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Noragami Anime Season 2 Announced

The most recent issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine has revealed that the anime adaptation of Adachitoka’s Noragami manga will be returning for a second season. The second season will feture the return of the anime’s cast and staff.

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Adachitoka has commented stating that he cannot believe the good news when he first heard it and that he is extremely happy that the cast and staff from the first season will return.

The issue has revealed that the main cast from the anime’s first season will return in the second. The cast includes:

  • Hiroshi Kamiya (Levi from Attack on Titan) returns as Yato
  • Maaya Uchida (Rikka Takanashi from Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!) will be back to voice Hiyori Iki
  • Yuuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan) as Yukine
  • Miyuki Sawashiro (Shino Asada in Sword Art Online II) voices Bishamon
  • Jun Fukuyama (Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch) will voice Kazuma
  • Aki Toyosaki (Yui Hirasawa from K-ON!) is voicing Kofuku
  • Daisuke Ono (Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler) returning to voice Daikoku
  • Tooru Ohkawa (Toshio Ozaki from Shiki) as Tenjin
  • Asami Imai (Kurisu Makise in Steins;Gate) is voicing Mayu
  • Rie Kugimiya (Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood) will voice Nora

The main members of the anime’s staff will also return:

  • Director: Kotaro Tamura (Noragami, Wolf Children Assistant Director)
  • Series Composer: Deko Akao (Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream, Arakawa Under the Bridge)
  • Anime Character Designer: Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop, Wolf’s Rain)
  • Animation Studio: Bones (Hitsugi no Chaika, Cowboy Bebop)

Noragami is a fantasy manga written and illustrated by Adachitoka. The series began in late 2010 being published in Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine where a total of 12 main volumes have been compiled and published. The series received a Drama CD adaptation with the 9th volume in late 2013. An anime adaptation of Noragami  was produced in 2014 for a total of 12 episodes, being directed by Kotaro Tamura (Wolf Children Assistant Director) and produced by Bones (Hitsugi no Chaika, Cowboy Bebop).

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

Yato is a minor deity who lacks even a single shrine. In order to build his own shrine and gain recognition as a god, he scrawls his cell number on the wall of a downtown bathroom telling people he will help them in exchange for a 5-yen offering, becoming a self-styled “delivery god.” Hiyori, the daughter of a respectable family, is almost killed in a traffic accident, but is rescued by Yato. This causes her to become a “hanyou,” a person who can exit her body in soul form. She chases Yato down, and they begin to work together to help Yato be recognized. Yato also finds a boy named Yukine who becomes a Regalia, a “sacred treasure” that can be used by a god as a weapon to fight. The three of them battle phantoms who bring harm to humans as Yato’s dark hidden history is gradually revealed.

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More information about the second season of the anime adaptation of Noragami will be revealed soon.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://noragami-anime.net/
And follow them on Twitter: @noragami_PR

 
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