Kagurabachi World Tour Part 2 Details Just Dropped — and the 2027 Anime Just Got Even More Dangerous

Sit down for this one, because the internet’s favorite punchline just officially became the most dangerous anime on the horizon. Two years ago, Kagurabachi was the manga everyone memed before reading — today, the same series just unveiled the details for its Anime World Tour Part 2, and the announcement confirms what fans already suspected: the April 2027 anime is shaping up to be a global event, not just a Shonen Jump release.

World Tour Part 2 Is Officially Happening

The new details dropped via a press release from CyberAgent, the Japanese entertainment giant behind the adaptation. After Part 1 sent the first 20 minutes of Episode 1 around the world — screening at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, Anime NYC, Japan Expo in Paris, and AnimagiC in Mannheim — Part 2 is set to expand the tour even further, giving more fans outside Japan an early look at Takeru Hokazono’s sword action epic before its April 2027 TV premiere.

During the Part 1 screenings, audiences didn’t just watch Chihiro Rokuhira’s bloody opening — they got panels featuring the people actually making the show: voice actor Taihi Kimura, manga editor Takuro Imamura, and producer Koichi Yasuda, who walked fans through the production and the creative ambitions behind it. If Part 1 is anything to go by, Part 2’s events will be just as packed, with the same behind-the-scenes access that turned the tour into a must-attend for anime fans worldwide.

From “Morbius of Manga” to Most-Anticipated Dark Shonen

Let’s be honest about where this series started. When Kagurabachi debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump on September 19, 2023, the internet treated it as a joke — mockingly calling it the “Morbius of Manga” and farming aura memes before most people had read a single chapter. But then something unexpected happened: the memes brought readers in, and the storytelling kept them. The manga has now surpassed four million copies in cumulative circulation, and its creator Takeru Hokazono recently landed on Forbes Japan’s 30 Under 30 list — a feat that would have sounded absurd back in the meme era.

The sales trajectory backs up the hype. Kagurabachi’s volume sales have been closing in on Jujutsu Kaisen’s numbers, and industry watchers now openly say the series is ready to carry the torch that Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer lit for modern dark shonen action. When the anime finally hits screens in April 2027, it won’t be arriving as an underdog — it’ll be arriving as the heir apparent.

The Team Behind Chihiro’s Blood-Soaked Path

CyberAgent has stacked the production with serious firepower. The animation is being handled by Cypic, the studio behind Umamusume: Cinderella Gray and The Summer Hikaru Died, with Tetsuya Takeuchi — whose credits include Sword Art Online II and Heavenly Delusion — serving as series director. Keigo Sasaki, known for Blue Exorcist and The Seven Deadly Sins, is on character design, and the protagonist is voiced by Taihi Kimura, winner of the Best New Actor award at the 2025 Seiyu Awards.

For newcomers, the premise is deceptively simple: Chihiro Rokuhira is the son of Kunishige Rokuhira, the legendary swordsmith whose enchanted blades shaped an era. When the shadowy group known as the Hishaku murders his father and steals six of the seven Enchanted Blades, Chihiro takes the remaining blade and walks a blood-soaked path of revenge. “I can’t allow slime like you to wield a katana,” he declares in the character trailer — and the newly revealed design shows him clad in a jet-black coat, flanked by his black goldfish companion, with a gaze that’s already winning over the skeptics.

Why April 2027 Is the Month to Watch

Kagurabachi isn’t the only big-ticket anime heading for 2027, but it might be the one with the most momentum. Between the world tour hype, record manga sales, and the all-star production team, everything is aligning for a premiere that could dominate the conversation the same way Jujutsu Kaisen did in 2020. The early screenings have done their job: the footage is out there in fragments, and the verdict from fans who saw it early is unanimous — this one is going to be big.

ICYMI, the series’ rise has been one of the wildest stories in recent manga history — you can catch up on how Takeru Hokazono landed on Forbes Japan’s 30 Under 30, and if you want more dark shonen energy while you wait, Chainsaw Man Season 2 is confirmed and on the way. The 2027 lineup is already stacked — Marriage Toxin’s second season is also coming back that year — and Kagurabachi is positioned right at the top of it.

What do you think?

Did you catch any of the World Tour Part 1 screenings, or are you waiting for Part 2 to hit a city near you? Are you one of the original meme-era fans who never expected Kagurabachi to become this big — or a convert who jumped on board later? And more importantly: do you think the anime can actually deliver on the hype when it premieres in April 2027, or is the pressure getting too heavy? Drop your take in the comments — because if there’s one thing Kagurabachi fans love more than aura farming, it’s arguing about it.