The production team for ORIENT has shared a new key visual and PV trailer to promote the second cour of the anime. The new cour will adapt “The Battle of Awaji Island” arc and will air in July 2022.
The 35-second trailer showcases some of the new characters that will debut in the show’s second half. The production team released the first main visual for the second cour in March and the second visual in April.
The voice cast consists of Yuuma Uchida as Musashi, Souma Saitou as Kojirou Kanemaki, Rie Takahashi as Tsugumi Hattori, and Satoshi Hino as Naotora Takeda. Joining the second cour are Tomoaki Maeno as Tatsuomi Uesugi, Natsuki Hanae as Kanetatsu Naoe, Yoshiki Nakajima as Masayuki Amakasu, Kouki Uchiyama as Akihiro Shimazu, Gakuto Kajiwara as Katsumi Amako, and Youko Hikasa as Kuroko Usami.
The returning production staff from the first cour includes Tetsuya Yanagisawa as director, Mariko Kunisawa as series composer, Takahiro Kishida as character designer, Fumio Matsumoto and Sayuri Sakimoto as chief animation directors, Suga Shigeyuki as action supervisor, Hirofumi Sakagami as art director, Hidenori Manaka as photography director, and Hideyuki Fukasawa as music composer.
Additional staff include Mika Funabashi (Blue Reflection Ray) as color designer and Matsumoto as co-character designer. A.C.G.T. is the animation production company.
ORIENT is based on the manga series by Magi creator Shinobu Ohtaka. It first began serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shounen Magazine on May 30, 2018, before moving to Bessatsu Shounen Magazine in February 9, 2021. 15 tankoubon volumes have been published as of May 2022.
The first cour of Orient aired during the Winter 2022 anime season. Crunchyroll streamed the series in English as it aired in Japan. They describe the anime as:
When unidentified creatures known as Kishin suddenly appeared in Japan, all of the most famous military leaders were killed in battle, and the end of the world seemed close at hand.
Now, 150 years later, demons still rule the world, and only the Band of Bushi continues to fight for freedom. Musashi and Kojiro, out of admiration for these brave fighters, strive to form the strongest Band of Bushi in this classic battle action story of friends passionately chasing a dream.
Source: ORIENT Official Twitter