Summer may be over, but the party is just getting started! Six years on from the finale of the Grand Blue Dreaming anime series, which aired from July to September, 2018, it was officially announced today that a second season is in production.
We’ll have to wait a little longer for a release date, but for now, we can raise our glasses in celebration with the below teaser visual!
Season 2 teaser visual
Based on the manga by Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka, Shinji Takamatsu (Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto) returns to direct the second season of Grand Blue Dreaming at studios Zero-G and Liber, with character designs and chief animation direction by Hideoki Kusama and music by Yukari Hashimoto (Senpai is an Otokonoko).
The full list of confirmed staff members is as follows:
Director/Scriptwriter/Sound Director: Shinji Takamtsu
Character Designer/Chief Animation Director: Hideoki Kusama
Chief Animation Director: Yoichi Ueda
Art Director: Reiko Kasuga
Prop Designer: jimao
Color Designer: Aiko Matsuyama
Director of Photography: Naoyuki Kato
Editor: Shun Tokuda
Sound Production: Saber Links
Music: Yukari Hashimoto
Animation Production: Zero-G x Liber
Furthermore, the main cast of Season 1 are confirmed to be reprising their roles.
Kodansha USA publishes the manga’s official English version and describes the story:
After graduating from an all-boys’ high school, Iori Kitahara moves away from home to go to college in a seaside town. He’s eager to start a new chapter in his life–one filled with dreams of reinventing himself, meeting beautiful girls, and reveling in his youth. But when his new abode is his uncle’s dive shop, Iori’s college debut doesn’t turn out as glamorously as he planned! Can Iori keep himself afloat, or will the booze-fueled antics of his university’s diving club wash him away?!
A coming-of-age tale with beer, bums, and the Grand Blue!
Source: Official X (formerly Twitter), Website
