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Shaman King Flowers Anime's 2nd Promo Video Reveals New, Returning Cast Members

The official website for Shaman King Flowers, the sequel to the recent television anime of Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King manga, started streaming the anime's second promotional video on Tuesday, and it revealed new and returning cast members.

The anime's new cast members are:

Newly announced returning cast includes:

• Yōko Hikasa as Hana Asakura
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Amidamaru
• Sumire Uesaka as Alumi Niumbirch
• Shun Horie as Yohane Asakura
• Michiko Kaiden as Gakko Ibuki
• Romi Park as Tao Men

Previously announced returning cast includes:

• Nana Mizuki as Tamao Tamamura
• Takumu Miyazono as Ponchi
• Noriaki Kanze as Konchi
• Masahiko Tanaka as Ryūnosuke Umemiya
• Wataru Takagi as Tokagerō
• Yōko Hikasa (who is also voicing the main lead Hana Asakura) as Yoh Asakura
• Megumi Hayashibara as Anna Asakura
• Minami Takayama as Hao

The anime's new cast and characters are:

• Ami Koshimizu as Luca Asakura
• Kentaro Ito as Daikyо̄ Oboro
• Kenta Miyake as Ryūji Ichihara
• Chihiro Ueda as Namaha

The anime will premiere on January 9 on the TV Tokyo channel at 24:00 JST (effectively, January 10 at midnight JST or January 9 at 10:00 a.m. EST). It will then run on BS TV Tokyo.

Takeshi Furuta (Utano☆Princesama Legend Star) is returning from the last anime to direct the anime at Bridge. Shoji Yonemura is also back in charge of the series scripts, while Mayuko Yamamoto is replacing Satohiko Sano in designing the characters. Nana Mizuki, the voice of Tamao Tamamura, is performing the anime's opening theme song "Turn the World." Sumire Uesaka, the voice of Alumi Niumbirch, is performing the ending theme song "Dear Panta Rhei."

Other staff members include:

• Over Soul Design: Toshiumi Iizumi, Satoshi Mutsuda
• Prop Design: Yuji Shibata
• Art Director/Art Design: Jin'ya Kimura
• Color Key Artist: Natsuko Otsuka
• Compositing Director of Photography: Teruyuki Kawase
• Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto
• Music: Yuki Hayashi (2021's Shaman King, My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!, Gundam Build Fighters)
• Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
• Music Production: King Records

Takei launched Shaman King Flowers — the sequel manga centering around Hana — in Jump X magazine in 2012, and he ended it in the magazine's final issue in 2014. Takei then launched the new Shaman King: The Super Star spinoff in 2017, although he put it on hiatus in September 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing publishes both manga in English.

The new Shaman King anime premiered in April 2021. Netflix began streaming the anime worldwide in August 2022. The anime ended with 52 episodes.

The anime adapted all 35 volumes of the original manga's new complete edition, which Kodansha started publishing in print volumes in Japan in June 2020. The first anime adaptation of the manga premiered in 2001.

Sources: Shaman King Flowers anime's website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web