Netflix Streams English-Dubbed Trailer for The Ramparts
Netflix released an English-dubbed trailer for The Ramparts of Ice season 2, coinciding with the anime's global premiere.
Netflix began streaming an English-dubbed version of the second promotional video for season 2 of The Ramparts of Ice anime on Thursday. The release marks the global rollout of the sequel, which premiered simultaneously on Japanese television and the streaming platform.
Production details
Mankyū directs the second season at Studio KAI. Yasuhiro Nakanishi is in charge of the series scripts. Miki Ogino designs the characters. The music is composed by Kanade Sakuma and Natsumi Tabuchi.
Voice cast
The Japanese voice cast for the series includes several returning and new actors. Anna Nagase voices the protagonist Koyuki. Fūka Izumi plays Miki, and Shōya Chiba voices Minato. Satoshi Inomata performs the role of Yota. Additional cast members include Chiaki Kobayashi as Tsubasa Igarashi, Sakura Shinfuku as Tsukiko Shimojima, Akari Kitō as Momoka Kuriki, Kakeru Hatano as Yūki Azumi, and Natsumi Kawaida as Akine Atagawa. For the English dub, Erika Harlacher voiced Koyuki in the first season.
Broadcast and streaming
The Ramparts of Ice season 2 premiered on Thursday on TBS and 27 affiliated channels at 11:56 p.m. Japan time, which is 10:56 a.m. EDT. It debuted globally on Netflix on April 2. The show continues the Thursday late-night time slot established by its first season. In Japan, it is also streaming on services other than Netflix.
Manga background
The anime adapts Kōcha Agasawa's manga Koori no Jōheki, also known as Ice Castle Wall. Agasawa, also known for You and I Are Polar Opposites, originally serialized the webtoon on the LINE Manga app from January 2020 to April 2022. Shueisha repackaged the series into volume format, publishing the 14th and final compiled book in February 2025. The manga has a reported total circulation, including digital copies, of 2.8 million.
The source material garnered significant acclaim prior to its adaptation. It was nominated for the 69th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2023. In December 2023, it ranked 15th for male readers in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook. It also placed second in the Vertical Scroll Comic section of the second Rakuten Kobo E-book Awards in May 2024. Also, the manga ranked second on AnimeJapan's sixth Most Wanted Anime Adaptation poll in 2023.
The manga's 14th and final volume was published by Shueisha in February 2025.
