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Chainsaw Man Anime Gets U.S. Premiere at New York Comic Con
posted on by Kim Morrissy
Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that it will screen the U.S. premiere for the television anime of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man manga at New York Comic Con on October 7 at 12:45 p.m. EDT. Crunchyroll will debut the English dub at the event ahead of the subtitled release.
The event will take place on October 6-9 at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
The anime will premiere on TV Tokyo and five other affiliated channels, as well as on Amazon Prime Video on October 11.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime in over 200 countries and territories around the world. The company will stream the anime in Japanese with English subtitles, and with an English dub. The anime will also get Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and German dubs.
The anime's Twitter account announced that MAPPA will live stream the talk event for the anime's world premiere at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills on September 19. The announcement does not mention a stream of the world premiere itself, and only mentions the talk event. The announcement also does not mention if the stream will have English subtitles.
Ryū Nakayama (Black Clover, Jujutsu Kaisen episode director) is directing the anime at MAPPA, and Hiroshi Seko (Ajin, Attack on Titan The Final Season) is writing the scripts. Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) is designing the characters.
Source: Press Release
