{"id":117987,"date":"2025-04-03T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=117987"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:45:01","slug":"wind-breaker-season-2-releases-opening-and-ending-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/04\/03\/wind-breaker-season-2-releases-opening-and-ending-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Breaker Season 2 Releases Opening and Ending Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The opening and ending animations for <em>Wind Breaker<\/em> Season 2 have been released on Aniplex&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The opening sequence was storyboarded and unit directed by <strong>Ken Yamamoto<\/strong> (<em>Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister<\/em> ED 1 and <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/01\/14\/umamusume-movies-ken-yamamoto-directs-tying-the-knot-with-an-amagami-sisters-new-opening-animation\/\">OP 2<\/a>, <em>Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era <\/em>director), while the ending had series director\u00a0<strong>Toshifumi Akai<\/strong> in those roles.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>SixTONES<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;BOYZ&#8221; serves as the opening theme song, while&nbsp;<strong>shytaupe<\/strong>&#8216;s \u201cIt\u2019s myself\u201d is the ending song.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300cWIND BREAKER Season 2\u300d\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u6620\u50cf\u300cBOYZ\u300dSixTONES\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWlUVr7Du04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300cWIND BREAKER Season 2\u300d\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8\u30a8\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u6620\u50cf\u300cIt\u2019s myself\u300d\u30b7\u30e3\u30a4\u30c8\u30fc\u30d7\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ySD7YVvd6Xw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/29\/wind-breaker-season-2-highlights-new-enemies-latest-trailer-for-keel-arc\/\"><em>Wind Breaker<\/em> Season 2<\/a> had its premiere on April 3 JST (effectively April 4 at 12:26 AM JST). Crunchyroll describes the plot as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>Sakura\u2019s idea of what it means to be at the top has begun to change. After making new friends and encountering new enemies in his time at Furin High School, he has gained some perspective. Now, he stands tall as a Grade Captain, fighting to protect others. Watch as Sakura\u2019s rise continues from high school delinquent to heroic legend!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The delinquent action anime is based on the Kodansha-published manga by <strong>Satoru Nii<\/strong>, which started serialization on Magazine Pocket since 2021 and has 20 tankoubon volumes as of January 2025. The first season premiered on April 4, 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Kodansha USA describes the&nbsp;<em>Wind Breaker<\/em>&nbsp;manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings\u2014he\u2019s only interested in the strongest of the strong. He\u2019s from Fuurin High School, a school of near-dropout degenerates known only for their brawling strength. And in a town known for its territorial disputes, Haruka\u2019s got only one goal\u2014become the hero his town deserves.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Staff (series, returning)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:&nbsp;Toshifumi Akai&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer:&nbsp;<strong>Hiroshi Seko<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer and co-chief animation director:&nbsp;<strong>Taishi Kawakami<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Action director:&nbsp;<strong>Kazuyuki Asaka<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation producer:&nbsp;<strong>CloverWorks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Yuma Uchida<\/strong>&nbsp;as Haruka Sakura<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Shoya Chiba<\/b>&nbsp;as Akihiko Nirei<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<strong>&nbsp;Koki Uchiyama<\/strong>&nbsp;as Kyotaro Sugishita<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Nobunaga Shimazaki&nbsp;<\/b>as Hayato Suo<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Toshiyuki Toyonaga<\/strong>&nbsp;as Mitsuki Kiryu<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Kengo Kawanishi<\/strong>&nbsp;as Taiga Tsugeura<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Nobuhiko Okamoto<\/strong>&nbsp;as Ren Kaji<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Yuichi Nakamura<\/b>&nbsp;as Hajime Umemiya<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Ryota Suzuki<\/b>&nbsp;as Toma Hiragi<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Aniplex YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening and ending animations for Wind Breaker Season 2 have been released on Aniplex&#8217;s YouTube channel. The opening sequence was storyboarded and unit directed by Ken Yamamoto (Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister ED 1 and OP 2, Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era director), while the ending had series director\u00a0Toshifumi Akai in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":117999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,626,1191,122,6690],"class_list":["post-117987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-cloverworks","tag-kodansha","tag-manga","tag-wind-breaker"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Wind-Breaker-Season-2-OP-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-uH1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118059,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117987\/revisions\/118059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}