Second Season of 'Nijiyon Animation' Announced for Spring 2024

by Vindstot
Dec 24, 2023 10:30 AM | 4 Comments

A second season for Nijiyon Animation was announced at the Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai 6th Live! I love You ⇆ You love Me Aichi Performance on Sunday. The official website also posted a promotional video and key visual (pictured). The sequel will begin airing on April 5 at 9:54 p.m. on Tokyo MX, followed by April 8 at 9:56 p.m. on BS11.

Production staff and cast from the first season are reprising their roles, except for Tomori Kusunoki, who is being replaced by Koko Hayashi as Setsuna Yuuki. Kusunoki stepped down from the role earlier this year due to a health condition.

The television short adapting Hito Miyako's spin-off manga aired in 12 episodes in Winter 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the anime with subtitles. The special edition of the Blu-ray bundled three unaired episodes on March 29.

Miyako launched the manga on the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS smartphone game website in December 2018. The manga transferred to Dengeki G's magazine in July 2019 and ran until December that year, concluding the manga's second season.

The official Love Live! YouTube channel began uploading the manga in video format in June 2020, featuring voices by the main cast. The fourth season of the manga ended on January 18 last year.

The original Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club) television anime aired in two 13-episode anime seasons in Fall 2020 and Spring 2022. The Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai: Next Sky original video anime screened in theaters on June 23. A three-part anime movie is currently in production, with the first part scheduled for a 2024 opening.

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Nijiyon Animation 2 on MAL

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@RobertBobert It's worth remembering that, because the source material in this case is 4komas, each episode is very short, so a season 2 doesn't really eat much time or production cost, especially as we already have Superstar S3 and some Niji OVAs coming up in 2024.

Dec 24, 2023 4:49 PM by TARDISES

@RobertBobert 6 shows of 55 were announced a sequel for this season alone (still not over ) even if we get some other announcements before the winter season it's still only a few and it's apparent when you count how many new shows we get per season and notice an increase so if anything it's more rare to get a sequel because more shows are in production and for argument sake I didn't count ova/Ona only series.

Dec 24, 2023 11:15 AM by Otakupervert890

This was probably to be expected, given the popularity of the franchise, but I wonder how quickly seasons will cease to be the significance of success in an era when almost any show can get a sequel.

Dec 24, 2023 10:54 AM by RobertBobert

obviously gonna watch it, i adore these girls a lot, still my second favorite Love Live generation after the original one.

Dec 24, 2023 10:53 AM by _untitled