2nd anime season premieres on October 7

The official Twitter account for the anime of Yasuhiro Nightow's Blood Blockade Battlefront manga posted a final promotional video before the October 7 premiere of the second season, Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (Kekkai Sensen & Beyond), on Monday. The video features the opening theme song "fake town baby" by Unison Square Garden.

『血界戦線 & BEYOND』放送直前PV公開しました!! #kekkai_anime pic.twitter.com/OQd8Trdq7l

— TVアニメ『血界戦線』 (@kekkaisensen) September 24, 2017

The new series will explore the connection between Michella and Leo and will also explore the mysteries of the "All Seeing Eyes of God."

The anime will premiere on MBS on October 7 at 27:08 (effectively October 8 at 3:08 a.m.), and will then air on Tokyo MX and BS11 on October 8 at 24:30 (effectively October 9 at 12:30 a.m.).

The returning main cast includes:

Daisuke Sakaguchi as Leonardo Watch Nana Mizuki as Michella Watch Rikiya Koyama as Klaus Von Reinhertz Kazuya Nakai as Zapp Renfro Yu Kobayashi as Chain Sumeragi Hikaru Midorikawa as Zed O'Brien Ai Orikasa as K.K. Banjou Ginga as Gilbert F. Altstein Mitsuru Miyamoto as Steven A. Starphase Yūma Uchida as Sonic Speed Monkey

BONES is once again animating the new series. Shigehito Takayanagi (Galaxy Angel A, The World God Only Knows, Dagashi Kashi) is taking over as director of the anime from the previous season's Rie Matsumoto, and Yasuko Kamo (Dagashi Kashi) is also taking over series composition duties from Kazunao Furuya. Toshihiro Kawamoto returns as character designer and chief animation director, and Taisei Iwasaki returns to compose the music.

Unison Square Garden is returning to perform the opening theme song "fake town baby" for the anime. DAOKO and Yasuyuki Okamura will perform the anime's ending theme song "Step Up Love."