Grand Blue Dreaming Season 2 Reveals More Cast

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Aya Yamane, Sumire Morohoshi, Yoshino Aoyama join cast

The staff for the second television anime season based on Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka's Grand Blue Dreaming announced more cast members during the web radio show "Grand Blue Hanakin Radio" on Sunday.Aya Yamane plays Sakurako Busujima, a first-year college student. Sumire Morohoshi plays Shiori Kitahara, Iori's younger sister. Yoshino Aoyama plays Naomi Otoya, a high school student in charge of the kitchen at Iori's part-time job. The new season begins when Iori returns to Izu after the end of his diving license training in Okinawa, and a letter from his little sister Shiori arrives.Zero-G is returning to animate the new season, but the studio Liber is also joining the production. The returning staff members include director/scriptwriter/sound director Shinji Takamatsu, character designer/chief animation director Hideoki Kusama, chief animation director Yōichi Ueda, color key artist Aiko Matsuyama, and sound production studio Saber Links.Reiji Kasuga replaces Studio Jack's Minoru Akiba as the art director, and jimao is designing the props instead of Hiroshi Ogawa. Naoyuki Katō is the compositing directory of photography instead of Hideki Imaizumi, and Shun Tokuda is replacing Masaki Utsunomiya on editing. Yukari Hashimoto (Mr. Osomatsu, Sarazanmai) is composing the music instead of Manual of Errors Artists. The returning cast members include:Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story: Inoue and Yoshioka launched the manga in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine in April 2014. Crunchyroll previously released chapters of the manga as they debuted in Japan. Kodansha published the manga's 23rd volume on October 7. Kodansha USA Publishing will release the 21st volume on February 11.The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in July 2018. Amazon Prime Video streamed the anime worldwide as it aired. The manga also inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in August 2020. Sources: Grand Blue Dreaming's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie

Published on: 2025-02-02 11:47 EST