Chainsaw Man arrives on October 11th!

Crunchyroll (Spy x Family) has announced the official English dub voice cast for Chainsaw Man, the highly anticipated anime series produced by MAPPA (Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association, which will premiere on Crunchyroll simulcast from Japan on Tuesday, October 11th to over 200 countries and territories around the world. The anime will be released in Japanese and English subtitles and with an English dub, The Anime News Network also reports that Chainsaw Man will get Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and German dubs. To honor the announcement of the dub cast on September 19th, Crunchyroll unveiled a new English dub trailer featuring the recently announced voice cast as well as the third trailer from Japan.

Chainsaw Man is based on the widely popular and award-winning manga of the same name written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Fire Punch, Look Back, Goodbye, Eri) and serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump. The official synopsis of the Chainsaw Man anime reads:

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.

The anime is directed by Ryū Nakayama (Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, The Rising of the Shield Hero), with ADR direction for the English dub by Mike McFarland (Dragon Ball, Fullmetal Alchemist, My Hero Academia).

McFarland was announced as ADR director along with the rest of the English dub cast. The English dub cast includes Ryan Colt Levy (My Hero Academia, Moriarty the Patriot) as the English voice of Denji, a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita, and Suzie Yeung (Wonder Egg Priority, Rainbow High) as Makima, a mysterious woman who seeks to control Denji, Reagan Murdock (Dragon Ball Super, Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!) as Aki, and Sarah Wiedenheft (Black Clover, Dr. STONE, Dragon Ball Super) as Power.

Although the series officially releases on October 11th, the English dub of Chainsaw Man will premiere at New York Comic Con on Friday, October 7th. The English SimulDub™ will start airing on Crunchyroll at the later date. For fans not attending NYCC, you can check out an all-new trailer that has been dubbed with the new English voice actors below:

Along with a new trailer, MAPPA also unveiled the all-new track listing for Chainsaw Man, which will have a different ending theme for each episode, and includes the following songs:

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