Amidst the hype of bigger series airing like ‘One Piece’, ‘Kimetsu no Yaiba’ and ‘Shingeki no Kyojin’, the winter season also brought a nice list of new releases. The first batch of chapters ‘Orient’ It began airing last January, and soon we’ll be able to see the continuation of the story with the summer release schedule.
A new arc and many more battles
The first part of ‘Orient’ It consisted of 12 episodes, and although it has not yet been confirmed how many chapters this second season will include, it is most possible that a similar number will be handled. We do know that in this case the arch of ‘The Fierce Battle on Awaji Island‘, so we can expect a lot of action ahead.
In the absence of a specific day, The second season of ‘Orient’ will start airing in Japan in July. The first season could be seen in simulcast on Crunchyroll, so now it’s time to be attentive to the confirmation that the anime series can also be followed weekly internationally.
The latest teaser highlights the new characters we’ll meet in this second season and gives us a first look at the band of warriors led by Tatsuomi Uesugi.
New voice actors joining the cast of the series have also been confirmed, with Tomoaki Maeno as Tatsuomi Uesugi, Natsuki Hanae as Naoe Kanetatsu, Yoshiki Nakajima as Masaki Amakasu, Gakuto Kajiwara as Amako Katsumi, Yōko Hikasa as Kuroko Usami, and Kouki Uchiyama as Akihiro Shimazu.
The original manga of Shinobu Ohtaka began to be published in
Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2018 and is currently serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, both from Kodansha. the animation studio ACGT has been in charge of the animation of both seasons, which he directs Tetsuya Yanagisawa Y Mariko Kunisawa scripts.
‘Orient’ follow Musashi, a 15-year-old boy living in Japan during the Sengoku period. The country is ruled by demons and everything that concerns samurai is forbidden. The demons have brainwashed almost the entire population and the humans think that the creatures are his saviors, but Musashi knows the truth and will try to confront them with a very special power that he possesses.