'Chainsaw Man' Reveals Additional Cast, Theme Song Artists, Fourth Promo

by DatRandomDude
Sep 19, 2022 5:04 AM | 51 Comments

The salutation livestream of the Chainsaw Man world premiere event revealed on Monday five additional cast, theme song artists, and a fourth promotional video. The anime series adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto's action adventure manga will premiere on October 12 at 12:00 a.m. on TV Tokyo.

Cast
Pochita: Shiori Izawa (Made in Abyss)
Himeno: Mariya Ise (Kakegurui)
Kobeni Higashiyama: Karin Takahashi (Dr. Stone)
Hirokazu Arai: Taku Yashiro (Enen no Shouboutai)
Kishibe: Kenjirou Tsuda (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu (Boku no Hero Academia 2nd Season) is performing the opening theme "KICK BACK," which is previewed in the promotional video below.

Ending Themes
"Chu, Tayousei." by ano (Tiger & Bunny 2)
"Fight Song" by Eve (Jujutsu Kaisen)
"Deep down" by Aimer (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yuukaku-hen)
"Dainou-tekina Rendez-vous" by Kanaria
"In The Backroom" by syudou (Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu)
"Violence" by Ziyoou-vachi (Dororo)
"Zanki" by ZUTOMAYO (Ame wo Tsugeru Hyouryuu Danchi)
"first death" by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure (Tokyo Ghoul)
"Jouzai" by TOOBOE
"CHAINSAW BLOOD" by Vaundy (Ousama Ranking)
"DOGLAND" by PEOPLE 1
"Hawatari 2-oku Centi" by Maximum the Hormone (Death Note)

Maximum the Hormone's ending theme will also be used as an insert song.

Ryuu Nakayama (Jujutsu Kaisen episode director) is helming the series at animation studio MAPPA, with Hiroshi Seko (Dorohedoro) handling the script. Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu) is designing the characters and Kensuke Ushio (Devilman: Crybaby) is composing the music.

Fujimoto launched the horror action manga in Weekly Shounen Jump in December 2018, after ending Fire Punch in Shounen Jump+ in January that year. The manga concluded its first part in December 2020 and began part 2 with chapter 98 on July 12. Shueisha is scheduled to ship the 12th volume on October 4.

VIZ Media released the first three chapters in English simultaneously with the Japanese release as a part of its Jump Start initiative and subsequently serialized it in their digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The company now simulpublishes the manga on its Shounen Jump platform and shipped the 11th volume on March 4. Shueisha's Manga Plus service also began simulpublishing the manga in English last January.

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Very refreshing to see new/less popular voice actors on the cast of this show. I feel like it is some very much-needed change.

Oct 1, 2022 11:28 PM by samashi20

Whole community is waiting for this anime, total hype!

Sep 22, 2022 12:01 PM by Kinyoubi

Kishibe is Kento Nanami, so Tsudaken voiced 2 cool dandy guys in MAPPA production

Sep 20, 2022 7:43 PM by reny1966nanin

RobertBobert said:

deg said:

training new animators takes a lot of time and not all of them become super talented animators later on plus veteran talented animators are always busy they have no time to train new animators anyway

the anime industry got an animator shortage crisis going on right now due to overworking and underpaying so a lot either resign or never try applying for the job

only Kyoto Animation is not affected and got awesome management and staff that can train new animators on a constant basis so well that some good enough portion of them become talented animators later on so yes the veteran talented animators of Kyoto Animation have enough time to train new animators because that studio only do 1-2 anime each year

But since PAWORKS has successfully copied KyoAni's animator training methods, why don't others use this experience?

easier said than done by that logic why do not all studios copy the role model studio Kyoto Animation so ye its not that easy

Sep 20, 2022 1:11 AM by deg

Looks like an action out of 10. Count me in.

Sep 20, 2022 12:08 AM by Calal-Chan

deg said:

RobertBobert said:

But if they have the resources and their shows are financially successful, why not increase their staff?

But since PAWORKS has successfully copied KyoAni's animator training methods, why don't others use this experience?

Sep 19, 2022 10:51 PM by RobertBobert

MAPPA be like "Yo, lets make a collab album"

Also,im not peeking at the comments but i bet everyone is gettin in fights

Sep 19, 2022 8:37 PM by VivavideoUser2x

RobertBobert said:

Pakumen- said:

Because these dudes are killing their employees with the schedule already, so there is no way you can animate CSM, Jigokuraku, Vinland Saga, Shingeki and Jujutsu Kaisen 2 (which is gonna be like 20 fights non stop) in a single year.

But if they have the resources and their shows are financially successful, why not increase their staff?

Sep 19, 2022 5:04 PM by deg

MAPPA is NOT fucking around with this anime, damn.

And I fucking knew Kenjirou Tsuda would voice Kishibe 💀

Sep 19, 2022 3:31 PM by thebrentinator24

Feels like I've waited hundreds of years to hear Maximum the Hormone in a show again.

Sep 19, 2022 2:36 PM by Magenta-Magic

Crow_Black said:

Tlahuizcapante said:
Mappa hype train doesn't slow down, considering all that artists for the EDs.
Maybe for some people 12 eps is a bit of a let down, but it is understable, considering how many titles Mappa have and how many resources putted in anime CSM.

on a more off topic note, i just read what you said in kaz's voice with that fiddle playing in the background lol.

I'll just hope that Mappa wouldn't play on us like a damn fiddle, when they're would announce, that after this season they're continuing series as a movie.

Sep 19, 2022 12:19 PM by Tlahuizcapante

on a more off topic note, i just read what you said in kaz's voice with that fiddle playing in the background lol.

Sep 19, 2022 12:09 PM by Disapeared_Ghost

Mappa hype train doesn't slow down, considering all that artists for the EDs.
Maybe for some people 12 eps is a bit of a let down, but it is understable, considering how many titles Mappa have and how many resources putted in anime CSM.

Sep 19, 2022 12:08 PM by Tlahuizcapante

thepath said:
So it is only 12 episodes ?? I'm disappointed

Don't worry. When the 12th episodes finishes to air, a four-episode anime named Chainsaw Man: The Final Season will be announced for 2024.

Sep 19, 2022 11:56 AM by Meusnier

So it is only 12 episodes ?? I'm disappointed

Sep 19, 2022 9:34 AM by thepath

ZXEAN said:

Natsuki_SanJuan said:
The animation movements looked like CGI for some reason but well...
I hope they won't ruin the manga.

You are complaining about Animation. Nice 👍

Wut? Did I just complained about something?

Sep 19, 2022 9:04 AM by Natsuki_SanJuan

It does look promising. It is a long time coming for sure