DAN DA DAN Season 2 Previews Opening & Ending Themes in Short New Promotional Videos

Two new short promotional videos have been revealed for the upcoming second season of DAN DA DAN, which previews both the new opening and ending themes for the series. The second season will premiere on Japanese television and Netflix on July 3, 2025. Crunchyroll will also begin streaming season two this July, as it airs in Japan. 

The new promotional videos highlight the second season’s opening theme “On The Way” by AiNA THE END and ending theme “Doukashiteru” by WurtS. 

Abel Gongora (Season 1’s opening animation storyboard artist and director) joins season one director Fuga Yamashiro as co-director for the second season. Other staff include Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Naoyuki Onda (MF Ghost, Inuyashiki) as character designer, Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100 character designer) as alien and yokai designer, Satoshi Hashimoto (Spy x Family Season 1) and Makiho Kondo (“Tokyo Clone” music video) as color designers, Junichi Higashi (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2) as background art director, Kazuto Izumita (Great Pretender) as composting director, and Kensuke Ushio (Tengoku-Daimakyo, The Heike Story). Science SARU is handling the animation production.  

They join the anime’s main voice cast for season two, which includes: 

• • Shion Wakayama as Momo Ayase
• • Natsuki Hanae as Ken “Okarun” Takakura 
• • Mayumi Tanaka as Turbo Granny
• • Kazuya Nakai as Serpoians
• • Nana Mizuki as Seiko Ayase
• • Ayane Sakura as Aira Shiratori
• • Kaito Ishikawa as Jin “Jiji“ Enjoji
• • Mutsumi Tamura as Evil Eye

A theatrical release of the first three episodes titled DAN DA DAN: EVIL EYE is screening in North America before the debut of season two. GKIDS is screening both the original Japanese language with English subtitles and English dub version, as of June 6, 2025.

Season one of DAN DA DAN aired for 12 episodes during the Fall 2024 anime season. Crunchyroll and Netflix streamed the first season worldwide, outside of Japan. 

The anime is based on the sci-fi occult manga series by Yukinobu Tatsu, which debuted on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ on April 6, 2021 and has released 19 tankobon volumes as of April 2025. A 20th volume will be released in Japan on July 4, 2025.

Viz Media releases the DAN DA DAN manga series in English, describing the main synopsis as:

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong — Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?

Sources: DAN DA DAN Official English Twitter, Official Japanese Twitter, Anime News Network