Yaiba: Samurai Legend

The light-hearted manga is about an adventuring samurai named Kurogane Yaiba who knows how to be a samurai, and little else. Yaiba lives with his father, Kenjurou, in the forest. One day, while Yaiba was eating, a troop of gorillas came to attack. Yaiba and his father escaped and hid inside a box, but they didn't know that the box was full of pineapples and was going to be transported into the city. In the city, Yaiba finds out that he is a legendary warrior and has to fight the evil of a demoni...

Yaiba won the 38th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1993. The series has been published in English as Yaiba: Samurai Legend by VIZ Media under the Shonen Sunday imprint as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes since July 8, 2025.