A Sunday reside streamed program for the second Oshi no Ko anime season debuted the primary main promotional video and a brand new primary visible for the season. This system and video each revealed two extra forged members, the opening theme and the July 3 premiere for the season. Sunday’s program additionally introduced a preview screening of the primary two episodes on Anime Expo with visitors.


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The newly introduced forged members are:

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  • Ayane Sakura (left in picture above) as Abiko Samejima, creator of the manga that impressed the two.5D play Tokyo Sheet
  • Daisuke Ono (proper) as GOA, the screenwriter of the two.5D play Tokyo Sheet

Musical artist GEMN performs the second season’s opening theme, “Fatale,” as heard within the video above. The employees will launch extra particulars about this artist sooner or later, though the artist’s official web site opens in the present day.

The season premieres July 3 at 11:00 PM (10:00 AM EDT) on Tokyo MX and over 29 different channels throughout Japan. It’s also streamed concurrently on the ABEMA service in Japan. The Marunouchi Piccadilly theater will host a preview screening (with reside streaming to different theaters) of the primary episode that includes the forged on June 30.

Anime Expo will host a preview of the primary two episodes with a forged member Yurie Igoma (Ruby Hoshino) and producer Shimpei Yamashita on the Los Angeles Conference Heart on July 6.

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Picture courtesy of Kadokawa

The second season’s story will give attention to a 2.5D play titled Tokyo Sheet. Within the story, the piece is an adaptation of a manga. The play stars Kana Arima (voiced by Megumi Han) performs Tsurugi, Akane Kurokawa (voiced by Manaka Iwami) performs Sayahime, Aqua Hoshino (voiced by Takeo Ōtsuka) performs Touki and Soften Narushima (voiced by Seiji Maeda) will play Kizami.

The brand new forged for the second season contains Kōki Uchiyama as Taiki Himekawa (Blade in “Tokyo Blade”) and Yusuke Kobayashi as Sakuya Kamoshida (Monme in “Tokyo Blade”).

HIDE beforehand confirmed on Anime Expo 2023 that it’s going to stream the second season.

The primary tv anime from In different phrases, Akasaka And Mengo Yokoyari‘S Oshi no Ko manga premiered in Japan in April 2023 with a 90-minute first episode. HIDE has streamed the anime because it aired in Japan, and an English dub can be streaming. The corporate acknowledged that the anime turned the streaming service’s “#1 collection launch in streamer historical past.”

Daisuke Hiramaki (Choice challenge) And Chao Nekotomi (Love is sort of a cocktail) directed the primary season on Doga Kobo. Jin Tanaka (The outlier of the Demon King Academy) offered the collection scripts. Kanna Hirayama (Lease-a-girlfriend) designed the characters. YOASOBI sang the opening theme tune “Idol.” Queen bee carried out the closing theme tune “Mephisto”.

Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is warfare) and Yokoyari (Foam’s want) launched the manga in Shueisha‘S Weekly Younger Bounce journal April 2020. Shueisha‘S MANGA Plus service releases the manga digitally in English.

Yen Press licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

Gorou is a gynecologist and idol fan who’s in shock after his favourite star, Ai, broadcasts an impromptu hiatus. Little does Gorou know that he’s about to construct a bond along with her that surpasses all frequent sense! Lies are an idol’s best weapon on this loopy manga In different phrases, Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is warfare) And Mengo Yokoyari (Foam’s want).

The manga gained first place within the seventh “Subsequent Manga Awards” (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) in 2021, and likewise gained within the Greatest Normal Manga class within the forty sixth annual version. Kodansha Manga Awards in 2022. The collection was nominated for the twenty sixth Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award in 2022, and has additionally been nominated for the 14th and fifteenth Manga Taisho Awards. The manga ranked quantity 7 on the highest 20 manga for male readers within the 2022 version Takarajimasha‘S Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This manga is superior!) Information. The manga has greater than 3 million copies in circulation.

The manga additionally evokes an adaptation of live-action movies and tv collection. Tooi will launch the movie theatrically, whereas the tv collection will air solely Amazon Prime Video worldwide in ‘winter 2024’.

Supply: Oshi no Ko Livestream 2nd season, press launch


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