Anime premieres on January 9
The official Twitter account for the new season of the television anime of Daisuke Ashihara‘s World Trigger manga unveiled a new visual for the anime on Tuesday. It also posted a 15-second commercial on Sunday.
アニメ #ワールドトリガー 2ndシーズン予告映像第1弾公開!
映像にはボーダー本部を襲撃するガロプラ、そしてそれに立ち向かうボーダーの精鋭達の姿が!!https://t.co/MFfczkGoOm pic.twitter.com/WOUnPsShmw— アニメ「ワールドトリガー」公式 2021年1月9日(土)深夜1時30分〜放送開始! (@Anime_W_Trigger) November 28, 2020
The anime will premiere on January 9 as part of TV Asahi‘s NUMAnimation programming block. The new season’s first two episodes will have a special screening run with exclusive footage in 12 theaters in Japan from December 25 to January 7.
The anime will feature the following returning cast:
The new cast members for the anime include:
Hisao Egawa as Gatlin
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Ratarikov
Mie Sonozaki as Wen Sō
Kenjiro Tsuda as Koskero
Ayumu Murase as Reghindetz
Ryoko Shiraishi as Yomi
Morio Hatano (Saint Seiya Omega‘s first season, Dragon Ball Super‘s Future Trunks Saga, episode director for Hugtto! Precure and Star Twinkle Precure) is serving as the series director. Hiroyuki Yoshino, Toshihisa Kaiya, and Kenji Kawai all return from the previous World Trigger anime to supervise the series scripts, design the characters, and compose the music, respectively.
South Korean boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER is performing the main theme song “Force.” Motoko Ōmori of the rock band Mrs. Green Apple wrote the song specifically for the anime. Rock band Kami wa Saikoro o Furanai is performing the ending theme song “Mirai Eigō” (The Endless Future).
Ashihara debuted the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2013. The manga went on hiatus since November 2016 due to Ashihara’s poor physical health, and returned in the magazine in October 2018 for five issue before moving to Shueisha‘s Jump SQ. magazine in December 2018. The manga then took a one-month break in May 2019 so that Ashihara could recover from intestinal obstruction complications that arose from his recent cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal surgery). The manga took another one-month break in November 2019 due to Ashihara’s poor physical health. The series also had a one-month break this past August due to Ashihara’s health.
Ashihara took a one-week break in September 2014 to treat the nerve roots affected by cervical spondylosis (wear and tear on neck area of spinal column), and has since taken several one-week breaks due to sudden illness.
Viz Media publishes the series simultaneously in its digital anthology version of Weekly Shonen Jump. The manga inspired two television anime seasons in 2014 and 2015.
Sources: World Trigger anime’s Twitter account, Comic Natalie
