Joseph Luster
July 30, 2022 
The Chainsaw Man anime is getting ready to take over screens this year, and we’ll soon get to see more of it in motion. In addition to unveiling a blood-drenched new key visual, the anime’s official website and Twitter account announced that the first cast information and a new trailer will be announced during a MAPPA stage event on August 5 at 8:00pm Japan Time.
You’ll be able to watch the stream as it goes down on MAPPA’s YouTube channel.
Here’s the vertical version of the visual:
Previously announced staff includes:
- Original Creator: Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Director: Ryu Nakayama (JUJUTSU KAISEN Episode 19 director)
- Screenplay: Hiroshi Seko (Mob Psycho 100, JUJUTSU KAISEN)
- Character Design: Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation)
- Action Animation Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara (Black Clover, Yatterman Night)
- Assistant Director: Masato Nakazono (JUJUTSU KAISEN, SSSS.Gridman)
- Devil Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Flip Flappers, Space Dandy)
- Background Art Director: Yusuke Takeda (Vinland Saga, JUJUTSU KAISEN)
- Color Design: Naomi Nakano (Sword Art Online: Alicization)
- Screen Design: Yosuke Miyahara (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans)
- Music: Kensuke Ushio (A Silent Voice, Devilman crybaby)
- Animation Producer: Keisuke Seshimo (JUJUTSU KAISEN)
- Animation Production: MAPPA
VIZ Media publishes the Chainsaw Man manga, with all of Part 1 currently available digitally and in print and Part 2 running each week via the Shonen Jump app. Here’s how VIZ describes it:
Denji is 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.
Via Crunchyroll News
