Kagurabachi Anime Greenlit!
After only a year of existence, the Kagurabachi manga is confirmed to be ready for an anime treatment.
As early as Chapter 1, the hype for a Kagurabachi anime has been growing to such a degree that many fan animations have spawned to create the feeling that the manga already had an adaptation.
It looks like the anime might be real.
On December 2, 2024, in an article on the Toyo Keizai website, it was revealed that there were plans for an anime adaptation of the recent hit shonen manga, “Kagurabachi”, under the production of CyberAgent and Shochiku.
Within the same report, it is also stated that Cygames Pictures, an anime studio under CyberAgent and an anime division of the Cygames video game producer.
Although they do not have a long history and usually help with other anime productions (Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, Frieren), Cygames has a few notable anime under its belt, including:
The Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era movie (2023):
Blade Runner: Blackout 2022, with Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, Samurai Champloo, Terror in Resonance) as director.
The idea behind the choice of animation studio is likely as a response to the increasing workload of popular studios such as WIT, MAPPA, and Bones, as said in the report:
“If there was an additional intention, it would be to decentralize the studios. If one studio is entrusted with multiple works, there is a high risk that the production line will collapse (due to the workload, etc.). Rather than having a studio that is already working on major works such as MAPPA of Jujutsu Kaisen, WIT STUDIO of SPY×FAMILY, or CloverWorks of Nigejozu no Wakakunin, the thought of trying out a different studio that looked good may have come into play.”
Shochiku is one of the four members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ) and the oldest among Japan’s “Big Four” film studios, having produced titles such as Full Metal Alchemist and Violet Evergarden.
The nature of this coalition of production companies is intended to provide different tasks to each studio, with CyberAgent at the helm of production while Shochiku helps with distribution and likely even other aspects like marketing.
However, there are no specific details as to their specific levels of involvement or how the collaboration came about, only that it exists, that CyGames will be the studio to animate Kagurabachi and that it has the potential to create a different approach to anime production
Source: Twitter and Toyo Keizai
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