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Muse Asia Licenses The Detective Is Already Dead Season 2 Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Muse Asia announced last Friday that it has licensed the second television anime season based on Nigojū and Umibōzu's The Detective Is Already Dead (Tantei wa Mō, Shindeiru.) light novel series and will begin streamming it in October.
The anime will debut in Japan on October 7.
The anime's second season was first announced in July 2022. Kadokawa previously announced that the second season would air in July, but then delayed it to October.
The returning cast includes:
- Arata Nagai as Kimihiko Kimizuka
- Saki Miyashita as Siesta
- Ayana Taketatsu as Nagisa Natsunagi
- Kanon Takao as Yui Saikawa
- Saho Shirasu as Charlotte Arisaka Anderson
- Mai Fuchigami as Fūbi Kase
- Yumiri Hanamori as Hell
- Maria Naganawa as Alicia
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kōmori
- Saki Miyashita as Noches
New cast members include Akari Komiyama as Mia Whitlock and Nobuhiko Okamoto as Scarlet.
Manabu Kurihara returns to direct the second season at ENGI. Deko Akao is again in charge of series scripts, and Yōsuke Itō is again designing the characters.
40mP is composing the anime's music, along with composing, arranging, and writing the lyrics for the theme songs. Kōme performs the opening "Kono Shinzō ni Hanabata wo" (A Bouquet for This Heart), and Kagura Nana returns to perform the ending "Hakuchumu" (Daydreams).
The anime's first season premiered with a one-hour special in July 2021 and aired for 12 episodes. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Source: Muse Asia's Facebook page
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