Blue Orchestra Season 2 Reveals Visual, 6 More Cast

The official website for the television anime of Makoto Akui‘s Ao no Orchestra (The Blue Orchestra) manga unveiled a new visual and more cast for the “World Junior Orchestra Competition” arc for the anime’s second season on Monday. The arc begins in January.

The newly announced cast includes:

The season premiered on October 5 on NHK Educational, and it will have 21 episodes.

The anime’s first season premiered on NHK Educational in April 2023 and aired for 24 episodes.

Seiji Kishi (Assassination Classroom, Persona 4 The Animation, Classroom of the Elite) is directing the anime at Nippon Animation. Yuuko Kakihara (Chihayafuru, Digimon Adventure tri., Persona 4 The Animation, 2022 Urusei Yatsura) is both writing and oversaw the series scripts, and Kazuaki Morita (Assassination Classroom, Classroom of the Elite, Persona 4 The Animation) designed the characters.

The band Galileo Galilei perform the opening theme song “Amadeus,” and ChoQMay perform the ending theme song “Ao no Mahō” (Blue Magic).

Indonesian publisher Elex Media is releasing the manga, and it describes the story:

In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono’s life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!

Akui launched the ongoing manga in Shogakukan‘s Manga ONE app in 2017. The manga went on hiatus in October 2023 and resumed serialization on February 25. Shogakukan published its 13th compiled book volume on October 17. The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award at the 68th Shogakukan Manga Awards in January 2023.

Sources: Blue Orchestra anime’s website, Comic Natalie