Rurouni Kenshin Season 2 Reveals Preview Image for Episode 1

The preview images and main cast for Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance (Part 2) episode 1 were revealed on Wednesday ahead of its October 3 premiere. Studio LIDENFILMS is handling animation production with Crunchyroll streaming the anime. Fans can check out the preview images below:

The staff for Rurouni Kenshin Season 2 Episode 1 is as follows:

Episode Director: Yoshitaka MakinoStoryboard: Yuki KomadaScript: Hideyuki KurataAnimation Director: Toshimitsu Kobayashi, Masahiro EmotoAnimation Director: Toshimitsu Kobayashi, Rina Muramatsu

Tatsuya Kitani and natori will perform the opening theme song “Chained” while NOMELON NOLEMON is performing the ending theme song “suikousetten”. The first season of Rurouni Kenshin (2023) marks the beginning of the remake and airs 24 episodes in two consecutive batches from July 7 to December 15.

Rurouni Kenshin Season 2 Trailer

Rurouni Kenshin Season 2 Cast and Staff

Yuki Komada will take on the role director for Rurouni Kenshin Part 2. He will be joining Yoshitaka Makino, who will take on the role assistant director. Hideyuki Kurata and Kaoru Kurosaki will reprise their roles from last season as they will take on series layout and scriptThe remaining main staff of Rurouni Kenshin Part 2 almost completely reprise their previous roles:

Character Design: Terumi Nishii (returns), Kazuo WatanabeEquipment design: Kosuge Kazuhisa (return)Action director: Kikuchi Katsunori (return)Music: Yuu Takami (return)Sound Director: Ryousuke Naya (return) Sound effects: Yasumasa Koyama (return)Edit: Mai Hasegawa (return)Art Director: Yukihiro Saitou (return)Color design: Aiko Shinohara (return)Director of Photography: Junpei Takatsu (return)3DCGI Director: Wataru Matsunaga (returns), Yasuaki Nakamori (returns)

Series creator Nobuhiro Watsuki will apparently be working on this installment as script supervisorunlike the first season, he does not have any production credits. Here is the current cast list for the upcoming season:

Kenshin Himura – Souma SaitouKarou Kamiya – Rie TakahashiSanosuke Sagara – Taku YashiroSeijuurou Hiko – Yuuichi NakamuraMisao Makimachi – Aya YamaneYahiko Myōjin – Makoto KoichiHajime Saitou – Satoshi Hino Soujirou Seta – Daiki YamashitaAoshi Shinomori – Yuuma UchidaMakoto Shishio – Makoto FurukawaYumi Komagataanh> – Haruka TomatsuAnji Yukyuzan – Wataru HatanoFor Sawagejo – Nobuhiko Okamoto