All Info
Genres
Adventure, Shounen
Summary
- Kurogane Yaiba lives a peaceful life as a warrior with his father, in the Kenjurou, in the forest
- He finds out after going into the city that his destiny is to fight Takeshi, a demonic high-schooler
- A light-hearted and action packed story about friendship and exceeding your own limits
Description
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.
Authors
Characters
Yaiba Kurogane
main
Takeshi Onimaru
main
Dragon God
support
Sayaka Mine
main
Gerozaimon Geroda
support
Kagetora
support
Kumo-Otoko
support
Chameleon Bonaparte
support
Kenjuro Kurogane
support
Basho Matsuo
support
Namako-Otoko
support
Shounosuke
support
Other Facts
Published
1988 to 1993
Serialization
Shounen Sunday
Where to read
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