Anime platform Oshi announced that the anime adaptation of Takumi Yanai’s GATE: The Self-Defense Forces Fight Like This in Another Land (Gate: Jiei-tai Ka no Chi ni te, Kaku Tatakaeri) novel will be returning for its second season. The new season, titled GATE 2: Tides of Conflict, will be based on Takumi’s Season 2 novels.
The staff of the anime include:
- Director: Toru Takahashi
- Series Script: Tatsuhiko Urahata
- Character Design: Shigeru Fujita
- Animation Production: Studio M2
- Production Cooperation: GENCO
Takumi Yanai first released the novel in 2006 and 2009 on the Arcadia platform, before AlphaPolis picked it up in 2010. Alphapolis successfully published it in print in five volumes and five side story volumes from 2010 to 2015. It then went on to inspire an anime adaptation, which ran for two cours, airing in 2015 and 2016. Fans can watch the anime on Crunchyroll.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series via My Anime List:
Captain Gorou Edajima, a seasoned captain who has visited various countries in the Special Region on a research mission, and Master Cook Petty Officer, 1st Class Hajime Tokushima, were given a special mission: to rescue an American journalist kidnapped in the Special Region.
Aboard an Oyashio-class attack submarine, they set out onto the seas of the Special Region, but little did they know their mission would lead them headfirst into a whirlpool of petty rulers and pirates vying for control in the Blue Sea.
