Pony Canyon just released the first trailer and the January 2026 premiere of the second season of the anime adaptation of Takahiro and artist Yōhei Takemura’s Chained Soldier manga.
Check out the trailer below:
Masafumi Tamura is now directing the Chained Soldier anime at studio Passione and Hayabusa Film. Keiya Nakano is handling the character design, while Kohta Yamamoto handles the music. Yasuhiro Nakanishi, Ohine Ezaki, Takahiro Nagase, and Kyōta Kanō are the scriptwriters.
Additional staff includes:
- Series Composition: Yasuhiro Nakanishi
- Concept Composite: Junpei Takatsu
- Art Director: Shino Ohara
- Color Design: Sakie Suzuki
- Assistant Color Designer: Mai Kabatani
- Director of Photography: Kōji Hayashi
- CG Director: Takayuki Taba (SANZIGEN)
- Editor: Ayako Tan
- Sound Director: Chikako Yokota
- Sound Production: Dax Production
Kana Hanazawa will play Ren Yamashiro.
Takahiro and Takemura released the Chained Soldier manga on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ manga website in January 2019. The anime’s first season premiered in Japan in January 2024, consisting of 12 episodes. Fans can watch the anime in English or Japanese on HIDIVE.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the anime, via HIDIVE:
Two supernatural forces appeared simultaneously on Earth: entrances to another dimension known as Mato and Peaches, resources that give unique abilities to women. From the Mato come Yomotsu Shuuki, dangerous monsters that leave destruction in their wake. The government’s Anti-demon Corps stands against these creatures, employing women empowered by Peaches to face the monstrous threat.
Yuuki Wakura watches these forces clash from a distance, but when he unexpectedly runs afoul of a Yomotsu Shuuki, he’s rescued by Kyouka Uzen, the chief of the Seventh Unit of the Anti-demon Corp—and she sees something in him that could turn the tide of the monster incursion. Yuki holds the unique power to make Peaches more effective, but he’ll have to become Kyoka’s willing slave to join the fight against the Yomotsu Shuuki and save the world.
