The official website for the anime adaptation of One Punch Man Season 2 announced the main staff, cast, and studio on Tuesday. Chikara Sakurai (Naruto Shippuden) will be replacing Shingo Natsume to direct the second season at J.C. Staff. Madhouse was the studio who worked on season one. The rest of the main staff is as follows:
Chikara Sakurai (Naruto Shippuden) – Director
Yoshikazu Iwanami (Magimoji Rurumo) – Sound Director
*Chikashi Kubota (Corpse Princess: Aka, FLCL 2) – Character Design
*Tomohiro Suzuki (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.) – Series Composition
*Makoto Miyazaki (Triage X, Dragon Crisis!) – Music Composition
IMPORTANT: J.C. Staff (Food Wars!, Toradora!, Pet Girl of Sakurasou) – Animation Production
*= returning
The main cast will reprise their roles in the second season:
Makoto Furukawa – Saitama
Kaito Ishikawa – Genos
Saori Hayami – Fubuki
Yuki Kaji – Sonic
Hiroki Yasumoto – King
One Punch Man season 2 was announced in September 2016, but we hadn’t had much information since them. Viz Media and Daisuki originally streamed the first season when it aired in Japan in Fall 2015. The original web novel is written by ONE, with the manga version of said novel is done by Yuusuke Murata. One Punch Man has 13 million copies in print as of July.
It is important to note that there is still no confirmed release date.
(Source: One Punch Man Anime Website)
