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Takeru Hokazono’s Kagurabachi Manga Gets TV Anime in April 2027 – News
Shueisha‘s “Jump Press” livestream on Monday announced that Takeru Hokazono‘s Kagurabachi manga is getting a television anime adaptation that will debut in April 2027. The anime will star Taihi Kimura as Chihiro Rokuhira.
The event also revealed a teaser visual, teaser video, and main staff.
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Tetsuya Takeuchi (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! director; key animator for Naruto and Naruto Shippūden) is directing the anime at Cypic (The World Is Dancing). Keigo Sasaki (character designer for Blue Exorcist, Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray) is designing the characters. Shochiku and CyberAgent are on the production committee.
The anime will have a “world tour” event starting this summer that will show the first 20 minutes of the first episode at various anime events. The world tour will end in Japan in spring 2027 where the full first episode will be screened.
© Takeru Hokazono, Shueisha
Toyo Keizai Online, the website tied to the finance magazine Weekly Toyo Keizai, had reported in December 2024 that the manga was getting an anime adaptation at Cygames Pictures, through a joint production by CyberAgent and Shochiku. Both CyberAgent and Shochiku declined to comment at the time.
Hokazono debuted the Kagurabachi manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in September 2023. Shueisha will publish the manga’s 11th compiled volume in Japan on May 1. The manga surpassed 2.2 million copies in circulation as of May 2025, and Monday’s announcement revealed the manga now has 4 million copies in circulation.
Viz Media‘s Shonen Jump service and Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus service are releasing the Kagurabachi manga digitally in English. MANGA Plus describes the story:
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!
Viz Media is also releasing the manga in print and will release the seventh volume on May 5.
The manga topped the print category in the Next Manga Awards 2024. The manga was nominated in December 2024 for the 70th Shogakukan Manga Awards, and was nominated for the 49th annual Kodansha Manga Awards in April 2025. The manga 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.
CyberAgent established Cygames in 2011, and the company has produced games such as Rage of Bahamut and Granblue Fantasy. Cygames established an anime division in March 2015 and the anime production subsidiary Cygames Pictures in April 2016.
Source: Jump Press livestream
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Game developer enish announced on Friday that Attack on Titan: Brave Order, its cooperative smartphone game in the Attack on Titan franchise, is ending service on September 28 at 5:30 p.m. JST.
Sales of in-game currency have halted.
The game launched for iOS and Android devices in February 2022.
The game has players join the Scout Corps alongside Eren and Mikasa, and take down Titans cooperatively alongside other players.
Mobage released the first Shingeki no Kyojn (Attack on Titan) smartphone game in 2012. The Shingeki no Kyojin -Hangeki no Tsubasa- (Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack) smartphone game launched on the GREE mobile platform in 2013. The Shingeki no Kyoujin -Jiyū he no Hōkō- (Attack on Titan -Call for Freedom-) smartphone game then launched through Mobage in 2014. DeNA released KAYAC‘s Attack on Titan TACTICS tactical role-playing smartphone game for iOS and Android devices in English in September 2019, and the game ended service in August 2020.
Source: Attack on Titan: Brave Order game’s account
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Studio Aardman’s Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu Stop-Motion Series Reveals Teaser Trailer, 2027 Debut on Disney+, Disney XD – News
The official website for the Pokémon franchise announced during the PokémonXP event on Friday that Disney+ will exclusively stream the Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu, the franchise‘s stop-motion animated series collaboration with independent studio Aardman (Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep), beginning in 2027. The Disney XD channel will debut the series on television. The official YouTube channels for the Pokémon franchise and Aardman unveiled a teaser trailer:
The series is part of a global distribution deal between Disney+ and The Pokémon Company International. The deal also includes Pokémon the Series: The Beginning, the original Indigo League season of the anime, which began streaming on Disney+ on August 7 with the first 27 episodes and has also begun airing on Disney XD.
Peter Lord, Cofounder and Creative Director at Aardman, stated that the Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu animated series will take place in a region that is “very close to our hearts.” The video teases Wooloo and Sirfetch’d, which are Pokémon originally introduced in the Pokémon Sword/Shield games that are set in the Galar region based on the U.K.
Tom Parkinson is the director, Natalie McKay is the creative director, and James Young is the creative lead.
Pokémon Concierge, another stop-motion animated series for the Pokémon franchise, debuted with four episodes on Netflix in December 2023. The stop-motion production company dwarf studios (Rilakkuma and Kaoru) animated the episodes thus far. New episodes premiered in September 2025.”
The Pokémon: Horizons anime premiered in Japan in April 2023 with a one-hour first-episode special. The show airs in Japan on Fridays at 6:55 p.m. JST.
The Pokémon Company had originally announced that the anime would debut on Netflix in the U.S. in February 2024, but the series debuted instead in March 2024. Netflix premiered Pokémon Horizons: The Series—The Search for Laqua, the anime’s second season, in February 2025. Netflix added Pokémon Horizons: Season 3—Rising Hope on January 6.
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