First Visual for Chained Soldier Season 2 Released
The staff and first key visual for the second season of Chained Soldier have been released at AnimeJapan 2025.The anime will premiere in 2026.
The second season of Chained Soldier will be directed by Masafumi Tamura at Passione and Hayabusa Film, taking over from the first season's Studio Seven Arcs. The full key staff include:
- Director: Masafumi Tamura
- Series Composition: Yasuhiro Nakanishi
- Script: Yasuhiro Nakanishi, Ohine Ezaki, Takahiro Nagase, Keita Kano
- Character Design: Keiya Nakano
- Art Director: Shino Ohara
- Music: KOHTA YAMAMOTO
The main cast comprises:
- Akari Kito/Roxanna George as Kyoka Uzen
- Yume Miyamoto/Natalie Rial as Himari Azuma
- Mari Hino/Juliet Simmons as Shushu Suruga
- Yuya Hirose/Gabriel Regojo as Yuki Wakura
- Kana Hanazawa as Ren Yamashiro
- Hina Tachibana/Kristen McGuire as Nei Okawamura
- Maaya Uchida/Kelly Greenshield as Tenka Izumo
- Mako Morino as Shikoku
- Tomori Kusunoki/Karlii Hoch as Aoba Wakura
- Nene Hieda/Margaret McDonald as Yachiyo Azuma
- Rina Hidaka as Naon Yuno
A teaser trailer for Season 2 was also released last year:
Chained Soldier is an adaptation of the manga series written by Akame Ga Kill's author, Takahiro, with illustrations by Yohei Takemura. The manga has been serialized on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ online platform since January 2019, and collected in 17 tankobon volumes.
Yen Press publishes the manga in English, and they describe the story:
Decades ago, gates to an otherworldly and dangerous dimension known as Mato—the “Demon City”—appeared across Japan. Those who partook in the “peaches” growing there gained unique abilities—but only if they’re girls. When down-in-the-dumps high school boy Yuuki Wakura finds himself caught up in a gate, he’s saved by Kyouka Uzen, the beautiful commander of the 7th squad of the Demon Defense Force, who…orders him to become her slave
Source: Official Website
© Takahiro/Yohei Takemura/Shueisha/Magic Defense Corps Public Relations Department