The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Syougo Kinugasa and Shunsaku Tomose's Classroom of the Elite (Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e) light novel series has released an updated key visual for the anime project's second season. Kushida joins Ayanokōji in the new visual.
Shoya Chiba (Kiyotaka Ayanokōji) and Yurika Kubo (Kikyō Kushida) are confirmed to be reprising their roles in the second season, along with the rest of the main cast from Season 1.
Season 2 will premiere in July 2022, and the 3rd season is currently in production set for a 2023 premiere.
Crunchyroll streamed the first season of the anime and describes it as:
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it's said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school's problem children. What's more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class. One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school...
ZAQ is returning to perform the opening theme for Season 2. Mai Fuchigami will perform the ending theme.
Shoya Chiba (Kiyotaka Ayanokōji) and Yurika Kubo (Kikyō Kushida) are confirmed to be reprising their roles in the second season, along with the rest of the main cast from Season 1.
The anime will adapt the original story's complete first-year-student arc.
Season 2 will premiere in July 2022, and the 3rd season is currently in production set for a 2023 premiere.
UPDATED KEY VISUAL:
TRAILER:
The first season's directors Seiji Kishi and Hiroyuki Hashimoto are returning as chief directors, with Yoshihito Nishōji is the credited director at Lerche. Hayato Kazano is now overseeing the series scripts, and Kazuaki Morita is back to design the characters. Ryō Takahashi is also returning to compose the music, joined by Kana Hashiguchi. Satoki Iida is directing the sound.
KEY VISUAL:
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it's said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school's problem children. What's more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class. One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school...