The official website for the television anime adaptation of Shuuichi Shigeno’s MF Ghost manga has released the second promotional video for Season 2. The video announces the season’s premiere date of October 6 and previews the new opening theme song “ROCK ME KISS ME feat. MOTSU” by Yū Serizawa.
Crunchyroll will host a premiere screening of Season 2 on August 24 at Anime NYC.
The anime first premiered in October 2023 on Tokyo MX, BS11, and RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, and it is also broadcast on Animax, TV Aichi, Shizuoka Broadcasting System, TV Setouchi, Tochigi TV, and YTV. Crunchyroll streams the series concurrently with its Japanese broadcast.
The anime is directed by Tomohito Naka (known for Initial D Legend 2: Racer, Initial D Legend 3: Dream, and Sword Gai: The Animation) at Felix Film. Kenichi Yamashita (Ketsuekigata-kun!, Actually, I Am…) and Akihiko Inari are handling the series scripts. Naoyuki Onda (Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, Psycho-Pass 3) is designing the characters and serves as a chief animation director alongside Chiyoko Sakamoto. Hiroki Uchida is the 3D director, Masafumi Mima is directing the sound, and Akio Dobashi (Initial D: Legend films, Sisters of Wellber, Dance in the Vampire Bund) is composing the music. Yū Serizawa performs the opening theme song “JUNGLE FIRE feat. MOTSU,” while Himika Akaneya sings the ending theme song “Stereo Sunset (Prod. AmPm).”
Set in the 2020s, a time when self-driving cars are common in Japan, MF Ghost follows Kanata Livington, a Japanese driver who returns to Japan after graduating top of his class from a racing school in England. The series also highlights the MFG, a prominent racing circuit on public roads that has gained international attention.
Shuuichi Shigeno launched the MF Ghost manga in Kodansha’s Young Magazine in September 2017. The 20th compiled volume was released in Japan on June 6. Kodansha Comics and Comixology are publishing the manga in English. The manga went on hiatus in November 2022 due to Shigeno’s health issues but resumed in February 2023. It went on hiatus again in April but returned in June and began its “final battle.”
Shigeno concluded his Initial D manga in Young Magazine in July 2013. Tokyopop published the early volumes in North America, while Kodansha Comics and Comixology offer the complete series in English. Initial D inspired several anime series, a live-action film, multiple original video animations, and a successful video game franchise. The manga also led to a trilogy of anime films, with the third installment premiering in February 2016.
