P.A. Works announced the theme song artists, more cast members, more staff members, premiere date, and a new main visual for The Eccentric Family 2 (Uchoten Kazoku 2) sequel anime series at the "Tanuki Gathering At The Forest Of Tadasu" event in Kyoto on Thursday.

The anime will premiere on April 9, and will air on Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, and Kitanihon Broadcasting. The anime will stream in Japan on Docomo Anime Store.

The new cast members include:

Junji Majima as Junior

Yoko Hikasa as Gyokuran

Yuichi Nakamura as Kureichiro

Bin Shimada as Tenmanya

The event also revealed the following returning cast members:

Kikuko Inoue as Mother (Tosen)

Hideyuki Umezu as Akadama

Shuya Nishiji as Kinkaku

Kosuke Hatakeyama as Ginkaku

Ayane Sakura as Kaisei

Takehiko Higuchi as Professor Yodogawa

milktub and fhána will return to the franchise to perform the anime's theme songs. milktub will perform the opening theme song "Nasugamama, Sawagumama," and fhána will perform the ending theme song "Moon River."

The previously revealed main returning cast includes:

Takahiro Sakurai as Yasaburō Shimogamo, the third son of the family

Junichi Suwabe as Yaichirō Shimogamo, the eldest son of the family

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yajirō Shimogamo, the second son of the family

Mai Nakahara as Yashirō Shimogamo, the youngest son of the family

Mamiko Noto as Benten, the bewitchingly beautiful woman

The anime is P.A. Works' first sequel series. The first season's main staff members are returning for the sequel. Masayuki Yoshihara is directing the series at P.A. Works, Kōji Kumeta (Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei, Kakushigoto ) is designing the characters, and Lantis is handling the music production. Additionally, Kousuke Kawazura is adapting Kumeta's designs for animation and is serving as animation director, and Yusuke Takeda and Harumi Okamoto are serving as art directors.

The event also revealed that Ryou Higaki is returning from the first season to write the series. Additional staff members include:

Compositing Director: Satoshi Namiki

Color Design: Katsue Inoue

3D Director: Kohei Ogawa

Editing: Ayumu Takahashi

Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa

Music: Yoshiaki Fujisawa

The 2013 anime adapted the original novel of the same name by Tomihiko Morimi ( The Tatami Galaxy ). The comedy drama is set in Kyoto, where tanuki (shape-shifting raccoon-dogs), tengu (long-nosed goblins of Japanese folklore), and humans intermingle. The story follows the tanuki Shimogamo Yasaburō, the third son of the Shimogamo family who live in the Tadasu no Mori forest of Shimogamo Shrine. One day, Yasaburō's father is eaten as a hot pot by human members of a group known as the "Friday Club." As Yasaburō takes care of his teacher, an old tengu, fights with other tanuki, and plays with a psychic human girl, Yasaburō approaches the truth about his father's death.

Gentosha published Morimi's original Uchoten Kazoku novel in 2010, and then published a sequel novel titled Uchoten Kazoku Nidaime No Kicho in 2015. The original novel has sold more than 360,000 copies. The Eccentric Family 2 is based on the second novel volume.

Images © Tomihiko Morimi, GENTOSHA / Uchoten-Kazoku 2 Committee