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Gundam Build Divers Anime Reveals 2nd Cours' Theme Songs

The official website for Gundam Build Divers, the new television anime series in the Gundam Build Fighters franchise, revealed the new opening and ending theme song performers for the series' second cours on Monday. SWANKY DANK (Black Clover ending theme) will perform the new opening theme song "Infinity," and Spira Spica will perform the new ending song "Start Dash."

The songs will premiere in the anime on July 3. The ending song will mark Spira Spica's major debut, and the single CD will ship on August 8.

SKY-HI performs the current opening theme song "Diver's High," and Iris performs the ending theme song "Ashita e" (Towards Tomorrow).

The anime premiered on April 3, and Crunchyroll and Gundam.info are both streaming the series.

Gundam.info describes the story:

Gunpla Battle Nexus Online (GBN) is a new network game that lets people enjoy a variety of missions using Gunpla in a virtual cyberspace dimension. Middle-school students Riku Mikami and Yukio Hidaka recruit their classmate Momoka Yashiro and dive together into this vast world. Becoming "Divers," or inhabitants of GBN, they meet a mysterious girl named Sarah who has an amazing sensitivity to Gunpla. They begin playing alongside her, but...

Through many encounters and experiences, Riku and his friends will build not only Gunpla, but their own adventures as well!

The cast includes:

• Yūsuke Kobayashi as Riku Mikami (Diver Name: Riku)
• Natsumi Fujiwara as Yukio Hidaka (Diver Name: Yukki)
• Nene Hieda as Momoka Yashiro (Diver Name: Momo)
• Haruka Terui as Sarah
• Jun Kasama as Kyōya Kujō
• Shō Hayami as Rommel

The staff includes:

• Planning: Sunrise
• Director: Shinya Watada
• Original Work: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino
• Series Composition: Noboru Kimura
• Original Character Designs: Hiro Harakazu
• Character Designs: Shuri Toida
• Mechanical Designs: Kunio Okawara, Kanetake Ebikawa, Junichi Akutsu, Junya Ishigaki, Ippei Gyōbu, Kenji Teraoka, Shinya Terashima, Takayuki Yanase, Naohiro Washio
• Action Director: Masami Ōbari
• Chief Mecha Animators: Shinya Kusumegi, Sakiko Uda
• Art: Studio Naya
• Music: Hideakira Kimura
• Planning Cooperation: Bandai Hobby Division
• Production Cooperation: ADK
• Production: TV Tokyo, Sunrise, Sotsu

The Gundam Build Divers Break spinoff manga will launch in the August issue of Kadokawa's Gundam Ace magazine on June 26.

Sources: Gundam Build Divers anime's website, SWANKY DANK's website, Animate Times