New cast members play Green Clan "jungle" leaders in October anime

K Return of Kings, the second season of the K television anime, unveiled two new Green Clan characters and their cast members on Thursday. Rie Kugimiya plays Sukuna Shijō (pictured left in image below), a Green Clan "jungle" leader. Houchu Ohtsuka plays another "jungle" leader, Tenkei Iwafune (pictured right).

The K Image Blu-ray Return of Kings Prelude -Come Back- jacket art and the disc's Animate original bonus items (three randomly distributed sets of two mini sketches by director/character designer Shingo Suzuki) also debuted:

The second K stage play run will run from August 5 to August 15 at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo, and then from August 19 to August 22 at the Mielparque Osaka.

The website describes the story of the new anime season:

In modern Japan, where history has strangely overlapped with reality. There, seven "Kings" with great superpowers existed. Along with their clansman to whom they shared their own power with, the kings each formed clans. Order bound by blue, red flames that cause chaos, irregularities that shine in white, and reforms branched off into green. The Kings, each with their own abilities, now... The Blue King Reisi Munakata, the leader of the Blue Clan "Scepter 4," held great responsibilities on his back. The tower that Gold King Daikaku Kokujōji supervised called the Dresden Slate was still on his mind, and he felt a great burden by killing the previous Red King, Mikoto Suoh. On the other hand, the former Red Clan "Homra" clansman Anna Kushina experienced the attacks from the Green Clan "jungle" and awakened as the next Red King. By doing this, she bound her comrades through a strong bond once again. Finally, White Clan members Neko and Kuroh believe that the White King Yashiro is still alive, and seek his whereabouts. However, it was not just them searching for the White King. The Green King Nagare Hisui once again... With "jungle" once again jumping back into action, the fates of the various Kings are brought together.

Text: Each of their bonds are...

The cast will star:





Daisuke Namikawa as Yashiro Isana





Daisuke Ono as Kuroh Yatogami





Mikako Komatsu as Neko





Hiro Shimono as Kotosaka





Jun Fukuyama as Misaki Yata





Kaori Nazuka as Dōhan Hirasaka





Mamoru Miyano as Saruhiko Fushimi





Miyuki Sawashiro as Seri Awashima





Satomi Satou as Kukuri Yukizome





Shozo Iizuka as Daikaku Kokujōji





Takahiro Sakurai as Izumo Kusanagi





Tomokazu Sugita as Reisi Munakata





Yui Horie as Anna Kushina





Yūichi Nakamura as Rikio Kamamoto





Yuuki Kaji as Tatara Totsuka





Kenjiro Tsuda as Mikoto Suoh

The cast will also star Kazuyuki Okitsu as Nagare Hisui.

The official Twitter account for the K anime project announced in October 2014 that production on a sequel to the franchise has been green-lit for 2015. The announcement had featured an image with the character Yashiro. Shingo Suzuki will serve as the director and character designer for the new season at studio GoHands. Suzuki previously directed the first season and the K: Missing Kings sequel film.

The main staff is as follows:

Original Work: GoRA x GoHands

Director, Character Designer: Shingo Suzuki

Chief Animation Director: Makoto Furuta

Prop Designer: Takahiro Kishida

Mechanical Designer; Hiroshi Okubo

Chief Animators: Takayuki Uchida, Naoki Okada, Hiroshi Okubo

Series Composition: GoRA

Series Director: Hiromitsu Kanazawa

Art Director: Ken Naito

Color Key: Tomoko Saito

CGI Director: Takanori Kikuchi

Director of Photography: Yuichiro Tozawa

Editing: Ayako Tan

Sound Director: Chikako Yokota

Sound Effects: Naoto Yamatani

Sound Production: Glovision

Music: Mikio Endo

Music Production: Starchild Records

Animation Production: GoHands

Production: k-project MBS

The television anime premiered in 2012, and Viz Media streamed it in North America as it aired. An English dub streamed on Viz's Neon Alley service. Viz released the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. The anime has also inspired multiple manga adaptations and spinoffs.