A new key visual and two new voice cast members have been revealed for the upcoming second season of SHY. The second season is scheduled to premiere in July 2024.
The new cast members joining the TV anime series are Kotori Koiwai as Ai Tennoji and Hitomi Ueda as Utsuro.
Koiwai and Ueda join a main cast that includes:
- • Shino Shimoji as Teru Momijiyama/Shy
- • Nao Toyama as Iko Koishikawa
- • Tomokazu Sugita as Ebio
- • Mamiko Noto as Spirits
- • Shinichiro Miki as Stardust
- • Sayumi Suzushiro as Lady Black
- • Ayumu Murase as Meng Long
- • Kikuko Inoue as Uniroad
Masaomi Ando (Astra Lost in Space) is directing the anime series, with Yasuhiro Nakanishi (World Dai Star, Kagura-sama: Love is War) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Kosaku Taniguchi (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond unit director) as assistant director, Yuuichi Tanaka (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too! and Climax) as main character designer, and Hinako Tsubakiyama (Sugar Apple Fairy Tale) as music composer. Eight Bit is handling the animation production for the second season.
Other staff members consist of Risa Takai (The Slime Diaries co-character designer) as co-character designer and co-chief animation director, sharing the same duties with Akihiro Sueta (The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls U149 animation director). Tetsuro Moronuki (Psycho Pass 3: First Inspector action animation director) is serving as the action director.
The first season of SHY premiered on October 3, 2024 in Japan and is streaming on Crunchyroll and Muse Asia overseas.
The anime is based on the superhero manga by Bukimi Miki, which began serialization in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shonen Champion on August 1, 2019. Twenty-three tankoubon volumes have been published as of February 2024. Yen Press releases the manga series in English for North America.
Crunchyroll describes the synopsis of SHY as:
Around the middle of the 21st century, all war on Earth ceased.
The sudden widespread appearance of “Heroes,” people with supernatural powers who wish only for peace, has drastically transformed the world. In a world where the Heroes of each country work to maintain this newfound peace, the one protecting Japan is a young girl named Shy who is… cripplingly shy.
Source: SHY Official Anime Twitter