Dark Gathering Season 2 Anime Premieres in 2027
Pony Canyon announced on Friday that the second season of the Dark Gathering television anime will premiere in 2027. The announcement came with a new visual depicting the spirit of A Dam standing in a dimly lit inspection tunnel. Season 2 moves the story to Kyoto and begins adapting the manga from Chapter 34, 'Journey to the Capital,' which comes from Volume 9. The main cast returns, with Yū Sasahara as Yayoi Hōzuki, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Keitarō Gentōga, Kana Hanazawa as Eiko Hōzuki, and Rina Kawaguchi as Ai Kamiyo. OLM returns to animate, with Hiroshi Ikehata directing and Shigeru Murakoshi handling series composition. The first season aired from July to December 2023 over two consecutive cours, and HIDIVE streamed it as it aired. Kenichi Kondō launched the manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in March 2019, and Viz Media releases it in English. The manga has surpassed 3 million copies in circulation.