The official website for the Kagurabachi television anime — based on the manga by Takeru Hokazono — has announced that veteran voice actor Tomokazu Seki is joining the cast as Kunishige Rokuhira, the father of protagonist Chihiro.
Story
Young Chihiro trains under his celebrated swordsmith father, dreaming of one day becoming a great sword-maker himself. The easygoing father and his serious son believed their peaceful days would last forever — until tragedy strikes on a blood-soaked day. From that moment on, Chihiro and his blade exist solely for revenge.
Cast & Staff
- Taihi Kimura — Chihiro Rokuhira
- Tomokazu Seki — Kunishige Rokuhira
The anime is directed by Tetsuya Takeuchi — known for directing From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! and for his key animation work on Naruto and Naruto Shippūden — at studio Cypic (The World Is Dancing). Keigo Sasaki, character designer on Blue Exorcist and Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray, is handling character design. Shochiku and CyberAgent are on the production committee.
Premiere & World Tour
The anime is set to debut in April 2027. Ahead of that, a “world tour” event will screen the first 20 minutes of episode one, kicking off in July at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Japan Expo Paris, and ANImagic in Mannheim, Germany, followed by Anime NYC in New York in August. The tour will conclude in Japan in spring 2027 with a full screening of the first episode.
About the Manga
Hokazono launched Kagurabachi in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in September 2023. The series now has 11 compiled volumes, with the latest released in Japan on May 1. The manga has surpassed 4 million copies in circulation, with over 2.2 million copies as of May 2025.
The series claimed the top spot in the print category of the Next Manga Awards 2024 and has been nominated for the 70th Shogakukan Manga Awards, the 49th Kodansha Manga Awards, and the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. It also ranked #13 in Da Vinci magazine’s top manga titles of 2025.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English both digitally via its Shonen Jump service and in print — the seventh volume was released on May 5. Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service also offers the series digitally in English.
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