Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 2
 

Season 2 of our favorite puppet show confirmed for next year. And there is also spin-off with Screaming Phoenix Killer in works.
http://i.imgur.com/4sRYVOI.jpg

Two new characters for Season 2 also revealed!
http://i.imgur.com/lQ6YBF5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wtUm02q.jpg

Trailer for spin-off is out!

Movie's out. I made a thread. Ending sets up season 2. It seems Shang Bu Huan is pretty popular at home.

Announced for Fall.

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Season 2 fully revealed!

New key visual:
https://i.imgur.com/sW99hfO.jpg

Story summ:
Shang Bu Huan may have gotten a temporary rest by living in the land of the east away from his native land of the west but news have reached his bitter enemy Kaseimeikou. Again, danger is approaching.
One by one, grotesque looking assassins with strange powers are sent after him from the west.

Confirmed Staff:
Original Work: Thunderbolt Fantasy Project
Original Plan/Screenplay/Screenplay: Urobuchi Gen
Character Design: Nitroplus (Mimori Shinobu, Minamoto Satoru, Namaniku ATK)
Weapon Design/Photography/Physical Effects: Pili International Multimedia
Modeling advisor: Good Smile Company
Music: Sawano Hiroyuki
Sound Direction: Iwanami Yoshikazu
Work:Thunderbolt Fantasy Project

Confirmed characters and cast:
Lin Xue Ya
https://i.imgur.com/1Fh9NYB.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/vmA2Gty.png
Voiced by: Toriumi Kousuke

Shang Bu Huan
https://i.imgur.com/WKj37gD.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/eLaBHxA.png
Voiced by: Suwabe Junichi

Lang Wu Yao
https://i.imgur.com/5lQNS0B.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/rrTWLt7.png
Voiced by: Nishikawa Takanori
His magic talking lute is voiced by: Konishi Katsuyuki

Xie Yingluo
https://i.imgur.com/ikinoEy.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/TLCAalt.png
Voiced by: Takagaki Ayahi

Xiao Kuang Juan
https://i.imgur.com/ixKxXpA.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/eQMq9vL.png
Voiced by: Shingaki Tarusuke

Teikuu
https://i.imgur.com/2M61Qjy.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/dZiDH7X.png
Voiced by: Ishida Akira

Mysterious Princess
A glimpse of her you can see in trailer bellow.
Voiced by: Yuuki Aoi

Kaseimeikou
Currently unseen main villain of new season. He should be reason why Shang Bu Huan run away from west in first season.
Voiced by: Hayami Shou

Confirmed songs:
This time we will get both OP and ED.
https://i.imgur.com/oonoCx8.jpg
OP: "His/Story"
ED: "Roll The Dice"
Both songs are performed by Nishikawa Takanori. With music composition and arrange by Sawano and Lyrics by Fujibayashi Shouko

New trailer:
Dynamic tag cannot be rendered. (PrintableThread) Preview of new OP can be heard in trailer.

Start airing on October 1.

New site.

Finally finished the film, Shā Wú Shēng's backstory is actually pretty sad, he just wanted to walk on a proper path but got tricked into another. And the Shāng Bù Huàn's part is fun to watch, especially the finale part.

Quite surprised no one link this yet considering it's airing soon.

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What an opening. Yin Shi as useless as ever.

Hooo boy, ending with the appearance of Gale really makes you hyped up!

The Hu Yin Shi's job is literally just stay in one spot to guard a sacred weapon. Naturally their skills would be worse than those spending their lives outside. So yes their role in story is to be useless.

Not necessarily have to be that way since hermits have also been portrayed as people with godlike skills in stories like these. But well, I guess this is just the Piccolo phenomenon :heh:

^Unfortunately they're far from hermits, just normal human entrusted with duties they're born with. :heh:

They had one job in one place. You'd think they'd have gotten good at it, but my complaint is that they've grown complacent. Overestimating themselves and underestimating the people who'd want the magic sword. Not only did they not heed Shang's advice, they even had the gall to say they couldn't trust him with it. I daresay Shang's proven his competence in his single life than the this clan in it's entire history.

Anyway, if the opening is anything to go by this isn't the last we'll see of them.

They prob were strong to physical attacks and weren't expecting "special" scorpions and sorcery. If Shang hadn't returned, the fort would have fallen. :heh:

I bet they're not even good at that if Dan Fei was any example. Holing themselves up for decades caused their techniques to become outdated and not know what real skill looks like.

Its back and Shang Bu Huan really let down his guard leaving the scroll of swords with such weak people

glad the guitar guy is on Shang's side, he seems neat.

Shang cut the scroll horizontally, I believe, leaving both of them with a fraction of the swords. Had he cut it in half when rolled up, perhaps some of the swords would have been destroyed? Probably not the cursed ones, though.

Off to a good start. Presumably the cursed sword featured prominently in the opening is one of the ones the Princess girl got her hands on.