The official Twitter/X and website for the Blue Orchestra TV anime series has announced that Japanese rock band Galileo Galilei will perform season two’s main opening theme song “Amadeus.” The second season will premiere in Japan on October 5, 2025.
© Galileo Galilei
Seiji Kishi (Angel Beats!) directed the first season, with Yuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Kazuaki Morita (Classroom of the Elite) as character designer, and Akira Kosemura (Futaribun no Shoumei “Ahead of Us” theme song) as music composer, and Nippon Animation as the animation production company. The Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Philharmonic Orchestra was credited with the orchestral performance in the anime.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Shoya Chiba as Hajime Aono
- • Ai Kakuma as Ritsuko Akine
- • Shinba 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
The anime is based on the Japanese music drama manga series 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. Twelve tankobon volumes have been released as of March 2025, with a 13th volume scheduled for release in Japan in October 2025.
© 阿久井真／小学館／ＮＨＫ・ＮＥＰ・日本アニメーション
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, Crunchyroll News
