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The Morose Mononokean TV Anime Gets 2nd Season

The official website for the television anime of Kiri Wazawa's The Morose Mononokean (Fukigen na Mononokean) manga revealed on Friday that a second season has been green-lit. Itsuro Kawasaki (Magical Girl Ore, Rental Magica, Shining Hearts, Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION) will direct the season at Pierrot Plus. Takao Yoshioka (Ikki Tousen, High School DxD, Your Lie in April) is returning to handle series composition.

Yūki Kaji and Tomoaki Maeno will reprise their roles as Hanae Ashiya and Haruitsuki Abeno, respectively.

The first television anime season premiered in 2016, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. Funimation released the series on home video this past January. Crunchyroll describes the anime:

"Exorcism" is the art of sending yokai who have somehow wandered into the living world back into the underworld, where they belong.

One day Hanae Ashiya, a high school student who's been haunted by a yokai, happens to find the contact information of an exorcist called the "Mononokean" and pays him a visit. The exorcist he meets is a morose-looking young man, Haruitsuki Abeno, and for various reasons Ashiya ends up working for the Mononokean...

And so the story of the exorcist duo Ashiya and Abeno, and the yokai they meet in their adventures, begins.

Akira Iwanaga (Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls, Isuca) directed the first season at Pierrot Plus. Atsuko Kageyama designed the characters, and Yasuharu Takanishi (Fairy Tail, Log Horizon, Boruto -Naruto the Movie-) composed the music.

Wazawa launched the manga in Square Enix's Gangan Online web manga site in 2013, and the 11th compiled book volume shipped on Friday. Crunchyroll is publishing Wazawa's original manga digitally in English.

A stage play adaptation of the manga ran at the Akasaka Red Theater in Tokyo in September 2016.

Sources: The Morose Mononokean anime's website, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, Comic Natalie