Four new voice cast members are joining the upcoming second season of Ishura, which will begin broadcasting in Japan in January 2025. 

The new cast members include: 

• • Kensho Ono as Rosclay the Absolute 
• • Kikuko Inoue as Lucnoca the Winter 
• • Hikaru Midorikawa as Psianop the Inexhaustible Stagnation
• • Atsushi Ono as Neft of the Equinox

They join the anime’s main voice cast that stars: 

• • Yuki Kaji as Soujiro the Willow-Sword
• • Reina Ueda as Yuno the Distant Talon
• • Aoi Yuki as Kia the World Word
• • Mamiko Noto as Elea the Red Tag
• • Romi Park as Taren the Punished
• • Koichi Yamadera as Shalk the Sound Slicer
• • Miku Ito as Cuneigh the Wanderer 
• • Rikiya Koyama as Mele the Horizon’s Roar

Takeo Takahashi (Wasteful Days of High School Girls) is serving as the series’ chief director, with Yuki Ogawa (Mieruko-chan) as director, Kenta Ihara (The Marginal Service) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Yoko Kikuchi (Kuroko’s Basket) and Yuka Takashina (Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha) as character designers, and Masahiro Tokuda (Platinum End) as music composer. Passione is handling the animation production for the series, with Sanzigen providing CG animation assistance. 

Other staff members consist of Kazuo Ogura (Attack on Titan Final Season) and Yuki Hatakeyama (The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes) as art directors, Seiji Handa (Yu-Gi-Oh: Arc-V main monster designer) and Hiroya Iijima (Mazinger-Z:Infinity character designer) as monster designers, and Kanta Suzuki (Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars) as mechanical designer. Takuya Asaoka (Immoral Guild director), Fujiaki Asari (Love Flops), Takahiro Majima (Mieruko-chan), and Hironori Aoyagi (Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World) are the assistant directors.

Hulu is currently streaming Ishura in the U.S. and on Disney+ in other countries and territories. 

The series originally started as a web novel by Keiso that began serialization on Kakuyomu and Shosetsuka ni Naro on June 30, 2017. It was then published by ASCII Media Works as a light novel series with illustrations by Kureta on September 17, 2019, which is published under the Dengeki no Shinbungei label. Nine volumes have been released as of February 2024. 

The light novels also inspired a manga adaptation by Meguri on March 5, 2021 that is currently serialized in Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine.

The light novel series was also the first-ranked title in This Light Novel is Amazing 2021’s tankoubon/novels category.

Yen Press releases the Ishura light novels in English and describes the main premise as:

In a world where the Demon King has died, a host of demigods capable of felling him have inherited the world. A master fencer who can figure out how to take out their opponents with a single glance; a lancer so swift they can break the sound barrier; a wyvern rogue who fights with three legendary weapons at once; an all-powerful wizard who can speak thoughts into being; an angelic assassin who deals instant death. Eager to attain the title of “True Hero,” these champions each pursue challenges against formidable foes and spark conflicts among themselves. The battle to determine the mightiest of the mighty begins.

Source: Ishura Official Anime Twitter, Comic Natalie

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