The second cour of the ongoing Sengoku Youko TV anime series will debut sometime this coming July 2024. A new key visual for the series has been released, shortly after the airing of the series’ 13th episode on April 4, 2024 in Japan.
The anime premiered in Japan on January 11, 2024, with the first cour adapting the original manga’s first part “The Reformer Siblings Arc.” The third and second cour will adapt “The Chaos of a Thousand Demons Arc.” Three total cours containing 37 episodes will be released in total.
Kagetsu Aizawa (Hakyuu Houshin Engi) directed the first cour of the anime series, with Jukki Hanada (Steins;Gate) as series screenwriter, Yosuke Okuda (In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki) as character designer, and Evan Call (Violet Evergarden) as music composer. White Fox is the animation production company.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast stars:
- • Soma Saito as Jinka
- • Yuuki Takada as Tama
- • Ryohei Kimura as Shinsuke
- • Tomoyo Kurosawa as Shakugan
- • Hiroki Nanami as Senya
- • Maaya Uchida as Tsukiko
The anime series is an adaptation of the manga by Satoshi Mizukami (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Planet With), which ran in Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Blade from December 28, 2007 to May 20, 2016. A total of 17 tankobon volumes were released during the series’ publication.
Crunchyroll is streaming Sengoku Youko and describes the synopsis as:
The world is divided into two factions: humans and monsters called katawara. Despite being a katawara, Tama loves humans and vows to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting her own kind. Her brother Jinka, however, hates humans, despite mostly being one. The siblings are joined by a cowardly swordsman named Shinsuke, who wants to learn how to become strong.
When the group uncovers a plot to experiment on humans and transform them into monsters, they vow to defeat whoever is behind it… Even if it means battling an entire army of warriors.