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The season premiered on TBS on October 8 at 1:23 a.m., with BS11 following on October 9 at 11:00 p.m.","whyItMatters":"The five arrivals share the Alferius surname, filling out a family block in the same episode rather than scattering new characters across the season, and they land in a season that also replaced its animation studio and character designer.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe five actors join from episode 5, and four of the five characters carry the Alferius name, with Riona Imaizumi listed only as Mia. Character name romanizations are not confirmed in the announcement. Before this, the season had already named Hana Hishikawa as Olivia Arnold, Ryohei Kimura as Julius Orphe, Aoi Koga as Bianca Miller, Konomi Kohara as Emma Clarke, Shiki Aoki as Maria Bradley, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Marius Basset, and Miyu Kubota as Elisa Griffith, taking over from Nana Harumura after her retirement from voice acting in January for health reasons.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYuki Wakai\u003c/strong\u003e: as Cathy Alferius\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToshiyuki Morikawa\u003c/strong\u003e: as Abel Alferius\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTetsu Inada\u003c/strong\u003e: as Cyril Alferius\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaiki Hamano\u003c/strong\u003e: as Lard Alferius\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRiona Imaizumi\u003c/strong\u003e: as Mia\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","blueskyPost":"Toshiyuki Morikawa joins Iceblade Sorcerer Season 2 as Abel Alferius, part of a five-cast Alferius family reveal that lands the same week episode 5 introduces them on screen.","twitterPost":"Toshiyuki Morikawa joins Iceblade Sorcerer Season 2 as Abel Alferius, one of five Alferius family roles added together for episode 5.","threadsPost":"Iceblade Sorcerer Season 2 is adding five cast at once, all performing from episode 5. Four of them, including Toshiyuki Morikawa as Abel, are Alferius family roles, so the show front-loads an entire household rather than a single guest.","newsletterBlurb":"Season 2 of The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World added five cast members on Tuesday, all appearing from Thursday's fifth episode. Yuki Wakai, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Tetsu Inada and Daiki Hamano voice four Alferius characters, and Riona Imaizumi voices Mia. 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