Anime streaming giant Crunchyroll, has announced that the upcoming supernatural shonen sequel anime series, Mob Psycho 100 II, will screen its first episode in U.S. theaters. The company is partnering up with Fathom Events and hosting the first episode in the "Crunchyroll Movie Night", a theatrical event series starting next year.
This Mob Psycho 100 II episode will be the first one in the series, the "Mob Psycho 100 REIGEN: The Miraculous Unknown Psychic" OVA will be streamed as well and Setsuo Ito, the voice actor for Mob, will be appearing in the event.
The screening of the first episode will be on January 5, 2019 in over 500 theaters across the U.S. Tickets are available for Crunchyroll premium subscribers right now and the general audience can buy them on Friday, December 7.
Mob Psycho 100 II is directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa, Yoshimichi Kameda does the character design, Hiroshi Seko is under series composition and ONE is the original creator. There is no opening or ending theme established for this new season. The voice actors are not confirmed either but the probable move is keeping the same people from the previous season.
The series is produced by Warner Bros. and Shogakukan and Bones is the studio animating it. The manga series that inspired this anime published from April 2012 to December 2017 with 16 volumes and 109 chapters in total. Ura Sunday performed the serialization.
Mob Psycho 100 II is out on January 7, 2019