The official website of the Ao Ashi (Aoashi) television anime series revealed on Saturday five additional cast, new key visual (pictured), and theme song artists for the second cours. The series premiered on April 9 at 6:25 p.m. on NHK E-Tele.

Cast
Akinori Kaneda: Takuya Eguchi (Spy x Family)
Junnosuke Nakano: Koutarou Nishiyama (Re-Main)
Chiaki Mutou: Yuuki Ono (Beastars)
Kouji Satake: Tomoaki Maeno (Hataraku Saibou)
Miyako Tachibana: Kei Shindou (Boku no Hero Academia)

Musical unit Superfly (Promare) is performing the second cours' opening "Presence." J-rock band Kami wa Saikoro wo Furanai (World Trigger 2nd Season) will perform the ending theme "Color Lily no Koibumi."

Akira Satou (Release the Spyce) is directing the anime at Production I.G and Masahiro Yokotani (Free!) is handling the series composition. Masaru Yokoyama (Taisou Zamurai) is composing the music.

Manabu Nakatake (Sket Dance), Toshie Kawamura (Lord of Vermilion: Guren no Ou), Asuka Yamaguchi (The God of High School sub-character design), and Saki Hasegawa (Shin Chuuka Ichiban!) are designing the characters.

The series adapts Yuugo Kobayashi's sports manga, which is based on Naohiko Ueno's original draft and began serializing in Big Comic Spirits in January 2015. Shogakukan shipped the 28th volume on May 30.

Source: Comic Natalie