A Returner's Magic Should Be Special Season 2 Releases First Promo, Sets Tokyo Preview
The new season airs on Fuji TV’s +Ultra block in October, with Crunchyroll handling streaming.
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special season 2 unveiled its first promotional video on Friday. An advance screening is scheduled for October 3 at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Wald 9.
The staff behind A Returner's Magic Should Be Special (Kikansha no Mahō wa Tokubetsu Desu) season 2 released its first promotional video on Friday. The anime’s website also announced an October 3 advance screening at Shinjuku Wald 9 in Tokyo.
The new season premieres in October on Fuji TV’s “+Ultra” programming block. Episodes air Wednesdays at 24:45, effectively Thursdays at 12:45 a.m. Crunchyroll will stream the season.
Rock band FLOW returns with “Sorrow,” a song created specifically as the new season’s opening theme. krage will sing the ending theme, “Everlasting.”
The cast includes:
- Takuma Terashima as Desir Herman
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Romantica Eru
- Natsumi Fujiwara as Pram Schnaizer
- Asami Seto as Azrest Kingscrown
The production staff includes:
- Director: Taishi Kawaguchi, returning at Arvo Animation
- Series composition and scripts: returning writer Takamitsu Kouno (She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, Absolute Duo, We Without Wings - Under the Innocent Sky)
- Character design: Hiromi Katō (Violinist of Hamelin, Kobato., Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut)
- Art director: Daisuke Negishi
- Music: returning composer Kenta Higashiohji (Pole Princess!!)
- Art design: Satoshi Fujimoto, Taiga Saitō, Takeshi Mukai, Tetsuo Imaizumi
- Prop design: Shōtarō Hashiguchi
- Color design: Aiko Matsuyama
- Director of photography: Hideki Imaizumi
- Editing: Gō Sadamatsu
- Sound director: Takatoshi Hamano
- Sound effects: Yasumasa Koyama
The anime adapts Wookjakga’s Korean webtoon, which Yen Press publishes in English. The publisher describes a world overtaken by the Shadow World, where most humans have died and six heroes fail to save it.
Magician Desir Herman then awakens thirteen years in the past, gaining another chance. He must reunite his party and prevent humanity’s greatest catastrophe.
The first season premiered in October 2023. Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired in English-speaking countries, Latin America, and Europe, and also offered an English dub. Rebroadcasts began on Fuji TV and Kansai TV in July.
Sources: A Returner's Magic Should Be Special anime's website ( link 2 ) via ANN
