VIZ Media and Adult Swim have announced that the TV anime adaptation of Shu Sakuratani’s Rooster Fighter manga will premiere on March 14 during the Toonami programming block at 12:00 a.m. EST (effectively March 15 at midnight). Rooster Fighter is expected to air weekly on Toonami.
The English dub cast includes:
- Patrick Seitz as Keiji
- Luci Christian as Elizabeth
- Kimoy Lee as Piyoko
- Robbie Daymond as Keisuke
- Roger Rose as Morio
The Japanese cast includes:
- Kenta Miyake as Keiji
- Mariko Honda as Elizabeth
- Shiori Izawa as Piyoko
- Tomohiro Ono as Keisuke
- Mitsuaki Kanuka as Morio
- Yuko Kaida as Kugone
- Natsumi Fujiwara as Hikari
- Jun Kasama as Yuji
- Akio Otsuka as Keizan
- Hikaru Tono as Sara
The staff of the anime includes:
- Director: Daisuke Suzuki
- Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
- Producer: Joseph Chou
- Animation Production: Sanzigen
- Produced By: SOLA ENTERTAINMENT
- Anime Production: VIZ Media, HERO’s
Shu Sakuratani’s Rooster Fighter manga made its debut on Hero’s Inc.’s Comiplex back in December 2020. 10 volumes of the manga have been released in Japan as of July 4, 2025. Lastly, VIZ Media licensed the Rooster Fighter manga in English and describes the story as follows:
The neighborhood cock of the walk is more than just an ordinary rooster—he’s humanity’s greatest defender! His opponents may be ten stories tall, but nothing is bigger than his stout heart and his fearsome battle cry—cock-a-doodle-doo!
