New key visuals and two new voice actors have been revealed for SHY’s upcoming second season. The second season is scheduled to premiere in July 2024.
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New cast members joining the anime television series are Kotori Koiwai as Ai Tennoji and Hitomi Ueda as Utsuro.
Koiwai and Ueda join the main cast including:
• Shino Shimoji as Teru Momijiyama/Shy • Nao Toyama as Iko Koishikawa • Tomokazu Sugita as Ebio • Mamiko Noto as the spirits • Shinichiro Miki as Stardust • Sayumi Suzushiro as Lady Black • Ayumu Murase as Meng Long • Kikuko Inoue as Uniroad
Masaomi Ando (Astra Lost in Space) will direct the anime with Yasuhiro Nakanishi (World Dai Star, Kagura-sama: Love is War) as writer and series writer, Kosaku Taniguchi (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond director unit) as assistant director, Yuuichi Tanaka (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too! and Climax) as main character designer and Hinako Tsubakiyama (Sugar Apple Fairy Tale) as composer music. Eight Bit is handling animation production for the second season.
Other staff members include Risa Takai (co-character designer of The Slime Diaries) as co-character designer and co-animation director, sharing the same duties as Akihiro Sueta (animation director of The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls U149). Tetsuro Moronuki (Psycho Pass 3: First Inspector action animation director) serves as action director.
The first season of SHY premiered on October 3, 2024 in Japan and is streaming on Crunchyroll and Muse Asia overseas.
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Anime based on the superhero manga by Bukimi Miki, which began serialization in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shonen Champion on August 1, 2019. 23 tankoubon volumes have been published as of February 2024. Yen Press publishes the series pictures in English for North America.
Crunchyroll describes SHY’s summary as follows:
Around the middle of the 21st century, all wars on Earth ended.
The sudden appearance of “Heroes”, people with supernatural powers who only want peace, has drastically transformed the world. In a world where the Heroes of each country work to maintain this new-found peace, the protector of Japan is a young girl named Shy, who is… extremely shy.
Source: SHY’s official Anime Twitter