One Punch Man: Original Director and Studio Won't Make S2

J.C. Staff to animate second season.

By Alex Osborn

Animation studio Madhouse (Death Note, Wolf Children) and director Shingo Natsume won't return to direct the second season of One-Punch Man.

As reported by Comic Natalie, the official website for the anime adaptation of ONE's hit webcomic (translation via Anime News Network) announced that J.C. Staff (Food Wars, Toradora) will animate director Chikara Sakurai will helm Season 2.

The main cast of Season 1 will reprise their roles for One-Punch Man's second season. Additionally, Yoshikazu Iwanami is stepping in to replace Shoji Hata as sound director, while Makoto Miyazaki is returning to compose the music and Chikashi Kubota will return to handle character design.

Season 2 of One-Punch Man went into production earlier this year. For more the anime adaptation of the popular webcomic written by ONE and illustrated by Yusuke Murata, find out why Season 1 was one of IGN's top anime of 2015.

Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @alexcosborn.

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