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From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (r. 2025)

Premiere:
April 5, 2025

# of Seasons: 1

# of Episodes: 4

Original Title:
片田舎のおっさん、剣聖になる

Alternate Titles:
An Old Man from the Countryside Becomes a Swords Saint: I Was Just a Rural Sword Teacher, but My Successful Students Won't Leave Me Alone!
Backwater Old Man Becomes a Swordmaster
Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru
Ossan Kensei
おっさん剣聖
乡下大叔成为剑圣
片田舎のおっさん, 剣聖になる

Genres:
Action & Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Production Companies:
Hayabusa Film
NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Passione
Square Enix

Countries:
JP

Overview from TheMovieDB

Beryl Gardenant, a middle-aged swordsman running a dojo in the backwaters, lives a quiet life, until Allucia, former student and Commander of the Royal Order of Knights, appears! Beryl’s life is about to change dramatically! City life. Old students. New friends and formidable foes. It’s all too much. But after years of training, he has mad skills, and he’s been dubbed “the backwater swordmaster.”

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Art Direction:
Taiki Yamashita
Nozomu Koga

Character Designer:
Satsuki Hayasaka

Color Designer:
Sakie Suzuki

Conceptual Design:
Ley Yumeno
Suzume Shima

Director of Photography:
Kenichi Ikeda
Kouji Hayashi

Editor:
Ayako Tan

Original Music Composer:
Yasuharu Takanashi

Series Composition:
Kunihiko Okada

Series Director:
Akio Kazumi

Sound Director:
Hisayoshi Hirasawa

Supervising Animation Director:
Satsuki Hayasaka

Theme Song Performance:
Takanori Nishikawa
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