The first season of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit looks like it’s going to get some Amazon Prime Video distribution through the AsianCrush channel as the basic template for it is now showing up on the service. No episodes are available for this first season that ran for four episodes during March and April of 2016. A second and third season were commissioned early on as well with both of those seasons, landing in 2017 and 2018, for nine episodes each.
Plot Concept: Balsa (Haruka Ayase) is 30-year old itinerant bodyguard from Kanbal. When she saves Imperial Prince Chagum after falling to a raging river, her life abruptly changes when she is hired to protect Chagum. She is forced to fend off hired assassins seeking to kill Chagum, who has become the host of the egg of the water spirit, which must be returned to its source in the sea.
