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Atsushi Abe Joins Haikyu!! Second Season's Cast as Takeru Nakashima
posted on by Kyle Hallmark
This year's 53rd issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine (cover pictured at right) revealed on Monday that voice actor Atsushi Abe (A Certain Magical Index's Touma Kamijou, Gunslinger Stratos' Tohru Kazasumi) will join the cast of Haikyu!! Second Season as Takeru Nakashima, the captain of Wakutani South High School's volleyball team. The issue also revealed the lineart for the character and described him as being proficient at air tactics despite his short stature.
The series premiered on October 3 and is listed with 25 episodes. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan and describes the story:
After losing to Aoba Johsai at the Inter-High, the Karasuno High Volleyball Team is working their hardest toward the Spring Tournament. In the meantime, it's decided that they'll be heading to Tokyo for a training camp with Nekoma High and a handful of other powerful schools. They team is practicing hard, and not day during their run, Hinata and Kageyama get too excited and end up lost, and end up meeting someone rather unexpected...
Sentai Filmworks has licensed the sequel series for home video.
The first season of the anime adaptation of Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga premiered in April 2014. Sentai Filmworks has licensed and released the series on home video in North America, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.
The anime franchise received two compilation films on July 3 and September 18.
Update: The official website for the anime has revealed the lineart designs for Takeru.
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