A second horror visual has been released for the upcoming Dark Gathering Season 2, showcasing the eerie Kubizuka Daimyojin location. The second season will premiere in Japan in 2027.
The Dark Gathering anime will also have a stage event at Jump Studio during Jump Festa 2027, which will take place on December 19, 2026 and December 20, 2026 at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
Hiroshi Ikehata (Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You) returns as the director of the second season, with Shigeru Murakoshi (Apocalypse Hotel, Snowball Earth) as series composer and Yuri Ichinose (Dark Gathering Season 1 co-character designer) as character designer. OLM is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast include:
- • Yu Shinohara as Yayoi Hozuki
- • Nobunaga Shimazaki as Keitaro Gentoga
- • Kana Hanazawa as Eiko Hozuki
- • Rina Kawaguchi as Ai Kamiyo
The first season ran for two cours containing 25 total episodes that were released from July 2023 to December 2023. HIDIVE streamed the anime in select countries and territories.
The supernatural horror manga series by Kenichi Kondo began serialization in Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine on March 4, 2019 and has released 20 tankobon volumes as of July 2026.
VIZ Media releases the Dark Gathering manga in English and describes it as:
Keitaro is ready to stop living as a shut-in. He’s starting university. He’s reconnecting with his childhood friend. He’s taking a tutoring job. And he’s not messing around with ghosts anymore. At least that’s what he thinks, until he finds out the elementary schooler he’s tutoring is an occult-obsessed genius who’s hunting down dangerous spirits and won’t stop until she’s found the one that took her mom!
Source: Press release
