{"id":465569,"date":"2026-06-07T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:35:09","slug":"a-returners-magic-should-be-special-season-2-announces-opening-song-artists-october-debut-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465569\/","title":{"rendered":"A Returner&#8217;s Magic Should Be Special Season 2 Announces Opening Song Artists, October Debut &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=27087\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FLOW<\/a> rock band returns for new opening &#8220;Sorrow&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The official website for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-03-25\/a-returner-magic-should-be-special-korean-webcomic-gets-tv-anime\/.196389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">anime<\/a> based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=237727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wookjakga<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=27613\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Returner&#8217;s Magic Should Be Special<\/a> (Kikansha no Mah\u014d wa Tokubetsu Desu in Japanese) Korean web comic unveiled on Sunday the opening theme song&#8217;s artists, October premiere, and teaser visual for the anime&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-12-23\/a-returner-magic-should-be-special-anime-gets-2nd-season\/.205895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">second<\/a> season. The site also streamed a video to announce the premiere timeframe:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" alt=\"w676\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.9\/238246\/w676.jpeg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=27087\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FLOW<\/a> returns to create the &#8220;Sorrow&#8221; song specifically for the new season&#8217;s opening theme.<\/p>\n<p>The new season will premiere in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fuji TV<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=17634\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+Ultra<\/a>&#8221; programming block in October, and it will run on Wednesdays at 24:45 (effectively, Thursdays at 12:45 a.m.). The first season will re-air on Fuji TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=11907\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansai TV<\/a> starting this July. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" alt=\"gccdd82bmaabm22\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.6\/205895\/gccdd82bmaabm22.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/returners_magic\/status\/1738582232594337935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Returner&#8217;s Magic anime Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 A Returner&#8217;s Magic Should Be Special Animation Partners<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=6612\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yen Press<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/press-release\/2021-10-09\/acquisition-announcement-yen-press-announces-10-releases-for-future-publication-at-new-york-comic-\/.178305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">releasing<\/a> the series in English and it describes the story:In a time when the Shadow World has taken over and most of humanity is wiped out, a party of six heroes strives and fails to save the world\u2026 But magician Desir Herman is given a second chance when he opens his eyes and finds that he&#8217;s gone back thirteen years in the past! It&#8217;s now up to him to gather his party once more and stop the greatest catastrophe in human history!<\/p>\n<p>The first season of the anime premiered in  October 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=7606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a> streamed the series as it aired in English-speaking, Latin America, and European countries, along with an English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-10-22\/crunchyroll-announces-english-dub-casts-for-a-returner-magic-should-be-special-4-more-anime\/.203671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The web comic is based on an original story by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=237726\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Usonan<\/a>, which published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=25651\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kakao Page<\/a> between September 2016 to August 2019. The webtoon adaptation with art by Wookjakga was launched in May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:\u00a0A Returner&#8217;s Magic Should Be Special anime&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/returners-magic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/675131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOW rock band returns for new opening &#8220;Sorrow&#8221; The official website for the anime based on Wookjakga&#8216;s A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-465569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}