Cuphead and Mugman are about to roll the dice again on Netflix! The Cuphead Show! is coming back to the streamer for a second round of zany, cartoony goodness on August 19. Based on the insanely hard yet widely pop side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer Cuphead released in 2017, the series follows the pair of mugs (Tru Valentino and Frank Todaro) on a set of new adventures as they endeavor to keep their souls out of the clutches of the Devil.

The Cuphead Show! debuted on Netflix back in February and immediately gained a post-obit for its slapstick sense of humor, homages to classic animation, and expansion on the characters from the game. Season two promises more than of the same center that fabricated the starting time a fan-favorite, this fourth dimension with much more of Grey DeLisle's Ms. Chalice. A teaser for the series released dorsum on Netflix's Geeked Week gave her high billing alongside Cuphead and Mugman, proving to be both an occasional partner in crime for the pair and the voice of reason keeping them from getting in problem depending on the day. It's especially plumbing fixtures that she's getting more of a spotlight in the upcoming flavour given that she's as well becoming a playable grapheme in-game with the release of the "Delicious Last Course" DLC on June 30.

The new season is also teased to continue off from Flavour 1's catastrophe where Cuphead and Mugman wind upwards in the "stoney lonesome" (translation: jail). Expect more of the game'due south colorful characters to testify up throughout as well, including Baroness Von Bon Bon, who makes a brief advent at the end of the teaser, and Captain Brineybeard, who threatens the boys with his talking cutlass. Season 2 brings with it 12 new episodes that look to aggrandize on Inkwell Isle and add plenty more than tie-ins to the game.

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Alongside Valentino and Todaro as the pair of mugs, The Cuphead Show! also features Like Millington-Drake as the dastardly Devil who tries all sorts of schemes to get the duo'due south souls. As well on board the series is Joe Hanna, Chris Wylde, Rick Zieff, and Wayne Brady. Much of the animation is done by Lighthouse Studios who've given the show a manner that evokes the classic cartoons of quondam blithe in the Fleischer rubber hose mode while smoothing out some of its rougher edges.

Writing for the serial is done past Deeki Deke, Dirt Morrow, Adam Paloian, Cosmo Segurson, and Dave Wasson. Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, the founders of Cuphead creators Studio MHDR, as well serve equally executive producers on the series alongside King Features' C.J. Kettler. Wasson and Segurson executive produce too, bringing their collective blitheness cognition including credits on Mickey Mouse Shorts and Rocco' Modern Life : Static Cling to the series.

The kickoff season of The Cuphead Show! is available to stream at present on Netflix with the second flavour coming August 19.