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Animax Asia Airs Orient Part 2, Shadows House Season 2 Anime

Animax Asia announced last week that it will air the second season of the Shadows House anime, the second part of the Orient anime, the second season of the Kuroko's Basketball anime, and Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Collision.

Animax Asia will premiere the second season of Shadows House on July 9 at 9:00 p.m. GMT +8. The anime will premiere in Japan on July 8, and will feature returning cast and staff. Muse Asia also licensed the second season.

Creators So-ma-to had noted it was said during the first season (when they supervised the scripts) that there would be only one cours (quarter of the year) for the anime. The creators added that a new season means they would have to supervise scripts once again while still serializing the manga, but vowed to do their best.

The first season premiered in April 2021. Animax Asia aired the anime in September 2021.

The manga's story is set in a Western-style mansion on a cliff and centers on the aristocratic, faceless Shadow family. They live together with lifelike doll attendants who serve as their faces. The story focuses on the daily lives of the house's inhabitants and gradually reveals its mysteries.

Kazuki Ohashi (episode director for Kakegurui, Girlish Number, Ace Attorney Season 2) directed the series at CloverWorks, and Toshiya Ono (The Promised Neverland, Gatchaman Crowds, tsuritama) oversaw the series scripts. Chizuko Kusakabe (Pumpkin Scissors, Trouble Chocolate) designed the characters, and Kenichiro Suehiro (Cells at Work!, Golden Kamuy, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-) composed the music.

Animax Asia will premiere the second cours (quarter of a year) for the television anime of Shinobu Ohtaka's Orient manga on July 12 at 9:30 p.m. GMT +8. The anime will premiere in Japan on July 11.

The first cours of the anime premiered in Japan on January 5. Ani-One Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.

Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

At age 10, best friends Musashi and Kojiro sat in excited silence as Kojiro's father spun tales of evil demons who preyed on the innocent, and the warriors who defeated them. Practicing swordplay, the two swear an oath to become the strongest in the world. But as they grow up, Kojiro turns cynical, and Musashi comes to realize that he can't turn back 150 years of demon rule on his own. He's being called a prodigy with a pickaxe, and he's almost ready to settle for a life of labor. Yet he can't shake the feeling that he still has a responsibility to act…and, soon, the injustices of his world will force his hand…

Tetsuya Yanagisawa (Shattered Angels, High School DxD, Senran Kagura Shinovi Master) directed the anime's first part at ACGT. Mariko Kunisawa (Ascendance of a Bookworm, Magimoji Rurumo, Hatsukoi Limited) was in charge of series scripts. Takahiro Kishida (Serial Experiments Lain, Baccano!, Haikyu!!) designed the characters. Hideyuki Fukasawa (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, Flowers of Evil, Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu) composed the music.

Animax Asia will air the second season of Kuroko's Basketball on July 21 at 8:00 p.m. GMT +8, and will air two episodes every Wednesday and Thursday. Animax Asia aired the first season beginning on June 8.

Kuroko's Basketball is based on Tadatoshi Fujimaki's manga of the same name. The first television anime series premiered in 2012, followed by a second season in 2013, and a third season in 2015. Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game (Gekijōban Kuroko no Basuke Last Game), the anime film adaptation of Tadatoshi Fujimaki's Kuroko no Basuke Extra Game sequel manga, opened in Japan in March 2017.

The manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2008-2014. Viz Media published the manga in English.

Animax Asia will air Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Collision, the third season of the the new anime of Yoshiki Tanaka's epic science fiction novels Legend of the Galactic Heroes, on July 19 at 10:00 p.m. GMT +8. Animax Asia will air two episodes every Monday and Tuesday.

The season debuted as features in theaters, with the first two opening on March 4 and April 1. The third feature opened on May 13. The third season also ran on television for 12 episodes (numbered as episodes 25-36 in the overall series).

Hiroyuki Sawano scored and arranged the season's theme song, "dust," which is also the professional debut of YouTube cover song artist SennaRin. The artist cAnON wrote the lyrics.

The three films in the show's second "season," Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Second ( The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran), opened in Japan on September 27, October 25, and November 29, respectively, of 2019. Each film has a length of four television episodes. Animax Asia aired the second season in March 2020.

Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko's Basketball, Starmyu) is directing the anime at Production I.G. Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!, Kuroko's Basketball) is in charge of the series scripts. Yoko Kikuchi (Junjō Romantica, Kuroko's Basketball, Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - The World's Greatest First Love), Iwao Teraoka (The Brave Police J-Decker guest character designs, Kuroko's Basketball storyboarder), and Katsura Tsushima (Kuroko's Basketball episode animation director) design the characters, and Takayuki Goto (Kuroko's Basketball, Blood-C) serves as chief animation director.

Source: Press release