Episode 8 preview images and trailers for The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 have been released. The episode will air on November 22, 2023. Episode 8 is set on a beach, and it will be an anime original where the protagonist Cid Kagenou, also known as [The Eminence in] Shadow, will not appear. You can check out the preview images below:
The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 premiered on October 4, 2023, and it currently has 7 episodes available. Studio Nexus is animating The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 with Kazuya Nakanishi as the director. The same staff worked on Season 1, which aired in 2022, and had a total of 20 episodes. The franchise also had a panel at the recently held Anime NYC 2023 and an autograph session with the director and the producer, Kazufumi Kikushima. You can watch the series on HIDIVE. Episode 8 trailer is also available:
Po (CV Shin Matsushige) and Skel (CV Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) are narrating the special version of the episode’s trailer:
Enterbrain has been publishing Daisuke Aizawa’s The Eminence in Shadow (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!) light novel series with Tozai’s illustrations since 2018, and it currently has 5 volumes with more than 5 million copies available. Yen Press licensed the light novel series in English. The anime is currently adapting the 3rd volume and the plot is described as:
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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