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Chiwa Saito Joins 2nd Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Season

The Animate.tv website reported on Monday that voice actress Chiwa Saito will play the new character Kuro in Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!, the second season of the Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya television anime. Saito played the equivalent character in the drama CD. In addition, Sayaka Ohara and Rikiya Koyama will return as this alternate universe's versions of Irisviel von Einzbern and Kiritsugu Emiya.

Animate.tv also posted screenshots from the new season's second promotional video:

The short version of the season's advance promotional video debuted last month.

The cast now includes:

• Mai Kadowaki as Illyasviel von Einzbern 
• Kaori Nazuka as Miyu 
• Chiwa Saito as Kuro
• Kana Ueda as Rin Tohsaka 
• Shizuka Itou as Luviagelita Edelfelt 
• Naoko Takano as Magical Ruby 
• Miyu Matsuki as Magical Sapphire 
• Noriaki Sugiyama as Shirou Emiya 
• Sayaka Ohara as Iri
• Rikiya Koyama as Kiritsugu Emiya
• Haruhi Terada as Sella 
• Miho Miyagawa as Leysritt(Liz) 
• Miki Itou as Taiga Fujimura 
• Mariya Ise as Nanaki Moriyama
• Emiri Katō as Tatsuko Gakumazawa 
• Kanae Itō as Suzuka Kurihara 
• Satomi Satou as Mimi Katsura 

However, the staff will have a new chief director, director, art director, and sound director:

• Planning: Takeshi Yasuda 
• Chief Director: Shin Oonuma
• Director:  Masato Jinbo
• Series Composition: Kenji Inoue 
• Script: Hazuki Minase
• Character Design: Nozomi Ushijima 
• Art Director: Ken Tateishi 
• Editing: Kentarou Tsubone 
• Sound Director: Masanori Tsuchiya
• Sound Production: Dax Production 
• Music: Tatsuya Katou 
• Music Production: Lantis 
• Music producer: Shigeru Saitō, Terunari Yoshie 
• Producer: Ai Matsuki, Jun'ichirō Tamura
• Animation producer: Hayato Kaneko 
• Animation Production: SILVER LINK

Executive producers: Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Hayato Kaneko, Shigeru Saitō, Tetsuya Dobashi, Nobukazu Kumagai, Tetsu Hirata, Masahiro Kiba 

Hiroshi Hiroyama's original Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya manga re-imagines the Fate/stay night character Illyasviel von Einzbern in an alternate universe as a magical girl. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya ran in Kadokawa Shoten's Comp Ace from 2007-2008. Hiroyama then launched two sequel manga series: Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Zwei! from 2009-2012 and the most recent, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Drei!!, which has been running since 2012.

The first anime adaptation premiered last summer, and Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for North America and plans to release it on home video in 2014.

Source: Animate.tv via 0takomu

Image © 2014 Hiroshi Hiroyama, Type-Moon/Kadokawa's Kadokawa Shoten/Prisma Illya 2wei! Production Committee