{"id":4855,"date":"2026-07-04T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/elusive-samurai-season-2-crunchyroll-july-17-premiere\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:17:55","slug":"elusive-samurai-season-2-crunchyroll-july-17-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/elusive-samurai-season-2-crunchyroll-july-17-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Premieres July 17 on Crunchyroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game of tag is back on. <strong>The Elusive Samurai Season 2<\/strong> has a locked premiere date of <strong>17 July 2026<\/strong>, with Crunchyroll confirmed as the streaming home outside Japan. The date was announced at Anime Expo 2026 alongside a brand-new special trailer \u2014 the clearest look yet at what Tokiyuki and his unlikely band of allies face next, and great news for Singapore fans with a Crunchyroll subscription.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/elusive-samurai-s2-key-visual.png?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Elusive Samurai Season 2 official key visual poster \u2014 TV Anime Season 2 July 2026\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of The Elusive Samurai Committee \/ Aniplex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Tokiyuki&#8217;s Story, and Why You Should Be Watching<\/h2>\n<p><em>The Elusive Samurai<\/em> (\u9003\u3052\u4e0a\u624b\u306e\u82e5\u541b \/ <em>Nigejozu no Wakagimi<\/em>) comes from Yusei Matsui \u2014 the creator of <em>Assassination Classroom<\/em> \u2014 and was adapted by CloverWorks for its first season in 2024. The premise is deceptively simple: young Hojo Tokiyuki is the legitimate heir to the Kamakura shogunate, but after a coup wipes out his family in 1333, he has exactly zero conventional fighting ability to fall back on. His one supernatural gift is evasion \u2014 he is, as the title puts it, extraordinarily good at running away. His eccentric retainer Suwa Yorishige (voiced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/news\/latest\/2026\/7\/3\/the-elusive-samurai-season-2-anime-july-17-premiere-main-trailer\">Yuichi Nakamura<\/a>) believes the boy is destined to one day rule Japan, and gathers a band of equally unusual warriors to keep him alive long enough to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>What made Season 1 stand out was how deftly it balanced its comedic DNA with real historical stakes. This is a Shonen Jump adaptation that actually cares about its period setting \u2014 the 14th-century political upheaval forms a genuine backdrop rather than wallpaper. Season 2 picks up the resistance story and, judging from the new trailer, turns up the intensity considerably.<\/p>\n<h2>Watch the Season 2 Special Trailer<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"gt-video\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DQrfB-El47o\" title=\"The Elusive Samurai Season 2 | Special Trailer\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;\" allow=\"accelerometer;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture;web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><figcaption>The Elusive Samurai Season 2 | Special Trailer \u2014 via Aniplex USA on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/elusive-samurai-s2-trailer-thumb.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tokiyuki Hojo close-up from The Elusive Samurai Season 2 special trailer\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Still from Aniplex USA&#8217;s official trailer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Opening Theme: &#8220;Onigoto&#8221; by Kento Nakajima<\/h2>\n<p>The Season 2 opening theme is <strong>&#8220;Onigoto&#8221;<\/strong> (\u9b3c\u3054\u3068 \u2014 literally, &#8220;a game of demons&#8221; or &#8220;a game of tag with demons&#8221;), performed by Japanese actor and singer <strong>Kento Nakajima<\/strong>. The track gets a preview in the special trailer, and it fits the series well: propulsive, with a theatrical edge that matches Tokiyuki&#8217;s chaotic, high-speed escapes through feudal Japan. Yusei Matsui&#8217;s stories have always had a knack for pairing kinetic action with music that adds emotional texture, and &#8220;Onigoto&#8221; looks set to continue that tradition.<\/p>\n<h2>Returning Cast and Crew<\/h2>\n<p>Director <strong>Yuta Yamazaki<\/strong> returns for Season 2 at <strong>CloverWorks<\/strong>, keeping the visual identity and comedic timing intact. The full core cast is back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tokiyuki Hojo<\/strong> \u2014 Asaki Yuikawa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shizuku<\/strong> \u2014 Hinaki Yano<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kojirou<\/strong> \u2014 Mari Hino<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ayako<\/strong> \u2014 Sayumi Suzushiro<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genba Kazama<\/strong> \u2014 Aoi Yuki<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fubuki<\/strong> \u2014 Kikunosuke Toya<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suwa Yorishige<\/strong> \u2014 Yuichi Nakamura<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to Catch It in Singapore<\/h2>\n<p><em>The Elusive Samurai Season 2<\/em> streams on <strong>Crunchyroll<\/strong> from <strong>17 July 2026<\/strong> in select countries and territories worldwide, which includes Singapore. It lands in a packed <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/manga-anime\/\">Summer 2026 anime season<\/a> alongside other high-profile returns, so if you haven&#8217;t yet finished Season 1, this weekend is the time to lock in. The full first season is already available on Crunchyroll.<\/p>\n<p><!--GT-SCOUT source=\"Web (English)\" theme=\"Anime\" flags=\"none\"--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CloverWorks brings back The Elusive Samurai Season 2 on Crunchyroll from July 17, with a new trailer and opening theme &#8220;Onigoto&#8221; by Kento Nakajima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[25],"tags":[243,66,206,602],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manga-anime","tag-cloverworks","tag-crunchyroll","tag-summer-2026-anime","tag-the-elusive-samurai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/elusive-samurai-s2-cast.png?fit=1852%2C1040&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13AlF-1gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5205,"url":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/the-elusive-samurai-season-2-crunchyroll-july-17\/","url_meta":{"origin":4855,"position":0},"title":"The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Premieres on Crunchyroll 17 July","date":"July 8, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"CloverWorks brings back Hojo Tokiyuki for The Elusive Samurai Season 2 on 17 July \u2014 streaming on Crunchyroll with a new trailer, opening theme by Kento Nakajima, and nine days to go.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Manga Anime&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/elusive-samurai-s2-key-visual-1.png?fit=849%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4907,"url":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/green-yuri-anime-cloverworks-nirvana-opening-2027\/","url_meta":{"origin":4855,"position":1},"title":"Green Yuri Anime: CloverWorks, Nirvana Opening Theme, January 2027","date":"July 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"CloverWorks is adapting Green Yuri (The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All) with Nirvana's \"Breed\" as the opening theme. 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