Danica Davidson
February 20, 2025 
A new season of the live-action adaptation of Gannibal will be here in just under a month, on March 19. The actors from season one are reprising their roles, and new cast members for the second season were announced. A number of these actors have been in other live-action adaptations of manga, so their names might already be familiar to otaku.
Let’s take a look:
Yuki Kura plays young Masamune Kamiyama
Rila Fukushima (Sakakibara in live-action Terraformars) plays Beni Goto
Atsushi Yanaka (lyricist for Toriko 3D: Kaimaku Gourmet Adventure!!) plays a mysterious bandit
Ryūshin Tei (Shikijō in live-action Rurouni Kenshin Saishūshō The Final) plays Yoshimune Kamiyama
Kōsuke Toyohara (Kazuya Sakurai in Densha Otoko) plays Kinji Gotō
Ayumu Nakajima (Shūichi Takamado in live-action Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan) plays Osamu Gotō
Ryō Iwase plays Takeru Kawaguchi
Dae-yeon Jin plays Reo Gotō
Akira Otaka (Mr. Nonomura in the live-action Cream Lemon) plays Mitsuru Yachiyo
Isao Hashizume (Boss Akutsu in 2024’s live-action City Hunter) plays Masamune Kamiyama
Disney, which is behind the series, teased, “In season two, audiences will get to uncover more of the village’s horrifying secrets and discover if Agawa has what it takes to escape the impossible and bring the nefarious Goto family to justice.”
You can check out Otaku USA’s review of Gannibal here, or our interview with creator Masaaki Ninomiya here. In the interview he talks about how he became a manga creator, the research he did, and why he got interested in cannibalism.
Ablaze publishes Gannibal in English and gave this description for the story:
Gannibal Plot
In GANNIBAL, Daigo Agawa is a resident police officer who has been recently assigned to the remote mountain village of Kuge. He is initially warmly welcomed by the villagers, but with the suspicious death of an old woman, he gradually becomes aware of the anomaly of the village and begins to suspect that “The people in this village are eating people.”
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
