With the fall 2019 anime adaptation of the No Guns Life manga wrapped up, the official site set an April 9th, 2020 debut as part of the spring season. While everything seemed on track for that, the season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second cour saw a July 9th, 2020 debut on TBS and other broadcasters and streaming services in Japan and now the first promotional spot for the 21st episode due out on September 11th, 2020 has arrived for it.
Naotuki Itou will be directing it with Yukie Sugawara handling the series composition. Masanori Shino is on board for character designs while Madhouse will animate the project.
Funimation has simulcast and produced a simuldub for the first cour where availability was standard for Funimation with it open to viewers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Japanese cast includes Junichi Suwabe as Juzo Inui, Manami Numakura as Mary Steinberg, Daiki Yamashita as Tetsurō Arahabaki, Yōko Hikasa as Olivier Juan de Belmer, Yōji Ueda as Hugh Cunningham, Christina Matsuzaki, Masashi Ebara as Christina Matsuzaki, Marika Kouno as Scarlett Gosling, Yūya Uchida as Cronen von Wolf, Kenyu Horiuchi as Mega-armed Tokisada, Inori Minase as Pepper, and Yūko Sanpei as Seven.
For the second cour, This Is Japan is set to handle the ending sequence with “New World” while the opening song is more complicated. Composer Hiroyuki Sawano’s “SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]” vocal project is partnering with MAN WITH A MISSION guitarist and vocalist Jean-Ken Johnny to perform the opening theme song “Chaos Drifters.”
For the first cour, Kenichi Asai is performing the opening theme song “Motor City” for the series while DATS’ is hanlding ending theme song “Game Over.”
The manga series is licensed Viz Media with a fall 2019 print/digital start, began in 2014 and has eight volumes out as of this month.
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Plot Concept: With no memory of his previous life—or who replaced his head with a giant gun—Juzo Inui now scratches out a living in the dark streets of the city as a Resolver.
