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Sentai Filmworks Produces Dubs for BanG Dream! 2nd Season, Run With the Wind

Sentai Filmworks announced at its panel at the Anime NYC convention on Saturday that it will produce English dubs for the BanG Dream! 2nd Season and Run with the Wind anime. Both dubs are "coming soon."

BanG Dream! 2nd Season premiered on January 3. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime, and HIDIVE and Crunchyroll both streamed the series as it aired.

Koudai Kakimoto (Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko) directed the series at SANZIGEN Animation Studio (the studio replaced ISSEN and Xebec from the first season to produce the second and third anime seasons). Yuniko Ayana returned to handle series composition and the script. Kazuyuki Ueda (Kinmoza! Kiniro + Mosaic, Hinako Note) designed the characters for the anime based on Hitowa and Craft Egg's original designs.

Run with the Wind premiered in October 2018, and it ran for 23 episodes. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime, and Crunchyroll and HIDIVE streamed the series as it aired.

Kazuya Nomura (Robotics;Notes, Joker Game, Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie) directed the series at Production I.G. Shinchosha was credited with planning cooperation. Voice actor and The Kirishima Thing film scriptwriter Kohei Kiyasu both wrote and oversaw the series scripts. Takahiro Chiba (Occult Academy character designer, Haikyu!! chief animation director) designed the characters. Hideki Takahashi (Haikyu!!, Neon Genesis Evangelion) and Takashi Mukouda (Gurren Lagann, Space Dandy) were key animators. Hiromi Kikuta (Haikyu!!, Mr. Osomatsu) was the sound director, and Yuki Hayashi (DIVE!!, My Hero Academia) composed the music.

Sources: Email correspondence, Sentai Filmworks panel at Anime NYC (Christopher Macdonald)