The Kagurabachi anime tour brings 20 minutes of Episode 1 to Johannesburg’s Anime Cinema on September 27. Melbourne follows in October, months before the anime’s April 2027 premiere. The production team announced both stops in a September 8 press release. Producer Kenta Suzuki will attend as the Kagurabachi world tour enters Part 2. What will audiences see, and where does the route lead next? [1]
Kagurabachi Anime Tour Adds Two Stops
Johannesburg gets the first new screening on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The session runs from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. SAST (South Africa Standard Time) at the Johannesburg Expo Centre. Organizers name Anime Cinema as the room. The announced program pairs the opening 20 minutes of Episode 1 with a special staff appearance. Suzuki, a producer on the anime, is the named guest. [1]
Melbourne follows on Sunday, October 11, with a longer slot at PAX Aus. Organizers list 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The room is Quokka Theater. Suzuki will attend this stop too, and the screening again covers the first 20 minutes. Both cities therefore get the same announced preview length, despite their different session lengths. [1]
Suzuki will join special panel sessions, although the release gives no detailed running order for either appearance. Johannesburg has a 30-minute slot; Melbourne has an hour. Neither listing promises additional footage beyond the opening preview. The announcement directs fans to the official world tour site for the campaign. Organizers say event details may change or face cancellation. Check the room and local start time before heading to either venue. [1, 4]
Twenty Minutes Before the Premiere
The April 2027 broadcast and streaming window remains separate from these convention dates. The Kagurabachi anime tour lets selected event audiences see the opening months earlier. The release lists Crunchyroll, MUSE and SMG HOLDINGS among the distribution partners. It does not give an exact April premiere day. Viewers waiting to watch at home therefore still have a month to mark, rather than a specific date. [1]
Anime Corner reports that Crunchyroll will stream the adaptation worldwide with four exclusions: Japan, Mainland China, North Korea and South Korea. The primary announcement supplied with the tour details lists streaming partners without that territory breakdown. Neither source announces a general online release of the convention preview. Attending one of these screenings and waiting for the series to stream remain different ways to encounter the adaptation. [1, 2]
The announced preview ends at 20 minutes. Organizers have not described it as a screening of the complete first episode. [1]
Fans also have an English teaser trailer to watch while the Kagurabachi anime tour continues. The press release links that trailer alongside the event announcement, but promises no new footage for Part 2. Johannesburg and Melbourne extend access to the opening already traveling between conventions. Those two dates follow a summer route that began in Los Angeles and crossed the Atlantic before returning to the United States. [1]
From Los Angeles to Melbourne
The production team launched Part 1 at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3. Its published itinerary then names Japan Expo in Paris on July 9. August brought AnimagiC in Mannheim on August 1 and Otakon in Washington, D.C., on August 2. Anime NYC followed on August 22. Each listing describes an early screening of the first 20 minutes of Episode 1. Johannesburg and Melbourne now carry that program into September and October. [1]
Animehunch’s report summarizes the opening leg with four conventions. The primary release includes Otakon as a fifth stop, and Anime Corner includes it too. The full named route therefore contains five Part 1 venues before the two new additions. The Kagurabachi anime tour has moved between convention screening rooms throughout this campaign; the second leg continues that format with a producer appearance attached to each new date. [1–3]
Where does the tour go after Melbourne? The team says it will reveal Part 3 and the Japan tour finale this autumn. It has not supplied dates or venues for those events in this announcement. The release promotes the campaign as reaching five continents, but its named itinerary so far covers North America, Europe, Africa and Australia. The forthcoming details should clarify the remaining route, including the planned finish in Japan. [1]
The Team Behind the Blades
Cypic is producing the adaptation, with Tetsuya Takeuchi directing and Keigo Sasaki designing the characters. The announcement identifies Cypic as a CyberAgent group company and lists Shochiku and CyberAgent as production committee leads. It also names Umamusume: Cinderella Gray and The Summer Hikaru Died among the studio’s work. Suzuki’s convention appearances put a producer from this adaptation in front of the audiences seeing its opening. [1]
Takeuchi’s credits include action animation direction on Sword Art Online II. He also handled battle-scene storyboards, episode direction and animation direction on Heavenly Delusion, according to the announcement. Sasaki’s character-design credits include Blue Exorcist and The Seven Deadly Sins. The Kagurabachi anime tour gives attending viewers an early look at their work on Hokazono’s sword-action story. Who will give its characters their voices? [1, 3]
Taihi Kimura voices protagonist Chihiro Rokuhira. The release notes his Best New Actor award at the 2025 Seiyu Awards. Tomokazu Seki plays Kunishige Rokuhira, and Katsuyuki Konishi voices Togo Shiba. Miku Itō plays Hinao, while Miyari Nemoto voices Char Kyonagi. The announcement names Suzuki for the two upcoming appearances; it does not list these cast members as guests at either convention. [1]
Chihiro’s Story Reaches the Screen
Chihiro begins as a boy training under his father, the renowned swordsmith Kunishige Rokuhira. The official synopsis describes their shared life before an attack by the Hishaku, a mysterious sorcerer organization. The attackers steal six Enchanted Blades, weapons powerful enough to shape the nation’s fate. Chihiro then takes up Enten, the seventh Enchanted Blade his father left behind, and sets out for revenge. The announcement presents that premise without specifying how much the convention preview covers. Fans attending the Kagurabachi anime tour will see the first 20 minutes of the adaptation, but the release does not identify the preview’s final scene or the manga chapters it adapts. [1]
Takeru Hokazono writes and illustrates the original manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump. According to the production team’s release, the series has passed 4 million copies in cumulative circulation, including digital editions. The announcement also points readers to MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA for online access and Viz Media for English print and digital editions. Readers can encounter the source story while the anime continues its convention run. [1, 3]
Before attending, check the programs at Comic Con Africa and PAX Aus, the event websites linked in the announcement. Compare their listings with the announced local times, including Melbourne’s daylight-saving time. The production team says schedules may change. Dates and venues for Part 3 and the Japan finale still await the promised autumn announcement. [1, 5, 6]
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