The ongoing second season of DAN DA DAN reached its midway point with the airing of its sixth episode this week, which features an explosive heavy metal performance featuring Dragon Force frontman Marc Hudson.
The recently released music clip comes from the second season’s sixth episode (18th overall). It features the character Toshiro and his visual kei rock band HAYASii performing an exorcism on the possessed Jiji, using the power of a headbanging heavy metal performance.
The song performed by HAYASii is “Hunting Soul,” which is written, composed, and arranged by Seiichi Nagai and produced by series music composer Kensuke Ushio. Voice actor Kisho Taniyama performs the Japanese vocals for Toshiro, while Hudson performs the English version of the song. Other musicians involved in the song include Marty Friedman on guitar, CHARGEEEEEE… on drums, and Wakazaemon on bass.
The second season of DAN DA DAN premiered on Japanese television and Netflix on July 3, 2025 and is expected to run for 12 episodes. The first season aired for 12 episodes in Fall 2024. Crunchyroll and Netflix are streaming the anime worldwide, outside of Japan.
Abel Gongora (Season 1’s opening animation storyboard artist and director) joins season one director Fuga Yamashiro as co-director for the second season. Other staff include Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Naoyuki Onda (MF Ghost, Inuyashiki) as character designer, Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100 character designer) as alien and yokai designer, Satoshi Hashimoto (Spy x Family Season 1) and Makiho Kondo (“Tokyo Clone” music video) as color designers, Junichi Higashi (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2) as background art director, Kazuto Izumita (Great Pretender) as composting director, and Kensuke Ushio (Tengoku-Daimakyo, The Heike Story). Science SARU is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast for season two includes:
- • Shion Wakayama as Momo Ayase
- • Natsuki Hanae as Ken “Okarun” Takakura
- • Mayumi Tanaka as Turbo Granny
- • Nana Mizuki as Seiko Ayase
- • Ayane Sakura as Aira Shiratori
- • Kaito Ishikawa as Jin “Jiji“ Enjoji
- • Mutsumi Tamura as Evil Eye
A theatrical release of the first three episodes titled DAN DA DAN: EVIL EYE was released in North America before season two aired. GKIDS screened both the original Japanese language with English subtitles and English dub version beginning June 6, 2025.
The anime is based on the sci-fi occult manga series by Yukinobu Tatsu, which debuted on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ on April 6, 2021 and has released 20 tankobon volumes as of April 2025.
Viz Media releases the DAN DA DAN manga series in English, describing the main synopsis as:
Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong — Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?
Sources: DAN DA DAN Official Japanese Twitter, MBS Animation YouTube Channel, press release
