Crunchyroll revealed the details of the English dub’s main cast featuring in MAPPA’s highly-anticipated Chainsaw Man anime. The first episode dubbed premiere will take place at New York Comic Con on 7 October before its release on Crunchyroll at a later date.
Here is the elite squad teaming up for the English dub, led by Mike McFarland (Attack on Titan) as ADR director:
- Ryan Colt Levy (Rody in My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission) as Denji
- Suzie Yeung (Lena in 86 EIGHTY-SIX) as Makima
- Sarah Wiedenheft (Tohru in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid) as Power
- Reagan Murdock (Alvin in Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer!) as Aki
The series will also stream on Crunchyroll with Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and German dubs.
As per Crunchyroll website, 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.
Ryu Nakayama (JUJUTSU KAISEN episode 19 director) directs Chainsaw Man at MAPPA, based on scripts by Hiroshi Seko (Mob Psycho 100, JUJUTSU KAISEN) and character designs adapted by Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation). Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs in Japan, with Chainsaw Man set to premiere on 11 October at 24:00 JST (effectively, 12 am on 12 October).