Yaiba - Other Appearances/Cameos

Other Appearances/Cameos

Although Yaiba has now become a little known anime, it still appears as cameos in other works such as Detective Conan.

• In volume 2 file 3 of Detective Conan, he appeared in a TV show Conan was watching.
• In volume 3 Conan is seen playing the same game below at episode 7 to distract Ran from suspicion.
• In volume 10 file 6, Conan is looking through some books in the children section at the library. One of them is title Samurai Kid, a double reference to both Yaiba and Magic Kaito.
• In volume 5 file 6 of Detective Conan, Yaiba is seen on the karaoke screen.
• In episode 7, Conan is seen playing a Game Boy-like console, where his character in the game is Yaiba.
• In episode 25, Yaiba's main antagonist, Onimaru, appears on the cover of another video game.
• Conan's companions in the Junior Detective League are fans of a series called "Masked Yaiba" (Kamen Yaiba), another nod to the series (as well as an homage to the live-action series Kamen Rider).
• There is a special OVA consisting all three of Gosho Aoyama's most famous works in one video. "Conan vs KID vs Yaiba".
• In the last episode before Musashi TV close, there are chibi version of Conan Edogawa and Ran Mori inside the TV.
• Ran Mori of Detective Conan has a mobile phone accessory in the shape of a sea cucumber demon (one of the demons Yaiba befriends with) at the end of her mobile phone's strap.
• In Magic Kaito, Kaito Kid once goes to Mine's House and fights against Yaiba & the old Miyamoto Musashi.
• The character Okita has a brief cameo in Detective Conan episode 263 as Heiji Hattori's rival in a kendo tournament- the joke being that Okita has a very similar character design to Shinichi, the main character.