Returning staff, cast announced

The official website for the Show By Rock!! anime announced on Tuesday that the second season of Show By Rock!! will premiere in October. The website also unveiled a new key visual and the staff and cast.

Takahiro Ikezoe is returning from the original Show By Rock!! series to direct the anime at Bones. Touko Machida, who wrote the scripts for the first eight episodes of the original anime, is handling the series composition. The main cast members — including the characters from the Plasmagica, Shingan Crimsonz, Tsurezure Naru Ayatsuri Mugenan, Trichronika, and Criticrista bands — are returning from the first season. Yuji Ueda is also returning to play Mable Arisugawa.

The first Show By Rock!! anime premiered in April 2015, and Funimation streamed the series as it aired in Japan. A series of spinoff shorts, Show By Rock!! Short!! , debuted on Tokyo MX on July 4 at 25:00 (technically July 5 at 1:00 a.m.) and will also air on Yomiuri TV and other channels. Funimation is streaming the series as it airs.

A preview of the second season aired with the first episode of Show By Rock!! Short!! :

SHOW BY ROCK!! 第2期 CM #SB69A



Тизер второго сезона SHOW BY ROCK!! В эфире с октября. pic.twitter.com/uu3dbuEVtg — Кагаяки (@kagayakiru) July 4, 2016

Thanks to Kagayaki for the embedded video.

Source: Moca News