The official website for the
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Zoku
sequel anime
announced
on Sunday that
Nagi Yanagi
will return to perform the anime's opening theme song. Yanagi performed the opening for the first season as well.
The website's published comment from Yanagi also lists that music unit ROUND TABLE's
Katsutoshi Kitagawa
will collaborate with Yanagi to create the song.
The cast will star (seen left to right)
Saori Hayami
as Yukino Yukinoshita,
Nao T?yama
as Yui Yuigahama,
Takuya Eguchi
as Hachiman Hikigaya, and
Ayane Sakura
as Kaori Isshiki.
The cast will also star:
Kei Oikawa
(
Outbreak Company
,
Minami-ke: Okaeri
) will replace
Ai Yoshimura
as director in the second season, and
Y?ichi Tanaka
(
A Certain Scientific Railgun
,
Natsu-iro Kiseki
) will replace
Yuu Shindou
as the anime character designer. The animation production will move from
Brains Base
to studio feel., but Shotaro Suga is returning to series composition.
MONACA
will again be in charge of music and
Satoshi Motoyama
will again serve as sound director.
The anime will premiere in April.
The romantic comedy revolves around an antisocial high school student named Hachiman Hikigaya with a distorted view on life and no friends or girlfriend. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about living their adolescent lives, he mutters, "They're a bunch of liars." When he is asked about his future dreams, he responds, "Not working." A teacher gets Hachiman to join the volunteer "service club," which happens to have the school's prettiest girl, Yukino Yukinoshita.
Crunchyroll
streamed
the first anime season as it aired in Japan in 2013.
Wataru Watari
's original light novels also received a video game
adaptation
and a tie-in original video anime the same year. The novel series with illustrations by
Ponkan8
topped
the annual
Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!
(This Light Novel is Amazing!) rankings for 2013 and 2014.
[Via
Ota-suke
]