A new key visual, first main PV trailer, and three additional cast members have been unveiled for the upcoming second season of A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized. The Japanese dub of the donghua animated series will premiere on October 2, 2024.
The new cast members joining the series include Haruki Ishiya as Edward, Chafurin as Pravas, and Kohei Amasaki as Mysterious Man.
© Kaisei Enomoto, Syugao / KADOKAWA 2022
They join a Japanese dub voice cast for the second season that so far includes:
- • Aoi Yuki as Reiko
- • Hochu Otsuka as Herbivorous Dragon
- • Yoshino Nanjo as Ryatt
- • Mariko Miyase as Aliante
- • Shuka Saito as Water Saint
- • Yui Ishikawa as Vanessa
- • Iori Noguchi as Rosetta
Siwen Liu (Dawang Bu Gaoxing) directed the first season, with Wan Zi as character designer and LAN STUDIO as the animation production company.
The first 12-episode season premiered on bilibili on July 30, 2022, which streamed the series with English subtitles in August 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the donghua for release outside of Asia. The Japanese dubbed version of the first season premiered on January 6, 2024.
A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years is a Chinese animated adaptation of Kaisei Enomoto‘s fantasy light novel series that was published under Kadokawa Shoten’s Sneaker Bunko imprint from February 1, 2018 to October 1, 2019. Shugao provided the illustrations for the light novels. Three total volumes were released during its publication. The series began as a web novel on Shosetsuka ni Naro from June 2017 to June 2020.
The light novels also inspired a manga adaptation by Koichi Muro that ran in Square Enix’s Monthly Gangan Joker magazine from January 22, 2018 until November 22, 2019. Five tankobon volumes were released in total.
Crunchyroll describes the main synopsis of A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years as:
Desperate to defend her village from the demon king, Reiko offers herself to a 5,000-year-old dragon for his help in exchange, but the flame-breathing beast is vegetarian and a total weakling. Together they embark on a journey to take down the demon king. With her dragon comrade, Reiko claims that she’s his disciple, able to draw from his infinite powers, but is it really from him?
Source: A Herbivorous Dragon Official Twitter, Official Website
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