{"rewrite":{"id":"r_f6fb54636c4e4ec31b3953ac","clusterId":"c_0f03c08c75a55253cddcf8b6","slug":"kill-blue-anime-gets-second-season","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Kill Blue Anime Gets Second Season","summary":"The television anime adaptation of Tadatoshi Fujimaki's manga Kill Blue will receive a second season. The announcement came immediately after the first season's 12th and final episode aired in Japan on Saturday. Fujimaki, best known for creating Kuroko's Basketball, drew a commemorative illustration to mark the news. The first season, directed by Hiro Kaburagi at studio CUE, premiered on April 11 on multiple TV Tokyo stations and began streaming the same day. The series follows legendary hitman Juzo Ogami, who after a mission is transformed into a 13-year-old boy and must infiltrate a middle school. South Korean girl group aespa performed the opening theme \"ATTITUDE,\" and boy band RIIZE performed the ending theme \"KILL SHOT.\" The manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from April 2023 to September 2025, spanning 13 volumes. Viz Media publishes the series in English. Fujimaki is scheduled to attend Anime Expo 2026 next week for a panel and autograph session.","whyItMatters":"The quick renewal signals that CUE's first main production as a studio has performed well enough to justify continuation, and it gives Fujimaki a platform at Anime Expo to promote the series to a North American audience.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe first season is the first television series for which CUE served as the main animation production studio. DMM, an internet service and game developer, established CUE in 2023 with Production I.G\u0026#39;s former executive officer and production manager Rui Kuroki as president and CEO.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiho Daidōji, who worked as an animation director for all three seasons of \u003cem\u003eKuroko\u0026#39;s Basketball\u003c/em\u003e and its \u003cem\u003eLast Game\u003c/em\u003e film, designed the characters. Yasunori Ide served as animation director. Ryo Konishi composed the music. The anime aired on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ on April 11, and on AT-X on April 17.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe voice cast includes Yuko Sanpei as Juzo Ogami, Fuka Izumi as Noren Mitsuoka, Shuichiro Umeda as Kotatsu Nekota, Takeo Otsuka as Tenma Tendo, Atsumi Tanezaki as Chisato Shiraishi, Yumi Uchiyama as Eri Wanibuchi, Shunsuke Takeuchi as Juzo Ogami (Adult), and Daisuke Sakuma as Shin Kohazame.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel adaptation titled \u003cem\u003eKill Ao Secret Report\u003c/em\u003e by Kiyoko Hoshi shipped on December 4 alongside the manga\u0026#39;s 13th and final volume. Viz Media released the sixth volume in print on April 7 and will ship the seventh volume on August 11. The anime is streaming on Netflix, Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime Video, Rakuten Viki, Plex, the It\u0026#39;s Anime FAST Channel on Samsung TV Plus and Vizio WatchFree+, and on the It\u0026#39;s Anime YouTube channel in North America. Amazon Prime Video and Netflix also stream an English dub.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Tadatoshi Fujimaki's Kill Blue gets a second season immediately after the finale, a rare same-day renewal that signals strong network confidence in a series that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump for less than two and a half years.","twitterPost":"Same-day renewal for Kill Blue suggests TV Tokyo and the production committee saw enough in the first season's reception to lock season two before the finale cooled.","threadsPost":"Kill Blue's second season was announced the same day its first season ended. That kind of immediate renewal is unusual for a Jump adaptation that didn't run for years. The decision signals that the production committee sees a long-term property here, not a one-season experiment.","newsletterBlurb":"Kill Blue has been renewed for a second season, announced after the first season's finale aired. Creator Tadatoshi Fujimaki will attend Anime Expo 2026. 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