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Aniplus Asia Premieres Hozuki's Coolheadedness Season 2 Anime's 2nd Cour on April 8

Aniplus-Asia announced on Tuesday that it will premiere the simulcast airing of the second cour (quarter-year) of the second season of the anime based on Natsumi Eguchi's Hozuki's Coolheadedness (Hōzuki no Reitetsu) manga on April 8 at 1:30 a.m. GMT +8.

The second season of Hozuki's Coolheadedness premiered last October, and Aniplus-Asia aired a simulcast of the anime as it aired in Japan.

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.

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

Sumire Uesaka will perform the ending theme song for the second season's second cour. Uesaka voices Peach Maki in the series.

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 in March 2017, 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 26th volume on March 23.