On the official site for the second season of the anime adaptation of the light novels written by daisuke aizawa and illustrated by Touzai, The Eminence in Shadow (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!), a new promotional video and visual for the project was revealed. The video confirms that The premiere of this long-awaited sequel is scheduled for October 4 in Japan. and shows a snippet of the opening theme titled “Grayscale Dominator” and performed by OxT.
This season will have a total of 12 episodes, while the platform HIDIVE will be in charge of the distribution of this sequel in the West.
The first season premiered during the season of Autumn-2022 (October-December) and was confirmed with a total of twenty episodes, while the platform HIDIVE is in charge of its distribution in the West. Aizawa and Touzai began publishing the light novels through the publisher kadokawa in November 2018, with a manga adaptation by Anri Sakano getting published in the magazine Monthly Comp Ace since December 2018.
Production team
- kazuya nakanishi (Darwin’s Game) was in charge of directing the first season at the studios nexus (Darwin’s Game, Grandbelm).
- Makoto Iino (Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town, Demon Lord, Retry!) handled the character designs for the first season.
- Kanichi Katō (Black Clover, Those Snow White Notes) was in charge of writing and supervising the scripts in the first season.
- Kenichiro Suehiro (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu, Enen no Shouboutai, Goblin Slayer) was in charge of the composition of the soundtrack in the first season.
Synopsis for The Eminence in Shadow
For as long as he can remember, Minoru Kagenou has been obsessed with becoming as strong as possible, which has led him to undergo all kinds of rigorous training. However, this desire is not born out of a desire to be recognized by others, rather Minoru tries his best to blend in with the crowd. So while during the day he pretends to be an ordinary student, at night he arms himself with a crowbar and mercilessly beats up the local biker gangs. However, when Minoru is in a truck accident, his ambitions seem to suddenly end. In his last moments, he laments his helplessness: no matter how much he trained, there was nothing he could do to overcome his human limitations.
But instead of dying, Minoru awakens as Cid, the second son of the noble Kagenou family, in another world where magic is commonplace. With the power he so desired finally within his grasp, he calls himself “Shadow” and founds Shadow Garden: a group whose sole purpose is to combat the enigmatic Cult of Diablos, an organization born from Cid’s imagination. However, as the Shadow Garden grows in both membership and influence, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Cult of Diablos is not as fictional as Cid made it out to be.
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