Studio Pierrot’s original anime series Hero Mask is slated for a second season on worldwide streaming service Netflix, as announced in the series’ official website on Tuesday. Along with this announcement is the release of a new promotional video for the upcoming second season, which you can check out below:
The website also unveiled an all-new visual for the series, which features the elite detective and protagonist, James Blood.
The anime’s main cast Yasuyuki Kase (James Blood), Yuko Kaida (Sarah Sinclair), Junpei Morita (Lennox Gallagher), Kentaro Takano (Edmond Chandler), Kouki Uchiyama (Harry Creighton), Yutaka Aoyama (Geffrey Connor), Takayuki Sugo (Steven Martland), Yutaka Nakano (Richard Burner), Haruka Shibuya (Monica Campbell), Tomoyuki Shimura (Fred Faraday), Yūichi Karasuma (Grimm), Yukiyo Fujii (Eve Palmer), and Tomoko Miyadera (Anne Winehouse) are all returning for the second season. Joining them is Yu Shimamura, who will voice new character Tina Hurst.
Most of the main staff are returning for the second season as well, with Hiroyasu Aoki (No Game No Life, 2011 Hunter x Hunter) reprising his role as director, scriptwriter, and series composition. Character design will still be handled by Takahisa Katagiri (FLCL Progressive), with Takashi Nakamura and Yuki Sonoda still as art directors.
The first season premiered on Netflix last December 2018 with 15 episodes. Anime News Network describes the anime’s story as such:
”When the headquarters of the SSC, an elite high-tech police organization, is assaulted by a lone man who should be dead they learn of the existence of strange masks that grant the users unnatural power. Meanwhile, attorney Sarah Sinclair secretly investigates the mysterious death of her friend and mentor, prosecutor Monica Cambel, suspecting that her sudden death from “natural causes” was in fact murder.”
The second season is set for a worldwide Netflix release on August 23.
Source: Anime News Network