Kagurabachi TV Anime Confirmed for April 2027 With Cypic Directing
The adaptation pairs a fast-rising Jump title with a director whose action-animation credentials are being used explicitly as a marketing signal to the manga's readership.
Reporting from 3 sources: AnimationXpress Anime, Animehunch, Anime Atelier.
Shochiku confirmed that Takeru Hokazono's Kagurabachi manga will receive a television anime adaptation in April 2027. The series is in production at Cypic, the studio previously known as CygamesPictures, with Tetsuya Takeuchi directing. Takeuchi's past work includes key animation on the Rock Lee versus Gaara fight in Naruto, a sequence Hokazono cited as a reason for his excitement about the adaptation. Keigo Sasaki is handling character designs, and Taihi Kimura, winner of the 2025 Seiyu Awards Best New Actor prize, will voice protagonist Chihiro Rokuhira. Shochiku and CyberAgent sit on the production committee. The announcement arrived during the fifth Jump Press program and was accompanied by a trailer, a teaser visual, and a commemorative illustration from Hokazono. A world tour starting in summer 2026 will screen 20 minutes of the first episode at events worldwide, culminating in a full first-episode screening in Japan in spring 2027 before the broadcast. The manga has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since September 2023 and has over 4 million copies in circulation.
The project had been in motion since at least 2024, when a leak first tied CygamesPictures to the manga. The studio has since rebranded as Cypic, the name carried in Thursday's confirmation.
Tetsuya Takeuchi directs. His credits include key animation on Heavenly Delusion and Hinamatsuri, in addition to the Naruto sequence Hokazono singled out. Keigo Sasaki is character designer. Taihi Kimura, who won Best New Actor at the 2025 Seiyu Awards, voices Chihiro Rokuhira.
The reveal aired during the fifth Jump Press program on the Shonen Jump YouTube channel. A teaser website and a Twitter account had hinted at it beforehand. Hokazono said the staff "really know the manga inside and out" and called the adaptation a "must-watch."
The manga has the backing of a strong launch: its first chapter was the most-viewed debut in a single week on Manga Plus, ahead of Spy x Family, Dragon Ball Super, and Boruto at the time, and it won the Next Manga Award in 2024. For new readers, the English release describes a dark-action fantasy in which Chihiro trains as a swordsmith under his father, loses him to a sorcerer group called the Hishaku, and sets out for revenge.
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