Netflix revealed a brand new visible and the April 2022 worldwide debut date for the Tiger & Bunny 2 sequel in the course of the firm’s Netflix Competition Japan 2021 livestream on Tuesday. Netflix additionally said the present’s first season is coming to the service.

The brand new anime will inform a brand new story set after the occasions of the Tiger & Bunny The Film -The Rising- anime movie.

A full checklist of returning forged members to this point contains:

• Hiroaki Hirata as Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Wild Tiger
• Masakazu Morita as Barnaby Brooks Jr.
• Minako Kotobuki as Karina Lyle/Blue Rose
• Taiten Kusunoki as Antonio Lopez/Rock Bison
• Mariya Ise as Pao-Lin Huang/Dragon Child
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Nathan Seymour/Fireplace Emblem
• Go Inoue as Keith Goodman/Sky Excessive
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ivan Karelin/Origami Cyclone

Mitsuko Kase (Cell Go well with Gundam 0083: Stardust Reminiscence) is directing the brand new anime at Bandai Namco Photos. Masafumi Nishida is returning to deal with collection composition, and Masakazu Katsura is returning to design the characters.

The unique Tiger & Bunny tv anime collection facilities round heroes for rent — tremendous powered beings generally known as NEXT who put on sponsor logos whereas preventing crime on stay tv.

Keiichi Satou (Karas director, The Huge O character/mechanical designer) directed the anime, and Masafumi Nishida (live-action Kaibutsu-kun) wrote and oversaw the scripts. Manga artist Masakazu Katsura (Video Lady Ai, DNA², I”s, Zetman), a well known fan of Batman and different superhero comics, created the unique character designs.

The 2011 anime collection spawned two anime motion pictures: Tiger & Bunny the Film: The Starting in 2012 and Tiger & Bunny The Film -The Rising- in 2014. Viz launched the tv collection, the movies, and the tie-in manga in North America.

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer of Think about Leisure are producing a live-action Hollywood movie adaptation of the anime. All Nippon Leisure Works CEO Sandy Climan and Bandai Namco Photos‘ Masayuki Ozaki are additionally producing the movie venture. Think about Leisure President Erica Huggins is overseeing the venture. The producers have employed Ellen Shanman as a scriptwriter. The movie’s studio International Street Leisure filed for Chapter 11 chapter in Delaware in September 2018. The submitting impacts the corporate’s movie division, however its gross sales and tv divisions will proceed to function.

Sources: Netflix Japan’s Twitter account, Netflix‘s anime Twitter account