Chained Soldier Season 2 has announced a new director and character designer, following the studio change announcement earlier this month. The news comes after a special event for the anime held in Japan today, which featured the main cast along with the addition of Maaya Uchida (voice of Tenka Izumo). The new key staff members include:
Director: Tamura Masafumi (taking over from Kuji Goro)Character design: Nakano Keiya (taking over from Yoshii Hiroyuki)
Tamura Masafumi previously directed The World`s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as the grandson of a noble and wise man, while some other character design work from Nakano Keiya includes Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue and Keijo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chained Soldier Season 2 – Anime Visual | New Director and Character Designer Announced
Studio Seven Arcs is animating the first season of the Chained Soldier anime, while studio Passione has announced a second season. Anime Corner also had a special opportunity to interview voice actor Yuya Hirose and producer Yuki Watanabe to talk about the anime, which is streaming on HIDIVE.
Chained Soldier (Mato Seihei no Slave) is originally a manga series written by Takahiro (Akame Ga Kill), with illustrations by Yohei Takemura. The manga has been serialized on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ online platform since January 2019. Yen Press is publishing the manga in English, and they describe the story:
Decades ago, gates to a dangerous, otherworldly dimension called Mato—“Demon City”—appeared all over Japan. Those who cultivate “peaches” there gain unique abilities—but only if they are girls. When high school student Yuuki Wakura gets trapped in a gate, he is saved by Kyouka Uzen, the beautiful commander of the Demon Defense Force’s 7th Division, who… orders him to become her slave?!
Source: Official website
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