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Netflix Announces Yaiba: Samurai Legend Anime's English Dub Cast

Netflix announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday the English dub cast for Yaiba: Samurai Legend (Shin Samurai-den YAIBA), the new television anime of Detective Conan creator Gōshō Aoyama's Yaiba manga. The English dub, along with dubs in Spanish (LATAM) and Brazilian Portuguese, will be available beginning August 15.

Erica Mendez will play Yaiba and Rebecca Wang will play Sayaka.

Craig Lee Thomas will play Kenjuro, Christopher Corey Smith will play Musashi, and Alan Lee will play Onimaru.

The anime debuted on April 5 on YTV, NTV, and their affiliates throughout Japan at 5:30 p.m., right before Detective Conan's 6:00 p.m. timeslot to start the "Gōshō Aoyama Hour" block. The anime streams on Netflix in North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. The show also streams on Hulu in the United States.

The second cours (quarter of a year) of the anime debuted on June 28.

Viz Media has licensed the anime, and the company describes the story:

Yaiba Kurogane has spent his days training in the jungle in order to attain his goal of becoming a real samurai. By a twist of fate, he returns to Japan and starts living with the Mine family, who are connected to his father, Kenjuro. Yaiba constantly baffles the Mines' daughter Sayaka as she witnesses his wild and reckless ways.

One day, Yaiba tags along with Sayaka to school and has a fateful encounter with Takeshi Onimaru, a kendo expert. Yaiba and Onimaru repeatedly clash, and as if in response to their search for strength, two ancient powers are unleashed: the Fujinken, the Wind God's Sword, and the Raijinken, the Thunder God's Sword. Both supernatural blades that have jolted the world since ancient days have reawakened...and the truth behind them is revealed!

Aoyama launched the manga in Shogakukan's 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.

Viz Media released the first volume of the manga in English on July 8.

Source: Netflix Anime's X/Twitter account