shogakukan/YAIBA Samurai Legend Project
The series follows the titular Yaiba Kurogane, a young samurai boy inspired by Miyamoto Musashi, the real-life swordsman who pioneered the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū style of two-sword fighting and wrote The Book of Five Rings classic on military strategy.
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Aoyama (Weekly Shonen Sunday in September 1988. The series concluded in December 1993 with a total of 24 compiled book volumes.
The series inspired a 52-episode anime adaptation that ran from April 1993-April 1994.
Sources: Viz Media at New York Comic Con (Deb Aoki), Viz Media's X/Twitter (link 2)