Swordmaster Kai

Swordmaster Kai is an Japanese chanbara animated television series set in the early Meiji era of Japan. It's showrunner is Junuchi Masada and most of the episodes are being directed by Egusa Yoriyuki, one of the writers for City of Bright Lights. It is being produced by ToonIn, and. It will start airing on AnimeNation in Japan on May 13th, 2017, while has the North American rights and will produce a dub to air in late July on Vision Sundown in the United States.

Production
During RaGE Media's upfront of December 2016, it was announced that ToonIn, a support animation team, will produce an original series by the end of the summer in 2017. In early April, a trailer was released that showed the airdate.

English language version
In mid April of 2017, it was announced that took the North American rights and started to produce a dub, true to Masada's vision of the series. It was later announced that the anime will air on Vision, on it's Sundown block. It'll air alongside City of Bright Lights as well.

Episodes
It was announced that a total of 48 episodes are to be produced, but split into four twelve episode seasons. Season one will start in May until late July.