A second TV anime series was announced at Shueisha's 2016 Jump Festa. Hoshino called the new series a sequel of the first anime, rather than a reboot. It starts where the first series finished and ends with Allen's departure from the Order. The new series, "D.Gray-man Hallow", directed by Yoshiharu Ashino and written by Michiko Yokote, Tatsuto Higuchi, and Kenichi Yamashita, has character designs by Yosuke Kabashima and music by Kaoru Wada. Crunchyroll would stream the series as it aired in Japan. It aired on TV Tokyo from July 4 to September 26, 2016, and was broadcast on Animax Asia. "Hallow" home-media release was delayed, and in March 2017, the official "D.Gray-man Hallow" website stated the home-media release was cancelled due to "various circumstances".