{"id":143292,"date":"2025-12-23T02:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=143292"},"modified":"2025-12-23T02:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:37:49","slug":"medalist-season-2-reveals-2nd-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/12\/23\/medalist-season-2-reveals-2nd-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Medalist Season 2 Reveals 2nd Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A second trailer for the second season of the <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/medalist-season-2-reveals-trailer-visual-january-24-premiere-date\/\"><em>Medalist<\/em> anime<\/a> has been released, previewing the newly announced &#8220;Rookies&#8221; ending song by <strong>Conton Candy<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime is set to begin broadcasting on January 24 (effectively January 25 at 1:30 AM JST). Disney+ will stream the show.<\/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\u300e\u30e1\u30c0\u30ea\u30b9\u30c8\u300f\u7b2c2\u671fPV\u7b2c2\u5f3e\uff5cED\u4e3b\u984c\u6b4c\uff1aConton Candy\u300cRookies\u300d\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_GjCb92xnfQ?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\"><em>Medalist<\/em>\u00a0is based on the Kodansha-published manga by\u00a0<strong>Tsurumaikada<\/strong>, which began serialization in seinen magazine Monthly Afternoon in 2020 and has 13 volumes as of June 2025. Kodansha USA describes the source material as such:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Tsukasa, whose dreams were crushed. Inori, left to fend for herself. These two share a dream\u2026and their tenacity may be the only thing that sees them through. Their destination? The ice\u2026on the world\u2019s stage!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The manga was the winner of the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taisho 2022 award in the comics category and the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime&#8217;s first season aired during the Winter 2025 anime season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Staff (reprising)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:<strong>\u00a0Yasutaka Yamamoto<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer:<strong>\u00a0Jukki Hanada<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer and co-chief animation director:\u00a0<strong>Chinatsu Kameyama<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production company:<strong>\u00a0ENGI<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Natsumi Haruse\u00a0<\/strong>as Inori Yuitsuka<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Takeo Otsuka<\/strong>\u00a0as Tsukasa Akeuraji<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<b>\u00a0Kana Ichinose<\/b>\u00a0as Hikaru Kamisaki<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<b>\u00a0Yuma Uchida<\/b>\u00a0as Jun Yodaka<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><b>\u2022 Makoto Koichi\u00a0<\/b>as Rioh Sonidori<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><b>\u2022\u00a0<\/b><b>Taito Ban\u00a0<\/b>as Shinichiro Sonidori<\/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>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medalist-pr.com\/news.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Medalist\u00a0<\/em>anime website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second trailer for the second season of the Medalist anime has been released, previewing the newly announced &#8220;Rookies&#8221; ending song by Conton Candy. The anime is set to begin broadcasting on January 24 (effectively January 25 at 1:30 AM JST). Disney+ will stream the show. Medalist\u00a0is based on the Kodansha-published manga by\u00a0Tsurumaikada, which began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":143294,"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":[14,1625,2027,1191,122,6928],"class_list":["post-143292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-engi","tag-kodansha","tag-manga","tag-medalist"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Medalist-Season-2-PV2-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-Bha","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143292"}],"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=143292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143295,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143292\/revisions\/143295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}