The Lycoris Recoil Season 2 anime TV series will continue the story of LycoReco girls Chisato and Takina Inoue, who are part of the Lycoris program of DA (Direct Attack). Lycoris Recoil 2 will feature the Lily Bells, male counterparts to Lycoris.

The main problem with the anime TV series is its original story. Yes, there’s a Lycoris Recoil manga. Gaiden/side story light novels called Lycoris Recoil Ordinary Days are also available. However, they’re adapting the anime. (See below for details.)

A Lycoris Recoil 2 is possible only if story writers leave a possibility for a continuation. Presumably, super-terrorist Majima won’t have completely destroyed the DA organization by the end of Lycoris Recoil Episode 13. Even if one of its leaders is killed, the Alan Institute can still be maintained. Chisato can’t die before the credits roll. However, other character deaths are possible.

The story of the first season was primarily about Chisato’s backstory, her conflict with Majima, and how the Alan Institute’s vision for talents was influencing the world. With that backdrop settled, it’s possible that Lycoris Recoil Season 2 could develop the concept in a new direction similar to how the Psycho-Pass anime continues to branch out after 10 years (see our article on the Psycho-Pass: Providence movie).

Studio A-1 Pictures, Aniplex of America producer, and any other company involved in the production of the anime have not confirmed the Lycoris Recoil Season 2 release date as of the last update. The production of a sequel to Lycoris Recoil is not yet confirmed.

Once the news is confirmed, the article will be updated with all pertinent information.

In the meantime, it’s possible to speculate about when, or if, the Lycoris Recoil 2 release date will occur in the future.

The first season will have to be financially strong enough to continue on its own. Lycoris Recoil reviews have been excellent in this regard. The characters were full of personality and had great chemistry. Also, the plot combination of slice-of-life elements and action-based plot was well executed. Some episodes were voted the top anime episodes in Summer 2022 by fans.

On the negative side, the anime was rarely featured in the Top 20 of Crunchyroll’s most popular anime list. It was sometimes necessary to manually search Crunchyroll for the TV show in order to find it.

As such it’s difficult to say whether the anime production committee (Aniplex, BS11, and ABC Animation) will have Lycoris Recoil renewed for a second season since international streaming revenue is the biggest factor influencing financial success nowadays. Presumably, the producers haven’t pre-planned the Lycoris Recoil Season 2 production out in advance since they would first want to see whether the financial numbers from the first season justify a Lycoris Recoil sequel.

Contract workers are the ones who work in anime studios, such as A-1 Pictures. They are booked many years ahead for anime projects.

Lycoris Recoil Season 2 will not be released until several years after the first season has been greenlit for production.

This article contains all the information you need about Lycoris Recoil Season 2 as well as any related news. This article will be continually updated with new information, rumors, analysis, and other news. Meanwhile, let’s delve down into what is known for certain.

Crunchyroll’s Lycoris Recoil English dub release date is confirmed for August 2022

Crunchyroll’s first streaming of Lycoris Recoil episodes was in Summer 2022. There were no English subtitles. It’s been confirmed by Aniplex of America that a Lycoris Recoil dub is planned.

Here is the Lycoris Recoil English dub cast.

• Lizzie Freeman (Hotaru Hiraiwa in Akebi’s Sailor Uniform) as Chisato Nishikigi
• Xanthe Huynh (Haru Okayumura in PERSONA5 The Animation) as Takina Inoue
• Jennifer Losi (Naomi Randall from Scarlet Nexus) plays Mizuki Nagahara
• Lisa Reimold (Kinako in Tokyo 24th Ward) as Kurumi
• Bob Carter (Bojack In Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound), as Mika
• Kayleigh McKee (Bat, The Detective is Already Dead), as Kusunoki

Crunchyroll’s Lycoris Recoil English dub release date is scheduled for late August 2022. (The exact date will be added once it’s announced.)

Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray/DVD release confirmed

Lycoris Recoil Season 1 streaming on Crunchyroll, VRV and Netflix Japan during Summer 2022 (not Netflix USA or Hulu, Disney+. HIDIVE or Amazon Prime Video).

The 13 episodes were distributed in six Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray/DVD volumes. Here is the BD release calendar:

• Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray Volume 1, September 21, 2022
• Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray Volume 2, October 26, 2022
• Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray Volume 3: November 23, 2022
• Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray Volume 4, December 21, 2022
• Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray Volume 5: January 25, 2023
• Lycoris Recoil Blu-Ray Volume 6: February 22, 2023

The first season’s finale, Lycoris Recoil Episode 13, was released on September 24, 2022.

Lycoris Recoil manga adapts main story

The Lycoris Recoil manga began serializing in Media Factory’s Monthly Comic Flapper magazine on September 5, 2022. Yasunori Biza is drawing the Lycoris Recoil manga. This adaptation will be the main storyline of the anime TV program.

An English translation of the Lycoris Recoil manga hasn’t been announced yet.

Lycoris Recoil – Ordinary Days light novel will offer more slice-of-life side stories

ASCI Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko will publish the Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days book on September 9, 2022.

Asaura, Ben-To author and creator of the Lycoris Recoil story concept, is writing the light novel.

Lycoris Recoil – Ordinary Days, as the title implies, will be a collection of side stories that complement the main plot. It probably won’t be a sequel since there are many time gaps in the main anime timeline. It’s possible that some of these stories were unused storyboards that were cut from the main anime.

An English translation of the Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days book hasn’t been announced yet.

Lycoris Recoil director explains the creation of the anime and Chisato’s bullet vision

The Lycoris Recoil anime was an original story created by Studio A-1 Pictures, which has produced great anime TV shows and movies like Fairy Tail, Sword Art Online, The Seven Deadly Sins, Your Lie in April, and the 86 anime.

A-1 Pictures has many goals for the future. Solo Leveling’s anime release date will be in 2023. They also announced a Kaguya-sama movie that is titled Kaguya-sama: Love is War -The First Kiss Never Ends- (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai). It’s also expected that Kaguya-sama Season 4 will continue the story after the movie adapts the next story arc.

Shingo Adachi directed the anime Lycoris Recoil. He is a former character designer and chief animation director for Sword Art Online. (Working!!).

Asaura, a Ben To light novelist, created the original story that was used in the anime series. Imigimuru (“This Art Club Has A Problem! is in charge of character designs with Kimika Onai designing the character’s uniforms.

The music was composed by Shuhei Mutsuki, SPY x FAMILY. Mutsuki’s work in anime series Fairy Gone, Three Leaves, Three Colors, and Three Leaves, Three Colors is also notable.

The Lycoris Recoil Season 2 OP (opening) and ED (ending) theme song music hasn’t been announced yet.

For the first season, the Lycoris Recoil OP “ALIVE” was performed by ClariS. Japanese singer, musician, and songwriter Sayuri perform the Lycoris Recoil ED theme song “Hana no To (Flower Tower)”.

Director Adachi stated that he was not only an episode director, but also involved in the writing of scripts, series composition and storyboards in an interview in August 2022. He was responsible for the main plot development and dialogue. The project itself was led by Aniplex and before Adachi became involved Mr. Asaura already had a basic plot in mind involving the main five characters at Lyco-Reco Café (their names never changed).

The first Lycoris Recoil trailer video PV videos focused on the slice-of-life elements at the cafe. It was therefore a pleasant surprise that Lycoris Recoil Episode 1, Part 1 began with a scene explaining why Lycoris girls were essentially orphans and are raised secretly to eliminate any threats to Japanese society.

Adachi stated that the original concept has changed over time. This concept did not include the use of female child assassins by the government to covertly enforce public order.

“At first, there was nothing concrete about the world setting and the basic concept was pretty much “a girl and City Hunter”. However, City Hunter’s Ryo Saeba character was an adult who could choose his own jobs freely, whereas underage girls couldn’t do that,” Adachi explained. “So the DA organization and its agents the Lycoris were invented as a reason why Chisato and Takina didn’t need to go to school and why they were being given dangerous assignments.”

Despite how the introduction of the Under the Dog and Gunslinger Girl-esque organization changed the tone of the story, the director didn’t want the concept to become as dark as the aforementioned series.

“I didn’t want to make it as dark as possible since I wanted to make it an easy-to-watch work that would make you laugh once every five minutes,” the director explained. “It’s important to draw action and gun movements correctly, but I’m aiming for a work that can be accepted by people other than gun maniacs.”

He also tried to explain Chisato’s god-like bullet time vision:

“It’s not about dynamic vision, it’s about observation. Chisato is able to detect subtle movements in the eyes, muscles and mouth, so she can determine whether the other person wants to pull the trigger. It takes some time for the brain’s command to the fingertips to move and for the trigger to be pulled. If you can instantly understand what a person is going to do next, you won’t get hit by a bullet. If you think of a bullet as a ‘small dot’ that appears instantaneously and has lethal power it won’t hit unless the body is there when that dot appears… (laughs) The main character would need some kind of special talent, so at the planning stage, it was simply ‘good at handling guns. … I thought about what I could do to more clearly convey to the audience that ‘special talent’, but it was difficult… After thinking about various things, I came up with Chisato’s ability mentioned above.”

– Lycoris Recoil director Shingo Adachi

One of the major themes in the first season is Talents. The Alan Institute claims, “This is your talent, and this way of life is the best for you and the world!” The director points out that this ideal “helps some people, but you probably know that it’s not everything, right?” So Chisato’s talent has her pondering how that will affect her life and what answer she will give to Alan Institute leader Shinji Yoshimatsu.

We’ll just have to wait and see if the talented director creates a new main theme for Lycoris Recoil Season 2. Keep checking!