{"rewrite":{"id":"r_84a98cf45c5c24ac734a4410","clusterId":"c_5b770d1937d8f4d6434914b8","slug":"yaiba-space-project-to-send-aoyama-s-new-illustration-to-the-iss","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"YAIBA Space Project to Send Aoyama's New Illustration to the ISS","summary":"Shin Samurai-den YAIBA announced a Space Project on Friday, October 23: a newly drawn illustration by original creator Gosho Aoyama will be produced as an A1 poster and carried to the International Space Station's Kibo Japanese Experiment Module using JAXA's Kibo Paid Utilization System. The poster will be folded with Miura-ori for the ride. The Kaguya Arc, the anime's second season, begins airing January 9, 2027.","whyItMatters":"The tie-in runs ahead of a second season that moves the story from Earth to space, so the promotion is matched to the arc's premise rather than attached to a broadcast date alone.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe poster is folded with Miura-ori, a method developed from research in space structural engineering that compresses a large surface and opens from one direction. Preparations are underway for mounting on a rocket, with the payload mission listed as Cygnus resupply vehicle operation No. 25 and launch by Falcon 9 scheduled from Cape Cod Space Force Station in Florida, USA, for fall 2026 or later.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe illustration shows Yaiba Kurogane flying with the Dragon God Sword and Kaguya, a central figure in the second season. The Kaguya Arc begins airing Saturday, January 9, 2027 at 17:30 on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV\u0026#39;s nationwide network.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Miura-ori folding is the unglamorous constraint in the YAIBA Space Project: an A1 poster by Gosho Aoyama has to fold flat to ride JAXA's Kibo module. The origami choice decides the format, not the art.","twitterPost":"Gosho Aoyama's YAIBA poster rides to the ISS folded Miura-ori, so the origami pattern sets the format the artwork ships in.","threadsPost":"The YAIBA Space Project sends a Gosho Aoyama illustration to the ISS, and the detail that shapes it is the folding: Miura-ori lets an A1 poster pack flat for JAXA's Kibo module. The constraint is the format, not the art.","newsletterBlurb":"Shin Samurai-den YAIBA announced a Space Project that will carry a newly drawn Gosho Aoyama illustration to the ISS Kibo module as an A1 poster, using JAXA's Kibo Paid Utilization System. The poster folds with Miura-ori and is set for a Cygnus NG-25 launch from Florida, fall 2026 or later. The Kaguya Arc starts January 9, 2027.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/96923\",\"title\":\"Gosho Aoyama's Newly Drawn 'YAIBA' Illustration to Be Launched to the International Space Station\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4742,"outputTokens":659,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792731132,"createdAt":"2026-10-23T04:48:21.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-23T04:51:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T04:51:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_5b770d1937d8f4d6434914b8","canonicalTitle":"青山剛昌が描き下ろした『YAIBA』イラスト、国際宇宙ステーションに打ち上げへ","representativeArticleId":"a_83621d1cb793bcffd668fc0c","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Yaiba\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Gosho Aoyama\"],\"type\":\"event\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-23T03:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-23T03:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T04:51:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"KAI-YOU","url":"https://kai-you.net/article/96923","title":"青山剛昌が描き下ろした『YAIBA』イラスト、国際宇宙ステーションに打ち上げへ"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Yaiba"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Gosho Aoyama"],"type":"event","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}