The anime adaptation of Kore Yamazaki’s The Ancient Magus’ Bride supernatural manga has confirmed that the series is getting a second season in April 2023. The announcement also comes with a teaser visual and PV highlighting the heroine Chise Hatori and her journey in the previous season.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 will continue the story of the anime’s season 1, where Chise enrolls in the magician college. The staff from The Ancient Magus’ Bride -The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm three-part OVA project will return to handle the new season. The manga creator Kore Yamazaki also revealed a new illustration to celebrate the news.
▍The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 Story
Having been ostracized by both her relatives and partially by society, orphaned Japanese high school student Chise Hatori decides to sell herself at an auction in order for somebody else to take her in and have a new place to call home. At the auction in London, she is sold for five million pounds to Elias Ainsworth, a seven-foot-tall humanoid with an animal skull for a head. The magus, who seems closer to a demon than a human, either brings her the light she desperately seeks or drowns her in ever deeper shadows in her new country, Great Britain. The series deals with a romantic slice-of-life storyline in a surreal and supernatural light.
▍The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 Staff & Production
Original Work: Kore Yamazaki [Blade Comics / Mag Garden]
Director: Kazuaki Terasawa
Series Composition: Aya Takaha, Yoko Yonaiyama
Character Design: Hirotaka Katō
Chief Animation Director: Kōhei Tokuoka
Color Design: Yuko Kobari
Art Design: Seiki Tamura
Director of Photography: Mayo Suzuki
CGI Director: Katsuaki Miyaji
Editing: Daisuke Imai
Music: Junichi Matsumoto
Music Production Flying Dog
Sound Director: Shōji Hata
Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo
Sound Production: Sound Team Don Juan
Animation: Studio Kafka
▍The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 Cast
■ Chise Hatori – CV: Atsumi Tanezaki
■ Elias Ainsworth – CV: Ryota Takeuchi
■ Ruth – CV: Kōki Uchiyama
■ Silver – CV: Aya Endō
■ Mikhail Renfred – CV: Satoshi Hino
■ Alice – CV: Mutsumi Tamura