The Elusive Samurai Anime Gets 2nd Season
This year's 45th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that the television anime of Yūsei Matsui's The Elusive Samurai (Nigejōzu no Wakagimi) manga will get a second season. Yuta Yamazaki (assistant director for Wonder Egg Priority, series director for both Love Rice series) directed the first season at CloverWorks, and Yasushi Nishiya (chief animation director for Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us, Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!) designed the characters.DISH// performed the opening theme song "Plan A," and artist Botchi Boromaru performed the ending theme song "Kamakura STYLE."Viz Media and MANGA Plus are both simultaneously releasing new chapters of the manga in English digitally as they debut in Japan.Viz Media is also releasing the manga in print, and the company describes the first volume: Matsui (Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro, Assassination Classroom) launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2021, and the series is ongoing. Shueisha published the manga's 17th compiled book volume on September 4.Sources: Weekly Shonen Jump issue 45, Aniplex's YouTube channel