Crunchyroll is carving a big chunk out of the spooky fall season with the October 11 streaming launch of Chainsaw Man (TW / FB / IG). The service revved up the excitement for fans’ today by revealing the English dub cast and new trailer for the highly anticipated anime series from MAPPA.
With ADR direction by Mike McFarland (Attack on Titan; Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood), the Chainsaw Man English dub cast includes:
- Ryan Colt Levy (My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission; Moriarty the Patriot) as Denji
- Suzie Yeung (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba; Wonder Egg Priority) as Makima
- Reagan Murdock (Dragon Ball Super; Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer!) as Aki
- Sarah Wiedenheft (Black Clover; Dr. STONE; Dragon Ball Super) as Power
These stars can be heard in the new English dub trailer for Chainsaw Man, which centers on 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.
The English dub of Chainsaw Man will premiere at New York Comic Con on Friday, October 7. (Read more about Crunchyroll’s NYCC plans here.) The English SimulDub will start airing on Crunchyroll at a later date. Additional dubs will include Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and German, with casts to be announced at a later date.
Additionally, MAPPA announced today that new Japanese voice actors will be joining the cast to bring to life the characters of Pochita, Himeno, Kobeni Higashiyama, Hirokazu Arai and Kishibe. The current cast of Japanese voice actors includes:
- Kikunosuke Toya as Denji
- Shiori Izawa as (Nanachi in Made in Abyss) as Pochita
- Tomori Kusunoki (Natsume in Deca-Dence) as Makima
- Shogo Sakata (Karin Sasaki in Fire Force) as Aki Hayakawa
- Fairouz Ai (Jolyne Kujo in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean) as Power
- Mariya Ise (Reg in Made in Abyss) as Himeno
- Karin Takahashi (Suika in Dr. STONE) as Kobeni Higashiyama
- Taku Yashiro (Tanuma Tsubasa in Kaguya-sama: Love is War) as Hirokazu Arai
- Kenjiro Tsuda (Kento Nanami in JUJUTSU KAISEN) as Kishibe
Along with a new trailer, MAPPA also unveiled the all-new track listing for Chainsaw Man, which will have a different ending theme for each episode, and includes the following songs:
Opening Theme Song
- “KICK BACK” by Kenshi Yonezu
Ending Theme Songs
- “HAWATARI NIOKU CENTI (2-hundred-million-centimeter-long blades)” By MAXIMUM THE HORMONE
- ”ALL KIND OF KISSES” by ano
- ”Fight Song” by Eve
- “Deep down” by Aimer
- ”Rendezvous” by Kanaria
- ”In the Back Room” by syudou
- ”Violence” by Queen Bee
- ”Time Left” by ZUTOMAYO
- ”first death” by TK from Ling tosite sigure
- ”tablet” by TOOBOE
- ”CHAINSAW BLOOD” by Vaundy
- ”DOGLAND” by PEOPLE 1
Based on the widely popular and award-winning manga of the same name written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Fire Punch; Look Back; Goodbye, Eri) and serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump, Chainsaw Man is directed by Ryū Nakayama (Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia; The Rising of the Shield Hero).
The key creative roster also includes screenplay by Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan Final Season; Mob Psycho 100; Banana Fish), character design by Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation), devil design by Kiyotaka Oshiyama (The Wind Rises; The Secret World of Arrietty; Space Dandy), art direction by Yusuke Takeda (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-; Sword Art Online; Penguin Highway) and music composed by Kensuke Ushio (The Heike Story; Devilman: Crybaby; Space Dandy).
Animation is produced by Japan’s MAPPA (Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association), known for Attack on Titan Final Season, JUJUTSU KAISEN, Yuri!!! on Ice, takt op.Destiny and the upcoming Hell’s Paradise. MAPPA also released the global box office sensation JUJUTSU KAISEN 0, which became one of the top five highest-grossing anime movies in the U.S., top 10 highest-grossing anime movies in the world, and top 20 highest-grossing movies in Japan.
