The dramatis personae of the upcoming Chainsaw Man: Assassins have been previewed in a new, pre-animated teaser trailer. The show’s director Tatsuya Yoshihara storyboarded the teaser and co-unit directed it with Daisuke Inoue.
The MAPPA 15th Anniversary Lineup Reveal also saw the announcement of a Chainsaw Man mobile game and the reveal of its opening movie.
Chainsaw Man: Assassins was announced in December as the follow-up to 2022’s Chainsaw Man TV anime and 2025’s Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc. The Chainsaw Man anime are based on the Shueisha-published supernatural action manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Viz Media describes the manga as such:
Denji’s a poor young man who’ll do anything for money, even hunting down devils with his pet devil Pochita. He’s a simple man with simple dreams, drowning under a mountain of debt. But his sad life gets turned upside down one day when he’s betrayed by someone he trusts. Now with the power of a devil inside him, Denji’s become a whole new man—Chainsaw Man!
The first part of the manga was serialized from 2018 to 2021 in Weekly Shonen Jump. The current second part launched on the Shonen Jump+ app and website in July 2022 and ended in March 2026.
Production credits (reprising unless stated otherwise)
• Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara (since Reze Arc; was Season 1’s action director, Black Clover series director [later chief director], Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 1 director)
• Character designer Kazutaka Sugiyama
• Scriptwriter; Hiroshi Seko
• Costume designer: Aya Yamamoto
• Costume designer: Shichiza Nakamura (new)
• Devil designer: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
• Background art director: Yusuke Takeda
• Color designer: Naomi Nakano
• Compositing director: Teppei Ito
• Sub-character designer: Shoichi (new, was Reze Arc main animator)
• Sub-character designer: Ken Seo (new)
• Sub-character designer: Shun (since Reze Arc)
• Sub-character designer: Hiroyuki Saita (new, Revue Starlight)
• Sub-character designer: Naoki Chigira (new)
• Action animation director: Sota Shigetsugu (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 key animator)
• Color script: Chavoom (new, Eve “Kororon” music video concept and background artist)
• 3DCG director: Satoshi Yamauchi (new)
• 3DCG director: Masahiro Tamai (since Reze Arc)
• Animation production: MAPPA
Cast
• Kikunosuke Toya as Denji
• Shiori Izawa as Pochita
• Tomori Kusunoki as Makima
• Shogo Sakata as Aki Hayakawa
• Fairouz Ai as Power
• Karin Takahashi as Kobeni Higashiyama
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Kishibe
• Natsuki Hanae as Beam
• Yuya Uchida as The Violence Fiend
• Maya Uchida as Angel Devil
• Saori Goto as Spider Devil
Source: MAPPA CHANNEL
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