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Date A Live II TV Anime's 3rd Promo Features sweet ARMS Song

posted on by Sarah Nelkin
Minori Chihara joins cast as Miku Izayoi/Diva for anime premiering April 11

Kadokawa began streaming the third promotional video for the Date A Live television anime's second season, Date A Live II on Monday. The video features the anime's opening theme, “Trust in you” by sweet ARMS, and it debuted at the AnimeJapan 2014 event on Saturday and Sunday.

The video also shows and updated cast list:

In addition, the video lists Kaori Sadohara as performing the anime's ending theme, “Day to story.”

Keitaro Motonaga (Getbackers, Jormungand) is returning to direct the second season at a new animation studio, Production IMS, with visual director Hisashi Saito (Haganai, Heaven's Lost Property). Hideki Shirane (Hayate the Combat Butler, Queen's Blade: Rebellion) is in charge of the series scripts, and Takaaki Suzuki (Strike Witches, Last Exile) advised on the world setting, as he has done other anime and manga. Satoshi Ishino (Excel Saga, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu) designed the characters based on Tsunako's original novel illustrations. Mika Akitaka (Martian Successor Nadesico, Galaxy Fraulein Yuna) and Yasuhiro Moriki are designing the mecha, and Go Sakabe (Gosick theme songs) will score the soundtrack with sound director Yasunori Ebina (A Certain Magical Index, Naruto) at Nippon Columbia. Glovision is producing the music.

The remaining staff is as follows:

The second season will premiere on April 11 in Japan.

The story based on Koushi Tachibana's original light novel series centers on an ordinary high school boy named Shidō Itsuka who meets a spirit girl who has been rejected by a devastated world. The girl, who Shidō names "Tohka," happens to have wiped out much of humanity 30 years ago, and now she is back. The only way to stop her is to date her.

Funimation streamed the first anime season in North America as it aired in Japan.


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