New Game! Anime Season 2 Reveals Anime's Theme Song Artist

The official website for the television anime of Shōtarō Tokunō's New Game!! manga revealed the theme song artists for the anime's second season (titled New Game!!!, with an additional exclamation mark) on Wednesday.

The group fourfolium, composed of the four main voice actresses Yūki Takada, Ayumi Takeo, Megumi Toda, and Megumi Yamaguchi as their respective characters, will once again perform both the opening and ending theme songs. The opening theme song is titled "STEP by STEP UP↑↑↑↑," while the ending theme song is titled, "JUMPin' JUMP UP!!!!" The CD singles for both songs are slated to ship separately on July 26.

The anime will premiere this July.

The returning cast members include:​

Yūki Takada as Aoba Suzukaze
Yōko Hikasa as Kō Yagami
Ai Kayano as Rin Tōyama
Megumi Yamaguchi as Hifumi Takimoto
Megumi Toda as Hajime Shinoda
Ayumi Takeo as Yun Iijima
Madoka Asahina as Nene Sakura
Chitose Morinaga as Umiko Ahagon
Eri Kitamura as Shizuku Hazuki​

The returning staff members include:​

Director: Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
Series Composition: Fumihiko Shimo
Character Design: Ai Kikuchi
Chief Animation Directors: Ai Kikuchi, Manamu Amasaki, Chisato Kikunaga
Prop Design: Eri Nakajima
Art Director: Shunsuke Suzuki
Color design: Kei Ishiguro
Director of Photography: Takafumi Kuwano
Editing: Daisuke Hiraki
Sound Director: Masanori Tsuchiya
Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
Sound Production: delfi Sound
Music: Hajime Hyakkoku
Music Production: Kadokawa
Animation Production: Doga Kobo
Production: New Game!! Production Committee​

For the second season, Sumie Kinoshita is now a chief animation director, while Yūichi Oka is no longer listed as one. Yuka Itō joins Ishiguro as a color key artist.

In the workplace manga, the main character Aoba Suzukaze graduates from high school and joins a game company. The person who made the game that Aoba loved as a grade-schooler just happens to be Aoba's senior at the company. The story follows girls who work and aspire at the Eaglejump company.

The first television anime premiered last July, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. The first season had 12 episodes. Those who purchase all six of the Blu-ray Disc or DVD volumes of the anime can submit proof-of-purchase stubs to receive a new OVA, which serves as "episode 13" of the series.

Tokunō launched the manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Charat magazine in 2013, and Houbunsha published the fourth volume on July 27. Houbunsha published the manga's fifth volume with the title New Game!! The Spinoff! on the same day.

The manga and anime also inspired a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita video game by 5pb. Games that shipped in Japan on January 26. The game featured the same cast from the first season of the anime.​