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Sword of the Demon Hunter

  • 2025
  • Returning Series
  • Animation · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • 1 season
  • 7.4/10

Jinta journeys through a century-spanning epic, all while questioning why he wields a sword.

Latest: Season 1 · 2025

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Jinta, a bodyguard to a priestess in a remote mountain village, lives during Japan's Edo period. While Jinta is an outsider to the town, he is still tasked with seeking out a demon in the forest on a quest to vanquish it. But upon meeting the demon, it instead tells Jinta of a puzzling and mysterious future. The novels' story spans 170 years from the Edo period to the Heisei period, with the protagonists traveling through space and time while seeking a meaning for why they wield the blade.

  1. E1. Demons and Humans

    Mar 31, 2025 · 54m

    It is 1840, year 1 of Japan's Tenpo era. There lies a small village known as Kadono that is home to the siblings Jinta and Suzune. Jinta is quickly dispatched to slay demons.

  2. E2. The Demon's Daughter

    Apr 8, 2025 · 24m

    Jinta changes his name to Jinya and departs Kadono. Ten years pass and he is now a ronin living in Edo, well-known by the locals as "the demon slayer."

  3. E3. The Devourer (1)

    Apr 15, 2025 · 24m

    Three years have passed from the Nihonbashi incident. Jinya hears talk of street killings occurring near a soba shop. The number of dead don't match the number of missing.

  4. E4. The Devourer (2)

    Apr 22, 2025 · 24m

    Jinya and Natsu get attacked by the slasher thought to be a demon. After Mosuke arrives to help and Jinya brandishes his blade, the demon quickly vanishes into the darkness.

  5. E5. The Garden of Happiness (1)

    Apr 29, 2025 · 24m

    In the fall of 1853, a samurai by the name of Naotsugu Miura grows concerned about his missing brother. However, everyone insists that he doesn't have a brother.

  6. E6. The Garden of Happiness (2)

    May 6, 2025 · 24m

    Jinya and Naotsugu witness a young girl losing her parents in a fire, which brings the unexpected truth of the mystery to light.

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