WANIMA performs opening theme for series debuting in October
The staff of the second anime season based on Yūki Tabata’s Black Clover manga revealed a new promotional video on Sunday, which reveals and previews WANIMA’s opening theme song “Kienai Riyū” (The Reason that Won’t Disappear). The video first debuted at Anime Expo on Saturday.
Image via Black Clover anime’s X/Twitter account
© Yuki Tabata/Shueisha, TV Tokyo, Black Clover Project
The anime will debut on TV Tokyo in October.
Ayataka Tanemura, the director of episodes 153-170 of the first Black Clover anime and the film Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King, will direct the second season.
Tanemura attended Anime Expo alongside voice actor Gakuto Kajiwara, the voice of protagonist Asta.
Studio Pierrot will return to animate the new season. Crunchyroll will stream the anime.
The Black Clover anime last aired in March 2021 with its 170th episode.
The anime premiered in Japan in October 2017. The show was originally listed with 51 episodes, but it continued into a new season with episode 52 in October 2018, and continued on again into a new season in October 2019. Crunchyroll streamed the series in Japanese with English subtitles, and Funimation streamed the show’s English dub. The anime debuted on Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block in December 2017.
The Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (Black Clover: Mahо̄tei no Ken) anime film opened in Japan and debuted on Netflix worldwide in June 2023.
Tabata launched Black Clover in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2015. The manga moved to the quarterly Jump Giga magazine in 2023. Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service is also publishing the manga digitally.
Source: Black Clover anime’s website, Comic Natalie
