The most anticipated anime of the Summer 2024 season, Oshi no Ko Season 2 revealed a main trailer on Sunday. Hitsujibungaku is singing the anime’s ending theme song “Burning” while it was previously revealed that GEMN is performing the opening song “Fatal.” The series is scheduled to premiere on July 3 and it had an advanced theatrical screening in Japan.
Studio Doga Kobo (Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie) is returning to animate the sequel along with Daisuke Hiramaki (Selection Project) as director and Saori Tachibana (Wasteful Days of High School Girls) as assistant director. Jin Tanaka (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club) will continue to write the script and Kanna Hirayama (Rent-a-Girlfriend) is still in charge of the character designs. The cast will also reprise their roles:
- Rie Takahashi as Ai Hoshino
- Takeo Otsuka as Aquamarine Hoshino
- Yurie Igoma as Ruby Hoshino
- Megumi Han as Kana Arima
- Manaka Iwami as Akane Kurokawa
- Rumi Okubo as Mem-cho
- Lynn as Miyako Saito
The TV anime adaptation is based on the manga series written by Aka Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and illustrated by Mengo Yokari (Scum’s Wish). Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump has been serializing the series since April 2020. A live-action adaptation has been announced and it is set to debut later this year. The first season previously swept all the awards at the Spring 2023 anime polls. HIDIVE is streaming the first season and they describe it as:
Dr. Goro is reborn as the son of the young starlet Ai Hoshino after her delusional stalker murders him. Now, he wants to help his new mother rise to the top, but what can a child do about the dark underbelly of the entertainment industry?
Source: Press Release
©Aka Akasaka x Mengo Yokoyari/Shueisha, “OSHI NO KO” Partners
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