In an interview Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura) gave away some of the storyline for the second season of Heroes. Among the details he shared, the season starts out with two parallel storylines. The first is four months after the explosion, the second follows his character in Japan where he landed at the end of the first season. One of the characters he meets in feudal Japan is his childhood hero Takezo Kensei, who will be played by David Anders.