Anime's 2nd season to premiere with returning cast, staff in July

The May issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine is announcing on Saturday that Ray (To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness, Waiting in the Summer, A Lull in the Sea) and Mami Kawada (Jormungand, A Certain Magical Index, Please Twins!) will perform the To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness 2nd anime's theme songs. Ray performed the first season's opening theme "Rakuen Project" and is returning to sing the second season's opening. Kawada will perform the new season's ending theme song.

The second season of the To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness television anime series is slated to premiere in Japan in July. The new season will reunite the main cast and staff from the first season.

The returning cast and staff include:

Aki Toyosaki as Momo Belia Deviluke

Misato Fukuen as Golden Darkness

Yuka Iguchi as Mea Kurosaki

Akeno Watanabe as Rito Yūki

Haruka Tomatsu as Lala Satalin Deviluke

Sayuri Yahagi as Haruna Sairenji

Kanae Itō as Nana Astar Deviluke

Kana Hanazawa as Mikan Yūki

Kaori Nazuka as Yui Kotegawa

Ryoka Yuzuki as Risa Momioka & Celine

Satomi Arai as Peke

Mamiko Noto as Oshizu

Rina Hidaka as Mea's Master



Director: Atsushi Ootsuki

Character Design: Yūichi Oka

Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa

Sound Production: Magic Capsule

Music: Takeshi Watanabe

Animation Production: Xebec

Production: To Love-Ru Darkness 2nd Production Committee



The first anime season began re-airing on the BS11 channel at midnight on January 12.

Kentaro Yabuki and Saki Hasemi's To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness manga, a sequel of the first To Love-Ru -Trouble- series, launched in Jump Square in 2010. The series has 14 million copies in print. Sentai Filmworks licensed the 2012 television anime of the manga, and The Anime Network streamed the series in North America.

The 13th To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness manga volume will bundle a new anime DVD on Friday. The manga inspired previous orginal video anime projects as well.

Production on a new game, To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness: True Princess , has also been green-lit for this year. This time, the game is an "eagerly anticipated full-fledged dating simulation game" for the PS Vita system.