The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World Season 2 Unveils 5 Cast Members

The staff for the second television anime season based on Nana Mikoshiba's The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World (Hyōken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu - Sekai Saikyō no Majutsushi de Aru Shōnen wa, Majutsu Gakuin ga Nyūgaku Suru) light novel series announced five new cast members on Tuesday. The new cast members is performing in the anime's fifth episode on Thursday.

The newly announced cast members are (image above from left to right, character name romanizations are not confirmed):

Yūki Wakai as Cathy Alferius Toshiyuki Morikawa as Abel Alferius Tetsu Inada as Cyril Alferius Daiki Hamano as Lard Alferius Riona Imaizumi as Mia

The returning cast members include:

Junya Enoki as Ray White Iori Saeki as Amelia Ros Akira Sekine as Ariane Olgren Azumi Waki as Rebecca Bradley Kaede Hondo as Clarisse Cleveland Yūichirō Umehara as Evi Armstrong Kōhei Amasaki as Albert Allium Atsumi Tanezaki as Stella White Sōichirō Hoshi as Lucas Forst Haruka Shiraishi as Lizelotte Eden

Previously announced new cast members are:

Hana Hishikawa as Olivia Arnold Ryōhei Kimura as Julius Orphe Aoi Koga as Bianca Miller Konomi Kohara as Emma Clarke Shiki Aoki as Maria Bradley Kazuyuki Okitsu as Marius Basset

Miyu Kubota voices Elisa Griffith. Kubota is replacing Nana Harumura, who retired from voice acting in January due to health reasons.

Masahiro Takata is returning to direct the second season, and is also returning to write and oversee the series scripts, and serve as sound director. Zero-G is now animating the series (Cloud Hearts animated the first season). Other scriptwriters include Tomoko Shinozuka (returning from the first season) and Takahito Ōnishi (Whisper Me a Love Song, My Happy Marriage). Mariko Kawamoto (Magica Wars) is the new character designer, replacing Makoto Shimojima.

Sizuk performs the opening theme song "Diamond Dust," and Maaya Uchida performs the ending theme song "Compression :[."

The second season premiered on TBS on October 8 at 1:23 a.m. and also started airing on BS11 on October 9 at 11:00 p.m. Crunchyroll streams the anime as it airs.

Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

The Arnold Academy of Magic is a school for the elite...and Ray White is just your ordinary guy. In fact, he doesn't seem particularly skilled with magic at all, and is a bit of a klutz. Which is why he has nothing to do with the rumor that one of the great magicians, the Iceblade Sorcerer, is a member of the incoming class...right?

The first season of the television anime premiered in January 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and also streamed an English dub.

Mikoshiba's original story launched on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become Novelists) website in October 2019. The light novel series debuted in July 2020, with illustrations by Riko Korie. Kodansha publishes the light novels in print in Japan.

Norihito Sasaki's manga adaptation launched on Magazine Pocket in June 2020, and ended in January 2024. The manga's 16th and final volume shipped in April 2024.

A Hyōken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu II: Sekai Saikyō no Majutsushi de Aru Shōnen wa, Majutsu Gakuin ga Nyūgaku Suru sequel manga launched on May 27. Nao Kagami illustrates the manga and Ishiya Ōgane is in charge of composition. Niconico Manga publishes the manga under Kodansha's "Suiyōbi no Sirius" label.

Sources: The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie