It takes place in the Sengoku era and features a different lead character The series follows an unnamed young man (voiced by Takeshi Kusao in Japanese and Jason Gray-Stanford in English)[3] who hunts ogres (oni (鬼)).

[10] Kusunoki published a one-shot, titled The Legend of Onikirimaru (鬼切丸伝, Onikirimaruden), in Leed Publishing's Sengoku Bushō Retsuden [ja] on August 26, 2013, with a serialization planned for future issues;[10][29] the serialization started on December 26 of that same year.

[30] Unlike its predecessor, it takes place in the Sengoku era, and features an entirely different lead character.

[10] The magazine published its final issue on June 27, 2016,[31] and the series moved to Comic Ran Twins [ja] on September 13 of that same year.

[32] It was published in the magazine until June 13, 2018, and moved to the Pixiv Comics website in July of that same year.