Kagurabachi Anime World Tour Dates Announced, First Episode to Premiere at Anime Expo 2026
The world tour structure, with staggered international previews months before the Japanese premiere, reflects a strategy to build global audience anticipation for a series that has already won the Next Manga Award and sold 4 million copies.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
Shochiku announced the world tour schedule for the television anime adaptation of Takeru Hokazono's Kagurabachi manga on Wednesday. The tour will begin on July 3, 2026, at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, where the first 20 minutes of episode 1 will screen as a world premiere. Subsequent screenings will take place at Japan Expo Paris on July 9, AnimagiC in Mannheim, Germany on August 1, and Anime NYC on August 22. The full first episode will screen in Japan in spring 2027. Select events will host panels featuring lead voice actor Taihi Kimura (Chihiro Rokuhira), manga editor Takurō Imamura, cross-media producer Riki Azuma, and producer Kōichi Yasuda. The anime is directed by Tetsuya Takeuchi at Cypic, with Keigo Sasaki designing the characters. The series will debut in April 2027. The manga, which began in Weekly Shonen Jump in September 2023, has 4 million copies in circulation as of May 2026.
The world tour was originally announced alongside the anime adaptation earlier this year. Studio Cypic, a rebranding of Cygames Pictures, is handling animation production. The studio's recent works include The Summer Hikaru Died and Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray.
Director Tetsuya Takeuchi previously directed From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! and worked as a key animator on Naruto and Naruto Shippūden. Character designer Keigo Sasaki previously worked on Blue Exorcist and Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray. Shochiku and CyberAgent are on the production committee.
The manga has been nominated for several major awards. It was nominated in December 2024 for the 70th Shogakukan Manga Awards and in April 2025 for the 49th annual Kodansha Manga Awards. It was also nominated for the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The manga ranked at #13 in January for Da Vinci's top manga titles of 2025.
Viz Media's Shonen Jump service and Shueisha's MANGA Plus service are releasing the manga digitally in English. Viz Media is also releasing the manga in print and released the seventh volume on May 5.
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