It has been confirmed that The Ancient Magus’ Bride season 2 TV anime is currently in production and will air sometime in April 2023. The announcement was made on the anime’s official website following a live stream event, and a new teaser trailer was released to showcase the season along with a new key visual.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2: What to Expect
The Ancient Magus’ Bride season 2 will pick up right where the previous season left off. Original creator Kore Yamazaki released a series of special illustrations for the series to celebrate the announcement, along with the director of The Ancient Magus’ Bride OAD series, Kazuaki Terasawa, and chief animation director Kohei Tokuoka.
According to the release, the staff for The Ancient Magus’ Bride season 2 will be mostly the same as the previous season:
- Director: Kazuaki Terasawa
- Script: Aya Takaha, Yoko Yonaiyama, Chiaki Nishinaka
- Character Design: Hirotaka Kato
- Chief Animation Director: Kohei Tokuoka
- Color Design: Yuko Kobari
- Art Director: Seiki Tamura
- Director of Photography: Mayo Suzuki
- CGO Director: Katsuaki Miyaji
- Special Effects: Chiptune
- Editing: Daisuke Imai
- Music: Junichi Matsumoto
- Music Production: Flying Dog
- Sound Director: Shoji Hata
- Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo
- Sound Production: Sound Team Don Juan
- Animation Production: Studio Kafka
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Chise Hatori
- Ryota Takeuchi as Elias Ainsworth
- Kouki Uchiyama as Ruth
- Aya Endo as Silky
- Satoshi Hino as Mikhail Renfred
- Mutsumi Tamura as Alice
Studio Kafka to take over the anime production in March 2021, produced the OAD series titled The Ancient Magus’ Bride -The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm in partnership with Twin Engine. Twin Engine hosted the live stream event and interview announcement season 2 and has released two OAD episodes so far. The third is scheduled to be released alongside volume 18 of the series manga in Japan on September 9, 2022.
