A new key visual and additional cast members have been unveiled for the “World Junior Orchestra Competition” story arc of the ongoing Blue Orchestra Season 2. The second season began broadcasting in Japan on October 5, 2025.
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The six additional cast members joining the series include:
- • Soma Saito as Yukito Subaru (with Narita Tatsuki playing the character’s violin)
- • Kengo Kawanishi as Kohei Atsumi
- • Nonoka Obuchi as Kaede Doi
- • Takashi Matsuyama as Genroku Iwatora
- • Atsushi Tamaru as Tadashi Suma
- • Risa Shimizu as Kyoko Tokiwa (with Kanon Matsuda playing the character’s piano)
They join the anime’s voice cast, which includes:
- • Shoya Chiba as Hajime Aono
- • Ai Kakuma as Ritsuko Akine
- • Shimba Tsuchiya as Nao Saeki
- • Minako Sato as Haru Kozakura
- • Makoto Furukawa as Ichiro Yamada
- • Lynn as Shizuka Tachibana
- • Shintaro Asanuma as Yo Hatori
- • Junya Enoki as So Harada
- • Ryotaro Okiayu as Ryuji Aono
- • Hiroshi Kamiya as Yusuke Sakuma
- • Makoto Kaneko as Toshiki Tsutsui
- • Iori Saeki as Rika Togane
Seiji Kishi (Angel Beats!) is directing the second season, with Yuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand) as series composer and scriptwriter, Kazuaki Morita (Classroom of the Elite) as character designer, Akira Kosemura (Futaribun no Shoumei “Ahead of Us” theme song) and Kanako Hara as music composers, and Nippon Animation as the animation production company. The Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Philharmonic Orchestra are credited with the orchestral performance in the series.
The anime is based on the Japanese music drama manga by Makoto Akui. It began serialization in Shogakukan’s MangaONE app on April 25, 2017, and later on the Ura Sunday website on May 2, 2017. Thirteen tankobon volumes have been released as of October 2025.
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Elex Media licensed the Blue Orchestra manga for release in Indonesia, describing the main premise as:
In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono’s life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!
Sources: Blue Orchestra Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Anime News Network
