Ogre Slayer

Synopsis

The series follows an unnamed young man (voiced by Takeshi Kusao in Japanese and Jason Gray-Stanford in English) who hunts ogres (). 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, the Ogre Slayer.

Media

Manga

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, being published in Shogakukan's ja manga magazine Shōnen Sunday Zōkan (later Shōnen Sunday Super) from 1992 to 2001. Shogakukan released 20 ja volumes from February 18, 1992, to April 18, 2001.

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

Volumes

''The Legend of Onikirimaru''

Kusunoki published a one-shot, titled The Legend of Onikirimaru, in Leed Publishing's ** on August 26, 2013, with a serialization planned for future issues; the serialization started on December 26 of that same year. Unlike its predecessor, it takes place in the Sengoku era, and features an entirely different lead character. The magazine published its final issue on June 27, 2016, and the series moved to ** on September 13 of that same year. It was published in the magazine until June 13, 2018, and moved to the Pixiv Comics website in July of that same year. The series finished on March 25, 2025. Leed Publishing collected its chapters in 23 volumes, released from September 30, 2014, to June 24, 2025.

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

Original video animation

A four-episode original video animation, produced by , KSS, and Tokyo Broadcasting System, and animated by Pastel, was released from September 9, 1994, to July 21, 1995.

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

References

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