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Aniplus Asia Streams Hozuki's Coolheadedness Anime's English-Subtitled Trailer

Aniplus Asia began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for its simulcast of the second season of the anime adaptation of Natsumi Eguchi's Hozuki's Coolheadedness (Hozuki no Reitetsu) manga. The simulcast will debut on Sunday at 1:30 a.m. GMT +8.

The series will premiere in Japan at night on October 7 at 1:00 a.m. (effectively October 8) on Tokyo MX1, Sun TV, and BS11. The show will air later the same night on KBS Kyoto and on October 9 on AT-X, and it will also stream on Abema TV and other platforms. The anime will have two Blu-ray Disc and DVD box sets with a total of 13 episodes.

Aniplus Asia describes the anime:

With the post-war population explosion resulting in a ferocious increase of evil spirits and the dead flooding to the nethrworld, the understaffed Hell faces a chaos of unprecedented scale.

Demon Ogre Hozuki – the remarkable chief deputy to the king of Hell, King Enma – tends to all manner of affairs in place of the lazy king.

And so begins to busy everyday lives of Hozuki and the dead in the depths of Hell.

The show's returning cast includes:

• Hiroki Yasumoto as Hōzuki
• Takashi Nagasako as Enma Daiō
• Yumiko Kobayashi as Shiro
• Hiroki Gotou as Kakisuke
• Takashi Matsuyama as Rurio
• Eri Kitamura as Okō
• Touko Aoyama as Nasubi
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Karauri
• Atsumi Tanezaki as Karashi
• Sumire Uesaka as Peach Maki
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Momotaro
• Koji Yusa as Hakutaku
• Satomi Satou as Ichiko
• Yui Ogura as Niko
• Ayaka Suwa as Miki

Kazuhiro Yoneda (Mahou Shoujo Nante Mouiidesukara., Yona of the Dawn) is taking over for Hiro Kaburagi as director for the second season. Production is moving from Wit Studio to Studio DEEN. Jirō Omatsuri is replacing Hirotaka Katō as character designer in the second season. Midori Gotou is again writing the scripts and TOMISIRO is again composing the music.

Jigoku no Sata All Stars (Hell's Affairs All Stars), a group of the series' cast members, is performing the opening theme song "Dai! Jigoku Jigobushi." Sumire Uesaka will perform the ending theme song "Riverside Lovers (Naraku no Koi)" (Love in Hell).

The manga inspired a 13-episode television anime series that premiered in January 2014. Aniplus Asia aired a simulcast of the anime as it aired in Japan. The manga also inspired three OADs that shipped with the 17th, 18th, and 19th volumes of the manga in 2015. A new OAD shipped with a limited edition of the manga's 24th volume on March 23, and it featured animation from Studio DEEN and Yoneda as director.

Eguchi launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in 2011, and Kodansha shipped the 25th volume on September 22.