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Wind Breaker Season 2's New Video Reveals More Cast, Ending Song, April 3 Debut (Updated)

Aniplex revealed on Wednesday the key visual and promotional video for the "KEEL arc," and April 3 premiere of the second season of the television anime of Satoru Nii's Wind Breaker manga. The video also reveals and previews the ending theme song "It's myself" by rock band shytaupe, and reveals the new cast member Junya Enoki as Shingo Natori.

Update: Crunchyroll streamed an English-subtitled version of the trailer:

The anime's second season will premiere on April 3 in the Super Animeism TURBO block of 28 MBS/TBS affiliate channels at 24:26 JST (effectively, April 4 at 12:26 a.m.). The anime will simultaneously stream on the ABEMA streaming service. The anime will start streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, U-NEXT, and other streaming services in Japan.

The anime will have an advance screening event on March 29 at the United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba in Tokyo.

The second season's previously announced new cast is Ryōta Ōsaka as Tasuku Tsubakino, a third year high school student at Furin High School, and one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Bōfūrin.

Toshifumi Akai (Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia) returns to direct the second season at CloverWorks. Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen) is again in charge of series scripts. Taishi Kawakami (Akebi's Sailor Uniform) is again designing the characters. Ryō Takahashi (Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest) is again composing the music. SixTONES boy band will perform the opening theme song for the second season.

Additional new and returning staff are:

• Chief Animation Directors: Taishi Kawakami, Yūsuke Tanaka (new)
• Action Director: Kazuyuki Asaka
• Prop Design: Maiko Hado
• Art Setting/Director: Yasunao Moriyasu
• Color Key Artists: Kyōko Hara (new), Asuka Yokota
• Compositing Director of Photography: Yukiko Nagase
• 3D Director: Keita Watanabe (Sublimation)
• Editing: Akinori Mishima
• Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa

Nii launched the manga in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app in Japanese in January 2021.

Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and has been releasing it digitally in English since spring 2022. It is now also publishing the series in print, and will release new print volumes monthly starting in July. The company describes the manga:

An adrenaline-filled manga set in a high school for delinquents who are now heroes protecting their town. A fierce, new student arrives at the school determined to fight his way to the top and become the strongest of them all. This edgy, action-packed manga is guaranteed to excite fans of Tokyo Revengers and other stories about high school delinquents.

Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings—he's only interested in the strongest of the strong. He's just started at Furin High School, a school of degenerates known only for their brawling strength—strength they use to protect their town from anyone who wishes it ill. But Haruka's not interested in being a hero or being part of any sort of team—he just wants to fight his way to the top!

The manga received a stage play adaptation that ran from January 1-3 in Osaka, and from January 10-19 in Tokyo. A Wind Breaker Furyō-tachi no Eiyūtan (Wind Breaker: Heroic Tales of Delinquents) the game will release on March 12 for smartphones and PC.

Updated: Added English-subtitled trailer. Source: Email correspondence

Source: Press release