'Grand Blue' Season 2 in Production

by Vindstot
Sep 29, 2024 4:30 AM | 56 Comments

The Grand Blue Friday Radio special livestream announced a second season for the Grand Blue (Grand Blue Dreaming) television anime on Sunday. Production company NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan simultaneously updated the official website, revealing the main staff, cast, and a teaser visual (pictured).

Staff
Director, Script, Sound Director: Shinji Takamatsu (Grand Blue, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou)
Character Design: Hideoki Kusama (B: The Beginning Succession)
Chief Animation Director: Hideoki Kusama, Youichi Ueda (Bartender: Kami no Glass)
Art Director: Reiko Kasuga (Love Live! Superstar!!)
Prop Design: jimao (Koori Zokusei Danshi to Cool na Douryou Joshi)
Color Design: Aiko Matsuyama (Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo)
Director of Photography: Naoyuki Katou (Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These original mechanical design)
Editing: Shun Tokuda (Sand Land)
Sound Production: Saber Links (Re:Monster)
Music: Yukari Hashimoto (Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu.)
Studio: Zero-G, Liber

Cast
Iori Kitahara: Yuuma Uchida (Shangri-La Frontier)
Kouhei Imamura: Ryouhei Kimura (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)
Shinji Tokita: Hiroki Yasumoto (Hoozuki no Reitetsu)
Ryuujirou Kotobuki: Katsuyuki Konishi (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Chisa Kotegawa: Chika Anzai (Lycoris Recoil)
Nanaka Kotegawa: Maaya Uchida (Kinsou no Vermeil)
Azusa Hamaoka: Toa Yukinari (Hataraku Saibou)
Aina Yoshiwara: Kana Asumi (Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha)
Hajime Nojima: Takuya Eguchi (Mashle)
Shinichirou Yamamoto: Junya Enoki (Tokyo Revengers)
Yuu Mitarai: Natsuki Hanae (Undead Unluck)
Kenta Fujiwara: Robert Waterman (Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!)
Kudou Kaichou: Jun Fukuyama (Horimiya)
Toshio Kotegawa: Shinji Kawada (Shokugeki no Souma)
Kaya Mizuki: Nana Mizuki (Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san)

The first anime season adapting Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka's seinen comedy manga aired in 12 episodes on MBS' Animeism programming block in Summer 2018, adapting the first five volumes. Amazon streamed the anime worldwide on its Prime Video service.

Inoue and Yoshioka began serializing the manga in good! Afternoon magazine in April 2014. Kodansha published the 22nd volume on April 5, with the 23rd volumes going on sale on October 7. Grand Blue has a cumulative 10 million copies of its volumes in circulation worldwide.

Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in November 2017 and released the 19th volume in June 2023. The 20th volume is set for a November 19 release.

A live-action film produced by Warner Bros. Japan opened in Japan in August 2020, grossing over 452 million yen (approx. US$3.1 million).

Official site: https://www.grandblue-anime.com/
Official X: @gb_anime
Official Manga site: https://afternoon.kodansha.co.jp/c/grandblue/
Official Manga X: @sakazukiwohosu

Source: Press Release

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20 of 56 Comments Recent Comments

Hell yeaaaahhhh!!! Finally

Dec 2, 2024 3:22 AM by ErdincOTA

I know a lot of people were really hoping for this, so good for them. Still waiting on my Reborn! sequel.

Oct 2, 2024 3:33 PM by malvarez1

Took them long enough 🙏🏻

Oct 2, 2024 10:27 AM by Washedindividual

I had given up on Grand Blue ever getting another season. I'm pretty excited about this!

Oct 1, 2024 2:56 AM by MonkeyDHunter

Finally ! After such a long time !

Sep 30, 2024 11:13 PM by Insomniac_shonen

Let's go at long last time to hold in my laugh

Sep 30, 2024 1:48 PM by RED-clover12

Oongbuh said:
The staff is already shown up there, and Shinji Takamatsu is already great for comedy. No need to change.

S1 was far inferior to the manga, the director just could not make the same impact, so if they keep it for S2, it will be more of the same, fun and good to watch, but not at the PEAK level of the manga.

Sep 30, 2024 12:57 PM by Playcool

Wow, I thought they gave up on it. Peak back at the game I guess. Damn.

Sep 30, 2024 8:47 AM by Tilec

@Yaaceen the same joke still good if they deliver differently tho and not every episode about alcohol like the tennis, beauty pageant, festival and campus life but if it still doesn't make u laugh then maybe this anime isn't for you

Sep 30, 2024 8:18 AM by Fraakartz

@Fraakartz But i've watched the tv show and it's all about the same jokes and most of them are only about alcohol so I've never understood why it's so praised, because even a good joke becomes annoying after reppeated so many times.

Sep 30, 2024 5:52 AM by Yaaceen

@Yaaceen its not always about alcohol, the 99% alcohol thing bcs new people thought that this will be diving anime from s1 poster but no its about college life and alcohol

Sep 30, 2024 12:24 AM by Fraakartz

Great news. Didn't think this would happen but so happy.

Sep 29, 2024 7:39 PM by jorel262

It's been way too long. Since 2018, 6 years later it's back!!!!

Sep 29, 2024 2:52 PM by DaEpicDuck

WE ARE SO BACK!!!!