Daemons of the Shadow Realm Anime Gets 2nd Season

The staff for the television anime of Hiromu Arakawa‘s Daemons of the Shadow Realm (Yomi no Tsugai) manga announced after the final episode of the first season aired on Sunday that the series will receive a second season.

Square Enix Manga & Books is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

In a remote mountain village under the watchful eyes of two stone guardians, the young Yuru contentedly lives off the land while staying close to the only family he has left—Asa, his precious twin sister. Asa, meanwhile, carries out a mysterious “duty” on behalf of the village while locked in a cage. Why is Asa a prisoner? And what other secrets does Yuru’s otherwise idyllic home hide?

The anime stars:

• Kenshō Ono as Yuru
• Yume Miyamoto as Asa
• Yūichi Nakamura as Dera
• Misaki Kuno as Gabu-chan
• Takako Honda as “Left”
• Rikiya Koyama as “Right”
• Miyuri Shimabukuro as Hana
• Junichi Suwabe as Jin
• Akira Ishida as Asuma Kagemori
• Shinichirō Miki as Ivan Yosano
• Kappei Yamaguchi as Hikaru Kagemori
• Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kai

Masahiro Andō (Sword of the Stranger) is directing the anime at Bones Film. Noboru Takagi (Kingdom seasons 3-6, Golden Kamuy first four seasons) is overseeing the series scripts, and Nobuhiro Arai (Bungo Stray Dogs) is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director. Kenichiro Suehiro (Golden Kamuy, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- franchises) is composing the music.

The anime premiered on the Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, and Tochigi TV channels on April 4 at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT). It is also running on HTB Hokkaido TV, Aomori Broadcasting, Miyagi TV, Sakuranbo TV, TV-U Fukushima, Television Niigata Network Co., Ltd., and other channels. The first season air for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year). Crunchyroll streamed the anime first before other services and is streaming a same-day English dub for the series.

Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Silver Spoon) launched the manga in Square Enix‘s Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine in December 2021. Square Enix published the manga’s 13th compiled book volume on July 10.

Sources: Aniplex‘s YouTube channel, Comic Natalie