Ogre Slayer

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Ogre Slayer
鬼切丸 (Onikirimaru)
Genre	Horror, Drama, Supernatural
Manga
Authored by	Kei Kusunoki
Publisher	Shogakukan Viz Media
Serialized in	Shonen Sunday Manga Vizion
Original run	February 18, 1992 –
No. of volumes	20
OVA
Directed by	Yoshio Kato
Studio	OB Planning
No. of episodes	4
Released	1994
Runtime	30 minutes

Ogre Slayer (鬼切丸, Onikirimaru^?) is a manga series about a young man who hunts ogres. The young man is born of pure ogre blood. His mother was an ogre. Instead of horns, he held a sword. The young man doesn't have a name, but his sword is called Onikirimaru, the Ogre Slayer.

The original story was created by Kei Kusunoki. The manga has been adapted into a 4 episode OAV. The voice actor playing Ogre Slayer in the US was Jason Gray-Stanford (Monk). The anime was distributed by Viz Media.