Kadokawa has announced Saga of Tanya the Evil II, the second season of the TV anime adaptation of Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki’s light novel series, will premiere on July 8. Saga of Tanya the Evil II will receive a mini-anime series, and the main anime’s opening and ending theme songs were revealed alongside a new key visual.
MYTH&ROID performs the opening theme song “Why? RED induction,” and Aoi Yūki performs the ending theme song “Weiter! Weiter!” while portraying character Tanya Degurechaff. The ending theme song has lyrics by hotaru, along with music and arrangement by Masayuki Nakano (THE SPELLBOUND/BOOM BOOM SATELLITES).
Saga of Tanya the Evil II premieres on July 8 at 9:30 p.m. JST on AT-X, and the anime will air on the Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, BS11, and TV Aichi channels as well. The Kadokawa Anime Channel on YouTube will be streaming the “Yōjo Shenki 2 (The Shaga [sic] of Tanya the Evil 2)” mini-anime after each main episode airs.
Takayuki Yamamoto is the new director of Saga of Tanya the Evil II at studio NUT. Kenta Ihara returns to write and oversee the series scripts. Yuji Hosogoe returns as the character designer and chief animation director. The cast of the anime includes:
- Aoi Yūki as Tanya Degurechaff
- Saori Hayami as Visha
- Shinichirō Miki as Rerugen
- Tesshō Genda as Rudersdorf
- Hōchū Ōtsuka as Zettour
- Tomokazu Sugita as Mikel
- Yōko Hikasa as Lilya
The first season of Saga of Tanya the Evil is streaming on Crunchyroll. Zen and Shinotsuki launched the novel series in 2013, and Kadokawa publishes the series digitally and in print. Chika Tōjo launched the manga in Monthly Comp Ace in 2016. Yen Press licenses both the light novel series and manga adaptation. Lastly, here’s an overview of the series, via Yen Press:
High above the blood- and mud-soaked trenches, a young girl pits herself against army mages in high stakes aerial duels with bullets, spells, and bayonets. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff and she is the Devil of the Rhine, one of the greatest soldiers the Empire has ever seen! But inside her mind lives a ruthless, calculating ex-salaryman who enjoyed a peaceful life in Japan until he woke up in a war-torn world. Reborn as a destitute orphaned girl with nothing to her name but memories of a previous life, Tanya will do whatever it takes to survive, even if she can find it only behind the barrel of a gun!
