The official website for the television anime series of Rieko Hinata and Akihiro Yamada’s fantasy novel series The Fire Hunter (Hikari no Ō) revealed key visuals and a teaser video on Friday for the show’s second season.
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The new season will premiere in January 2024. The new cast for season two includes Manaka Iwami as Yururuho/Sennen Suisei and MAO as Ruri Matsuri. The remaining 16 main actors will take on their roles.
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The first season premiered on January 14 on pay TV channel WOWOW. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Junji Nishimura (Ranma ½, You’re Under Arrest: The Motion Picture, True Tears, Vladlove) is directing the anime at Signal.MD (Recovery of an MMO Junkie, Napping Princess, The Wonderland) and Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell , Angel’s Egg, Jin-Roh-The Wolf Brigade, Blood: The Last Vampire, Vladlove) is supervising and writing the script.
The novel’s story is set in a world in the chaotic aftermath of humanity’s apocalyptic Final War. A vast forest, filled with fiery creatures and other fallen beasts, covers the world and many groups of people live in small protected communities. Due to a special weapon used in the Last War, people can spontaneously combust even when they come close to a small source of fire. The only safe source of energy for humanity lies in the bodies of firebirds, and the task of hunting them falls to brave sickle-wielding firestarters deep into the vast forest. Among the firestarters, they whispered stories of one who would become the “Lord of the Firestarter”, an individual who could harvest the flames of the millennium comet, the “Wandering Spark” that flew in the sky since it was sent up. before the Final War, but is now returning to earth.
The story begins with Tōko, a young girl from a papermaking town, finding herself in a forbidden forest, attacked by flames, when a fire starter rushes to protect her. Elsewhere, a boy born in the capital named Kōshi sheltered his younger sister after his mother died from the factory’s poison.
Hinata launched the first book in the series in December 2018, with illustrations by The Twelve Kingdoms illustrator and RahXephon character designer Akihiro Yamada. Hinata published the fourth book in the series in September 2020, followed by a spin-off volume in December 2021.
Source: website, Comic Natalie