A new key visual has been unveiled for the ongoing second season of Ishura, marking the anime’s entry into its second half ahead of its sixth episode. The series began airing in Japan on January 8, 2025 and is expected to run for 12 total episodes.
Takeo Takahashi (Wasteful Days of High School Girls) is credited as the series’ chief director, with Yuki Ogawa (Mieruko-chan) as director, Kenta Ihara (The Marginal Service) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Yoko Kikuchi (Kuroko’s Basket) and Yuka Takashina (Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha) as character designers, and Masahiro Tokuda (Platinum End) as music composer. Passione is handling the animation production for the series, with Sanzigen providing CG animation assistance.
Other staff members working on the series include Kazuo Ogura (Attack on Titan Final Season) and Yuki Hatakeyama (The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes) as art directors, Seiji Handa (Yu-Gi-Oh: Arc-V main monster designer) and Hiroya Iijima (Mazinger-Z:Infinity character designer) as monster designers, and Kanta Suzuki (Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars) as mechanical designer. Takuya Asaoka (Immoral Guild director), Fujiaki Asari (Love Flops), Takahiro Majima (Mieruko-chan), and Hironori Aoyagi (Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World) are serving as assistant directors.
Meanwhile, the second season’s main voice cast stars:
- • Mariya Ise as Kuuro the Cautious
- • Miku Ito as Cuneigh the Wanderer
- • Rikiya Koyama as Mele the Horizon’s Roar
- • Nao Toyama as Linaris the Obsidian
- • Daisuke Ono as Toroa the Awful
- • Ayumu Murase as Mestelexil the Box of Desperate Knowledge
- • Kujira as Kiyazuna the Axle
- • Megumi Ogata as Hiroto the Paradox
- • Yasuhiro Mamiya as Yukiharu the Twilight Diver
- • Tetsu Inada as Uhak the Silent
- • Hochu Otsuka as Romzo the Star Map
- • Nana Mizuki as Kazuki the Black Tone
- • Kensho Ono as Rosclay the Absolute
- • Kikuko Inoue as Lucnoca the Winter
- • Hikaru Midorikawa as Psianop the Inexhaustible Stagnation
- • Atsushi Ono as Neft of the Equinox
- • Yurika Kubo as Tu the Magic
- • Hiroaki Hirata as Ozonezma the Capricious
- • Wataru Takagi as Zigita Zogi the Thousandth
- • Kappei Yamaguchi as Krafnir the Hatch of Truth
Ishura is currently being streamed on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ in select English-speaking countries and territories.
The series originally began as a web novel by Keiso that was first serialized on Kakuyomu and Shosetsuka ni Naro on June 30, 2017. It was then published by ASCII Media Works as a light novel series with illustrations by Kureta on September 17, 2019, which is published under the Dengeki no Shinbungei label. Ten volumes have been released as of December 2024. The light novels were also ranked first in This Light Novel is Amazing 2021’s tankobon/novels category.
The light novels also inspired a manga adaptation by Meguri on March 5, 2021 that is currently serialized in Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine.
Yen Press releases the Ishura light novel series in English, describing the main synopsis as:
In a world where the Demon King has died, a host of demigods capable of felling him have inherited the world. A master fencer who can figure out how to take out their opponents with a single glance; a lancer so swift they can break the sound barrier; a wyvern rogue who fights with three legendary weapons at once; an all-powerful wizard who can speak thoughts into being; an angelic assassin who deals instant death. Eager to attain the title of “True Hero,” these champions each pursue challenges against formidable foes and spark conflicts among themselves. The battle to determine the mightiest of the mighty begins.
Source: Ishura Official Anime Twitter
