We were just processing the closing of the
first part and the production committee already threw the confirmation in our
faces. Just as the fourteenth episode ended airing, the animated adaptation
of The Ramparts of Ice (Koori no Jyoheki) officially
announced that its second season will land on Japanese
television on October 1. It seems that Thursdays in the upcoming fall season
will be set aside exclusively to suffer with Koyuki Hikawa's emotional
barriers.
Studio KAI keeps the formula for success intact
To ensure that this teen drama doesn't miss a
beat, the main technical team returns without a single change in sight. The
direction remains in the capable hands of Mankyū within the halls of Studio
KAI, while the scripts will continue under the strict supervision of
Yasuhiro Nakanishi.
At the level of visual and sound production,
the work retains its original essence. Miki Ogino continues to
bring his talent in character design to make them look just as expressive, all
wrapped up in the musical atmosphere composed by the duo of Kanade
Sakuma and Natsumi Tabuchi. It is clear that the
producers, led by Hirokazu Shiba, did not want to risk the product
and bet on technical stability for this new stage.
Voice cast
- Anna
Nagase (Ushio
Kofune in Summertime Render) as Koyuki Hikawa
- Shōya
Chiba (Kiyotaka
Ayanokouji in Classroom of the Elite) as Minato Amamiya
- Fūka
Izumi (Utena
Hiiragi in Gushing over Magical Girls) as Miki Azumi
- Satoshi Inomata (Eita Saotome in Free!)
as Yōta Hino
- Chiaki
Kobayashi (Mash
Burnedead in Mashle) as Tsubasa Igarashi
- Sakura
Shinfuku (rising
actress in the industry) as Tsukiko Shimojima.
- Akari Kitō (Nezuko Kamado in Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) as Momoka Kuriki
- Kakeru
Hatano (Nijiro
Nanase in Blue Lock) as Yūki Azumi
- Natsumi
Kawaida (Himari
Momochi in The Demon Prince of Momochi House) as Akine Atagawa
The triumphant leap from the vertical format
It's worth remembering that this franchise
didn't go the way of a traditional manga. The original story was born as
a webtoon illustrated by Kōcha Agasawa, being
published purely digitally between January 2020 and April 2022. Its popularity
was so overwhelming that publishing giant Shueisha saw a gold
mine and decided to rearrange all the panels for physical printing, concluding
with its fourteenth compilation volume only in February 2025. The impact of
this school romance was so great that the work snuck into the prestigious Kono
Manga ga Sugoi! ranking of 2024, proving that its narrative goes far
beyond a simple high school cliché.
