DAN DA DAN 2nd Season Anime Unveils New Cast Member, Visual, July 3 Premiere (Updated)
The official website for the television anime of Yukinobu Tatsu's DAN DA DAN "paranormal mystery battle & romantic comedy" manga unveiled on Friday a new cast member, visual, and July 3 premiere for the second season. Update: GKIDS also announced on Friday that it will screen the theatrical premiere of the season DAN DA DAN: EVIL EYE in North America on June 6. The theatrical premiere will screen in Asia outside of Japan on May 30 from Muse, and in Europe on June 7 from ADN. The second season begins streaming worldwide in July. The company streamed a trailer: Mutsumi Tamura will play Evil Eye (Jashi):Fūga Yamashiro and Abel Góngora (storyboarder and unit director on the first season) are both credited for directors on the new season at Science SARU. The new season will feature a returning cast.The first season premiered in Japan on October 3 on TBS and MBS's Super Animeism TURBO programming block. Netflix began streaming the anime worldwide on October 3. The series had 12 episodes.Fūga Yamashiro (Tatami Time Machine Blues assistant director) directed the anime at Science SARU, and Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan The Final Season, Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Mob Psycho 100) supervised and wrote the series scripts. Composer kensuke ushio (Chainsaw Man, DEVILMAN crybaby, Liz and the Blue Bird) scored the music. Naoyuki Onda (Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc) designed the characters, and Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100) designed the aliens and supernatural entities. Hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts performed the opening theme song "Otokone," and ZUTOMAYO performed the ending theme song "TAIDADA."Crunchyroll describes the story: DAN DA DAN: First Encounter, the theatrical screening of the first three episodes, earned an estimated US$1,005,531 during its limited-time screening in the U.S. in September.Tatsu serializes the manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service, and Shueisha published the 19th compiled book volume on Friday. Viz Media publishes the manga in English and released the 12th volume on Tuesday. Viz Media and Shueisha's MANGA Plus service both publish the manga in English digitally.Update: Added GKIDS' premiere information. Source: Press releaseUpdate 2: Added trailer. Source: GKIDS' YouTube channelSources: DAN DA DAN anime's website, Comic Natalie
