The official website of the Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (The Rising of the Shield Hero) anime series announced on Friday that the second season will premiere in 2021. The website also revealed the first key visual (pictured), the first promotional video, and new production staff.

Masato Jinbo (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei!) is directing the second season at Kinema Citrus and South Korean animation studio DR Movie, replacing Takao Abo. Scriptwriter Keigo Koyanagi (Sirius), character designer Masahiro Suwa (Hitsugi no Chaika), and music composer Kevin Penkin (Kami no Tou) are returning from the first season.

Staff
Design Leader: Takeshi Takakura (Black Bullet mechanical design)
Prop Design: Ryou Hirata (Kakushigoto), Mikio (Himote House Twitter illustration)
Costume Design: Kahoru Fujiki (Sarazanmai key animation)
Art Director: Masaru Satou (Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited)
Art Design: Naomi Ogura (Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-hen)
Color Design: Aiko Matsuyama (Gakusen Toshi Asterisk)
3DCG Director: Hiroshi Gou (Moonlight Mile 2nd Season: Touch Down)
3DCG: ENGI, GOES
2D Artist: hydekick

The first anime season produced by Kineta Citrus aired in two cours between Winter and Summer 2019, covering the first five volumes and the beginning of the sixth volume. Crunchyroll—who participated in the anime's production committee—simulcast the show with subtitles. Funimation subsequently streamed an English dub.

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari adapts Yusagi Aneko's adventure fantasy light novel of the same title, which originally launched on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in October 2012. Kadokawa began printing the novel with illustrations by Seira Minami the following August. The novel reached a cumulative circulation of 7.8 million copies with the release of the 22nd volume on June 25 last year.

Comic Flapper began serializing a manga adaptation by Kyu Aiya in February 2014. Kadokawa shipped the 16th volume on July 20.

One Peace Books licensed both the light novel and manga in English in 2015. The 17th light novel volume and the 14th manga volume shipped on July 14 and September 8, respectively.

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Source: Repotama!