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Netflix Streams Oshi no Ko Season 2 in India
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The season premiered on July 3 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. EDT) on Tokyo MX and over 29 other channels throughout Japan. It is also streaming simultaneously on the ABEMA service in Japan.
The second season's story focuses on a 2.5D stage play titled "Tokyo Blade." In the story, the play is an adaptation of a manga. In the play, Kana Arima (voiced by Megumi Han) plays Tsurugi, Akane Kurokawa (voiced by Manaka Iwami) plays Sayahime, Aqua Hoshino (voiced by Takeo Ōtsuka) plays Touki, and Melt Narushima (voiced by Seiji Maeda) plays Kizami.
The new cast for the second season includes Kōki Uchiyama as Taiki Himekawa (Blade in "Tokyo Blade"), Yūsuke Kobayashi as Sakuya Kamoshida (Monme in "Tokyo Blade"), Tomoyuki Shimura as Toshirō Kindaichi, Ayane Sakura as Abiko Samejima, and Daisuke Ono as GOA, the scriptwriter of the 2.5D stage play "Tokyo Blade."
Artists Kento Nakajima (former Sexy Zone / timelesz member) and Tatsuya Kitani (Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, Go, Go, Loser Ranger!, Jujutsu Kaisen second season theme songs) formed the special music unit GEMN, to perform the second season's opening theme song "Fatal." hitsujibungaku performs the ending theme song "Burning."
The first television anime of Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari's Oshi no Ko manga premiered in Japan in April 2023 with a 90-minute first episode. Netflix streamed the anime in India as it aired in Japan.
Daisuke Hiramaki (Selection Project) and Chao Nekotomi (Love is Like a Cocktail) directed the first season at Doga Kobo. Jin Tanaka (The Misfit of Demon King Academy) handled the series scripts. Kanna Hirayama (Rent-A-Girlfriend) designed the characters. YOASOBI performed the opening theme song "Idol." Queen Bee performed the ending theme song "Mephisto."
Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Yokoyari (Scum's Wish) launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine in April 2020. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service is releasing the manga in English digitally. The manga started its final arc on June 27.
Yen Press licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Gorou is a gynecologist and idol fan who's in shock after his favorite star, Ai, announces an impromptu hiatus. Little does Gorou realize that he's about to forge a bond with her that defies all common sense! Lies are an idol's greatest weapon in this outrageous manga from Aka Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Mengo Yokoyari (Scum's Wish).
The manga won first place in the seventh "Next Manga Awards" (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) in 2021, and also won in the Best General Manga category in the 46th annual Kodansha Manga awards in 2022. The series was nominated for the 26th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2022, and has also been nominated for the 14th and 15th Manga Taisho Awards. The manga ranked at #7 on the top 20 list of manga for male readers in the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
The manga is also inspiring a live-action film and television series adaptation. The series will debut on Amazon Prime Video worldwide on November 28 with eight episodes, and the sequel film will then premiere after the series in theaters on December 20.
Sources: Netflix
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