The official website of the Chainsaw Man television anime unveils the cast, additional staff, and the third promotional video on Friday. The anime series adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto's action adventure manga manga will premiere in October 2022.

Cast
Denji: Toya Kikunosuke
Power: Ai Fairouz (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean)
Makima: Tomori Kusunoki (Wonder Egg Priority)
Aki Hakayama: Shougo Sakata (Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu)

Staff
Costume Design: Aya Yamamoto (Fullmetal Panic! Invisible Victory sub-character design)
CG Director: Kazumasa Yokokawa (Hello World)
Director of Photography: Teppei Itou (Jujutsu Kaisen (TV))
Editing: Masato Yoshitake (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season)
Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi (Sabikui Bisco)

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 published the 11th on March 4 last year. Chainsaw Man has a cumulative 13 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

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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Source: Chainsaw Man Special Livestream