Chainsaw Man Anime Announces Additional Cast

Additional cast for the Chainsaw Man anime series were announced on Friday ahead of its October 11 premiere. The new cast additions include Maaya Uchida as the Angel Devil, Hanae Natsuki as the Shark Fiend, Yuyu Uchida as the Violence Fiend, Saori Goto as the Spider Devil, Yo Taichi as Akane Sawatari, and Daiki Hamano as Katana Man.

Unlike the main cast, the additional cast is comprised of veteran voice actors. Natsuki is most notably known for his work as the voice of Tanjiro Kamado from Demon Slayer and Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul. Maaya Uchida’s previous big roles include Hiyori from Noragami and Rikka from Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions. Yuyu Uchida was the voice of Stein from Soul Eater and Hendrickson from Seven Deadly Sins. Goto voiced Moeka Kiryuu from Steins;Gate. Taichi is the voice of Dorothy from Princess Principal. And Hamano is the voice of Gorou from Darling in the Franxx, who will also be voicing Luders Friegen in the upcoming season of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War.

Chainsaw Man Anime

The preview video for Chainsaw Man episode 1 was released on Tuesday and hit 3 million views within the first six hours. The official Twitter release received just over 1.9 million views while the official YouTube upload hit just over 1.1 million views. The series is set to premiere on October 11 with studio MAPPA in charge of the animation. You can watch the preview for episode 1 of Chainsaw Man below:

Crunchyroll will be streaming Chainsaw Man across 200 different countries which is currently the most anticipated anime of the year across all anime fan websites. Chainsaw Man will be MAPPA’s fourth and final project of the year and is set to run for 12 episodes. The third trailer for the series was released back in August during the Crunchyroll Expo 2022.

Chainsaw Man Cast and Staff

The casting for Chainsaw Man is filled with voice actors who aren’t the biggest names in the industry right now but their talent speaks for themselves. Kikunosuke Toya will be making his big-role debut as Denji. Tomori Kusunoki, who will be voicing Makima, has had some decent-sized roles in the past including the main characters Natsume from Deca-Dence and Karen from Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online. Shogo Sakata will be voicing Aki Hayakawa, his biggest role since playing Karin in Fire Force. And Fairouz Ai, who will be taking on the biggest role of her career as Power.

Ryu Nakayama (Jujutsu Kaisen, Black Clover) will direct the series. Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) will work on the character designs. Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Deca-Dence, Space Dandy) is credited for creature designs while Kensuke Ushio (Japan Sinks 2020, Devilman: Crybaby) will handle the music. And Tatsuya Yoshihara, who has extensive work in Black Clover, was brought on to be the action director.

Chainsaw Man Manga

Created and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto, the Chainsaw Man manga has seen a plethora of success. Multiple awards, bestseller lists, novel adaptations, and now finally an anime adaptation. In 2021, Chainsaw Man took home three awards including a Harvey Award for the category of “Best Manga”. Then in July of this year, the coveted manga was also nominated for a prestigious Eisner Award in the category of “Best U.S. Edition of International Material–Asia”.

As of August 2022 Chainsaw Man has a total of 15 million copies in circulation. Part 1 of the series has 11 volumes, all released in English as well. Part 2 of the manga is currently ongoing and has released three chapters so far and can be read on the official Shonen Jump app.

Synopsis

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita. One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as “Chainsaw Man”–a man with a devil’s heart.

Synopsis via Crunchyroll

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