The official website for Clevatess: The King of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero dropped its second-season trailer and key visual. Studio Lay-duce is doubling down on the chaos.
A Tuesday reveal is no accident. Studios dump forgettable news on Fridays. A Tuesday drop means they know the audience is alert. It is pure swagger.
Recruiting MYTH & ROID for the ending theme Awake Anew is brilliant. They make a melody sound like a funeral and a coronation. It is the aural equivalent of sipping tea in a burning drawing room.
The Vocal Roster
Retain the anchors. Insert the agitators.
- Yuichi Nakamura as Clevatess — Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen), Hawks (My Hero Academia)
- Haruka Shiraishi as Alice — Asirpa (Golden Kamuy), Fumino Furuhashi (We Never Learn)
- Misaki Kuno (new) as Sarasa — Hawk (The Seven Deadly Sins), Klee (Genshin Impact)
- Kotaro Nishiyama (new) as Edison — Kazuhito Narita (Haikyuu!!), Ryuichi Kashima (School Babysitters)
Nakamura and Shiraishi provide gravity. Kuno and Nishiyama are wildcards—the sound of emerging powers that refuse to behave.
Keeping the Band Together
In an industry of backstage exoduses, retaining the core team is quietly radical.
- Director: Kiyotaka Taguchi
- Writer: Keigo Koyanagi
- Composer: Nobuaki Nobusawa
- Sub-character Designer: Natsuko Kondou (new)
They are not fixing what is broken; they are fortifying it. The brutal aesthetic of manga creator Yuji Iwahara (Darker than Black, Dimension W) remains the visual law.
The Real Stakes
Season one left genuine rubble: a genocidal beast lord, a helpless infant, and a dead hero who refuses to lie down. This new instalment hardens the dilemma.
Shifting alliances splinter further. With Sarasa and Edison moving on a board tilted toward ruin, the question is less Can they save the world? and more Do they actually fancy the job?
It is a narrative gamble that banks on the audience having the stomach for protagonists who might simply be the very calamity they claim to resist.
The Unanswered Questions
- If a monster designed for annihilation guards a child, when does protection become possession?
- When a studio refuses to soften its darkest property, is that artistic integrity or a patient market calculation?
- If the most magnetic characters choose restraint without pretending to be good, what does that reveal about the stories we quietly demand?
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