The Darkness Orb is the Entrance to the Dark World

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Episode 26
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Information
Title:	The Darkness Orb is the Entrance to the Dark World
Japanese Title:	闇の玉は暗黒世界への入り口 (Yami no tama wa ankoku sekai e no iriguchi)
Original airdate:	October 1, 1993
Manga source:	Volume 10: Files 4, 6-8 (093, 095-097)
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Sayaka Mine Takeshi Onimaru Shonosuke Kagetora Musashi Miyamoto Jubei Yagyu Ishikawa Goemon Kerokichi Kumo-Otoko Gerozaimon Geroda Namako-Otoko Professor Kanabo Kerosuke
Staff
Director:	Kunihiko Yuyama (chief) Norihiko Sudo
Screenplay:	Kenji Terada
Storyboard:	Norihiko Sudo
Episode director:	Kazuya Murata
Animation director:	Sayuri Ichiishi Moriyasu Taniguchi
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Kotono Mitsuishi as Sayaka Mine Ryo Horikawa as Takeshi Onimaru Masaharu Sato as Musashi Miyamoto Takaya Hashi as Jubei Yagyu Shozo Iizuka as Ishikawa Goemon Kappei Yamaguchi as Kerokichi Tetsuo Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko Kazunari Tanaka as Gerozaimon Geroda Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Namako-Otoko Hisao Egawa as Professor Kanabo Shigezo Sasaoka as Kerosuke
Music
Opening song:	Yūki ga Areba
Closing song:	Shinchigakunaki Tatakai

Characters introduced

Kerokichi
100px	Lives inside the sphere of darkness Humanoid kappa

Kerosuke
100px	Guardian of the waterfall Giant kappa

Cast

Characters
Yaiba Kurogane Sayaka Mine Takeshi Onimaru Kagetora Shonosuke Musashi Miyamoto Jubei Yagyu 100px Ishikawa Goemon Kumo-Otoko Gerozaimon Geroda Namako-Otoko Professor Kanabo

Plot

People

Fake Kerosuke
100px	Kerosuke in Yaiba's mind

Resolution

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Trivia

• Puns used in the episode include:

• Yaiba calls Goemon a "Kumadori", which is the stage makeup used by Kabuki actors, referencing the fact that he is a bear (in Japanese "Kuma") and wears makeup similar to a stage actor.
• When Kumo-Otoko sends Yaiba's fireballs back to him, he yells "Tamaya" (玉屋), the name of a popular guild of fireworks makers in Edo Japan.
• Yaiba, in a state of rage, says that Kumo-Otoko and Goemon are both not human. They reply by saying of course, since they are "Kumo-Otoko" (spider-man) and "Kuma-Otoko" (bear-man) as a joke, since the two words resemble each other phonetically.

• The second eyecatcher (transition panel for commercial breaks) of this episode is different from the one in the other episodes. Instead of getting the sword stuck in his butt while juggling with it, Yaiba manages to catch it.

See also

• Yaiba