Grand Blue anime announces its second season
During a special broadcast that was made through the official YouTube channel for NBCUniversal, it was announced that the anime adaptation of the manga written by Kenji Inoue and illustrated by Kimitake Yoshioka, "Grand Blue" already has a second season in production. The premiere date will be announced soon.
The new season begins when Iori returns to Izu after completing his scuba diving training in Okinawa and receives a letter from his younger sister, Shiori.
Kimitake Yoshioka shared a special illustration to celebrate the announcement of the sequel.
Studio Zero-G returns to handle this season's animation, but this time Studio Liber joins the project. Among the team members reprising their roles are Shinji Takamatsu, who continues as director, screenwriter, and sound director, as well as Hideoki Kusama as character designer and lead animation director, Yoichi Ueda as co-animation director, Aiko Matsuyama as color palette manager, and Saber Links as the studio responsible for sound production.
Voice cast
- Yuuma Uchida as Iori Kitahara
- Ryohei Kimura as Kohei Imamura
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Shinji Tokita
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Ryuujiro Kotobuki
- Chika Anzai as Chisa Kotegawa
- Maaya Uchida as Nanaka Kotegawa
- Toa Yukinari as Azusa Hamaoka
- Kana Asumi as Aina Yoshiwara.
- Takuya Eguchi as Hajime Nojima
- Junya Enoki as Shinichiro Yamamoto
- Natsuki Hanae as Yu Mitarai
- Robert Waterman as Kenta Fujiwara
- Jun Fukuyama as Captain Kudo
- Shinji Kawada as Toshio Kotegawa
- Nana Mizuki as Kaya Mizuki
Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka began publishing the manga through Good! Afternoon from Kodansha in April 2014, where it is still in serialization despite the constant suspensions due to the writer's unstable state of health. A twelve-episode anime adaptation aired during the Summer-2018 season (July-September), under the production of Zero-G Studios.
Grand Blue Synopsis
Iori Kitahara moves to the coastal city of Izu for his first year at university and settles in Grand Blue, his uncle's diving shop. Iori has high hopes and dreams of having the ideal college experience, but when he walks into the store he is sucked into the alcoholic activities of the carefree Dive Club members who frequent the venue. Persuaded by upperclassmen Shinji Tokita and Ryuujirou Kotobuki, Iori reluctantly joins their bizarre party.
His cousin Chisa Kotegawa enters later and catches him red-handed, earning Iori his total contempt. Based on the popular comedy manga by Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka, Grand Blue follows Iori's misadventures with his eccentric new friends as he strives to make his ideal college dream come true, while also learning to scuba dive.
Source: Comic Natalie
