The Fire Hunter Anime Gets 2nd Season

The official Twitter account for the television anime of Rieko Hinata and Akihiro Yamada's The Fire Hunter (Hikari no Ō) fantasy novel series announced with a teaser video on Saturday that production on a second season has been green-lit. The 10th and final episode of the first season also debuted on Saturday. ⚠特報映像公開⚠🔥#火狩りの王 第2️⃣シーズン制作決定🔥灯子(#久野美咲)と煌四(#石毛翔弥)の物語はクライマックスへ💥#WOWOW オンデマンドで📱第1️⃣シーズン全話配信中⚡https://t.co/KsfwarRZPAhttps://t.co/HmRxutmoAF#日向理恵子 #西村純二 #押井守 #坂本真綾 #早見沙織 #細谷佳正 #山口愛 pic.twitter.com/xCoDe5RgZ8— 「火狩りの王」アニメ公式🔥第2️⃣シーズン制作決定🌙第1️⃣シーズン全話配信中⚡ (@HikarinoOuAnime) March 18, 2023 The first season premiered on January 14 at 10:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. EST) on the premium subscription television channel WOWOW. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan. The anime's cast includes: Misaki Kuno as Tōko Shōya Ishige as Kōshi Maaya Sakamoto as Akira Yoshimasa Hosoya as Roroku Saori Hayami as Kira Megumi Yamaguchi as Hinako Junji Nishimura (Ranma ½, You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture, True Tears, Vladlove) is directing the anime at Signal.MD (Recovery of an MMO Junkie, Napping Princess, The Wonderland), and Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Angel's Egg, Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade, Blood: The Last Vampire, Vladlove) is overseeing and writing the scripts. The novel series' story is set in a world in the chaotic aftermath of humanity's apocalyptic Last War. A great forest, infested with flameling creatures and other fallen beasts, covers the world, and pockets of humanity live in small protected communities. Due to a special weapon used in the Last War, human beings spontaneously burst into flame even when merely getting close to a small source of fire. The only safe energy source for humanity lies within the bodies of flamelings, and the duty to hunt them falls to the sickle-wielding firecatchers who brave the depths of the great forest. Among the firecatchers, they whisper tales of one who would be "Firecatcher Lord," an individual who will be able to harvest the fire of the thousand-year comet, the "Wandering Spark" that has flown in the sky since it was sent up before the Last War, but is now returning to earth. The story begins with Tōko, a young girl from a paper-making town who finds herself in the forbidden forest, assailed by flamelings, when a flamecatcher rushes to protect her. In another place, a young capital-born boy named Kōshi shelters his younger sister after losing his mother to factory poison. Hinata debuted the first book of the series in December 2018, with illustrations by The Twelve Kingdoms illustrator and RahXephon character designer Akihiro Yamada. Hinata published the fourth book in the series on September 3, 2020, followed by a side-story volume on December 21, 2021. Sources: The Fire Hunter anime's Twitter account, Comic Natalie