The official website for the Blue Orchestra Season 2 anime announced new cast members and revealed a new key visual for the “World Junior Orchestra Competition” arc. The new arc will begin this coming January.
The new cast members for Blue Orchestra Season 2 – World Junior Orchestra Competition include:
- Sōma Saitō as Yukito Subaru
- Kengo Kawanishi as Kōhei Atsumi
- Nonoka Ōbuchi as Kaede Doi
- Takashi Matsuyama as Genraku Iwatora
- Atsushi Tamaru as Tadashi Suma
- Risa Shimizu as Kyōko Tokiwa (with Kanon Matsuda as her piano player)
World Junior Orchestra Competition Key Visual
Blue Orchestra Season 2 premiered on October 5, and the anime will air for 21 episodes on the NHK Educational channel. Seiji Kishi directs the anime at Nippon Animation. Additionally, Yuuko Kakihara writes the series scripts, and Kazuaki Morita is the character designer.
Previously announced cast members include:
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Yūsuke Sakuma
- Makoto Kaneko as Toshiki Tsutsui
- Iori Saeki as Rika Tōgane
Galileo Galilei performs the opening theme song “Amadeus,” and ChoQMay performs the ending theme song “Ao no Mahō (Blue Magic).”
Makoto Akui launched the Blue Orchestra manga series in the MANGA One app by Shogakukan in 2017. The first season of the anime series premiered on April 9, 2023 and aired for 24 episodes.
Here’s an overview of the series from publisher Elex Media, via Anime News Network:
In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono’s life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!
