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Tacica Performs Haikyu! Second Season's New Ending Theme
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The second 2016 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine (issue cover pictured at right) announced on Monday that rock band tacica will perform the new ending theme song "Hatsunetsu" (Fever) for the Haikyu!! Second Season anime. The song will premiere in the anime's second cour, and the single CD will go on sale in Japan on February 24.
tacica performed the ending theme song "Leo" for the first Haikyuu!! anime series. The group has also performed opening themes for the Naruto Shippūden and Space Brothers anime.
Osaka-based rock band Burnout Syndromes will perform the new opening theme "Fly High!!" for Haikyu!! Second Season. SPYAIR is performing the current opening theme "I'm a Believer," and Galileo Galilei is performing the current ending theme "Climber."
The series premiered on October 3 and is listed with 25 episodes. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan and describes the story:
After losing to Aoba Johsai at the Inter-High, the Karasuno High Volleyball Team is working their hardest toward the Spring Tournament. In the meantime, it's decided that they'll be heading to Tokyo for a training camp with Nekoma High and a handful of other powerful schools. They team is practicing hard, and not day during their run, Hinata and Kageyama get too excited and end up lost, and end up meeting someone rather unexpected...
Sentai Filmworks has licensed the sequel series for home video.
The first season of the anime adaptation of Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga premiered in April 2014. Sentai Filmworks has licensed and released the series on home video in North America, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.
The anime franchise received two compilation films on July 3 and September 18.
