The official website for the anime Hikari no Ou ( The Fire Hunter ), based on the fantasy light novel by Rieko Hinata and Akihiro Yamada, revealed a preview and a new visual this Friday (27) for the anime's second season.
Hikari no Ou – 2nd season gets new preview and visual
The new season will premiere in January 2024. The first season premiered on January 14 on the pay television channel WOWOW. Crunchyroll streamed the anime while it aired in Japan.
Synopsis
Touko is a young girl from a paper-making town who finds herself in the forbidden forest, attacked by flaming creatures, when a flame hunter rushes to protect her. Elsewhere, a young man born in the capital named Koushi shelters his younger sister after losing his mother to factory poison.
The story takes place in a world in the chaotic post-apocalyptic period of humanity's Last War. A great forest infested with flame creatures and other fallen beasts covers the world, and pockets of humanity live in small, protected communities. Due to a special weapon used in the Last War, humans spontaneously burst into flames even when approaching a small source of fire.
The only safe source of energy for humanity is within the bodies of the flaming creatures, and the responsibility for hunting them falls to the scythe-wielding fire hunters who brave the depths of the great forest. Among the fire hunters, stories whisper of someone who will be the “Lord of the Fire Hunters”, someone who will be able to harvest the fire from the ancient comet, the “Wandering Spark”, which has been flying in the sky since it was launched before the Last War, but is now returning to Earth.
Staff and cast
Junji Nishimura ( Vladlove ) is directing the anime at Signal.MD ( Platinum End ), while Mamoru Oshii ( Ghost in the Shell , Vladlove) is supervising and writing the scripts.
The new cast for the second season includes Manaka Iwami as Yururuho/Sennen Suisei and MAO as Ruri Matsuri. The other 16 main cast members are reprising their roles.
Finally, Hinata released the first book in the series in December 2018, with illustrations by “The Twelve Kingdoms” illustrator and “RahXephon” character designer Akihiro Yamada. Hinata published the fourth book in the series in September 2020, followed by a volume of side stories in December 2021.
Sources: Hiraki no Ou official website , Comic Natalie
