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A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special Season 2’s New Video Previews Ending Song – News

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August 26, 2026

krage performs ending song “Everlasting” for 2nd season

The official website for the second season of the anime based on Wookjakga‘s A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special (Kikansha no Mahō wa Tokubetsu Desu in Japanese) Korean webtoon presented a new promotional video for the anime on Wednesday. The video announces and previews the anime’s ending theme song “Everlasting” by singer-songwriter krage.

Key visual for second season of A Returner's Magic Should Be Special — Image courtesy of Sony Music

The new season will premiere in Fuji TV‘s “+Ultra” programming block in October, and it will run on Wednesdays at 24:45 (effectively, Thursdays at 12:45 a.m.). The first season began re-airing on Fuji TV and Kansai TV in July.

Crunchyroll will stream the new season.

The rock band FLOW returns to create the “Sorrow” song specifically for the new season’s opening theme.

The anime’s cast includes:

Taishi Kawaguchi returns to direct the anime at Arvo Animation, nad Takamitsu Kouno (She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, Absolute Duo, We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky) returns to oversee and write the scripts. Hiromi Katō (Violinist of Hamelin, Kobato., Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut) is designing the characters, and Daisuke Negishi is the art director. Kenta Higashiohji (Pole Princess!!) returns to compose the music.

Other staff include:

Yen Press is releasing the series in English and it describes the story:

In a time when the Shadow World has taken over and most of humanity is wiped out, a party of six heroes strives and fails to save the world… But magician Desir Herman is given a second chance when he opens his eyes and finds that he’s gone back thirteen years in the past! It’s now up to him to gather his party once more and stop the greatest catastrophe in human history!

The first season of the anime debuted in October 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in English-speaking, Latin America, and European countries, along with an English dub.

Source: A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special anime’s website via Ota-Suke

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‘Kaze wo Tsugumono’ Announces Additional Cast

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August 26, 2026

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The official website for the Kaze wo Tsugumono (Inherit the Winds) original television anime announced additional cast members on Wednesday. The anime series will premiere in January 2027 at 11:30 p.m. on the Agaru Anime programming block on CBC and TBS’ 28 affiliated stations.

Cast

Shinpachi Nagakura: Ryouhei Kimura (Grand Blue)

Heisuke Toudou: Ayumu Murase (Chainsaw Man)

Sanosuke Harada: Simba Tsuchiya (Burn the Witch)

Keisuke Yamanami: Takeo Ootsuka (Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu)

Kamo Serizawa: Yasuyuki Kase ([Oshi no Ko])

Tomohiro Kawamura (Neko Neko Nihonshi) is directing the anime at Drive and Live2D Creative Studio. Azuki Mashiba is providing original work cooperation. Fumi Ebina is designing the characters, while Shigeru Kishida (Rilakkuma to Yuuenchi) is composing the music.

Playwright Yutaka Narui, founder of the theater troupe Caramel Box and known for the Tachikawa Jinsuke stage play series including the Shinsengumi-themed Kaze wo Tsugumono, is penning the script for the anime. Narui is also co-credited for the original work with Aniplex.

Source: Official Website

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Yurie Sekiya’s Pero Pero★Sparkles Characters Get TV Anime – News

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August 26, 2026

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Making Manga with Editor Shihei Lin

Now we know who to thank for Spy x Family‘s Bond.
― Manga enthusiasts packed together as the Japan Foundation invited veteran manga editor Shihei Lin to discuss his career. Lin currently serves as the CEO of his manga company, Mix Green, and was the former Editor-in-Chief at Shonen Jump Plus, helping to contribute to such titles as Dandadan, Chainsaw Man, and Spy x Family, all of which were discussed…

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Red River’s Chie Shinohara Launches New Historical Manga on September 24 – News

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August 26, 2026

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Itsukinomiya Genshitan “historical mystery” follows princess at Ise Shrine during Japan’s Asuka period

The October issue of Shogakukan‘s Cheese! magazine announced on Monday that manga creator Chie Shinohara will launch a new manga titled Itsukinomiya Genshitan (The Records of Itsukinomiya Visions) in the magazine’s next issue on September 24.

新シリーズ「斎宮幻視譚(いつきのみやげんしたん)」がスタートします。

創刊30周年記念の小学館月刊誌「Cheese!」で描かせていただくことになりました。
掲載は9月24日ころ発売の10月号から。

待望(わたしがw)の日本史(っぽい)モノです。
天河アニメ同様によろしくお願いいたします❣️ pic.twitter.com/rvLeW1o1mu

— 篠原千絵 (@Marashantia) August 23, 2026

The “historical mystery epic” manga is set in Ise Province during Japan’s Asuka period (538-710 CE), and centers on an imperial princess. The princess serves the gods at Ise Grand Shrine, as is the custom for unmarried princesses at the time. The story begins when someone visits her, which will lead to a great turn in the pages of history.

Shinohara serialized her classic Red River (Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori) shōjo manga in Shogakukan‘s Shōjo Comic (Sho-Comi) magazine from 1995 to 2002. Viz Media started releasing the manga in English in 2004, and released all 28 volumes between 2004 to 2010. The company then started re-releasing the manga in 3-in-1 omnibus editions in October 2024, and released the seventh omnibus volume on April 21.

The Red River manga inspired a stage play by the famed all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe in 2018. The manga is also inspiring an ongoing television anime that debuted on July 7. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.

Sources: Cheese! October issue, Chie Shinohara‘s X/Twitter account