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One-Punch Man Season 3 Anime Reveals 2nd Promo Video
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The staff for the anime based on ONE and Yūsuke Murata's One Punch Man manga revealed a second promotional video on Friday for the show's third season.
The third season will premiere on October 5 at 11:45 p.m. JST (10:45 a.m. EDT) on the TV Tokyo, TV Hokkaido, TV Aichi, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TV Kyushu channels. The overall 25th episode of the anime, the first episode in the third season, will air on October 12.
Viz Media acquired the theatrical, television, digital, home entertainment, ancillary, and merchandise rights for the third season across North America, Latin America, and Oceania. Hulu will stream the series. Crunchyroll will stream the anime in Europe and the Middle East in fall.
J.C. Staff is returning from the second season to animate the series. Madhouse animated the first season.
Shinpei Nagai (Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san, DOGEZA: I Tried Asking While Kowtowing.) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Tomohiro Suzuki returns from previous seasons of the anime for series composition. Chikashi Kubota also returns from previous seasons as character designer, but this time alongside Shinjiro Kuroda and Ryōsuke Shirakawa. Sakura Murakami is now the art director (Murakami previously worked on background art for the second season, with Shigemi Ikeda and Yukiko Maruyama previously credited as art directors for the second season). Mayumi Tanahashi returns as color designer from the second season. Yuki Hirose is now the director of photography (replacing Yoshio Ōkouchi from the previous season). Masahiro Gotō, Yoshikazu Iwanami, and Makoto Miyazaki all return from the second season as editor, sound director, and music composer, respectively.
JAM Project with metal group BABYMETAL perform the opening theme song "Get No Satisfied!," and Makoto Furukawa performs the ending theme song "Soko ni Aru Akari" ("The Light, That's There").
The first anime season aired in Japan from October to December 2015.
The second season began with a television special in April 2019, then the first episode premiered one week later.
Source: Press release
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