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Aniplus Asia Airs Simulcast of Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru Season 2 Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Aniplus-Asia revealed last Friday that it will air a simulcast of Zoku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru., the second season of the Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru. The simulcast premiered on Monday at 1:00 a.m. GMT +, with an encore airing on Mondays at 11:00 p.m.
The new season again follows a format where each episode is named after months of the year. The first episode, titled "First Month: I Must Get Stronger," followed the "Touken Danshi" as they plan to celebrate New Year's Eve like normal people.
Tomoaki Koshida (episode director on Polar Bear's Café, Wagnaria!!3) replaces Takashi Naoya as the director, and the writing collective WriteWorks (Record of Grancrest War; production cooperation on Kizumonogatari, Tsukimonogatari) replaces Pierre Sugiura as the series script supervisors. Junichirō Taniguchi (Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Prison School) is returning to design the characters, and Doga Kobo continues to animate for the new season.
A compilation film of the first season, titled Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Makuai Kaisōroku~ (Intermission Flashback Record), opened in Japan on December 1 and screened for two weeks.
DMM's original Touken Ranbu Online "sword personification training game" takes famous swords from Japanese history and interprets them as bishōnen. The staff describes the first season of Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru:
The year is 2205. The "historical revisionists" have begun attacks on the past in their plot to change history. The Saniwa, who have been charged with protecting history, can imbue life into objects. Strongest among these are the Touken Danshi. The story centers around their cheerful lives.
The first season of Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru premiered in October 2016, and had 12 episodes. Aniplus-Asia aired a simulcast of the anime as it aired in Japan, and also aired ufotable's separate Katsugeki! Tōken Ranbu anime based on the same franchise last July.
