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Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! Season 2 Anime Reveals Teaser Trailer, Visual, Staff
posted on by Alex Mateo
The official website for Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! 2! (Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin! 2!), the second television anime season of shorts adapting Hori's Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin! four-panel manga, unveiled on Monday a teaser promotional video, visual, and staff:
Shunji Maki is directing the new season at CANDY BOX. Yū Satō (Kiratto Pri☆Chan) is returning to write the scripts with Hotaru Asafuji. Nana Mori, an animation director for the first season, is the character designer and chief animation director for the second season. Fūga Hatori (My Wife is the Student Council President) is composing the music. Masanori Tsuchiya (New Game!) is returning as sound director.
The anime stars:
- Nozomi Yamane as Javelin
- Yō Taichi as Ayanami
- Maria Naganawa as Laffey
- Rika Abe as Z23
- Sumire Uesaka as Akashi
- Minami Takahashi as Baltimore
- Ayane Sakura as Prinz Eugen
Hori launched the manga in April 2018 on the franchise's official X/Twitter account and on publisher Ichijinsha's Azur Lane website.
The main television anime of Xiamen Yongshi's Azur Lane smartphone game premiered in October 2019. Funimation streamed the series with English subtitles and an English dub. Episodes 11 and 12 of the anime aired in March.
Tsuchii's Azur Lane Queen's Orders manga also inspired an original video anime.
In the original game for iOS and Android devices, players collect early 20th century warships from various countries and use fleets of six ships to battle enemies. Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi developed the game, and bilibili released it in China in May 2017. Shanghai Yostar released the game in Japan in September 2017. Yostar released an English version of the game in May 2019.
Sources: Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin! anime's website, Comic Natalie
