Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 launch date in Spring 2023 confirmed by Punch! sequel trailer PV

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 will come out in mid-2023 simply as Anime Geek predicted! Pic credit score: Studio EMT Squared

The Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 launch is in April 2023, the Spring 2023 anime season.

The anime was initially confirmed to be in manufacturing on December 23, 2020. The second season will likely be titled Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Panchi!).

The second season can have Yuna, Fina, and her associates constructing tunnels and eating places, exploring deep mines, and attending politically explosive birthday events.

The first Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 PV trailer.

The 2nd Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! PV trailer was launched on February 2, 2023.

The following Season 1 predominant forged members are confirmed to return for the sequel:

• Maki Kawase (Askeladd in Vinland Saga) as Yuna
• Azumi Waki (Senko in The Helpful Fox Senko-san) as Fina

The day the primary season ended, the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 manufacturing determination was introduced. Besides confirming the second season, in addition they launched commemorative paintings to have a good time the renewal.

The paintings for the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 anime announcement was drawn by the character designer. Pic credit score: Yuki Nakano

“The second manufacturing is determined!” tweeted Maki Kawaase, the Japanese voice actress for Yuna. “I used to be stunned and glad to listen to the opposite day. Please stay up for it …!”

“The remaining episode is over and I’ve no time to really feel lonely … [! !! !! Second production decision! !! !! ] Oh! I’m actually glad! !!” tweeted Azumi Waki, the voice of Fina. “You can see cute cute Fina once more!”

“The second season of TV animation was additionally introduced!” tweeted Rina Hidaka, the voice of Lady Noa (Noire). “I did it! I’ll do my greatest as chairman.”

This anime announcement proves that streaming income is extra essential than Blu-Ray/DVD field set gross sales. When the primary quantity of the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Blu-Ray/DVD launched in Japan in late January 2021, the discs solely offered 1,810 copies of their first week.

Yuna and Fina in Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! Pic credit score: Studio EMT Squared

This article supplies all the things that’s recognized about Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Panchi!) and all associated information. As such, this text will likely be up to date over time with information, rumors, and evaluation. Meanwhile, let’s delve down into what is understood for sure.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 anime spoilers (plot abstract/synopsis)

Note: The spoilers for Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 assume that the story will decide up once more with gentle novel Volume 5.

The Bloody Bear has outdone herself and defeated a Kraken. Now that Yuna has overwhelmed the unhealthy guys on the town, she needs to get pleasure from some seafood.

Now she faces the issue of creating a safe commerce route between Crimonia and Mileela. As everyone knows by now, this bear has no downside pondering exterior the field, so she makes use of magic to chop a tunnel between the port and the town!

Besides organising a commerce profession, she’s additionally launching into the restaurant enterprise. The aristocrats additionally want that she escort college students, however they received’t take heed to her.

Another downside is that the world lacks sufficient Mithril, a uncommon materials used for dismantling creatures. Yuna finds herself touring underground and going through off towards a Golem.

Yuna is invited to a celebration within the Royal Capital. While Yuna doesn’t wish to go to an aristocratic social gathering, she reluctantly agrees since she doesn’t wish to harm the birthday woman’s emotions.

But when she arrives, storm clouds are gathering across the noble households, and Yuna finds herself dragged into one more incident.

Unfortunately, anime followers should wait till the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 launch date to look at what occurs subsequent. Stay tuned!

Why the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! launch date is in April 2023

As of the final replace, EMT Squared, Kadokawa, or any firm associated to the manufacturing of the anime has not formally confirmed the precise Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 launch date. However, the manufacturing of a Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear sequel has been introduced and it’s confirmed that the second season is popping out in April 2023.

Once the information is formally confirmed, this text will likely be up to date with the related data.

On November 1, 2022, anime information leaker Sugoi LITE leaked the teaser visible for Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Panchi! along with offering the printed timeframe. The information was formally introduced on November 4, 2022. But it’s wonderful that the anime sequence ever reached this level.

This bear was swimming towards the stream since, to start with, the anime was a run-of-the-mill isekai energy fantasy, albeit with a feminine OP protagonist. The bear go well with and its bear-themed powers are a reoccurring visible gag that’s cute however not too humorous. Fortunately, just like the BOFURI anime, Yuna is lovable, and it’s her sarcastic character that carries the present ahead.

Reviews had been initially decrease on MyAnimeChecklist, and it appears to have middling reputation on FUNimation Now. With the BOFURI Season 2 anime confirmed, now Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear will get pleasure from the identical success.

Except for the Rainy Cocoa anime sequence, Studio EMT Squared is just not recognized for creating second seasons, making Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 one other exception.

Anime productions are scheduled years upfront. Since the second season was introduced throughout the finale, Anime Geek efficiently predicted that we could possibly be watching Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 in mid-to-late 2023, but it surely seems we’ll be getting extra Bear Time in April 2023.

FUNimation’s Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear English dub

A FUNimation Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear English dub for the primary season started releasing on January 20, 2021. Here is the English dubbed forged:

• Marissa Lenti as Yuna
• Xanthe Huynh as Fina
• Mallorie Rodak as Helen
• Steph Garrett as Kai
• Lindsay Seidel as Kumakyu, Kumayuru
• Justin Duncan as Lanz
• Jamal Sterling as Ralock

The Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear anime was initially streaming with simply English subtitles on FUNimation Now, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video.

A Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 English dub hasn’t been confirmed but.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear manga/gentle novel sequence in comparison with the anime

The anime is predicated on the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear gentle novel guide sequence by writer Kumanano and illustrator 029. The story started as a free internet novel on the Let’s Become a Novelist web site, however then Shufu to Seikatsu Sha acquired the rights and started adapting it into gentle novels beginning in May 2015.

As of October 7, 2022, the sunshine novels had been as much as Volume 19 already. Historically, a brand new guide releases each winter/spring, summer season, and fall.

However, that schedule is just not set in stone. For instance, the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Volume 17 launch date was initially scheduled for February 5, 2021, however was delayed till March 26, 2021, after which delayed a second time till April 16, 2021.

By late April 2021, the sequence reputation had reached the purpose that the sunshine novels and manga had 2 million copies in circulation. By September 2022, the sequence had 2.6 million copies in circulation.

A Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear manga adaptation by artist Sergei started in March 2018. As of June 7, 2022, it was as much as Volume 8.

Seven Seas Entertainment has been publishing the official English translation in North America. The English manga was as much as Volume 7 by July 11, 2023.

The English gentle novels will likely be as much as the bodily Volume 14 by June 27, 2023.

The Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 anime will decide up the story once more with gentle novel Volume 5. Pic credit score: 029

When gentle novels are tailored into anime, it’s widespread for content material to be condensed and rearranged. Some of the reorderings made sense as a result of associated character occasions unfold over a number of chapters had been pulled collectively.

One instance is how Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Episode 6 mixed manga Chapter 22 (the wedding proposal) and varied gentle novel facet tales (bear bathtub, hairdryer, and pudding chapters) with anime authentic content material (the snow crystal flower).

While the episode was cute, it modified the motivation for why Gentz proposed.

In manga Chapter 22, after therapeutic Fina’s mom, Telmina, of her sickness, Yuna performed matchmaker by telling Telmina and Gentz to stay collectively so Fina and her youthful sister Shuri may have an actual household.

While each are shocked at Yuna’s boldness, Gentz decides to ask Telmina to marry him on the spot, and it’s not lengthy earlier than the ladies are calling Gentz “Dad.”

While Episode 6 arguably improved on the supply materials, what’s baffling is that Episode 1 actually dropped audiences into the center of the story with the black viper quest, which began in manga Volume 3 Chapter 24.

Worse, this flash-forward induced the anime to contradict itself as a result of the ending of the primary episode implied that she was taking part in a VR-MMO RPG because the remaining scene confirmed her utilizing a headset in mattress.

That’s problematic since Episode 2 backs up the story and explains that she’d truly already been despatched to an alternate world by God, so the primary episode wasn’t actually a recreation world.

This determination additionally induced a case of tonal dissonance because the first episode’s temper was extra critical, whereas Episode 2 and past had been much more light-hearted. It’s additionally as if the studio wished to attract in audiences by fooling them into pondering the anime was extra action-oriented than it truly is.

This determination can also’t be blamed on the variations between the net novel, manga, and light-weight novels. All of these variations begin with Yuna being isekai’d after which rescuing Fina from the wolves.

The Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear anime doesn’t fairly give Yuna an opportunity to indicate provide her battle powers to their fullest. Pic credit score: 029

Once the story began rolling out linearly, the anime improved, particularly since Yuna’s inner monologues had been transformed into snarky feedback that she says out loud.

Simultaneously, the anime’s introduction of Yuna oddly failed to clarify the origin of The Bloody Bear mythos.

In manga Chapter 16, Yuna returns to the guild to speak with the guild grasp, and he or she retains listening to folks name her the Bloody Bear. Eventually, Gentz explains the rumors which might be flying round.

It appears that Yuna picked up the status for choosing a battle after which leaving folks bloody and knocked out. They declare she seems on the guild dragging alongside the monsters’ bloody corpses whereas carrying a bear costume, therefore the nickname The Bloody Bear.

Additionally, varied points of her character weren’t portrayed, together with how she actually didn’t like her mother and father in the true world (ineffective slackers) and the way she was investigating this new world’s magical mechanics to determine the way to take off the bear go well with completely.

The anime additionally failed to say how she rapidly rose in guild rank.

There had been a wide range of particulars that had been minimize, however most of them weren’t essential. For instance, the battle towards the goblin Deborane and his guild lackeys was minimize quick, and the intervention by the guild grasp was minimize fully, however the anime made up for it by focusing the scene on comedy.

The Nushi the boar quest (manga Chapter 14-15) was condensed right down to displaying black bear Kumayaru womping the boar. The small facet tales involving Elena, the innkeeper’s daughter, had been additionally skipped because the minor character doesn’t exist within the anime.

However, since Elena wasn’t a reoccurring character within the manga/gentle novels, her absence isn’t an enormous deal.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Episode 6 could have had a short bear bathtub scene, but it surely skipped this comedic second from the manga. Considering how such jokes are staple fare in anime, it’s a shock the scene was skipped. Pic credit score: Sergei

Episode 5 lined the orphanage story arc, but it surely skimmed over particulars that confirmed simply how frantic Lord Cliff Foschurosebecame when he realized Yuna had come to resent him.

The characterization was additionally totally different because the anime had Yuna being embarrassed for not trusting Cliff.

In the books, she raked him over the coals and demanded that he create a belief inner surveillance unit to make sure that such atrocities by no means occurred once more.

The noble Enz who embezzled the funds had an influential brother within the capital. However, Cliff nonetheless executed the whole noble household for his or her misdeeds and deliberate on telling the brother they died from a house invasion.

While that sounds excessive, Enz’s crimes had been worse than the anime talked about, and each his son and spouse had been in on it.

Enz would entice younger women to turn into servants after which sexually abuse them. When households got here searching for their lacking daughters, they had been imprisoned within the basement jail, together with different dissidents.

Cliff’s troops discovered piles of corpses of youngsters piled up of their basement from all of the murders.

Needless to say, that’s a bit darkish for a light-hearted anime sequence that’s centered on slice-of-life antics mixed with occasional fantasy motion.

You don’t wish to be hit by Yuna’s “Kumahumeha”! Pic credit score: foxhall

Not surprisingly, the pacing of the anime’s episodes was pretty fast in comparison with each the manga and the sunshine novel sequence. Episode 5 tailored up by means of manga Volume 4 Chapter 34-36, which was about three-quarters of sunshine novel Volume 2.

Episode 6’s ending completed the guide by having the royal capital journey be introduced after the pudding scene, which occurred in manga Chapter 37.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Episode 7 tailored virtually half of Volume 3 by skipping the journey to the royal capital and a brush with bandits, which concerned a Bear Golem sinking down into the bottom with a Terminator-style thumbs up. Episodes 8 and 9 equally skimmed previous the guild grasp and different particulars to complete the guide.

Based on the pacing of the anime to date, the finale, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Episode 12, discovered a stopping level close to the ending of sunshine novel Volume 4.

The excellent news is that there’s loads of supply materials for making Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2. Better but, English-only followers who want to learn forward of the anime can bounce straight to Volume 5 as soon as it releases in March 2021.

The solely unhealthy information is reserved for manga readers. The manga is presently adapting the center of sunshine novel Volume 3, the royal capital story arc, which suggests the manga in all probability received’t meet up with the anime till 2022.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! studio, workers, and theme track music

The predominant workers and studio are returning to supply Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2.

The anime is being produced by Japanese animation studio EMT Squared, which might be greatest recognized for the Rainy Cocoa sequence, the Assassin’s Pride anime, and the anime The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar.

The second season will likely be helmed by director Yuu Nobuta (High School Fleet) and sequence director Hisashi Ishii (Rainy Cocoa and episode director for Naruto: Shippuden).

Artist Yuki Nakano is the returning character designer. Composer Shigeo Komori will write the music.

The Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 OP (opening) theme track music “Kimi to no Mirari” will likely be carried out by Azumi Waki, whereas the ED (ending) has not but been introduced.

For the primary season, the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear OP was “Itsuka no Kioku” as carried out by Azumi Waki, whereas the ED was “You Know What (Ano ne)” as carried out by Maki Kawase (Japanese voice actress for Yuna). A particular ending theme track “Ano ne. -loved ones ver.-” for Episode 12 was sung by Maki Kawase and Azumi Waki.

The finale, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Episode 12, was launched on December 23, 2020.

• Updated February 2, 2023: Added new trailer PV and Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! OP information.
• Updated November 2, 2022: Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Panchi! launch date in Spring 2023.

• Updated April 22, 2021: Added Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear novel reputation.

• Updated March 15, 2021: Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Volume 17 launch date delayed.

• Updated January 19, 2021: Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear English dub confirmed.

• Updated December 23, 2020: Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Season 2 confirmed!

• Updated November 30, 2020: Added Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Volume 17 launch date.