Eureka Seven “Astral Ocean” – Second Season Confirmed

Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean (Eureka Seven Ao)’s official website is announcing that a TV animated version of the January 26 Manga, Eureka Seven Ao, will begin airing in April, 2012. The original studio behind the first Eureka Seven series, BONES, will be returning to animatate the sequel.

Eureka Seven Ao‘s Manga is being announced in February’s issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Shounen Ace Magazine, as a direct sequel to the Anime series which originally aired in 2005. The “real mecha epic” will center around Ao, a boy who “set destiny in motion when he held the power”.

Eureka Seven‘s Anime was originally created in 2005 by BONES, followed by an Anime film Eureka Seven – Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers, in 2009.