The World Trigger Festival 2026 revealed returning cast, staff, and a special promotional video for the new anime series on Sunday. The first episode of the reboot project adapting Daisuke Ashihara's action sci-fi manga will air under the title Kuro Torigaa Goudatsu-hen (Black Trigger Capture arc).

Cast
Yuuma Kuga: Tomo Muranaka (Arcana Famiglia)
Yuuichi Jin: Yuuichi Nakamura (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei)
Osamu Mikumo: Yuuki Kaji (No.6)
Chika Amatori: Nao Tamura (Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters)
Replica: Hideyuki Tanaka (Densetsu Kyojin Ideon)

Staff
Director: Morio Hatano (Saint Seiya Omega)
Series Composition: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Accel World)
Character Design: Toshihisa Kaiya (Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen)

The reboot project will adapt the Border Enlistment arc, Large-Scale Invasion arc, and B-Rank Wars arc.

Ashihara serialized the manga in Weekly Shounen Jump from February 2013 to November 2016, before taking a hiatus due to health reasons. The manga returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in October 2018 and switched to Jump SQ. in December that year. Shueisha published the 29th volume in December 2025. The manga has a cumulative over 15 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Produced by Toei Animation, the first television anime began airing in Fall 2014. The anime series was originally listed for 50 episodes, but was later extended to 73 episodes. The second season aired in 12 episodes in Winter 2021, followed by a 14-episode third season in Fall 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the anime with English subtitles and dub.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in 2014 and published the 28th volume on March 3.

Special PV


Source: PR Times