{"id":2371516,"date":"2026-04-13T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2371516"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:41:27","slug":"azur-lane-slow-ahead-season-2-reveals-latest-trailer-theme-song-airs-july-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/azur-lane-slow-ahead-season-2-reveals-latest-trailer-theme-song-airs-july-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! Season 2 Reveals Latest Trailer &#038; Theme Song, Airs July 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/02\/20\/azur-lane-slow-ahead-season-2-reveals-new-visual-trailer-theme-song-july-2026-premiere\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">latest trailer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and another theme song have been unveiled for the upcoming second season of <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/09\/07\/azur-lane-slow-ahead-season-2-docks-in-2026\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane: Slow Ahead!<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which will begin airing in Japan on July 5, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trailer highlights the new theme song \u201cLu lu lun\u266a ~Urahara Kibun wa Automatic~\u201d by Japanese singer <\/span><b>Miyuki Hashimoto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u30a2\u30ba\u30fc\u30eb\u30ec\u30fc\u30f3 \u3073\u305d\u304f\u305c\u3093\u3057\u3093\u3063\uff01\u306b\u3063\uff01\uff01\u300f\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3PV\u7b2c2\u5f3e\uff5c2026\u5e747\u67085\u65e5(\u65e5)\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\uff01\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rPZZCDVGqF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the other previously announced theme song for the second season is \u201cShaisuma!\u201d by<\/span><b> Yui Sakakibara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><b>Shunji Maki<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blue Archive The Animation <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">assistant director) is serving as director for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Season 2, with <\/span><b>Yu Sato<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kotaro Lives Alone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) returning as series composer and scriptwriter and is now joined by <\/span><b>Hotaru Asafuji<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other staff includes <\/span><b>Nana Mori <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Season 1 co-animation director and animator) as character designer and chief animation director and<\/span><b> Fuga Hatori<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Wife is the Student Council President<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as music composer. <\/span><b>CANDY BOX <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is handling the animation production. <\/span><b>Yostar Pictures <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was previously credited as co-animation production company for season one.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">The main voice cast consists of:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Nozomi Yamane<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Javelin<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Yo Taichi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Ayanami<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Maria Naganawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Laffey<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Rika Abe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Z23<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Sumire Uesaka<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Akashi<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Minami Takahashi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Baltimore<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Ayane Sakura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Prinz Eugen<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">The first season aired for 12 episodes from January 12, 2021 to March 30, 2021. An OVA special, and 13th overall episode, was released on July 7, 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the short anime series worldwide, outside of Japan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane: Slow Ahead!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is based on <\/span><b>Hori<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s four-koma spinoff manga <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which was launched in Ichijinsha\u2019s Manga 4-koma Palette magazine on March 2, 2018. Five tankobon volumes have been released in Japan as of September 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/09\/07\/azur-lane-releases-madhouse-produced-anime-trailer-to-commemorate-7th-anniversary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> franchise began as a side-scrolling shooter mobile game that was first released in 2017. It inspired a 2019 television anime series from <\/span><b>Bibury Animation Studios<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queen\u2019s Orders<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> OVA that was <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/07\/16\/azur-lane-queens-orders-ova-releases-new-pv-trailer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">released in July 2023<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The premise of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> sees the fleets of the titular organization combating a threat known as the Sirens. Google Play describes the game as a \u201cmix of RPG, 2D shooter and tactical genres.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147893\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">\u00a9 Manjuu Co.,Ltd., YongShi Co.,Ltd.&amp; Yostar, Inc.\uff0f\u30db\u30ea, \u4e00\u8fc5\u793e\uff0fstudioCANDYBOX Co., Ltd.&amp; Yostar Pictures, Inc.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll streamed the first season of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane: Slow Ahead!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as it aired in Japan and describes the main premise as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a slightly peculiar world where the shipgirls live in. A lively and enjoyable school life for girls from different factions will begin at the naval port of Azur Lane. Living out their lives to the fullest, these girls get into various shenanigans \u2014 slowly but surely!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><b>Sources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/azurlane_bisoku\/status\/2043674511149785091\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/azurlane_bisoku\/status\/2043674846090109001\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-04-13\/azur-lane-slow-ahead-season-2-anime-2nd-promo-video-reveals-another-theme-song-july-5-premiere\/.236346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anime News Network<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n                (function(d, s, id) {\n          var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n          if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n          js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n          js.src=\"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9&appId=269442613521839\";\n          fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n        }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n        <\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source anitrendz.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest trailer and another theme song have been unveiled for the upcoming second season of Azur Lane: Slow Ahead!, which will begin airing in Japan on July 5, 2026.\u00a0 The trailer highlights the new theme song \u201cLu lu lun\u266a ~Urahara Kibun wa Automatic~\u201d by Japanese singer Miyuki Hashimoto.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the other previously announced theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2371517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Azur-Lane-Slow-Ahead-Season-2-Reveals-Latest-Trailer.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371518,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371516\/revisions\/2371518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}