#Fate/Grand Carnival 2nd Season Gets Trailer, Releases October 13

The Fate/Grand Carnival 2nd Season OVA has received a new trailer, offering a preview of its skits and the ending song “Wonderful Carnival” by Masaaki Endoh. The OVA will release via Blue-ray and DVD on October 13; it was originally announced with an August 25 release date.

Fate/Grand Carnival 1st Season was released on July 2, after airing as part of Type-Moon’s New Year’s Eve showcase. Each “season” comprises of a half-hour episode. The US website for Fate/Grand Carnival was launched in August.

Fate/Grand Carnival is a parody of TYPE-MOON’s Fate/Grand Order mobile game, in the vein of the 2011 Carnival Phantasm anime (an adaptation of the gag manga TAKE MOON) that parodied Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime. 

Fate/Grand Carnival’s staff includes Seiji Kishi (Radiant, Asobi Asobase, Kengan Ashura, Carnival Phantasm) as director, Makoto Uezu (Radiant, Kengan Ashura, Carnival Phantasm) as series composer and script writer, and Kazuaki Morita (Kengan Ashura, Carnival Phantasm) and Tomohito Hirose (Radiant monster designer and Astra Lost in Space space creature designer) as both character designers and chief animation directors. 

Other staff include Tomoyuki Kunii (Scum’s Wish) as photography director, Mio Takekawa (Radiant) as color designer, Ayumi Miyakoshi (Assassination Classroom Season 2) as art director, and Yasuhara Takanashi (Talentless Nana) and Keita Haga (Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia) as music composers. Lerche is in charge of animation production. 

Fate/Grand Carnival 2nd Season features an ensemble cast of over 30, including Akira Sekine as Ritsuka Fujimura, Rie Takahashi as Mash Kyrielight, Jōji Nakata as Mysterious Cat V, Ai Nonaka as Mysterious Cat W, Ayako Kawasumi as Mysterious Cat X, Atsuko Tanaka as Mysterious Cat Y, and Takahiro Sakurai as Mysterious Cat Z.