Crunchyroll introduced on Thursday that it’s going to stream the tv anime adaptation of Takeru Hokazono‘s Kagurabachi manga in April 2027 worldwide excluding Japan, Mainland China, North Korea, and South Korea. The workers additionally revealed that Katsuyuki Konishi will play Togo Shiba. Crunchyroll streamed the English-subtitled teaser trailer:
©Takeru Hokazono/SHUEISHA,Venture Kagurabachi
©Takeru Hokazono/SHUEISHA,Venture Kagurabachi
The anime will debut in April 2027. The “world tour” occasion for the anime will start this July at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Japan Expo Paris in Paris, ANImagic in Mannheim, Germany, and in August at Anime NYC in New York. The occasion will present the primary 20 minutes of the primary episode, and can finish in Japan in spring 2027 the place the total first episode will likely be screened.
Viz Media‘s Shonen Soar service and Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus service are releasing the Kagurabachi manga digitally in English. MANGA Plus describes the story:
Younger Chihiro spends his days coaching below his well-known swordsmith father. In the future he hopes to turn out to be an amazing sword-maker himself. The goofy father and the intense son–they thought as of late would final eternally. However abruptly, tragedy strikes. A darkish day soaked in blood. Chihiro and his blade now dwell just for revenge. Epic sword battle motion!
The anime stars Taihi Kimura as Chihiro Rokuhira and Tomokazu Seki as Kunishige Rokuhira.
Tetsuya Takeuchi (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! director; key animator for Naruto and Naruto Shippūden) is directing the anime at Cypic (The World Is Dancing). Keigo Sasaki (character designer for Blue Exorcist, Uma Musume: Cinderella Grey) is designing the characters. Shochiku and CyberAgent are on the manufacturing committee.
Hokazono debuted the Kagurabachi manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Soar journal in September 2023. Shueisha printed the manga’s eleventh compiled quantity in Japan on Could 1. The manga surpassed 2.2 million copies in circulation as of Could 2025. The manga has 4 million copies in circulation.
Viz Media can be releasing the manga in print and launched the seventh quantity on Could 5.
The manga topped the print class within the Subsequent Manga Awards 2024. The manga was nominated in December 2024 for the seventieth Shogakukan Manga Awards, and was nominated for the forty ninth annual Kodansha Manga Awards in April 2025. The manga was additionally nominated for the 2025 Will Eisner Comedian Trade Awards. The manga ranked at #13 in January for Da Vinci’s prime manga titles of 2025.
CyberAgent established Cygames in 2011, and the corporate has produced video games equivalent to Rage of Bahamut and Granblue Fantasy. Cygames established an anime division in March 2015 and the anime manufacturing subsidiary Cygames Footage in April 2016.
Replace: Changed picture per Crunchyroll‘s request.
Sources: Press launch
