2nd season debuted on Thursday
Netflix began streaming on Thursday an English-dubbed version of the second promotional video for the second season of the television anime of Kōcha Agasawa‘s The Ramparts of Ice (Koori no Jyōheki or Ice Castle Wall) manga. The video features the four-piece band THE BEAT GARDEN‘s opening theme song “Escort.”
© 阿賀沢紅茶／集英社・TVアニメ「氷の城壁」製作委員会
Superfly perform the ending theme song “Hanakage.”
The second season premiered on Thursday. The new season again airs on Thursdays at 11:56 p.m. (10:56 a.m. EDT) on TBS and 27 affiliated channels. It also streams on Netflix, as well as other services in Japan.
The manga centers on Koyuki Hikawa, an aloof high school student who has a hard time getting close to others, and who builds a wall between herself and other people. Although she spends her time alone at school, for some reason Minato Amemiya keeps getting closer to her. The frustrating story of youth follows the lives of four somewhat complicated individuals: Koyuki and Minato, plus the popular girl Miki and the laid-back boy Yōta.
The cast includes:
- Anna Nagase as Koyuki Hikawa
- Fūka Izumi as Miki Azumi
- Shōya Chiba as Minato Amamiya
- Satoshi Inomata as Yota Hino
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Tsubasa Igarashi
- Sakura Shinfuku as Tsukiko Shimojima
- Akari Kitō as Momoka Kuriki
- Kakeru Hatano as Yūki Azumi
- Natsumi Kawaida as Akine Atagawa
Mankyū (Pui Pui Molcar the Movie: MOLMAX, Sumikkogurashi – Good to be in the corner, The IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors) is directing the anime at Studio KAI. Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms) is in charge of the series scripts. Miki Ogino (Osana Najimi no Carbou) is designing the characters. Kanade Sakuma and Natsumi Tabuchi are composing the music.
The first season premiered on TBS and 27 affiliated channels on April 2 at 11:56 p.m. in Japan. The season then debuted globally on Netflix on April 2, and it is also streaming on other services in Japan.
Agasawa (You and I Are Polar Opposites) originally serialized the manga as a webtoon on the LINE Manga app from January 2020 to April 2022. Shueisha published the manga’s 14th and final compiled volume (reorganized for volume format) in February 2025.
The manga ranked at #15 for male readers in the 2024 edition of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook in December 2023, and also was nominated for the 69th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2023. The manga placed second in May 2024 in the “Vertical Scroll Comic” section of the second Rakuten Kobo E-book Awards. Additionally, the manga ranked #2 on AnimeJapan’s sixth “Most Wanted Anime Adaptation” poll in 2023.
