The staff of Ace of Diamond Act II Second Season Part 2 confirmed that the anime will premiere on October 11. The anime is based on Yūji Terajima’s manga and will feature a new character played by Daisuke Sakuma.
Sakuma will play Inashiro High School student Shinichiro Saotome. The announcement also included a new key visual:
Ace of Diamond Act II Second Season premiered on April 5 on AT-X and TV Tokyo, along with affiliate channels. Netflix is also streaming it in Japan, and Crunchyroll streams the anime outside Japan.
Baby Canta performed the first opening theme song “Let’s Go Crazy,” and SUPER★DRAGON performed the first ending theme song “Number.” For the second part, Glay will perform the opening theme song, and OxT will perform the ending theme song.
The anime’s cast includes:
- Ryota Ohsaka as Eijun Sawamura
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Satoru Furuya
- Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Miyuki
- Yūma Uchida as Kōshū Okumura
- Shintarō Asanuma as Yōichi Kuramochi
- Natsuki Hanae as Haruichi Kominato
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yūki Masashi
- Daiki Yamashita as Takuma Seto
- Ayumu Murase as Kaoru Yui
- Tasuku Hatanaka as Hirofumi Asada
- Daisuke Ono as Masamune Hongō
- Junichi Suwabe as Enjō Renji
- Ayane Sakura as Yoshikawa Haruno
- Yūichirō Umehara as Sōichirō Mima
- Jun Fukushima as Kazuto Kōtari
- Shūgo Nakamura as Kōya Urabe
- Atsushi Tamaru as Sōichi Yagira
- Kento Hama as Kōji Nara
- Toshiya Miyata (Kis-My-Ft2) as Koji Chimaru
Hideaki Ōba is the director at OLM. Kenji Konuta oversees the series scripts, Yasukazu Shōji is the character designer, and Hajime Hyakkoku is the music composer.
Yūji Terajima released the original Ace of Diamond manga in 2006. An anime adaptation for the series released in 2015. The first season of Ace of Diamond Act II aired in 2019. The full anime is available to watch on Crunchyroll.
Crunchyroll describes the Ace of Diamond anime series as follows:
The Seido baseball club has been invited to the spring invitational at the hallowed Koshien Stadium. Sawamura will finally stand on the mound! Standing between Seido and the national title are the winners of last year’s summer tournament Komadai Fujimaki and their unstoppable ace Masamune Hongo. Can Seido triumph over Komadai? It’s the start of another heated battle in youth baseball!
