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A key visual has been released for the Captain Tsubasa Season 2: Junior Youth Arc anime, which is premiering this October.

More cast members were also announced, including:

• Kenta Miyake as Hermann Kaltz
• Junya Enoki as Franz Scheste
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Gino Hernandez
• Kengo Kawanishi as Elle Sid Pierre
• Yuuki Ono as Louis-Napoléon
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Juan Diaz
• Daiki Yamashita as Alan Pascal
• Seiichirou Yamashita as Ramon Victorino

Captain Tsubasa Season 2: Junior Youth Arc is the sequel to the 2018 soccer anime series. Atsuhiro Tomioka and Hajime Watanabe are returning as series composer and character designer, respectively, but the new series is directed by Katsumi Ono (Skeleton Knight in Another World) instead of Toshiyuki Katou and is produced by Studio KAI instead of david production.

Jun Fukuyama is joining the cast as Karl Heinz Schneider. The returning cast members include:

• Yuuko Sanpei as Tsubasa Ozora

• Kenichi Suzumura as Genzo Wakabayashi

• Takuya Satou as Kojirou Hyuuga

• Ayaka Fukuhara as Taro Misaki

• Yuuichirou Umehara as Ken Wakashimazu

• Mutsumi Tamura as Ryo Ishizaki

• Wataru Hatano as Hikaru Matsuyama

• Souma Saitou as Jun Misugi

Previous Captain Tsubasa anime were broadcast in the 80s, 90s, and aughts. The Youichi Takahashi manga that inspired these shows ran from 1981 to 1988 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump before receiving multiple sequels, including the 90s’ Captain Tsubasa: Junior Youth Arc.

Source: @tsubasa_news