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Aniplus Asia Airs Simulcast of The Ancient Magus' Bride Anime Season 2 Part 2
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Aniplus-Asia announced on Tuesday that it will air a simulcast of the second half of the second season of the television anime based on Kore Yamazaki's The Ancient Magus' Bride (Mahō Tsukai no Yome) manga. The second half will premiere in Japan on October 5.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide excluding Asia, and it describes the anime:
Chise was able to accept Elias and herself, if not necessarily everything about her situation. After Cartaphilus fell back into a slumber that would not last forever, Chise was able to go back to her regular life. Then she receives an invitation from a mutual aid organization for mages called the College.Under the British Library exists a secret society of mages. Encounters and interactions with people are about to open some new doors.
This is a story about saving yourself to save another.
The season adapts the "Gakuin" (College) arc of the manga, which launched in May 2018.
Kazuaki Terasawa is returning from the The Ancient Magus' Bride - The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm OAD project to direct the season at Studio Kafka, a new animation studio established specifically for the OAD project. Aya Takaha returns from the first television anime season to pen the script alongside Yoko Yonaiyama (The Ancient Magus' Bride - The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm) and Chiaki Nishinaka. Hirotaka Katō is returning from the previous anime in the franchise as the character designer. Junichi Matsumoto returns to compose the music. JUNNA performs the second half's opening theme song "Nemurasareta Lineage" (A Quieted Lineage).
The previous anime in the franchise is the three-episode The Ancient Magus' Bride - The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm OAD (original anime disc) project. The project is being bundled with the limited editions of the 16th, 17th, and 18th volumes of the manga. The 16th volume shipped in September 2021, and the 17th volume shipped on March 10, 2022. The 18th volume shipped on September 9, 2022. The staff described the OAD series as the "first part" of a new anime project.
The manga previously inspired a television anime that premiered in Japan in 2017. Aniplus-Asia aired a simulcast of the anime. The manga also inspired a prequel original video anime (OVA) series titled The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star in 2017. Aniplus-Asia also aired that anime.
Yamazaki launched the The Ancient Magus' Bride manga in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade magazine in 2013 but the magazine ceased publication in September 2014. The manga then moved to the publisher's Monthly Comic Garden magazine, where it is ongoing. The manga has more than 10 million copies in circulation.
