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. We got a single-cour second season that landed as part of the winter 2021 season and a third season got underway on October 9th, 2021.
The original series received an English dub but things have been quiet on the new material as to what they’d get. Earlier this week, Toei Animation dropped a clip below to reveal that the second and third seasons are going to get an English dub with a digital release. We didn’t know the details at the time but now a new clip has arrived from the dub of the second season and it confirms an October 4th, 2022 debut on digital platforms with Amazon Prime, Hoopla, VUDU, and Microsoft listed.
Crunchyroll previously confirmed their pickup of the series for streaming. It’s going to be made available to audiences in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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. 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, Ryoko Shiraishi as Yomi, 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
Kami wa Saikoro o Furanai is back for the opening theme song with “Time Factor” and Fantastic Youth is on board for the ending theme song “Ungai Dōkei.”
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.
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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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