There were visuals, there were announcements, but until now there was no actual animation. The second teaser for Psyren changed that: for the first time the project shows animated images, giving the most concrete glimpse yet of how the adaptation of Toshiaki Iwashiro‘s manga will look when it arrives in October 2026. The video includes subtitles in multiple languages, hinting at the project’s international ambitions.

The video is brief but effective: it introduces the central premise of the story, presents Ageha Yoshina, and gives a first impression of the mysterious and high-stakes tone that defines Psyren. The teaser suggests an adaptation aiming to capture the mix of everyday life and abrupt encounters with a dangerous alternate world that made the manga a favorite among Shonen Jump readers during its serialization.

Voice Cast

• Rikuya Yasuda as Ageha Yoshina. (Mullin in As Miss Beelzebub Likes It and Futaba Mikuriya in Outburst Dreamer Boys).
• Mayuko Kazama as Sakurako Amamiya. (One of the most active voices in current Japanese dubbing, with over 23 titles in 2024).
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Hiryu Asaga. (Chifuyu Matsuno in Tokyo Revengers and Yoichi Saotome in Seraph of the End).
• Soma Saito as Oboro Mochizuki. (Kenshin Himura in Rurouni Kenshin (2023) and Tadashi Yamaguchi in Haikyuu!!).
• Yukihiro Nozuyama as Kabuto Kirisaki.

Production Team

Direction is handled by Katsumi Ono at studio Satelight, with Shin Yoshida supervising the scripts and Akira Okuma in charge of character design. The music is composed by Takashi Omama, Tatsuhiko Saiki, and Shu Kanematsu.

About Psyren

Psyren is a manga by Toshiaki Iwashiro published in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump between 2007 and 2010, collected in 16 volumes. The story follows Ageha Yoshina, a high school student who finds a mysterious red phone card that pulls him into a hidden and dangerous world called Psyren, where he must survive alongside others while unraveling the secrets of this place. The series built a solid reader base during its time thanks to its mix of mystery, action, and supernatural survival elements, and its anime adaptation arrives more than a decade after its serialization concluded.

Were you a fan of the original manga, or is Psyren a new series for you that you discovered with the anime announcement?