The official website of the Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e (Classroom of the Elite) anime series revealed on Monday a pair of additional cast, new key visual (pictured), and a promotional video for the second season. The anime is scheduled to premiere on July 4 at 9:00 p.m. on AT-X, followed by Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, and BS NTV.

Souma Saitou (Yuukoku no Moriarty) and Rie Takahashi (Kanojo mo Kanojo) are joining the cast as Miyabi Nagumo and Hiyori Shiina, respectively.

Staff
Art Director: Hirofune Hane (Kanata no Astra)
Art Design: Miku Nagaike (Happy Sugar Life background art) NEW, Satoru Hirayanagi (Death Parade) NEW
Color Design: Hiroaki Kaguchi (Given)
CG Director: Tomohiro Hirayama (Long Riders! 3DCG) NEW
Director of Photography: Naoki Serizawa (Idoly Pride) NEW
Editing: Yukie Oikawa (Kuzu no Honkai) NEW
Sound Effects: Ijou Okuda (Kengan Ashura)

Note: The staff list includes members that have previously worked on the first season. The new members are denoted with legend NEW.

Singer-songwriter ZAQ is returning to perform the second season's opening theme "Dance In The Game," which is previewed in the promotional video below. Voice actress Mai Fuchigami (Girls & Panzer) is performing the ending theme "Hito Jibai."

Yoshihito Nishouji (Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun assistant director) helms the second season at Lerche with chief directors Seiji Kishi (Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e) and Hiroyuki Hashimoto (Slow Start). Hayato Kazano is handling the series composition and Kazuaki Morita (Tsuki ga Kirei) is designing the characters. Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya) and Kana Hashiguchi (Black Fox) are composing the music.

The series adapts Shougo Kinugasa's school psychological light novel, which is released under the MF Bunko J imprint, and features illustrations by Shunsaku Tomose (Ange Vierge). The first light novel series was released in 14 volumes between May 2015 and September 2019. Kinugasa launched a sequel light novel the following January. Kadokawa published the seventh volume on June 24.

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Source: Comic Natalie