Kagurabachi is coming in April 2027. That is official, it comes from the production itself, and it is also the whole of the date. No day, no broadcaster, no streaming service and no episode count have been announced, and the most recent word from the official site is from 2 November 2026. This page sets out what has been confirmed, who said it and when, and then the part most pages skip: the list of things nobody has announced yet.
Kagurabachi anime release date
April 2027. The official site carries the line in its own site description, in Japanese as 2027年4月放送開始 and in English as “KAGURABACHI Anime Coming April 2027”. AniList lists the same thing from the other direction: entry 211496, status not yet released, start date April 2027 with the day field empty, season spring 2027.
The date was announced on 27 April 2026, in the post that opened the official site and confirmed the adaptation. It has not moved since, and nothing in the site’s news archive has narrowed it. A month with no day, announced eleven months before it arrives, is a normal state for a series at this stage and not a sign of trouble.
One thing worth knowing if you go looking yourself. The English top page does not state the date anywhere in the text on the page: the words “April 2027” appear zero times in its body. The date is in the page’s description tag, which is what a search engine shows and what a browser does not. We nearly wrote that the official site gave no date at all on that basis.
Why you will see two different Kagurabachi release dates
Kagurabachi is a Weekly Shonen Jump manga that is still running, and the anime is a separate thing with a separate schedule. A search for “Kagurabachi release date” returns both, mixed together, and they do not agree because they are not about the same object.
| If your question is about | Then the answer is |
| The anime, episode 1, the broadcast | April 2027, month only, confirmed by the production |
| The next manga chapter | The weekly Jump schedule, which this site does not track |
| An English volume | The print release calendar, which is again the manga and not the anime |
Everything below is about the anime. If you came here for a chapter number, nothing on this page will help you, and we would rather say so than pad the page out with a schedule we do not keep up to date.
Studio and staff
All of this was announced on 27 April 2026 and has not changed since.
| Studio | Cypic |
| Director | 竜内哲也 Tetsuya Takeuchi |
| Character design | 佐々木啟悟 Keigo Sasaki |
| Production committee organisers | Shochiku and CyberAgent |
| Original work | Takeru Hokazono, serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump |
Cypic is the detail most people will not recognise, and it is the one worth sitting with. The announcement names Umamusume: Cinderella Gray and The Summer Hikaru Died among its credits, so this is not a studio with a decade of shonen action behind it. Tetsuya Takeuchi is: he was action animation director on Sword Art Online II and handled battle storyboards and animation direction on Heavenly Delusion. For a series whose reputation rests almost entirely on how its sword fights read on the page, that pairing is the thing to watch.
Cast announced so far
Six roles have been cast, one at a time, across six months. The dates are the dates the official site announced them.
| Role | Voice actor | Announced |
| Chihiro Rokuhira | 木村太飛 | 27 April 2026 |
| Kunishige Rokuhira | 関智一 Tomokazu Seki | 19 June 2026 |
| Tougo Shiba | 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi | 26 June 2026 |
| Hinao | 伊藤美来 Miku Ito | 28 August 2026 |
| Shall Kagamine | 根本京里 | 28 August 2026 |
| Soshiro Azami | 中村悠一 Yuichi Nakamura | 2 October 2026 |
Two of those names are given in Japanese only. The official site writes them in Japanese and no English-language reading has been published with them, so we have left them as they are rather than guess at a romanisation and have it copied onwards. The actor playing Chihiro took best new actor at the 20th Seiyu Awards for 2025, which makes the lead role in a Jump adaptation a considerable jump of his own.
What has not been announced
This is the part that changes between now and April, and it is longer than the confirmed list. Checked across the Japanese top page, the English top page, the announcement article and all three pages of the news archive, including the description tags that the English page hides its date in.
| A premiere day | Only the month exists. No day has been named anywhere. |
| A broadcaster | No station and no network is named on any official surface. |
| A streaming service | The Japanese word for streaming does not appear on the official site at all. |
| An episode count | Not announced, and AniList’s episode field is empty to match. |
| A cour count | Nothing has been said about whether this is one run or a split one. |
One trap in particular. AniList carries a Crunchyroll row under its streaming links for this title. The link points at the Crunchyroll home page rather than at a series page, which is what that database does when a platform is associated with a title rather than confirmed for it, and the official site names no platform at any point. So if you have seen “streaming on Crunchyroll” attached to Kagurabachi, that is where it came from, and it is not an announcement. When a platform is confirmed, it will be confirmed by the production.
The site says as much itself. The 2 November post ends by telling readers that there is plenty still unannounced and more to come.
What has happened instead: the world tour and Jump Festa
While the date has stood still, the promotion has not. The first twenty minutes of episode 1 have been screened at anime events around the world since summer 2026, in three announced waves, and the Japanese finale screens the whole of episode 1 rather than the opening stretch. That means a complete episode of this series exists and has been shown to audiences, roughly a year before the broadcast it is being made for.
The newest item is from 2 November 2026: the anime will exhibit at Jump Festa 2027 on 19 and 20 December 2026, with a display and photo spots, and the first official anime merchandise goes on sale there. Pre-orders through the online shop run from 16 to 20 December. An event booth is not a release date, but it is the next scheduled moment where one could reasonably appear.
Frequently asked questions
When does the Kagurabachi anime come out?
April 2027. The month is confirmed by the production and the day has not been announced.
Has a Kagurabachi release day been announced?
No. Only the month. Anyone giving you a specific day in April 2027 is guessing.
Where will Kagurabachi stream?
Unknown. No platform has been announced. The Crunchyroll row on AniList points at that service’s home page and not at a series page, so it is not a confirmation.
How many episodes will Kagurabachi have?
Not announced. The episode count is empty on AniList as well.
Which studio is making Kagurabachi?
Cypic, with Tetsuya Takeuchi directing and Keigo Sasaki on character design.
Is the Kagurabachi manga finished?
No, it is still running in Weekly Shonen Jump. Chapter and volume timing is the manga schedule, which is separate from the April 2027 anime date and is not tracked here.
Checked against the official site at anime.kagurabachi.jp and AniList entry 211496 on 13 November 2026. The confirmed facts, the announcement dates and the list of things still unannounced were all read from those two sources on the day. The newest official post at that point was 2 November 2026. This page is updated when the production announces something, not when a rumour goes round.
For other titles where the year is real and the date is not, see Dandadan season 3 and Frieren season 3. For something that does have a day attached, Shangri-La Frontier season 3 starts on 10 January 2027. What is on air right now is on our weekly anime TV schedule.
