Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that the second season of the Tower of God anime will premiere on July 7. Crunchyroll also introduced new key art:
©Tower of God 2 Animation Partners
Image via Tower of God anime website
©Tower of God 2 Animation Partners
This season's cast includes:
Additionally, Saori Hayami will return as Rachel.
Kazuyoshi Takeuchi (Armored Trooper Votoms: Alone Again) will take on the role of director for the new installment and Akira Suzuki will replace Takashi Sano as director at The Answer Studio Co., Ltd. of telecommunications cartoons. Erika Yoshida (Bocchi the Rock!) returns to be in charge of the series' scripts, co-writing the script with fellow writers Takeshi Miyamoto and Riuji Yoshizaki. Miho Tanino will return from the first season to design the characters, this time alongside Seigo Kitazawa (City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust) and Isamatsu Kashima. Kitazawa is also the animation director. Kevin Penkin will return to compose music.
Other employees are:
NiziU performed the opening and ending theme songs of the season.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, Middle East, and CIS territories.
The first season debuted on Crunchyroll in April 2020 and premiered in Japan on the same day. That season had 13 episodes. Crunchyroll and WEBTOON production is part of the Crunchyroll Originals group.
Takashi Sano (Sengoku Basara: End of Judgment, Transformers: Energon) directed the first season at Telecom Animation Film (Lupine the Third: Part 5, We Rent Tsukumogami, Orange). Hirokazu Hanai (Dances with the Dragons, Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas) is the assistant director. Erika Yoshida (Trickster, Namu Amida Butsu!-Rendai Utena-) is in charge of compiling the series. Masashi Kudo (Bleach, Hayate the Combat Butler) and Miho Tanino designed the characters. Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss, The Rising of The Shield Hero) composed the music.
Crunchyroll describes the story:
Reach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world and it can all be yours. You can become a god. This is the story of the beginning and end of Rachel, the girl who climbed the tower so she could see the stars, and Bam, the boy who needed nothing but her.
SIU launched the manhwa on NAVER WEBTOON in 2010, then launched the digital comic on WEBTOON in English in July 2014.
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