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Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- Season 2's Video Reveals More Cast, Theme Songs, January 8 Debut

The official website for the television anime of Kei Azumi's "alternate-world social reform fantasy" novel series Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- (Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Dōchū) began streaming the second promotional video for the anime's second season on Wednesday. The video reveals two new cast members, the theme songs' artists, and the January 8 premiere for the season. The vide previews the season's opening theme song "Utopia" by returning singer Keina Suda.

Cast member Kent Itō will perform the anime's ending theme song "My Factor" as his first anime tie-in song.

The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX and BS NTV on January 8 at 11:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EST), and on MBS on January 9.

The new cast members include:

Other new cast members for the second season include:

• Ai Kakuma as Hibiki Otonashi
• Ami Koshimizu as Navarre Polar
• Yuji Murai as Woody Baila
• Chiharu Sawashiro as Belda Nortst Limia
• Nao Tamura as Chiya Hazuki
• Ryohei Arai as Tomoki Iwahashi
• Mai Nakahara as Lily Front Gritonia
• Sayumi Watabe as Guinevere Shlesha
• Ami Tsukishiro as Mora
• Natsue Sasamoto as Yukinatsu Kazusa
• Yūki Shin as Jin Rohan
• Yurie Kozakai as Abelia Hopleys
• Shinsuke Sugawara as Mizra Cazper
• Tatsumaru Tachibana as Izumo Ikusabe
• Tomohiro Yamaguchi as Daena Severus
• Yumiri Hanamori as Sif Rembrandt
• Nene Hieda as Yuno Rembrandt
• Kent Itō as Ilumgand Hopleys
• Shiori Izawa as Eva Aensland
• Yūki Hirose as Luria Aensland

Shinji Ishihira (Fairy Tail, Log Horizon, Super Lovers) returns as director, with Kenta Ihara (Saga of Tanya the Evil, Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter) again in charge of series composition. Yukie Suzuki (Fight League: Gear Gadget Generators) is once again drawing the character designs. Yasuharu Takanashi (Fairy Tail, Log Horizon, Super Lovers) is again composing the music.

The first season premiered in July 2021. The anime was the first for NTV's then-newly established Anime Department.

NTV describes the anime:

Makoto Misumi is just an ordinary high school student living a regular life, but all of a sudden gets summoned to the other world to become a "hero." The goddess of the other world, however, insults him for being different and strips his "hero" title, before casting him off to the wilderness at the edge of the world. As he wanders the wilderness, Makoto encounters dragons, spiders, orcs, dwarves, and all sorts of non-human tribes. Because Makoto comes from a different world, he is able to unleash unimaginable magical powers and combat skills. But just how will he handle his encounters with various species and survive in his new environment. In this fantasy, Makoto tries to transform the other world into a better place despite the humans and gods having turned their backs on him.

NTV secured distribution of the anime worldwide outside of Asia through Crunchyroll. The company also secured key sales for distribution of the anime in Asia through MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One Asia streaming channel and the Aniplus-Asia television channel. The anime will debut through these distributors (in addition to Crunchyroll) in South Korea (Aniplus-Asia) and in Southeast Asia (Ani-One Asia) "shortly after [the anime's] broadcast in Japan." Between the three distributors, the platforms will distribute the anime in more than 200 countries and territories.

Azumi launched the novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2012, and AlphaPolis published the 18th print volume with illustrations by Mitsuaki Matsumoto in August 2022. The series has 1.4 million copies in circulation. Kotora Kino started serializing a manga adaptation in 2016, and AlphaPolis published the 12th volume on July 21.

Sources: Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- anime's website, Comic Natalie