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Minami Kuribayashi, Yumeha Kōda Sing Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei! Themes

The official port site for the Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya project announced on Thursday that Minami Kuribayashi and Yumeha Kōda are singing the theme songs for the second anime season, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!. Kuribayashi contributes the opening theme "moving soul," while Kōda contributes the unnamed ending theme.

Hiroshi Hiroyama's original Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya manga re-imagines the Fate/stay night character Illyasviel von Einzbern in an alternate universe as a magical girl. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya ran in Kadokawa Shoten's Comp Ace from 2007-2008. Hiroyama then launched two sequel manga series: Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Zwei! from 2009-2012 and the most recent, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Drei!!, which has been running since 2012.

The cast includes:

• Mai Kadowaki as Illyasviel von Einzbern 
• Kaori Nazuka as Miyu 
• Chiwa Saito as Kuro
• Kana Ueda as Rin Tohsaka 
• Shizuka Itou as Luviagelita Edelfelt 
• Naoko Takano as Magical Ruby 
• Miyu Matsuki as Magical Sapphire 
• Noriaki Sugiyama as Shirou Emiya 
• Sayaka Ōhara as Iri
• Rikiya Koyama as Kiritsugu Emiya
• Haruhi Terada as Sella 
• Miho Miyagawa as Leysritt(Liz) 
• Miki Itou as Taiga Fujimura 
• Mariya Ise as Nanaki Moriyama
• Emiri Katō as Tatsuko Gakumazawa 
• Kanae Itō as Suzuka Kurihara 
• Satomi Satou as Mimi Katsura 

However, the staff for this second season will have a new chief director, director, art director, and sound director:

• Planning: Takeshi Yasuda 
• Chief Director: Shin Oonuma
• Director:  Masato Jinbo
• Series Composition: Kenji Inoue 
• Script: Hazuki Minase
• Character Design: Nozomi Ushijima 
• Art Director: Ken Tateishi 
• Editing: Kentarou Tsubone 
• Sound Director: Masanori Tsuchiya
• Sound Production: Dax Production 
• Music: Tatsuya Katou 
• Music Production: Lantis 
• Music producer: Shigeru Saitō, Terunari Yoshie 
• Producer: Ai Matsuki, Jun'ichirō Tamura
• Animation producer: Hayato Kaneko 
• Animation Production: SILVER LINK

Executive producers: Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Hayato Kaneko, Shigeru Saitō, Tetsuya Dobashi, Nobukazu Kumagai, Tetsu Hirata, Masahiro Kiba 

The first anime series premiered last season, and Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for North America and plans to release it on home video in 2014.

Image © 2014 Hiroshi Hiroyama, Type-Moon/Kadokawa's Kadokawa Shoten/Prisma Illya 2wei! Production Committee