Is Song of the Samurai coming back?

Song of the Samurai aired its most recent episode on May 1, 2026. The show premiered on March 26, 2026, on TBS and has been broadcasting episodes regularly since then.

Song of the Samurai is a drama, action, and history series set in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period. It was a live-action adaptation that depicted the lives of the Shinsengumi, a samurai force defending Kyoto during Japan's final years of the shogunate. The series focused on Toshizo Hijikata, a street brawler who found a new family among Isami Kondo and Soji Okita. It explored their bonds of loyalty, tested by betrayal, illness, and war, as they fought both enemies and their own ideals.

It is a series that started in 2026 and ran for a single season, concluding on May 1, 2026.