The official website and Twitter account for the Chainsaw Man TV anime revved up today, revealing a brand new key visual for the upcoming series and additionally announcing that a new trailer and first cast information will be unveiled during a MAPPA stage event on August 5 at 8 PM Japan time. The event will be streamed on MAPPA’s YouTube channel. 

 

The staff for the Chainsaw Man anime is as follows:

 

• Director: Ryu Nakayama (JUJUTSU KAISEN Episode 19 Director)

• Screenplay: Hiroshi Seko (Mob Psycho 100, JUJUTSU KAISEN) 

• Character Design: Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation)

• Action Animation Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara (Black Clover, Yatterman Night)

• Assistant Director: Masato Nakazono (JUJUTSU KAISEN, SSSS.Gridman)

• Devil Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Flip Flappers, Space Dandy) 

• Background Art Director: Yusuke Takeda (Vinland Saga, JUJUTSU KAISEN)

• Color Design: Naomi Nakano (Sword Art Online: Alicization) 
• Screen design: Yosuke Miyahara (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans)
• Music: Kensuke Ushio (A Silent Voice, Devilman Crybaby)

• Animation Producer: Keisuke Seshimo (JUJUTSU KAISEN) 

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VIZ Media releases the manga in English, with all eleven volumes of Part 1 out now. Chainsaw Man Part 2 began serialization on the Shonen Jump+ digital manga magazine, Shonen Jump app and Manga Plus app on July 13. Crunchyroll describes the series as such:

 

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. 

 

Source: Chainsaw Man on Twitter

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs the YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.