The dojin circle and manufacturing firm C2 Kikan confirmed on its Twitter account on Tuesday that the second season of the KanColle anime will air this fall. The announcement first got here in the course of the “Chinjufu New Yr Particular Stay! 2022” occasion that ran on Monday and Tuesday. C2 Kikan is among the rights holders for the franchise.

The occasion additionally introduced that the 1MYB Tour will run this yr at Tokyo’s Zepp Haneda on February 14, Osaka’s Zepp Namba on March 9 and 10, Zepp Nagoya on March 13, and different venues. C2 Kikan can be exhibiting on the Anime Japan 2022 conference in March.

Writer Kadokawa reported in its monetary outcomes report in November 2019 that the “second season” of the KanColle tv anime was nonetheless in manufacturing. Kadokawa instructed C2 Kikan in January 2021 that the second season would air in 2022.

The anime is predicated on an internet browser recreation that launched in 2013, and is ready in a world the place humanity has misplaced management of the seas. The menace that has taken over the seas is the Abyssal fleet. The one ones who can counter this menace are Kan-Musu (Fleet Ladies), women who possess the spirit of naval vessels from days passed by.

The primary 12-episode TV anime collection premiered in January 2015 and Crunchyroll streamed the collection because it aired in Japan. Funimation launched the collection on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with English subtitles and an English dub in June 2017.

The ultimate episode of the primary tv anime collection had revealed in March 2015 that the tv anime would get a sequel. The anime’s official Twitter account indicated in August 2015 that the franchise‘s film mission and the sequel had been separate tasks that went into manufacturing on the identical time.

The Kantai Assortment -KanColle- movie opened in Japan in November 2016, and earned 560 million yen (about US$5 million) by March 2017.

Studio ENGI — the 2D/3D animation studio that writer Kadokawa, pachinko and pachislot recreation machine maker Sammy, and anime holding firm Extremely Tremendous Photos established in April 2018 — is producing the brand new anime.

Supply: C2 Kikan’s Twitter account