The current season is slated to end in episode 28 on March 17
Kodoani.com – The official website of the multimedia project Megaton-kyū Musashi of Level 5 announced on Friday that they will again delay the final two episodes of the second season. Episode 27 has been postponed from February 24 to March 10, and episode 28 has been postponed from March 3 to March 17. Instead, episodes 25 and 26 will air on March 24, respectively. 2 and 3 March.
Level 5 again cites COVID-19 as the reason – specifically, staff still recovering from production delays caused by the spread of COVID-19 in China late last year.
Previously, the anime production team postponed episode 18 from November 4 to November 18 to improve the quality of the episode. The postponement of episode 18 also affected the production schedule of episode 19. Episode 19 of the anime was postponed to December 2. The staff then delayed the final five episodes to February or later.
The Megaton Musashi X (Cross) game for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch was delayed from December 1 to December 8, then again to December 16. Game staff cited the reason. is the delay of the anime, because the content of the game is tied to the cartoon.
The second season of the anime premiered on October 7 on Tokyo MX at 10:00 p.m. before airing on BS Fuji and Level 5’s YouTube channel. Special edition of the first season, featuring new cutscenes, premiered on July 8 on the same channel. The second part is a sequel to the Special Edition.
The second season has the cast and crew returning.
Level 5’s founder and president, Akihiro Hino (the original concept of Yōkai Watch) is credited as the anime’s chief director and original creator, and he’s also writing and overseeing the series’ scripts. anime. Shigeharu Takahashi (Yo-kai Watch: The Movie) is directing the anime at OLM. Takuzō Nagano (Yōkai Watch) is credited as the original character designer, and Yūji Ikeda (Inazuma Eleven) designed those characters for the animation. Toshihiko Kuriaki is noted for conceptual art. Ken’ichirō Saigō (Yōkai Watch) is composing the music. Ryō Tanaka (Granblue Fantasy the Animation) is the sound director.
The first season of the anime premiered on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji in October 2021 and aired the final episode in December 2021.
The project includes an anime, a game, a collaboration with Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, a toy by Bandai, and an anime spin-off titled “After School”. Level 5 announced the project in 2016, originally slated to start summer 2017.
The story takes place after 90% of humanity was wiped out due to an invasion. The survivors live in a shelter where their lives are monitored and memories of the invasion are erased. Three teenagers from the shelter are chosen to control three machines that combine to form the robot Musashi, which is made of a material called Megatronium alloy. The series balances robot action with school life.
Each different medium—game, cartoon, or other—tells the story from the point of view of a different set of characters.
