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A new teaser promo and key visual for The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 were revealed on Monday. The announcement for the new season came during a special stream with voice actors Atsumi Tanezaki and Ryota Takeuchi, who voice Chise and Elias. The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 will be animated by studio Kafka and is set to premiere in April 2023.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 Staff
Season 2 will be directed by Kazuaki Terasawa, who formerly directed The Ancient Magus’ Bride – The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm. Terasawa has no other known directorial work, but he has storyboarded for series such as Overlord (S2 + S3), Cardfight!! Vanguard, and Kedama no Gonjiro. Kohei Tokuoka will be joining the staff as chief animation director, who has extensive animation directorial work in big-name series such as Bungo Stray Dogs, Golden Kamuy, Sword Art Online: Alicization, and Fate/Apocrypha. He also was the animation director for the hit movie Josee, The Tiger, and the Fish and joined Terasawa on The Ancient Magus’ Bride – The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm as the chief animation director.
The screenplay for the upcoming season will be handled by Aya Takaha and Yoko Yonaiyama, who have both worked in the same position for The Ancient Magus’ Bride series in the past. They’ll also be joined by Chiaki Nishinaka—production manager for Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song. Hirotaka Kato will reprise his role as the character designer. And Junichi Matsumoto will also be returning as the music composer.
Both Tokuoka and the creator of the series Kore Yamazaki drew special illustrations for the announcement.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride Anime
The first season of The Ancient Magus’ Bride began airing in 2017 and ran for a total of 24 episodes. The series was originally animated by WIT Studio, along with the prologue The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Those Awaiting a Star (OVA), which aired between 2016 and 2017 over the course of 3 episodes. After the first season was wrapped up, the series was handed over to studio Kalfka, who then released The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm (OAD) in 2021. Now, five years after the series first began airing, The Ancient Magus’ Bride is finally returning.
The first season scored solid reviews landing an 8.03/10 on MyAnimeList and a 78% on Anilist. The series is also one of WIT Studio’s highest-rated series, falling just behind Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga, Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song, Spy x Family, and Great Pretender.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride Manga
The anime series is based on the original manga written and illustrated by Yamazaki, which first began serialization in Monthly Comic Blade in 2013. The manga officially ceased publication in the magazine and was eventually moved to Monthly Comic Garden but is still being released on the Monthly Comic Blade website. The manga currently has 18 volumes published, 15 of them published in English by US-based publisher Seven Seas Entertainment. Chapters are released monthly so each new volume takes around 5-6 months to release.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride manga currently has 10 million copies in circulation as of September 2022.
While the series has never taken any top prizes, it’s come mightily close. In 2015 the series placed second on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey and was ranked second in a poll for Da Vinci magazine that determined which series would most likely get their big break. The same year, The Ancient Magus’ Bride ended up being nominated for the Manga Taishō award and landed on the New York Times Bestseller List for four weeks for Volume 2. Later down the line, Volume 4 would end up debuting at first on the bestseller list.
Synopsis
Hatori Chise has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful encounter awaits her. When a man with the head of a beast, wielding strange powers, obtains her through a slave auction, Chise’s life will never be the same again. The man is a “magus,” a sorcerer of great power, who decides to free Chise from the bonds of captivity. The magus then makes a bold statement: Chise will become his apprentice–and his bride!
Manga synopsis by Seven Seas Entertainment
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