Birth of the New Ryuujin Legend!!

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Episode 40
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Information
Title:	Birth of the New Ryuujin Legend!!
Japanese Title:	新龍神伝説誕生！！ (Shin-Ryūjin Densetsu Tanjō!!)
Original airdate:	January 7, 1994
Manga source:	Volume 14: File 2 (134) (h.a.)
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Sayaka Mine Takeshi Onimaru Princess Kaguya General Tsukikage Shonosuke Kagetora Musashi Miyamoto Jubei Yagyu Kojiro Sasaki Gerozaimon Geroda Namako-Otoko Kumo-Otoko Sayaka's Grandmother Raizo Mine  Shizuka Mine See cast section
Staff
Director:	Kunihiko Yuyama (chief) Norihiko Sudo
Screenplay:	Kenji Terada
Storyboard:	Norihiko Sudo
Episode director:	Norihiko Sudo Kazuya Murata (asst.)
Animation director:	Sayuri Ichiishi
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Kotono Mitsuishi as Sayaka Mine Ryo Horikawa as Takeshi Onimaru Rika Fukami as Princess Kaguya Daiki Nakamura as General Tsukikage Toshihiko Nakajima as Mangetsu Masaharu Sato as Musashi Miyamoto Takaya Hashi as Jubei Yagyu Jurota Kosugi as Kojiro Sasaki Kazunari Tanaka as Gerozaimon Geroda Tetsuo Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko Reiko Suzuki as Sayaka's Grandmother Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Namako-Otoko, Namekuji-Otoko (uncredited) Hisao Egawa as Professor Kanabo, Kagetora (uncredited) Unsho Ishizuka as Raizo Mine (uncredited) Megumi Terase as Shizuka Mine (uncredited) Reiko Suzuki as Sayaka's Grandmother (uncredited) Bin Shimada as Kenjuro Kurogane (uncredited) Ken Yamaguchi as Hebi-Otoko (uncredited) Hirohiko Kakegawa as Komori-Otoko (uncredited) Wataru Takagi as Hitode-Otoko (uncredited) Michio Nakao as Kamakiri-Otoko (uncredited) Fumihiko Tachiki as Yakitori-kun (uncredited) Kazumi Tanaka as Chameleon Bonaparte (uncredited) Tessho Genda as Dorai Dorai (uncredited)  Minoru Inaba as Miyoshi Seikai (uncredited) Hochu Otsuka as Fuma Kotaro (uncredited) Toshihiko Seki as Shiro Amakusa (uncredited) Shozo Iizuka as Ishikawa Goemon (uncredited) Daisuke Gori as Musashibo Benkei (uncredited) Takeshi Aono as Matsuo Basho (uncredited) Shigeru Chiba as Orb of Victory (uncredited) Koji Ishii as Ryujin (uncredited)
Music
Opening song:	Yūki ga Areba
Closing song:	Shinchigakunaki Tatakai

Birth of the New Ryuujin Legend!! (新龍神伝説誕生！！ ,Shin-Ryūjin Densetsu Tanjō!!) is the 40th episode of the Yaiba anime. It aired on January 7, 1994. Contrary to the other episodes of the anime, it mostly consisted of recaps of the previous 39 episodes and only adapted part of file 134.

Cast

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane Sayaka Mine Musashi Miyamoto Kojiro Sasaki Jubei Yagyu Gerozaimon Geroda Kumo-Otoko Kagetora Shonosuke Namako-Otoko Sayaka's Grandmother Raizo Mine Shizuka Mine Takeshi Onimaru (frozen) Kenjuro Kurogane (flashback) Hebi-Otoko (flashback) Namekuji-Otoko (flashback) Komori-Otoko (flashback) Hitode-Otoko (flashback) Kamakiri-Otoko (flashback) 100px Yakitori-kun (flashback) 100px Chameleon Bonaparte (flashback) 100px Dorai Dorai (flashback) 100px Tortoise Europa (flashback) Professor Kanabo (flashback) 100px Miyoshi Seikai (flashback) 100px Fuma Kotaro (flashback) 100px Guardian Tanukis (flashback) 100px Shiro Amakusa (flashback) 100px Ishikawa Goemon (flashback) 100px Ball shop owner (flashback) 100px Musashibo Benkei (flashback) 100px Matsuo Basho (flashback) 100px Orb of Victory (flashback) 100px Ryujin (flashback) 100px Princess Kaguya (flashback) 100px General Tsukikage (flashback)

Plot

Resolution

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Manga to anime changes

• The episode only adapts the first three pages of chapter 134, with the partying scene and Kumo-Otoko lamenting Onimaru. The rest of the episode is made up of flashbacks to the previous 39 episodes:

• Heisei's Samurai Yaiba Appears (ep1): Yaiba's upbringing and start of his feud with Onimaru.
• The Revived Sword of Fuujin (ep2): Onimaru becomes evil.
• Sword of Raijin/Sword of Fuujin (ep3): Yaiba gets the sword of Raijin.
• The Eight Demons: Frog Man's Assault (ep4): Meeting Gerozaimon.
• Special Attack Whirlwind Sword (ep5): Hebi-Otoko.
• Frightening Slug Man Appears (ep6): Namekuji-Otoko.
• The Eight Demons: Spider Man's Weakness!? (ep7): Kumo-Otoko.
• Vampire: Bat Guy! (ep8): Komori-Otoko.
• The Secret of the Onimaru Manjuu (ep9): Namako-Otoko, Hitode-Otoko and Kamakiri-Otoko.
• The Revival of the Master Swordsman, Kojiro (ep10): Kojiro's revival.
• Gigantic Anglerfish!? Infiltrate Onimaru Castle (ep13): Start infiltrating Onimaru Castle, and Yakitori-kun appears.
• Vanished? The Enemy Chameleon (ep14): Chameleon Bonaparte.
• Kojiro's Betrayal!? (ep15): Dorai Dorai.
• The Strongest Machine of the Four Guardians Attacks! (ep16): Tortoise Europa.
• Wind and Thunder Clash! Yaiba vs. Onimaru (ep17): Onimaru wins against Yaiba and gets the Raijin Sword.
• Searching for the Legendary Orb (ep18): Start of the search for the legendary orbs. Yaiba fights Miyoshi Seikai.
• What Kind of an Orb is the Golden Orb? (ep19): Fuma Kotaro.
• Legend of the Red Dragon!! Shiro Amakusa Appears!-Feverish Hell! Steal the Flame Orb!! (ep20-21): Shiro Amakusa.
• Huge Battle! Buddha vs. Osaka Onimaru Castle (ep23): Ishikawa Goemon and robot Osaka Castle.
• Friend or Foe? The Revival of Jubei Yagyu! (ep24): Meeting Jubei Yagyu.
• The Waiting Trap!? The Decisive Battle of Kawanakajima (ep25): Defeat of Ishikawa Goemon.
• The Darkness Orb is the Entrance to the Dark World (ep26): Inside the orb of Darkness.
• Fast Ball Match! Strike Out Benkei (ep28): Musashibo Benkei.
• What!? 100,000 Legendary Orbs-Stinger of Petrification! Monkey Basho (ep29-30): Matsuo Basho.
• Aim for the Ryuujin Orb on Mount Fuji!-Yaiba Loses the Seven Orbs!? (ep31-32): Orb of Victory and entering Mount Fuji.
• Ryuujin's Ruthless Test (ep33): Debut of Ryujin's challenge. Shonosuke and Gerozaimon die.
• Disappearing Companions (ep34): Kagetora, Jubei, Namako-Otoko and Musashi die.
• The Strongest in History! The Ryuujin Sword!! (ep35): Ryujin is introduced. Sayaka dies, but revives along with the others. Yaiba unlocks the sword of Ryujin. Kaguya, and Tsukikage appear and the invasing of the Earth by the Moon people starts.
• Invaders From the Moon - The Empress Kaguya-Large Sinking! Onimaru's Floating Castle (ep36-37): Kaguya fights Onimaru and freezes him.

Trivia

• Insert song: Double-Edged Sword (諸刃のヤイバ ,Moroha no Yaiba), by Minami Takayama and Ichiban Ujigami.
• This episode is the last one featuring the first eyecatcher eyecatcher (transition panel for commercial breaks), with Yaiba playing with his sword and stabbing his buttocks by accident, and Yaiba playing drums and getting electrocuted. This is also the only instance of the eyecatcher with Minami Takayama's voice over it.

See also

• Yaiba