Kagurabachi has found its streaming home and it’s not going to be living there until next year.
Crunchyroll revealed that it will stream Kagurabachi, the highly anticipated anime adaptation of the hit shonen manga, when it airs in 2027. The teaser trailer is the same as the one that was first dropped when the adaptation was first announced except with English subtitles. In addition to this news, Kagurabachi has also announced that Katsuyuki Konishi will portray Togo Shiba.
Cypic will animate and produce the adaptation with Tetsuya Takeuchi helming as the director. Cypic, a subsidiary of CyberAgent, has worked on The Summer Hikaru Died and Apocalypse Hotel. Keigo Sasaki will serve as the character designer and Shochiku and CyberAgent will be on the production committee. Taihi Kimura (Liar Game, The Beginning After the End) will voice the protagonist Chihiro Rokuhira. Tomokazu Seki (Cardcaptor Sakura, DAN DA DAN, and Demon Slayer) will portray Kunishige Rokuhira.
Rumors of an anime adaptation have been circulating as early as December 2024, although CyberAgent and Shochiku did not confirm it at the time. Kagurabachi will also go on a world tour where the first 20 mins of the first episode at various anime events will be screened. The full first episode will premiere in Japan in spring 2027.
Written and illustrated by Takeru Hokazono, Kagurabachi follows the journey of a young man named Chihiro Rokuhira who is going after a group of powerful criminal sorcerers for the murder of his father and for stealing the six Enchanted Blades his father forged. The manga has four million copies in circulation as of this article’s writing and earned a handful of nominations and awards including the 10th Next Manga Award and nominations for the Eisner Awards’ Best U.S. Edition of International Material–Asia and the Kodansha Manga Award in the “shonen” category.
Kagurabachi is available to read on Viz Media and Manga Plus. The anime adaptation releases in April 2027 on Crunchyroll.
Source: Crunchyroll
