Staff, cast, new visual also revealed

The staff of the Attack on Titan franchise revealed at the "Shingeki Matsuri" event on Sunday that the anime's second season will premiere in spring 2017. The announcement also reveals a new visual (below) and the second season's staff and cast.

The staff includes:

Chief Director: Tetsuro Araki (director of first season)

Director: Masashi Koizuka (storyboard, episode director for first season)

Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi

Character Design: Kyoji Asano

Chief Animation Director: Kyoji Asano, Satoshi Kadowaki, Ayumi Yamada

Animation Production: WIT STUDIO

Assistant Director: Hiroyuki Tanaka

Action Animation Director: Yasuyuki Ebara, Arifumi Imai, Takuma Ebisu

Art Setting: Yuuho Taniuchi

Titan Setting: Takaaki Chiba

Prop Design: Takuma Ebisu

Color Key: Ken Hashimoto

Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara

3DCG Director: Shigenori HIrozumi

3DCG Producer: Shuhei Yabuta

Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada

Editing: Aya Hida

Sound Director: Masafumi Mima

Music: Hiroyuki Sawano

Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi

Sound Production: Techno Sound

The returning cast includes:

Yuuki Kaji as Eren

Yui Ishikawa as Mikasa

Marina Inoue as Armin

Kishō Taniyama as Jean

Yu Shimamura as Annie

Yu Kobayashi as Sasha

Shiori Mikami as Christa

Hiro Shimono as Conny

Yoshimasa Hosoya as Reiner

Tomohisa Hashizume as Bertholt

Saki Fujita as Ymir

Hiroshi Kamiya as Levi

Daisuke Ono as Erwin

Romi Park as Hanji

Keiji Fujiwara as Hannes

The second season, which was initially announced in November 2014, was originally slated for 2016.

The first 25-episode season aired from April-September 2013. Both Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the first season as it aired in Japan, and Funimation released the series on home video in 2014. The first season also inspired two compilation anime films in 2014 and 2015.

Hajime Isayama's original manga has also inspired numerous spinoff manga, several novel series, a two-part live-action film project, a spinoff live-action television series, and an OVA. Two of the spinoff manga — Attack on Titan: No Regrets and Attack on Titan: Junior High — received anime adaptations of their own.

Isayama launched the manga in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009, and Kodansha published the 19th volume in Japan on April 8. Kodansha will publish the 20th volume on August 9. Kodansha Comics publishes the manga in print in English, and it published the 18th volume on April 5. Crunchyroll also publishes the manga in English digitally as new chapters are published in Japan.

Update: Added more staff members from show's official website.

Source: Comic Natalie