Ace of the Diamond Act II Season 2 revealed a new trailer for its second cour, set to continue with the Seido vs Inashiro match in October 2026. Taking over from Madhouse is studio OLM, which is animating the sequel with Hideaki Oba as the director.
The full staff includes:
- Director: Hideaki Oba
- Series Composition: Kenji Konuta
- Screenplay: Kenji Konuta, Junichi Fujisaku, Takahiro Udagawa
- Character Design: Yasukazu Shoji
- Music: Gen Ittetsu
- Art Director: Kenji Kato
- Director of Photography: Atsushi Sato (Studio Shamrock)
- Color Design: Nao Sato
- Editing: Toshihiko Kojima
- Animation Production: OLM Team Yoshioka
It was previously announced that GLAY will perform the opening theme, while OxT will perform the ending theme for the second cour. Both artists previously contributed songs to the anime. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime, with thirteen episodes out so far.
The returning voice cast for the anime includes:
- Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Miyuki
- Ryota Osaka as Eijun Sawamura
- Natsuki Hanae as Haruichi Kominato
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Satoru Furuya
- Shintaro Asanuma as Yoichi Kuramochi
- Yuma Uchida as Koshu Okumura
- Daiki Yamashita as Takuma Seto
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Masashi Yuki
- Ayumu Murase as Kaoru Yui
- Tasuku Hatanaka as Hirofumi Asada
Ace of the Diamond is a Japanese baseball manga written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima. It was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine from May 2006 to January 2015. The sequel titled Ace of the Diamond Act II started in August 2015 and ran until October 2022. The series also received previous TV anime adaptations by Madhouse and Production I.G.
