The official YouTube channel for three-piece Japanese rock band BURNOUT SYNDROMES has started streaming a music video for their seventh single song “Maou” (The Demon King). The song is now used as the opening theme for the ongoing second cour of the TV anime The Misfit of Demon King Academy II, and features voice actor Nao Toyama as guest vocalist. Toyama is voicing Arcana, one of the new characters in the anime’s latest season.
BURNOUT SYNDROMES × Nao Toyama “Maou” music video
The Misfit of Demon King Academy II anime 2nd cour creditless opening movie
“Maou” released digitally first on April 13, then, as a double-Aside single “Maou/Amateras,” the CD single followed on May 22. The CD jacket illustration features the anime’s protagonist, Anos Voldigoad, as well as Arcana voiced by Nao Toyama.
“Maou/Amateras” CD jacket
Following the first cour in 2023, the second cour of The Misfit of Demon King Academy II premiered in Japan on April 12, 2024, and has also streamed on Crunchyroll for members in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and Indian subcontinent. Crunchyroll describes the series:
Anos Voldigoad was a tyrannical Demon King that eradicated humans, spirits, and even the gods, but became bored of eternal warfare and reincarnated with dreams of a peaceful world. However, what awaited him in reincarnation after 2000 years were descendants who became too weak after being accustomed to peace, and all sorts of magic that deteriorated to the extreme.
Anos enters Demon King Academy that gathers and educates those who are viewed as the reincarnation of the Demon King, but the academy could not see through his true powers and ends up branding him as a misfit.
Source: BURNOUT SYNDROMES official YouTube channel© BURNOUT SYNDROMES
