A Second Season of Grand Blue Dreaming is Coming to TV 

The cast and crew of the TV anime adaption of Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka's comic manga Grand Blue Dreaming revealed on Sunday that the second season of production has been given the go-ahead.  

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  To commemorate the announcement, Yoshioka created this drawing:

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 After completing his training for a diving license in Okinawa, Iori returns to Izu, where he receives a letter from his younger sister Shiori, signaling the start of a new season.

In addition to the studio Liber joining the project, Zero-G is coming back to animate the upcoming season. Director, writer, and sound director Shinji Takamatsu, character designer and chief animator Hideoki Kusama, chief animator Yōichi Ueda, color key artist Aiko Matsuyama, and sound production studio Saber Links are among the returning personnel.

Minoru Akiba of Studio Jack is replaced as art director by Reiji Kasuga, and jimao is creating the prop designs rather than Hiroshi Ogawa. Hideki Imaizumi has been replaced as the photographic compositing directory by Naoyuki Katō, while Masaki Utsunomiya has been replaced as the editor by Shun Tokuda. The music is being composed by Yukari Hashimoto (Mr. Osomatsu, Sarazanmai) rather than Manual of Errors Artists.  

The members of the returning cast are:

• Yūma Uchida as Iori Kitahara

• Ryōhei Kimura as Kohei Imamura

• Hiroki Yasumoto as Shinji Tokita

• Katsuyuki Konishi as Ryūjiro Kotobuki

• Chika Anzai as Chisa Kotegawa

• Maaya Uchida as Nanaka Kotegawa

• Toa Yukinari as Azusa Hamaoka

• Kana Asumi as Aina Yoshiwara

• Takuya Eguchi as Hajime Nojima

• Junya Enoki as Shinichirō Yamamoto

• Natsuki Hanae as Yū Mitarai

• Robert Waterman as Kenta Fujiwara

• Jun Fukuyama as Captain Kudō

• Shinji Kawada as Toshio Kotegawa

• Nana Mizuki as Kaya Mizuki 

   

The manga is being released digitally in English by Kodansha USA Publishing, and the plot is as follows:  

Iori Kitahara moves out on his own and into a seaside village, where he makes an unexpected collegiate debut. A new chapter in his life begins, one that is full of hijinks with a group of adorable bastards and diving with gorgeous chicks! Expert on idiots Kenji Inoue and natural authority Kimitake Yoshioka provide a fantastic story about college life full of drunken shenanigans! 

The comic was first published by Inoue and Yoshioka in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine in April 2014. Chapters of the manga were first made available on Crunchyroll when they first came out in Japan. The manga's 22nd compiled book volume was released by Kodansha on April 5; the 23rd volume is scheduled for shipment on October 7. On November 19, Kodansha USA Publishing will issue the 20th volume.

An anime on television based on the manga debuted in July 2018. The anime was streamed globally when it aired on Amazon Prime Video. A live-action movie based on the manga debuted in Japan in August 2020.