Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian TV Anime's 2nd Season Reveals Teaser Video
Kadokawa unveiled a new teaser video at the KyoMAF event on Sunday for the second anime season of writer Sunsunsun and artist Momoco's Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san) light novel series.
Kadokawa also revealed the book franchise has 5.5 million copies in circulation worldwide (including digital copies sold).
The new season was previously slated to debut this year, but was delayed to 2027 to improve the quality of the series.
Hiroshi Haraguchi, the first season's episode 4 director, will direct the second season replacing Ryota Itoh, at Dōga Kōbō. Yuka Yamada, who wrote the script for episode 6, is now in charge of series scripts, also replacing Itoh. Yūhei Murota is again designing the characters. Seong Min Kim, who was a storyboard artist and episode director for the first season, is the assistant director for the new season.
The anime's second season will continue from the light novel's fourth volume.
The first anime season debuted in July 2024 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and also streams an English dub.
Yen Press is releasing the novels in English, and it describes the story:
Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is Seiren Private Academy's “solitary princess.” She's a half-Russian beauty with silver hair, at the top of her class, student council accountant, and…completely unapproachable. For some reason, she's also taken on the responsibility of reprimanding the slacker who sits next to her in class. Masachika Kuze is constantly frustrating her by falling asleep, forgetting his textbooks, and just being an overall unexemplary student. Or at least, that's how it looks from the outside. She may put on a tough act, but she doesn't mind Masachika as much as others would think. She even lets him call her by her nickname, Alya. Anyone hearing the comments she mutters in Russian under her breath might know how she really feels, but since none of her classmates understand the language, she's free to say whatever she likes! Except…there is one person who knows what she's saying. Masachika eavesdrops on her embarrassing revelations, pretending to be clueless, all the while wondering what her flirtatious comments actually mean!
Kadokawa publishes the novels under its Sneaker Bunko imprint. Saho Tenamachi (Shōsetsu no Kami-sama; Itsuka, Nemuri ni Tsuku Hi) launched a manga adaptation in October 2022 on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app. Yen Press and K MANGA both release the manga in English.
Source: Press release
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