\t]]>a sorcerer affiliated with the Kamunabi.<\/p>\n
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Image courtesy of CyberAgent<\/p>\n
\u00a9Takeru Hokazono\/SHUEISHA,Project Kagurabachi<\/p>\n
\u00a9Takeru Hokazono\/SHUEISHA,Project Kagurabachi<\/p>\n Viz Media<\/a>‘s Shonen Jump service and Shueisha<\/a>‘s MANGA Plus<\/a> service are releasing the Kagurabachi manga digitally in English. MANGA Plus describes the story:<\/p>\n Young Chihiro spends his days training under his famous swordsmith father. One day he hopes to become a great sword-maker himself. The goofy father and the serious son–they thought these days would last forever. But suddenly, tragedy strikes. A dark day soaked in blood. Chihiro and his blade now live only for revenge. Epic sword battle action!<\/p>\n The anime stars:<\/p>\n Tetsuya Takeuchi<\/a> (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!<\/a> director; key animator for Naruto<\/a> and Naruto Shipp\u016bden<\/a>) is directing the anime at Cypic<\/a> (The World Is Dancing<\/a>). Keigo Sasaki<\/a> (character designer for Blue Exorcist<\/a>, Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray<\/a>) is designing the characters. Shochiku<\/a> and CyberAgent are on the production committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n The anime will premiere in April 2027, and will stream that month worldwide excluding Japan, Mainland China, North Korea, and South Korea. The “world tour” event for the anime \u00a0began this past July at Anime Expo<\/a> in Los Angeles, Japan Expo Paris in Paris, ANImagic<\/a> in Mannheim, Germany, and in August at Anime NYC<\/a> in New York. The event is showing the first 20 minutes of the first episode, and will end in Japan in spring 2027 where the full first episode will be screened.<\/p>\n Hokazono debuted the Kagurabachi manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump<\/a> magazine in September 2023. Shueisha published the manga’s 12th compiled volume in Japan on September 4. The manga surpassed<\/a> 2.2 million copies in circulation as of May 2025. The manga has 4 million copies in circulation.<\/p>\n Viz Media is also releasing the manga in print and released the eighth volume on August 4.<\/p>\n The manga topped<\/a> the print category in the Next Manga Awards 2024. The manga was nominated<\/a> in December 2024 for the 70th Shogakukan<\/a> Manga Awards, and was nominated<\/a> for the 49th annual Kodansha<\/a> Manga Awards in April 2025. The manga was also nominated<\/a> for the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The manga ranked<\/a> at #13 in January for Da Vinci’s top manga titles of 2025.<\/p>\n CyberAgent established Cygames<\/a> in 2011, and the company has produced games such as Rage of Bahamut and Granblue Fantasy<\/a>. Cygames established<\/a> an anime division in March 2015 and the anime production subsidiary<\/a> Cygames Pictures<\/a> in April 2016.<\/p>\n Source: Press release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nakamura plays Soshiro Azami CyberAgent revealed on Friday that Y\u016bichi Nakamura is joining the cast of the television…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-618330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kagurabachi](\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.9\/236804\/mainvisual-kv.webp\")
Image via Kagurabachi anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n