The World Trigger manga had a two-season anime adaptation that aired back in 2014 and it was surprising at the time that it ran for 73 episodes as it was an open-ended series at the time. With news of a new season announced at the end of 2019, we learned last month that this series will debut on January 9th, 2021 at 1:30 pm as part of the NUMAnimation block on TV Asahi.
With that coming up closer and closer, the official site has hit a new update that focuses on the theme song side of it. The opening theme song is “Force” by TOMORROW X TOGETHER while the ending theme song is “Mirai Eigo” by Kami wa Saikoro o Furanai.
The series has Monrio Hatano set to direct based on the series scripts by Hiroyuki Yoshino. Toshinhisa Kaiya is on board for the character designs.
It’s expected that the main cast will be back and so far has confirmed Tomo Muranaka as Yūma Kuga, Yuuki Kaji as Osamu Mikumo, Nao Tamura as Chika Amatori, Yūichi Nakamura as Yūichi Jin, and Nobunaga Shimazaki as Hyuse.
The previous series was directed by Mitsuru Hongo at Toei Animation based on scripts by Hiroyuki Yoshino and character designs by Toshihisa Kaiya, who is also handling the animation director duties. Kenji Kawai has surfaced again to provide the score for the series.
The Japanese cast includes Yuuki Kaji as Osamu Mikumo, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Rie Kugimiya, Jun Fukuyama, Hideyuki Tanaka – Replica, Nao Tamura as Chika Amatori, Tomo Muranaka as Yuma Kuga, Yuichi Nakamura as Yuichi Jin, Rie Kugimiya as Kirie Konami, Jun Fukuyama as Kyōsuke Karasuma, Tomoaki Maeno as Reiji Kizaki, Keiji Fujiwara as Takumi Rindō, Takeshi Kusao as Masafumi Shinoda, Masakazu Morita as Shūji Miwa, Kana Hanazawa as Ai Kitora and Nobuhiko Okamoto as as Jun Arashiyama.
The new cast additions for this season include Hisao Egawa as Gatlin, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Ratarikov, Mie Sonozaki as Wen Sō, Kenjiro Tsuda as Koskero, Ayumu Murase as Reghindetz, and Ryoko Shiraishi as Yomi
アニメ『 #ワールドトリガー 』2ndシーズンの主題歌＆エンディングテーマ決定！
主題歌…TOMORROW X TOGETHER『Force』
エンディングテーマ…神はサイコロを振らない『未来永劫』2アーティストとの強力タッグで、『ワールドトリガー』はさらに盛り上がりを見せます！1月9日(土)の放送をお楽しみに！ pic.twitter.com/tUmU9C0czu
— アニメ「ワールドトリガー」公式 2021年1月9日(土)深夜1時30分〜放送開始！ (@Anime_W_Trigger) November 26, 2020
The anime adaptation is working off the manga that began back in 2013 in Weekly Shonen Jump, which has been available digitally in North America to readers via Viz Media as well as compiled volumes.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot concept: One day, a gate to another world suddenly opens in Mikado City. Aliens invincible to Earth’s weapons, called “Neighbors”, start coming over. Earth’s only line of defense is a mysterious group called the “Border” who are armed with weapons called “Triggers”.
Four years later, the city has recovered from initial attacks and citizens of Mikado City have started to get use to the Neighbor’s attacks. Yuma Kuga, a transfer student, and his classmate Osamu Mikumo find themselves fighting a Neighbor that suddenly appears. Osamu, who is actually a Border agent, activates his Trigger but is unable to defeat it. This leaves Yuma to activate his own Trigger and defeat the alien. Yuma reveals that he is not part of Border and is actually a Neighbor who has transferred from the other side.
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