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K: Return of Kings (TV)

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Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In modern Japan there are seven "Kings" who share power with their fellow clansmen. The Blue King Reishi Munakata, the leader of the Blue Clan "Scepter 4," held great responsibilities on his back. The tower that Gold King Daikaku Kokujōji supervised called the "Dresden Slate" was still on his mind, and he felt a great burden by killing the previous Red King, Mikoto Suoh. On the other hand, the former Red Clan "HOMRA" clansman Anna Kushina experienced the attacks from the Green Clan "Jungle" and awakened as the next Red King. By doing this, she bound her comrades through a strong bond once again. Finally, White Clan members Neko and Kuroh believe that the White King Yashiro is still alive, and seek his whereabouts. However, it was not just them searching for the White King. With "Jungle" once again jumping back into action, the fates of the various Kings are brought together.
User Ratings: 223 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 13 votes (sub:11, dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 24 votes (sub:16, dub:3, raw:1, others:4
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Very good: 71 votes (sub:60, dub:9, others:2
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 52 votes (sub:47, dub:4, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 24 votes (sub:21, dub:3)
 So-so: 16 votes (sub:15, others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 450 users, rank: #2320 (of 10140)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.014 (Good), std. dev.: 1.9327, rank: #3806 (of 10325)
Weighted mean: 6.978 (Good), rank: #4046 (of 10325) (seen all: 7.38 / seen some: 3.43 / won't finish: 3.96)
Bayesian estimate: 7.005 (Good), rank: #3544 (of 7760)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2015-10-02
Opening Theme:
"Asymmetry" by Yui Horie
Ending Theme:
"Solution" by CustomiZ
Official website:
「K」第二期 オフィシャルサイト (Japanese)
Reviews: Show:
K: Return of Kings BD/DVD (Sep 27, 2017)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 13 (Dec 26, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 12 (Dec 19, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 11 (Dec 12, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 10 (Dec 4, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 9 (Nov 28, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 8 (Nov 21, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 7 (Nov 15, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 6 (Nov 7, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 5 (Oct 31, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episode 4 (Oct 24, 2015)
K: Return of Kings (Oct 17, 2015)
K: Return of Kings ‒ Episodes 1-3 (Oct 17, 2015)
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Anime Limited Q3 Titles Listed on Amazon (May 7, 2018)
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North American Anime, Manga Releases, July 16-22 (Jul 18, 2017)
Yuri!!! on Ice Voted as Tokyo Anime Awards' Animation of the Year (Feb 22, 2017)
Haruta Shiota's K: Return of Kings Manga Ends in February (Jan 20, 2017)
K Project Gets New Anime, Stage Play, Dance Performance (Apr 30, 2016)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, March 14-20 (Mar 22, 2016)
Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, March 7-13 (Mar 15, 2016)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, March 7-13 (Mar 15, 2016)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, February 15-21 (Feb 23, 2016)
Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, February 8-14 (Feb 16, 2016)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, February 8-14 (Feb 16, 2016)
Free Anime in Australia: 1/February - 7/February (Feb 1, 2016)
Free Anime in Australia: 25/January - 31/January (Jan 25, 2016)
Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, January 11-17 (Jan 19, 2016)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, January 11-17 (Jan 19, 2016)
Director's Cut of K: Return of Kings' Final Episode Adds Unaired Scene (Dec 26, 2015)
Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, December 7-13 (Dec 15, 2015)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, December 7-13 (Dec 15, 2015)
Free Anime in Australia: 7/December - 13/December (Dec 7, 2015)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, November 16-22 (Nov 24, 2015)
Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, November 9-15 (Nov 24, 2015)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, November 9-15 (Nov 24, 2015)
Free Anime in Australia: 2/November - 8/November (Nov 2, 2015)
Japan's Animation TV Ranking, September 28-October 4 (Oct 9, 2015)
Free Anime in Australia: 5/October - 11/October (Oct 5, 2015)
Hulu, Neon Alley Stream K: Return of Kings TV Anime (Oct 3, 2015)
AnimeLab announces First Three Titles of Fall Simulcast Season (Oct 2, 2015)
Viewster Adds Comet Lucifer (Oct 1, 2015)
Animax Asia to Start Airing K: Return of Kings TV Anime on Saturday (Sep 28, 2015)
Anime Limited Acquires Assasination Classroom and New K (Sep 27, 2015)
Animax Asia Site Starts Countdown for New October Show (Sep 14, 2015)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, August 24-30 (Sep 1, 2015)
K: Return of Kings TV Anime Gets Manga Adaptation (Aug 15, 2015)
Yui Horie, CustomiZ to Perform K: Return of Kings Theme Songs (Aug 13, 2015)
Viz Media Adds K: Missing Kings Film, K: Return of Kings 2nd Season (Jul 2, 2015)
Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, June 22-28 (Jun 30, 2015)
K Return of Kings TV Anime Casts Rie Kugimiya, Houchu Ohtsuka (Jun 11, 2015)
K Anime Season 2's 4th Teaser Video Features the Silver King (May 11, 2015)
3rd Teaser for K Anime's 2nd Season Reveals Title, October Debut (Apr 11, 2015)
New Teaser For 2nd K TV Anime Reveals Mikoto (Mar 11, 2015)
K Anime's 2nd TV Season to Premiere This Fall (Feb 11, 2015)
K Anime Project Gets Sequel in 2015 (Oct 18, 2014)
Interest:
K: Return of Kings Gets 100 Days of Visuals Campaign (Jun 25, 2015)
Press Releases:
Viz Media Delivers Fresh Digital Anime Content and New Simulcast for Neon Alley November Update (Nov 4, 2015)
Watch the “Jungle” Come Back to Life With K: Return of Kings, Same-Day-as-Japan on Animax! (Sep 28, 2015)
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Blu-ray + DVD combo
    K: Return of Kings (BD+DVD) 2017-07-18 (from $43.13)
DVD (Region 1)
    K: Return of Kings (DVD) 2017-07-18 (from $22.83)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Director: Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director: Shingo Suzuki
Series Composition: GoRA
Storyboard: Shingo Suzuki (OP, ED; eps 1-2, 4-13)
Music: Mikio Endo
Original creator: GoRA
Character Design: Shingo Suzuki
Art Director: Ken Naitō
Chief Animation Director: Makoto Furuta
Animation Director: Shingo Suzuki (OP, ED; eps 1-4, 8-11)
Mechanical design: Hiroshi Ōkubo
Art design: Shingo Suzuki
Sound Director: Chikako Yokota
Cgi Director: Takanori Kikuchi
Director of Photography: Yuichiro Tozawa

Background Art:
Scott MacDonald
Tomoyasu Hosoi (STUDIO TULIP; eps 12-13)
Chief animator:
Hiroshi Ōkubo
Naoki Okada
Takayuki Uchida
Color Key: Tomoko Saitō
Editing: Ayako Tan
In-Between Animation:
Eri Tateishi (GoHands; eps 1, 4-13)
Miho Hosomura (GoHands; eps 4-11)
Seijin Nakano (GoHands; Miscredited as 中野誠 for eps 7 & 9; eps 1-13)
Key Animation: Shingo Suzuki (GoHands; eps 10, 12-13)
Photography: Yoshiki Obata (Graphinica; eps 1, 4)
Prop Designer: Takahiro Kishida
Sound Effects: Naoto Yamatani
Theme Song Lyrics: angela (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
CustomiZ (ED)
Yui Horie (OP)
Daisuke Namikawa as Yashiro Isana
Daisuke Ono as Kuroh Yatogami
Mikako Komatsu as Neko

Hōchū Ōtsuka as Tenkei Iwafune
Jun Fukuyama as Misaki Yata
Kazuyuki Okitsu as Nagare Hisui
Kenjirō Tsuda as Mikoto Suoh
Mamoru Miyano as Saruhiko Fushimi
Masakazu Morita as Yukari Mishakuji
Miyuki Sawashiro as Seri Awashima
Rie Kugimiya as Sukuna Shijō
Takahiro Sakurai as Izumo Kusanagi
Tomokazu Sugita as Reisi Munakata
Yui Horie as Anna Kushina

Aya Saitō as Female Student (ep 3)
Daigo Fujimaki as Green Landsman (ep 9)
Daisuke Ono as Akira Hidaka
Hiro Shimono as
Jumpy (ep 1)
Kotosaka
Ryuho Kamo (eps 5, 12)
Hironori Saitō as
Shohei Akagi (eps 1, 8, 12-13)
Tatsuya Enomoto (eps 6-7, 11)
Junichi Yanagita as
Daiki Fuse (ep 11)
Green Landsman (ep 9)
Member (eps 4, 7)
Saburota Bando (eps 1, 5, 8)
Kae Matoba as Venue Broadcast (ep 9)
Kanami Satou as Sumika Inaba (ep 11)
Kaori Nazuka as Dōhan Hirasaka (eps 9, 12)
Kazuki Shimizu as
Member (ep 7)
Ren Goto (ep 11)
Sota Mishina (ep 2)
Yo Chitose (eps 1, 8, 12)
Kenjirō Tsuda as Goki Zenjo
Kenshirō Usuki as Green Landsman (ep 9)
Kenta Sasa as Prime Minister (eps 5, 9-11)
Kōji Takahashi as
Eric Sult
Himori Akiyama
Miki Hase as Green Landsman (ep 9)
Saori Takamiya as Caster (ep 11)
Satomi Satō as Kukuri Yukizome
Shingo Onitsuka as
Andy Domyoji (4 episodes
eps 1, 5, 10, 12
)
Kosuke Fujishima
Member (ep 4)
Shintarō Asanuma as
Masaomi Dewa
Yujiro Benzai
Show Hayami as Ichigen Miwa (eps 4, 10)
Shōzō Iizuka as Daikaku Kokujōji (ep 4)
Yūichi Nakamura as Rikio Kamamoto
Yūki Kaji as Tatara Totsuka (eps 1-2, 10)
Yurika Aizawa as Secretary (ep 11)
Japanese companies
3DCGI: GoHands
Animation Production: GoHands
Background Art: Studio Tulip
Background Art Assistance:
E-cho
J&K Corporation
Broadcaster:
AT-X
BS-TBS
Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
Mainichi Broadcasting System
Tokyo Broadcasting System
Editing:
GoHands
Graphinica
Finish Animation:
GoHands
Jumondo
TAP
In-Between Animation:
GoHands
Jumondo
TAP
Key Animation:
Art Base Bam (eps 8-9)
GoHands (eps 1-9)
Original Work: GoHands
Photography:
GoHands
Graphinica
Production: King Records
English cast
English staff
(none)
Colleen O'Shaughnessy as Anna Kushina
Matthew Mercer as Kuroh Yatogami
Patrick Seitz as Reisi Munakata
Sam Regal as Yashiro Isana
Stephanie Sheh as Neko

Amanda C. Miller as Sukuna Gojo
Ben Diskin as Misaki Yata
Carrie Keranen as Seri Awashima
Chris Hackney as Yukari Mishakuji
Grant George as Rikio Kamamoto
Janice Roman Roku as Kukuri Yukizome
Johnny Yong Bosch as Saruhiko Fushimi
Keith Silverstein as Mikoto Suoh
Ray Chase as Tenkei Iwafune
Robbie Daymond as Nagare Hisui
Todd Haberkorn as Izumo Kusanagi

Ben Diskin as Eric Sult
Cherami Leigh as
Douhan Hirasaka
Jungle Announcer (ep 9)
Christopher Smith as
Gold Clan Member (ep 5)
Jungle Clancman (ep 3)
News Anchor (ep 9)
Ren Goto
Ryuho Kamo
Shohei Akagi
Tatsuya Enomoto
Grant George as
Akira Hidaka
Andy Domyoji
Daiki Fuse
Ichigen Miwa
Sota Mishina (ep 11)
Keith Silverstein as
Goki Zenjo
Jungle Clasman B (ep 1)
PDA Voice
Kirk Thornton as
Chopper Pilot (ep 1)
Cleaning Robots
Daikaku Kokujōji
Jungle Clasman (ep 9)
Prime Minister
Saburota Bando
Yo Chitose
Yujiro Benzai
Lucien Dodge as
Adolf K. Weissman
Contact (ep 1)
Jungle Security (ep 9)
Masaomi Dewa
Receptionist (ep 9)
Tatara Totsuka
Michelle Ruff as
Secretary (ep 11)
Sumika Inaba (ep 11)
Patrick Seitz as Jungle Clasman (ep 11)
Quinton Flynn as Kotosaka
Steve Staley as
Himori Akiyama
Jungle Clasman (ep 11)
Todd Haberkorn as Kosuke Fujishima
English companies
ADR Production: STUDIOPOLIS, Inc.
Broadcaster: Animax Asia
Internet Streaming:
AnimeLab (Australia & NZ)
Hulu
Neon Alley
Licensed by:
Anime Limited (UK & Ireland)
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Viz Media
French staff
French companies
Adaptation: Fabien LEGALLE
Distributor: KAZÉ
Internet Streaming: Anime Digital Network
French cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Licensed by: Viz Media (Latin America) 
Spanish cast
(none)
German cast
German staff
Arne Stephan as Kurou Yatogami
Nicolas Artajo as Yashiro Isana
Patricia Strasburger as Neko

Birte Baumgardt as Seri Awashima
Corinna Dörenkamp as Douhan Hirasaka
David M. Schulze as Rikio Kamamoto
Dennis Saemann as Misaki Yata
Dirk Stollberg as Tatara Totsuka
Esther Brandt as Sukuna Gojou
Heiko Obermöller as Izumo Kusanagi
Jochen Langner as Tenkei Iwafune
Julian Manuel as Nagare Hisui
Julien Haggege as Yukari Mishakuji
Louis Friedemann Thiele as Saruhiko Fushimi
Norman Matt as Reisi Munakata
Stefan Naas as Kotosaka
Tobias Brecklinghaus as Mikoto Suou
Winnie Brandes as Anna Kushina

Samira Jakobs as Kukuri Yukizome

Mayke Dähn
German companies
Distributor: KSM
Dubbing: G&G Tonstudios

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