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The Wooden Sword: vertical anime series
Demons took Jun's family and left him with nothing but a wooden sword and a promise. The full Season 1 is streaming now: all 38 episodes across Arcs 1–6 (The Promise, Lanterns in the Smoke, Dawnsteel, Cedar Wind, The Road Home, The Wooden Sword).
Episodes 1–3 free, then 50 coins per episode or VIP.
Contains anime-style action violence.
Arc 1: The Promise (episodes 1–6)
Episode 1: Ash SnowFREE
Jun heads out to find his little sister the biggest pinecone on the mountain. That night a white-haired demon visits his family's cabin, and by morning only…
1 min 1 s
Episode 2: The SurvivorFREE
Kurozumi comes back for the boy he left alive. Jun raises a broken branch against him, and the sunrise forces the demon back into the trees. Akari and her…
1 min 3 s
Episode 3: LanternsFREE
Jun trains every day with bandaged hands, and Akari knocks him down every time. Gensai teaches him to swing to protect, not out of anger. Every night he…
1 min 3 s
Episode 4: Shrine Stair🔒 50 coins
Hollowed swarm the shrine stairs and Akari pulls Jun behind her. Lantern Watch hunters Tessai and Mio cut through the Hollowed: Cedar Wind, First Gust: Needle…
1 min 4 s
Episode 5: The Promise🔒 50 coins
Tessai asks Akari to join the Lantern Watch, and Gensai lets her go. Before she leaves she carves Jun a wooden sword, and they make a promise: she will come…
1 min 1 s
Episode 6: Last Stand🔒 50 coins
The Hollowed burn the village. Mio fights through them, and Jun gets knocked down again and again until he stands back up with his wooden sword. Then Kurozumi…
1 min 1 s
Arc 2: Lanterns in the Smoke (episodes 7–12)
Episode 7: Give Them Back🔒 50 coins
The village is burning and Jun is alone in the practice yard when Kurozumi walks out of the fire. Hollowed knock him down again and again while Tessai carries…
1 min
Episode 8: Smoke Road🔒 50 coins
Kurozumi puts Jun to sleep in the burning yard. Down on the smoke road, Tessai sends Mio to the gate and Kota to lead the villagers to the river, then cuts…
1 min 2 s
Episode 9: The Bridge🔒 50 coins
Akari runs back through the burning village and a Hollowed nearly takes her before Tessai cuts it down. On the bridge, old Gensai holds back the Hollowed with…
1 min
Episode 10: Crow of Smoke🔒 50 coins
With Gensai gone, Akari refuses to run. The crow demon Nuregarasu comes for her through the green flames, and Tessai and Mio stand between them. Tessai wounds…
1 min 1 s
Episode 11: The Empty Yard🔒 50 coins
Dawn at the river: Kota gets the last villagers across and Tomekichi asks the question nobody can answer. Akari climbs back up the mountain with Mio and digs…
1 min 1 s
Episode 12: The Seed🔒 50 coins
In the hunters' camp, Tessai writes the names of the lost. Akari will not let him write Jun's, so she starts training with Mio and ties Jun's beads around her…
1 min 3 s
Arc 3: Dawnsteel (episodes 13–18)
Episode 13: Two Winters🔒 50 coins
Two winters after the night the village burned, Akari still wakes up calling for her grandfather. She trains with Tessai and Mio through the snow, wearing…
1 min 2 s
Episode 14: The Lantern Trial🔒 50 coins
Twenty candidates, twenty paper lanterns, one night on a mountain full of demons. Akari meets the cold, gifted Ren Kagami and the frightened herbalist Suzu…
1 min 1 s
Episode 15: Kamagiri🔒 50 coins
The missing lanterns hang from the bamboo like trophies. Their collector is Kamagiri, a six-armed mantis demon. Ren tells everyone to stay back and unleashes…
1 min 1 s
Episode 16: Silent Fall🔒 50 coins
Akari throws herself between Ren and the scythe. Kamagiri laughs at her tiny light, but in the falling ash she finally finds a style that is hers: Ash Snow,…
1 min 2 s
Episode 17: The Forge🔒 50 coins
Seven candidates come down the mountain. Akari is named to the Lantern Watch, trades words with Ren, and follows Tessai to the forge of Granny Tetsume. Her…
1 min 2 s
Episode 18: Found Her Fang🔒 50 coins
Akari speaks the name Kurozumi and her blade burns red, which means the demon still holds something of hers. Jun may be alive. On her first mission with real…
1 min 1 s
Arc 4: Cedar Wind (episodes 19–25)
Episode 19: Hiiragi🔒 50 coins
On her first real mission, Akari travels with Tessai, Ren, Suzu and Kota to Hiiragi, a post town under red maples where nine children have vanished in one…
1 min 1 s
Episode 20: Husks🔒 50 coins
When the cicadas start singing, the hunters follow them into the cedar forest. They find a child's sandal, still warm, then a shrine hung with giant husks…
1 min 1 s
Episode 21: Thousand-Year Cedar🔒 50 coins
Utsusemi slashes Ren down and her husks crack open, releasing a swarm of Hollowed. Akari and Suzu hold the line in front of the sleeping children. Then Tessai…
1 min 1 s
Episode 22: Snowbound Crescent🔒 50 coins
With Tessai's arm pinned through and Ren down, Akari runs up a fallen cedar and leaps into the moonlight. Ash Snow, Third Drift: Snowbound Crescent. The husks…
1 min 1 s
Episode 23: The Whisper🔒 50 coins
Utsusemi is crumbling to ash, but she is still talking. Someone told every demon that a silver girl from Kumoyama would come. Akari grabs what is left of her…
1 min 1 s
Episode 24: The Cost🔒 50 coins
The battle is won, but Tessai's sword hand will never grip again. Taichi gets his sister back, Akari returns Nana's wooden top, and Hiiragi lights its…
1 min 1 s
Episode 25: Sealed🔒 50 coins
Arc 4 finale. Mio explains why Kumoyama is sealed: three hunters went up and came back without their swords. Akari wants to go anyway, but breaking the…
1 min 2 s
Arc 5: The Road Home (episodes 26–32)
Episode 26: Ten Winters🔒 50 coins
Ten winters have passed. Akari is twenty-one, Ren is a captain, and Hollowed are climbing toward Kumoyama in a long, silent line. Tessai can no longer hold a…
1 min 1 s
Episode 27: Lower Kumoyama🔒 50 coins
Something small watches the hunters' campfire from the ridge. In Lower Kumoyama, old Tomekichi weeps when he recognizes Gensai's girl, and his…
1 min 1 s
Episode 28: Thorns🔒 50 coins
Akari, Ren and Suzu climb the shrine stairs Akari once raced up with Jun. A dozen sets of tracks lead up the mountain, and three Hollowed come screaming down…
1 min 4 s
Episode 29: Whiteout🔒 50 coins
Ibara has waited ten years for the girl from the yard, and Akari wants only one answer: what did Kurozumi do to Jun? Ren tears through the pack with Hundred…
1 min 1 s
Episode 30: The Ghost🔒 50 coins
A wooden sword shatters Ibara's thorns with a sound like a bell. The small hooded figure fights in Tessai's exact stance, and the red crescent charm swinging…
1 min 1 s
Episode 31: The Yard🔒 50 coins
Ren reminds Akari what the Oath demands if the Ghost is Hollowed, and she tells him not to follow her. Alone, she climbs to the ruined practice yard: three…
1 min 3 s
Episode 32: Run🔒 50 coins
Ten years of searching end in the burned yard. Jun begs Akari not to come closer: he watched the road every winter, but he never came home, because he isn't…
1 min 1 s
Arc 6: The Wooden Sword (episodes 33–38)
Episode 33: Don’t Run🔒 50 coins
Jun's eyes burn red and he begs Akari to stay back. Ren has his sword up at the gate, and Suzu can't believe what she is seeing. Akari puts herself between…
1 min 1 s
Episode 34: Ten Years Hungry🔒 50 coins
Ten years ago, in a cave behind a waterfall, Kurozumi offered a chained boy a cup and a lie. Jun answered with his wooden sword and ran. He has been hungry…
1 min 3 s
Episode 35: The Harvest🔒 50 coins
The one-winged crow cries, and the old cherry tree goes up in flames. Kurozumi walks out of the fire to collect what he planted ten years ago. Akari stands in…
1 min 1 s
Episode 36: Promise of Spring🔒 50 coins
A storm of blood sickles tears through the yard and Ren throws himself over Suzu. Mio arrives in a wall of fire and buys the others time. Jun stands next to…
1 min
Episode 37: Sunrise🔒 50 coins
Kurozumi's body vanishes into the old well, and something down there opens its eyes. As dawn crosses the yard, Jun kneels in the snow and asks Akari to let it…
1 min 1 s
Episode 38: Oath or Promise🔒 50 coins
Season One finale. Warden Kurenai orders Akari aside. Tessai reminds her that Jun's name was never crossed out of the ledger, and Mio reminds Akari of her…
1 min 1 s
About The Wooden Sword
The Wooden Sword is an original anime micro-drama from Okapi Films, made to be watched vertically on your phone, one roughly one-minute episode at a time. Stream it on Okapi Reels in your browser, or add Okapi Reels to your home screen for an app-like experience.