Ogre Slayer

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Ogre Slayer
File:OgreSlayerCover.jpg
Cover of the first manga volume
鬼切丸
(Onikirimaru)
Genre
Manga
Written byKei Kusunoki
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
Magazine
  • Shōnen Sunday Zōkan (1992–1995)
  • Shōnen Sunday Super (1995–2001)
English magazine
Original run1992 – 2001
Volumes20
Original video animation
Directed byTakao Kato
Written byKenji Terada
Music by
StudioPastel
Licensed by
  • NA: Viz Media
Released September 9, 1994 – July 21, 1995
Runtime30 minutes each
Episodes4
Manga
The Legend of Onikirimaru
Written byKei Kusunoki
Published byLeed Publishing
English publisherCrunchyroll Manga
Magazine
Original runAugust 26, 2013 – March 25, 2025
Volumes23
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Ogre Slayer (Japanese: 鬼切丸, Hepburn: Onikirimaru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kei Kusunoki. It was published in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Sunday Zōkan (later Shōnen Sunday Super) from 1992 to 2001, with its chapters collected in 20 tankōbon volumes. It was adapted into a four-episode original video animation (OVA) released from 1994 to 1995. Both the manga and anime were distributed in North America by Viz Media; only two volumes of the manga were released. Another series, titled The Legend of Onikirimaru, was serialized from August 2013 to March 2025. It takes place in the Sengoku era and features a different lead character

Synopsis

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The series follows an unnamed young man (voiced by Takeshi Kusao in Japanese and Jason Gray-Stanford in English)[3] who hunts ogres (oni (鬼)). The young man was born of an ogre's corpse, like the ogre born of human's body, making him pure ogre blood. Though he was born like an ogre, he has the appearance of a human. Instead of being born with horns like traditional Japanese ogres, he was born with a sword called Onikirimaru (鬼切丸), the Ogre Slayer.

Media

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Manga

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Written and illustrated by Kei Kusunoki, Ogre Slayer was first published as a one-shot short story, which proved popular among readers, and eventually turned into a serial as Kusonoki drew more sequels,[4] being published in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Sunday Zōkan (later Shōnen Sunday Super) from 1992 to 2001.[5][6] Shogakukan released 20 tankōbon volumes from February 18, 1992,[7] to April 18, 2001.[8]

In North America, the manga was licensed by Viz Communications, publishing it on its Manga Vizion magazine,[9][10] and releasing the first two volumes in 1997 and 1998, respectively.[11]

Volumes

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The Legend of Onikirimaru

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Kusunoki published a one-shot, titled The Legend of Onikirimaru (鬼切丸伝, Onikirimaruden), in Leed Publishing's Sengoku Bushō Retsuden (ja) on August 26, 2013, with a serialization planned for future issues;[11][30] the serialization started on December 26 of that same year.[31] Unlike its predecessor, it takes place in the Sengoku era, and features an entirely different lead character.[11] The magazine published its final issue on June 27, 2016,[32] and the series moved to Comic Ran Twins (ja) on September 13 of that same year.[33] It was published in the magazine until June 13, 2018, and moved to the Pixiv Comics website in July of that same year.[34][35][36] The series finished on March 25, 2025.[37] Leed Publishing collected its chapters in 23 volumes, released from September 30, 2014, to June 24, 2025.[38][39][40]

Crunchyroll Manga started publishing the manga digitally in English in 2014.[41] The service ended in December 2023.[42]

Original video animation

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A four-episode original video animation, produced by OB Planning (ja), KSS, and Tokyo Broadcasting System, and animated by Pastel,[43][44] was released from September 9, 1994,[45] to July 21, 1995.[46]

In North America, Viz Video released the four episodes on two VHS (each containing two episodes) in October 1995 and February 1996.[47][48]

References

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Bibliography

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Further reading

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