Electric Circus Takes Over the Adaptation
The second season's biggest change is behind the camera rather than on screen. Animation moves from Telecom Animation Film to Electric Circus, with Daisuke Sakō directing in place of Season 1's Yūichirō Yano, as Anime News Network reported when the main trailer was released in August.
Several key staff members carry over. Yūko Kakihara returns on series composition and scripts, and Miho Tanino is back as character designer and chief animation director. Takeshi Ohmama is credited with the music, Jin Aketagawa with sound direction, and UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS with planning.
That continuity matters here. Season 1 ran from October 2024 to March 2025 and won Best Romance at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025. Its appeal rested on small, carefully animated gestures rather than spectacle.
Inside Episode 26, "Deja Vu"
The episode numbering picks up straight from Season 1, so the premiere is episode 26 rather than episode 1. Per the preview synopsis and stills published by Japanese anime news site Anime Anime, Taiki is giddy about the date with Chinatsu he has been waiting for. The two go shopping and the afternoon goes well, right up until Kazuma Matsuoka, an upperclassman from the boys' basketball team, shows up and the mood flips.
Matsuoka is pushy, and the pair get dragged along in his wake. After a few detours they end up at one particular spot, and there, under the evening light, Taiki works up the nerve to tell Chinatsu how he feels. The synopsis stops there; whether he gets the words out is left for the broadcast.
Eight preview stills accompanied the synopsis, covering the shopping trip, Matsuoka's arrival, and the sunset scene.
The Voice Cast Going Into Season 2
Shōya Chiba returns as Taiki Inomata and Reina Ueda as Chinatsu Kano, the badminton player and the basketball player whose overlapping training schedule and shared roof set the story in motion. Yūki Kaji (Eren Yeager in Attack on Titan) voices Kazuma Matsuoka, who crashes the date.
Akari Kitō plays Hina Chono, Chiaki Kobayashi plays Kyō Kasahara, Yūma Uchida plays Kengo Haryū, and Kana Ichinose plays Ayame Moriya. Yoshino Aoyama joins the cast this season as Yumeka Kido.
The source manga by Kouji Miura ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from April 2021 to July 2026. Anime Anime describes it as a youth sports-club love story about ordinary teenagers throwing themselves into their clubs, attentive to the fine emotional detail of falling for someone.
Looking Ahead
Season 2 airs Sundays at 4:30 p.m. on TBS and a 28-station national network, with Japanese streaming starting at 5:00 p.m. the same day on Netflix, d Anime Store, U-NEXT and more than twenty other platforms.
For international viewers, Netflix carries the season worldwide, the same route Season 1 took to its Crunchyroll Anime Awards win. aiko performs the opening theme, "Anata no Hana no Iro," and elsewhere kikou performs the ending theme, "blue in."
There are ways to get ahead of the broadcast. The manga is complete at 26 volumes in Japan, Viz Media publishes it in English, and Shueisha simulpublished it free on MANGA Plus. Season 1 remains available on streaming services for anyone catching up before episode 26.