Kagurabachi's Anime World Tour Heads to Anime NYC on August 22, With Its First-Ever Screening

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One of the most anticipated new anime adaptations of the next few years is about to get its first-ever New York screening — and TBM hasn't covered Kagurabachi before, so here's the full picture.

What Is Kagurabachi?

Kagurabachi is a manga by Takeru Hokazono, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. It follows Chihiro Rokuhira, a boy training to become a swordsmith under his father Kunishige — until a sudden attack by a mysterious sorcerer organization called the Hishaku violently tears their peaceful life apart.

A World Tour Before the Broadcast Even Starts

Ahead of the TV anime's April 2027 debut, the production has been running an "Anime World Tour" of preview screenings: Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Japan Expo Paris, and AnimagiC in Mannheim, Germany, all in July. The tour's next stop is Anime NYC, with a New York premiere screening on Saturday, August 22, showing the first roughly 20 minutes of Episode 1.

The Cast

Chihiro Rokuhira is voiced by Taihi Kimura, who won Best New Actor at the 2025 Seiyu Awards — a strong signal of how seriously the production is investing in this adaptation.

What To Know

Kagurabachi has been one of the biggest breakout hits in Weekly Shonen Jump in years, and for fans who've only ever read the manga, an actual moving, voiced, animated first look — months before the real broadcast even starts — is a genuinely rare and exciting way to finally see the story in motion.

Running an "Anime World Tour" of preview screenings across four different countries before a show has even aired is a increasingly common promotional strategy for the biggest new Shonen Jump adaptations — it treats overseas fan conventions as a real part of a title's launch strategy, not an afterthought after the Japanese broadcast.

What Fans Are Saying

• "Finally seeing Kagurabachi animated, even just 20 minutes, is going to be huge for manga readers."
• "World tour before the actual broadcast even starts shows how much confidence they have in this adaptation."
• "Wish I could be in NYC for this one."

Original Japanese

• 「マンガ勢にとって、たった20分でもアニメ映像が見られるのは大きい」
• 「放送前から世界ツアーをするなんて、制作側の自信を感じます」
• 「NYにいたら絶対見に行きたい」

Easy Japanese

マンガ「カグラバチ」のアニメが、8月22日にアニメNYCで映像を初公開します。アニメの放送は2027年4月に始まります。