“NOMAD Megalobox 2,” the 2nd season of TV anime “Megalobox” (メガロボクス) reveals a key visual, official trailer and six additional cast. It is confirmed that it will premiere on 4th April.
▍Official Trailer
■ Eng. Sub.
▍Additional Cast
■ Mack (マック) – CV: Atsushi Miyauchi (宮内敦士)
■ Sakuma (佐久間) – CV: Chikahiro Kobayashi (小林親弘)
■ Chief (チーフ) – CV: Miou Tanaka (田中美央)
■ Marla (マーラ) – CV: Farahnaz Nikray (ニケライ ファラナーゼ)
■ Mio (ミオ) – CV: Yumi Hino (日野佑美)
■ Ryū (リュウ) – CV: Masaya Fukunishi (福西勝也)
▍Synopsis
In futuristic Japan, only licensed citizens could live in a wealthy city while unlicensed citizens are forced into a slum on its outskirts. Megalo Boxing is a popular sport in this world similar to boxing, except the boxers fight while wearing a metal frame which makes their attacks much more lethal.
Junk Dog is a young man who fights in underground illegal rings in fights that have a fixed result where his coach Gansaku Nanbu directs him on when to lose a fight. One evening he almost crashes his motorcycle into Yukiko Shirato, who is the head of the wealthy Shirato Group which oversees the Megalonia tournament. Junk Dog picks a fight with her bodyguard Yūri who is also the top ranked Megalo Boxer.
Yukiko stops the fight but Yūri seeks out Junk Dog and meets him in the underground ring where he easily beats the less-experienced fighter and tells him to fight him again in Megalonia, which Junk Dog would need a place at the top of the official Megalo Box rankings to qualify for, as well as a proper citizenship ID to enter the rankings in the first place.
After Nanbu persuades the mob boss Fujimaki to forge Junk Dog an ID under the name Joe, the two are given 3 months to achieve their goal of working their way to the top of the Megalo Box rankings in order to have a chance of fighting in Megalonia.
▍Staff and Production
Original Work: Asao Takamori & Tetsuya Chiba’s “Ashita no Joe” [Kodansha]
Director & Concept Design: Yō Moriyama (森山 洋)
Script: atsuhiko Manabe (真辺克彦), Kensaku Kojima(小嶋健作)
Character Design: Ayumi Kurashima (倉島亜由美)
Sub Character Design: Naomi Kaneda (金田尚美)
Gear Design: Ippei Gyoubu (形部一平)
Art Director: Jirou Kouno (河野次郎)
Assistant Art Director: Tooru Koga (古賀 徹)
Background Art: Studio Uni
Color Design: Ritsuko Utagawa (歌川律子)
Director of Photography: Emi Akao (赤尾英美)
Photography: T2 Studio
Editing: Daisuke Imai (今井大介)
Sound Director: Keiichiro Miyoshi (三好慶一郎)
Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi (倉橋裕宗)
Sound Production: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Music: mabanua
Animation: TMS Entertainment
Opening Theme Song: “The theme of the NOMAD” (Composed by mabanua)
Ending Theme Song: “El Canto del Colibrí”/ mabanua) (Composed by mabanua)
▍Cast
■ Joe/Junk Dog – CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya (細谷 佳正)
■ Gansaku Nanbu (南部贋作) – CV: Shirō Saitō (斎藤 志郎)
■ Sachio (サチオ) – CV: Michiyo Murase (村瀬 迪与)
■ Yūri (勇利) – CV: Hiroki Yasumoto (安元 洋貴)
■ Mack (マック) – CV: Atsushi Miyauchi (宮内敦士)
■ Sakuma (佐久間) – CV: Chikahiro Kobayashi (小林親弘)
■ Yukiko Shirato (白都ゆき子) – CV: Nanako Mori (森なな子)
■ Mikio Shirato (白都樹生) – CV: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (鈴木達央)
■ Aragaki (アラガキ) – CV: Makoto Tamura (田村 真)
■ Bonjiri (ボンジリ) – CV: Fukushi Ochiai (落合福嗣)
■ Santa (サンタ) – CV: Noriaki Kanze (観世智顕)
■ Oicho (オイチョ) – CV: Mitsuho Kambe (神戸光歩)
■ Chief (チーフ) – CV: Miou Tanaka (田中美央)
■ Marla (マーラ) – CV: Farahnaz Nikray (ニケライ ファラナーゼ)
■ Mio (ミオ) – CV: Yumi Hino (日野佑美)
■ Ryū (リュウ) – CV: Masaya Fukunishi (福西勝也)