Sentai Filmworks Adds Infinite Stratos 2 Anime

North American licensing company Sentai Filmworks announced on Monday that it has licensed the romantic-comedy/action anime Infinite Stratos 2. Sentai Filmworks will release the series on home video in 2014 after streaming the series "through select digital outlets." Crunchyroll is currently streaming the series as it airs. The series premiered in Japan on October 3.

Yasuhito Kikuchi is once again directing at 8-Bit, but Kumi Horii (Student Council's Discretion, Zone of the Enders) is now handling the new character designs. Takeshi Takakura is joined by Kōichi Mugitani or CHOCO (Busou Shinki) on mechanical designs. (CHOCO replaced okiura on the illustrations for the original novels going forward.) Hikaru Nanase is also back to score the music, and voice actress Yōko Hikasa and other singers are performing the anime's "BEAUTIFUL SKY" ending theme.

The light novel series already inspired a 2011 television anime season. Sentai Filmworks and Section23 Films released the first anime season in North America