Arata: The Legend

Arata: The Legend (Japanese: アラタカンガタリ 〜革神語〜, Hepburn: Arata Kangatari) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Watase. The series follows two boys, Arata, from the mystical world of Amawakuni, and Arata Hinohara, from modern Japan, who switch places. Framed for treason, Hinohara must master a sacred Hayagami sword to save Amawakuni from rebellion while evading his past bully, Kadowaki, now wielding dark power. Meanwhile, Arata befriends Imina, the true heir to Amawakuni's throne, as they uncover a plot to conquer both worlds.

Arata: The Legend started serialization in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in October 2008. The series went on hiatus in August 2015 and resumed publication with republished chapters in May 2021 and all-new chapters starting in July of that same year. It finished in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in April 2022 and was transferred to the Sunday Webry website in May of the same year, where it finished in November 2023. Its chapters were first collected in a 24-volume tankōbon edition from January 2009 to September 2015, and a Remaster edition started in July 2013; after the hiatus, the subsequent chapters were only compiled in the latter edition, with the eighteenth and final volume published in December 2023. In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media, with the 24 volumes of the tankōbon edition published.

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Satelight and Korean studio JM Animation was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April to July 2013.