The main cast of the upcoming Chainsaw Man anime adaptation will be revealed on August 5 at 8PM JST during a special live stream program. A new trailer will also be released. 

In the meantime, the anime’s Twitter account released a new visual, which depicts the titular character standing atop some rubble as blood and giblets rain from the sky and splatter onto his surroundings. 

The anime is set to release this year. Crunchyroll previously announced that it will simulcast the show “later this year.” 

The Chainsaw Man manga debuted in 2018 and is written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. The first part of the manga ran from 2019 to 2021 in Weekly Shonen Jump. The second part began serialization on the Shonen Jump+ app and website earlier this month.

Chainsaw Man’s staff includes Ryuu Nakayama (Gamers! opening director and storyboarder et al., Macross Delta main animator, The Ryuo’s Work Is Never Done! opening director and storyboarder et al.) as director, Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) as character designer, Tatsuya Yoshihara (Black Clover director) as action director, and Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan: The Final Season series composer) as scriptwriter.

Other staff include Makoto Nakazono (A3! assistant director) as chief episode director, Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Deca-Dence cyborg designer, DEVILMAN crybaby devil designer) as devil designer, Yusuke Takeda (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-) as art director, Naomi Nakano (Kemono Jihen) as color designer, Youhei Miyahara (Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia technical director) as screen designer, and Kensuke Ushio (Japan Sinks: 2020) as music composer. MAPPA is the animation production studio.

Source: @CHAINSAWMAN_PR