The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 anime has revealed the episode 1 preview, ahead of its October 4 release date. The episode is titled “Lawless City,” and the anime will be streaming on HIDIVE. Watch the ‘normal version’ preview trailer:
There’s also a ‘special version’ for the preview video, narrated by Cid himself:
More preview images for the episode:
The official synopsis for the episode:
Cid is taken to a huge slum called “Lawless City” by Claire, who is going to exterminate vampires. However, he soon gets separated from Claire and gets caught up in the commotion caused by the “Red Moon.”
The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 Episode 1 Staff:
- Screenplay: Kato Kanichi
- Storyboard: Kazuya Nakanishi
- Direction: Kazuya Nakanishi
- Chief Animation Director: Makoto Iino
- Animation Director: Daichi Kitahara
- Action Animation Director: Kazuya Nakanishi
The first season of The Eminence in Shadow premiered on October 5, 2022, and it had a total of 20 episodes which aired over 2 cours. Kazuya Nakanishi directed it at studio Nexus. HIDIVE is streaming it.
The Eminence in Shadow (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!) is a Japanese light novel series by Daisuke Aizawa. Enterbrain has been serializing it with Tozai’s illustrations since 2018. There is also a manga adaptation by Anri Skano, which is serialized in Kadokawa Shoten. Yen Press is publishing both light novels and manga in English. The second season of the anime will adapt volume 3 of the light novel, and you can read the synopsis below:
Deep within the Lawless City lies the Blood Queen, a Progenitor Vampire, slumbering in her coffin for many moons. An expert at landing himself in trouble, Cid should know better than to go after her…but he’s dying to get a piece of the action. It’s time he shed his daytime persona to take on the role of Shadow! It seems, however, that he’s not the only one with this idea. Soon enough, he finds the three rulers of the Lawless City—Juggernaut the Tyrant, Yukime the Spirit Fox, and Crimson the vampire—are all on his tail. To complicate things even further, the Shadow Garden descends on the scene as the hour of the Blood Queen’s awakening looms closer and closer…
Source: Official Website
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