Strobe Edge Season 2 Japanese Television Drama
Strobe Edge Season 2 is a Japanese television drama series broadcast on the network WOWOW starting on January 9, 2026. The series is part of the television adaptation continuity following the 2015 feature film and the 2025 first television season.
Production and Background
The television drama is based on the manga series Strobe Edge written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka. The original manga was serialized in the magazine Bessatsu Margaret between June 13, 2007, and August 11, 2010. The scripts for the television series are written by Sayaka Kuwamura, and the production is directed by Mahito Kimura and Yusuke Matsuda. The program airs on Fridays at 23:00 with a total order of six episodes.
Cast and Characters
The series features a large ensemble cast portraying characters from Io Sakisaka's original manga. Below are the primary cast members and their respective roles:
- Riko Fukumoto as Ninako Kinoshita
- Kyohei Takahashi as Ren Ichinose
- Coki Yamashita as Takumi Ando
- Nao Kosaka as Sayuri Uehara
- Motoki Nakazawa as Daiki Korenaga
- Tsubasa Nakagawa as Manabu Miyoshi
- Sora Inoue as Yutaro Terada
- Neo Inoue as Tamaki Tsutsui
- Yui Oguri as Ritsuko Kashiwagi
- Ririka Tanabe as Mayuka Korenaga
- Sakura Kiryu as Mao Sugimoto
- Kyoko Hasegawa as Aki Takazawa
- Shunsuke Nakamura as Yohei Korenaga
- Toru Nomaguchi as Toshio Hasebe
- Kei Inoo as Kyoichi Miyoshi
- Yudai Chiba as Hoshina
Broadcast and Related Works
The series is broadcast on WOWOW in Japan. It is preceded by the 2015 live-action film adaptation and the 2025 television series Strobe Edge Season 1.