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Crunchyroll Simulcasts Spy x Family Season 2 in India; Announces New Telegu Dubs

Crunchyroll announced on Saturday that it will begin streaming the second season for the SPY×FAMILY anime in India on October 7. The company also announced that it will add Telegu dubs for the following anime titles on the following dates:

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc, the seven-episode arc that adapts the Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train anime film, on October 2 at 10:30 p.m. IST.
• The second season the television anime of Makoto Yukimura's Vinland Saga manga on October 5 at 9:00 a.m. IST.
• The television anime of Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen manga on October 13 at 8:30 a.m. IST, with two episodes premiering each week.

The SPY×FAMILY anime's second season will premiere on October 7 on the TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting channels at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT). The anime will run on other channels at a later date.

Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Rurouni Kenshin, Getbackers, 2019 Dororo) is returning to direct the second season at WIT STUDIO and CloverWorks. Takahiro Harada is also returning as the assistant director. Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury) is the new series script supervisor, replacing Furuhashi. Assistant series script supervisors include Daishiro Tanimura and Ayumu Hisao. Kazuaki Shimada (The Promised Neverland) is returning as the character designer, and [K]NoW_NAME (Fairy gone, Dorohedoro, Sakura Quest) is again the music producer. Shōji Hata is the sound director.

Ado performs the opening theme song "Kurakura," and Vaundy feat. Cory Wong perform the ending theme song "Todome no Ichigeki" (Finishing Strike). Fellow singer-songwriter meiyo wrote the lyrics and music of Ado's song, and Yoko Kanno arranged and performed the music on the track.

The anime premiered on the TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ Kyuushuu channels in April 2022. Muse Asia streamed the first season of the anime on YouTube as it aired in Japan. Netflix also streamed the anime in India as it aired in Japan. Muse Asia streamed the second cours (quarter of a year) as well.

Shueisha is simulpublishing the manga in English on its MANGA Plus service. Viz Media added the manga to its app as part of its Shonen Jump subscription in September 2019. The company is also publishing the manga in print.

The Gekijōban SPY×FAMILY Code: White film will open on December 22. It will be an all-new work with an original story.

Sources: Email correspondence, Press release