OA will start on April 9 (Tue.)! YU-NO", episode 2 synopsis & advance cut!

The synopsis and scene photos for the second episode of the TV anime "YU-NO: The Girl Who Sings Love at the End of the World," which began airing sequentially on April 2, 2019, have been released.

YU-NO" is one of the representative works of the late Hiroyuki Kanno, a game designer and scenario writer who created many hit titles such as the "Mysterito" series, and is an adventure game in which players travel through parallel worlds that are said to exist in countless numbers.
Since the original PC game (MS-DOS) was released in 1996, it has been ported to Sega Turn and Windows due to its strong popularity. Since that time, the game has also been published as a novelization, a comic book, and an OVA. In 2017, MAGES. released a remake version (Play Station 4/Vita) with a new character design and cast. It was also announced at AnimeJapan 2018 in March 2018 that the remake would be released for Nintendo Switch and Steam.

The TV anime will be based on this remake and will be broadcast over a two-cour period.
The staff will be directed by Tetsuo Hirakawa, director of "The Book of Magic: Starting from Zero", who will also write the series composition and script, with character design by Mai Otsuka of the "Non no Biyo" and "Shakugan no Shana" series. Animation production will be handled by feel. of "ISLAND" and "Hina Matsuri" fame. The same cast members as in the game, including Isamu Hayashi, Rie Kugimiya, and Mare Uchida, will continue to cast.
⇒2019 Spring Anime

The second episode "Parallel World Composition Principle", which will begin airing on April 9, 2019, has been released with a synopsis and scene photos.

The synopsis and advance cuttings are as follows.
Episode 2 "Parallel World Composition Principle

The world is a place where no one except Takuya remembers what happened at Ken-no-misaki.
Takuya understands the parallel world and the reflector device.
Meanwhile, his stepmother Ayumi is attacked by someone who is after her secrets.
Takuya tries to rescue Ayumi using the reflector device, but...

Work Information] (*Honorifics are omitted.)
TV animation "YU-NO: The Girl Who Sings Love to the Ends of the Earth

＜Broadcast information
AT-X: Every Tuesday from 23:00
TOKYO MX: Every Wednesday at 22:00
ABC TV: Every Wednesday from 26:50 *Wednesday, April 10 from 27:05
BS Fuji: Every Thursday from 24:00
Me-Tele: Every Saturday from 26:44
Broadcast dates and times are subject to change without notice.

<Story
The main character, Takuya Arima, lost his mother in his childhood and his father, a historian, in an accident two months ago. During the last summer vacation of his high school life, he has lost all vitality. One day, a package arrives with a round mirror of unknown purpose and a strange object with a glass ball stuck in it. The letter that came with the package makes her father seem to be alive...?
Take this object to Cape Ken-no-misaki (Mt. Triangle) tonight at 10:00 p.m."
When I followed the instructions and went to the place, I found a mysterious woman lying on the ground. There was also the school principal and a mysterious transfer student. At that moment, the earth rumbles and a light envelops us....
The journey through parallel worlds begins now!

<Staff> Original story by Hiroyuki Kanno
Original Story: Hiroyuki Kanno / MAGES.
Director：Tetsuo Hirakawa
Character Design : Mai Otsuka
Art Background : TOTONYAN
Sound Director：Kazuya Tanaka
Music: Keishi Yonao / Ryu Takami / Evan Cole / Ryu Kawamura
OP/ED Lyrics, Composition: Chiyomaru Shikura
Animation Production: feel.
Produced by GENCO

<Cast
Takuya Arima: Isamu Hayashi
Yuno: OZAWA Arie
Hatano Kanna: Uchida Marei
Mizuki Ichijo: Saori Onishi
Shimazu Mio: Rie Kugimiya
Eriko Takeda: Yu Kobayashi
Kaori Asakura: Reina Maeda
Ayumi Arima: Kaori Nazuka
Ryuzoji Kozo: Kusunoki Daisuke
Masakatsu Yuki: Yuki Fujiwara
Hideo Toyotomi: Takuya Eguchi

(C)MAGES./PROJECT YU-NO