Chained Soldier Season 2 revealed a new visual and a 2026 release date, as well as more staff members. The announcement was made at the ongoing AnimeJapan 2025 event, where the show’s main cast attended. The new visual teases the latest character from Season 2, Ren Yamashiro. She is the Chief of the Anti-Demon Corps’ 10th Unit and Head Commander of the organization.
We can also see Kyoka, Tenka and Yuki in the background.
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Studio Seven Arcs animated the first season of the Chained Soldier anime, while studio Passione was announced to be taking over from Seven Arcs for the second season. The sequel will have new key staff, including Tamura Masafumi as the director and Nakano Keiya as the character designer. You can see the full list of known members below:
- Director: Masafumi Tamura
- Series Composition: Yasuhiro Nakanishi
- Scriptwriters: Yasuhiro Nakanishi, Taiki Ezaki, Takahiro Nagase, Kyota Kano
- Character Design: Keiya Nakano
- Concept Composite: Junpei Takatsu
- Art Director: Shino Ohara
- Color Design: Sakae Suzuki
- Assistant Color Designer: Mai Kabatani
- Director of Photography: Koji Hayashi
- CG Director: Takamasa Taba (Sanzigen)
- Editor: Ayako Tan
- Music: Kohta Yamamoto
- Sound Director: Chikako Yokota
- Sound Production: DAX Production
- Animation Production: Passione × Hayabusa Film
Anime Corner also had the special opportunity to interview voice actor Yuya Hirose and producer Yuki Watanabe to talk about the anime, which is streaming on HIDIVE. The voice cast includes:
- Akari Kito as Kyoka Uzen
- Yume Miyamoto as Himari Azuma
- Mari Hino as Shushu Suruga
- Yuya Hirose as Yuki Wakura
- Kana Hanazawa as Ren Yamashiro
- Hina Tachibana as Nei Okawamura
- Maaya Uchida as Tenka Izumo
- Mako Morino as Shikoku
- Tomori Kusunoki as Aoba Wakura
- Nene Hieda as Yachiyo Azuma
- Rina Hidaka as Naon Yuno
Chained Soldier (Mato Seihei no Slave) is originally a manga series written by Takahiro (Akame Ga Kill author), 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 an otherworldly and dangerous dimension known as Mato—the “Demon City”—appeared across Japan. Those who partook in the “peaches” growing there gained unique abilities—but only if they’re girls. When down-in-the-dumps high school boy Yuuki Wakura finds himself caught up in a gate, he’s saved by Kyouka Uzen, the beautiful commander of the 7th squad of the Demon Defense Force, who…orders him to become her slave?!
Source: Press Release, Chained Soldier Official X, AnimeJapan 2025
© Takahiro / Yohei Takemura / Shueisha / Magic Defense Corps Public Relations Department
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