Disney+ Japan began streaming a trailer on Friday for the second live-action season adapting Masaaki Ninomiya’s Gannibal horror manga. The second season is set to premiere on Disney+ on March 19.
The main cast and staff from the first season are returning for the second installment. Yuuya Yagira reprises his role as protagonist Daigo Agawa, while Show Kasamatsu returns as Keisuke Gotō, the heir to the Gotō family, which holds power over the village. Riho Yoshioka once again plays Yuki Agawa, Daigo’s wife.
Additionally, Yuri Tsunematsu has been cast as young Gin Gotō, a pivotal character in the story.
New cast members for the second season include:
- Yuki Kura as young Masamune Kamiyama
- Rila Fukushima as Beni Gotō
- Atsushi Yanaka as a mysterious bandit
- Ryūshin Tei as Yoshimune Kamiyama
- Kōsuke Toyohara as Kinji Gotō
- Ayumu Nakajima as Osamu Gotō
- Ryō Iwase as Takeru Kawaguchi
- Dae-yeon Jin as Reo Gotō
- Akira Otaka as Mitsuru Yachiyo
- Isao Hashizume as Masamune Kamiyama
Shinzo Katayama is returning to direct the series, while Takamasa Ōe is once again handling the scripts. Teruhisa Yamamoto is serving as the producer for the second season, which will be available exclusively on Disney+ Japan.
Disney+ originally streamed the first season of the live-action Gannibal series in December 2022, consisting of seven episodes.
Gannibal Live Action
Disney+ stated that Gannibal is the most-watched locally produced original series on Disney+ Japan based on hours streamed. The series is also available for streaming on Hulu in the U.S.
Ablaze has licensed the manga and released the third volume on December 24. The company describes the story as follows:
In GANNIBAL, Daigo Agawa is a resident police officer who has been recently assigned to the remote mountain village of Kuge.
He is initially warmly welcomed by the villagers, but with the suspicious death of an old woman, he gradually becomes aware of the anomaly of the village and begins to suspect that “The people in this village are eating people.”
Ablaze launched a Kickstarter campaign in October 2023 for a Kickstarter-exclusive limited-edition hardcover version of the manga, available as a complete 13-volume box set. The campaign quickly met its goal within hours of launching.
Ninomiya first serialized the manga in Weekly Manga Goraku, a publication by Nihonbungeisha, starting in October 2018. The series concluded in November 2021, with the 13th and final compiled volume releasing in Japan in February 2022.
