The staff for the second television anime season based on Yūsei Matsui‘s The Elusive Samurai (Nigejōzu no Wakagimi) manga unveiled on Saturday the season’s main promotional video, opening theme song, cast, staff, and July 17 premiere.
The trailer announces and previews the opening theme song “Onigoto” (Demon Occurrences) by Kento Nakajima.
The new season will air beginning on July 17 at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT) on the Fuji TV network, and it will also run on AT-X. Prime Video will stream the series.
Asaki Yuikawa stars as Hojo Tokiyuki and Yūichi Nakamura as Suwa Yorishige.
The cast includes:
- Hinaki Yano as Shizuku
- Mari Hino as Kojirō
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Ayako
- Aoi Yūki as Kazama Genba
- Kikunosuke Toya as Fubuki
Yuta Yamazaki (assistant director for Wonder Egg Priority, series director for both Love Rice series) returns to direct for season 2 at CloverWorks, and Yasushi Nishiya also returns (chief animation director for Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us, Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!) to design the characters and assume the new role of chief animation director. Shinnosuke Ōta serves as animation director, while GEMBI and Akiyuki Tateyama composes the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Series Script Supervisor: Yoriko Tomita
- Assistant Director: Yūsuke Kawakami
- Prop Design: Yogoinu (Haruhi Inoue)
- Color Key Artist: Kazuko Nakashima
- Art Director: Ayumi Kojima
- Art Setting: taracod, takao
- Architecture Research: Riichi Kamome
- Typography: Yūto Hama, Mai Yamaguchi
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yūya Sakuma
- CG Director: Rèn jié, Mai Kawakita
- Editor: Daisuke Hiraki
- Sound Effects: Tomokazu Mii
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The anime’s first season re-aired on Fuji TV‘s Noitamina programming block in April 2026, before the second season debuts on the same programming block.
The anime’s first season premiered in July 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and is also streaming an English dub.
Viz Media and MANGA Plus both simultaneously released new chapters of the manga in English digitally as they debuted in Japan.
Viz Media is also releasing the manga in print, and the company describes the first volume:
After the massacre of his family by the traitor Ashikaga Takauji, Tokiyuki flees with the help of a handful of loyal retainers who have also survived the purge. One of them is Suwa Yorishige, an ally of the Hojo clan and lord of Suwa Province. The slightly odd Yorishige also claims to be clairvoyant and foretells that Tokiyuki will one day become the ruler of Japan. But for the moment, escaping from enemy territory is the priority!
Matsui (Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro, Assassination Classroom) launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2021, and ended it on February 16. The manga won at the 69th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2024.
Update: July 17 date corrected. Thanks, blahmoomoo.
Sources: Aniplex‘s YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
