CyberAgent announced on Friday that voice actor Yūichi Nakamura is joining the cast of the upcoming Kagurabachi television anime, based on the manga by Takeru Hokazono. Nakamura will voice Soshiro Azami, a sorcerer affiliated with the Kamunabi organization.
Story
The manga follows Chihiro, a young boy who trains under his renowned swordsmith father, dreaming of one day becoming a great sword-maker himself. Their cheerful, peaceful days are shattered without warning by a blood-soaked tragedy, leaving Chihiro and his blade driven solely by the desire for revenge. Epic sword-battle action ensues.
Cast & Staff
Voice Cast
- Taihi Kimura — Chihiro Rokuhira
- Tomokazu Seki — Kunishige Rokuhira
- Katsuyuki Konishi — Togo Shiba
- Miku Itō — Hinao
- Miyari Nemoto — Char Kyonagi
- Yūichi Nakamura — Soshiro Azami
Staff
- Director: Tetsuya Takeuchi (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!; key animator on Naruto and Naruto Shippūden)
- Character Design: Keigo Sasaki (Blue Exorcist, Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray)
- Animation Studio: Cypic (The World Is Dancing)
- Production Committee: Shochiku and CyberAgent
Premiere & World Tour
The anime is set to premiere in April 2027 and will stream worldwide that same month, excluding Japan, Mainland China, North Korea, and South Korea.
A promotional “world tour” event kicked off this past July at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Japan Expo Paris in Paris, and ANImagic in Mannheim, Germany, continuing in August at Anime NYC in New York. Each stop screens the first 20 minutes of the opening episode. The tour will conclude in Japan in spring 2027, where the full first episode will be shown.
About the Manga
Hokazono launched Kagurabachi in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in September 2023. The 12th compiled volume went on sale in Japan on September 4. The series has surpassed 4 million copies in circulation (with over 2.2 million copies reported as of May 2025).
Viz Media publishes the manga in English both digitally via its Shonen Jump service and in print — the eighth volume released on August 4. Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service also carries the series digitally in English.
The manga has earned considerable recognition: it topped the print category of the Next Manga Awards 2024, was nominated for the 70th Shogakukan Manga Awards (December 2024), the 49th Kodansha Manga Awards (April 2025), and the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and ranked #13 in Da Vinci magazine’s top manga titles of 2025.
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