Ogre Slayer

Ogre Slayer
200px Cover Ogre Slayer volume 1 as released by Viz Media
鬼切丸 (Onikirimaru)
Genre	Horror, Action
Manga
Written by	Kei Kusunoki
Published by	Shogakukan
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Shōnen Sunday Super
English magazine	NA Manga Vizion
Original run	February 18, 1992 – April 18, 2001
Volumes	20
Original video animation
Directed by	Yoshio Kato
Written by	Kenji Terada
Music by	Kazuhiko Toyama Tomohiko Toyama
Studio	OB Planning
Licensed by	NA Viz Media
Released	September 9, 1994 – July 21, 1995
Runtime	30 minutes each
Episodes	4

Ogre Slayer (Japanese: 鬼切丸, Hepburn: Onikirimaru) is a manga series written and illustrated by Kei Kusunoki. The manga has been adapted into a four-episode original video animation (OVA) anime. Both the manga and anime were distributed in North America by Viz Media, though only two volumes of the manga were released. On July 11, 2013, plans for a follow-up manga were announced. Unlike its predecessor, Onigirimaruden (鬼切丸) takes place in the Sengoku era, and features an entirely different lead character.

Ogre Slayer is about a young man who hunts ogres (oni (鬼)). The young man was born of an ogre's corpse, like the oni 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. The young man does not have a name, but his sword is called Onikirimaru, the Ogre Slayer.

Characters

• Ogre Slayer Voiced by: Jason Gray-Stanford (English) Takeshi Kusao (Japanese)

External links

• Ogre Slayer (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Ogre Slayer (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia