With the first season that came out in 2014, The Irregular at Magic High School is getting ready to come back for more. As previously announced, a second season was set for a July 2020 debut with Risako Yoshida directing and 8-Bit handling the animation production. Kana Ishida is on board as the character designer.
Unfortunately, as expected, with productions shut down in Japan due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re not going to be able to meet their targets for it and rather than try a compromised project, they’re pushing the show to the fall season. The cascade of shows continues and we expect a number of spring shows will simply become summer shows and the bumps will continue to help smooth things out.
This season will go under the heading of the Visitor Arc which works through volumes nine, ten, and eleven of the original work from Tsutomu Satou. The current novel series, which began in 2011, has thirty main novels and ten side story works.
The Japanese cast has several returning cast members confirmed so far with Yuichi Nakamura as Tatsuya Shiba, Saori Hayami as Miyuki Shiba, and Yoko Hikasa as Angelina Kudo Shields.
TVアニメ「魔法科高校の劣等生 来訪者編」につきまして、新型コロナウイルス感染症の感染拡大の影響を受け、放送・配信を延期させていただくことになりました。楽しみにお待ち頂いていた皆様には誠に申し訳ありません。現在2020年10月からの放送・配信を予定しております。https://t.co/YCUqWZD3UE pic.twitter.com/d5CwioqgiO
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Property Concept: The year is 2095. Magic has been tamed as another form of technology, and the practice of magic is now a rigorous discipline. Brother and sister Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba are just about to start their first year at the renowned First Magic High School of Japan. But the school’s ironclad rules mean that the brilliant Miyuki enters the prestigious Course 1, while her older brother, Tatsuya, is relegated to Course 2–and that’s just the beginning of their troubles!
