Over The Moon For You (Tonikaku Kawaii) Season 2 PV trailer

The TONIKAWA Season 2 anime will introduce a number of new characters and reveal extra about Tsukasa’s previous. Pic credit score: Studio Seven Arcs

The TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season 2 launch date is confirmed to be in 2023.

TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season 2 (Tonikaku Kawaii Season 2) will proceed the story of Nasa Yuzaki and his spouse Tsukasa Tsukuyomi.

Crunchyroll will probably be streaming the episodes as they’re broadcast in Japan in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.

Nasa and Tsukasa from Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You Season 2 teaser visible. Pic credit score: Studio Seven Arcs

TONIKAWA Season 2 will function a returning Japanese voice forged and a returning most important manufacturing workers at animation studio Seven Arcs.

• Akari Kito as Tsukasa Yuzaki
• Junya Enoki as Nasa Yuzaki
• Yu Serizawa as Kaname Arisugawa
• Sumire Uesaka as Aya Arisugawa
• Konomi Kohara as Chitose Kaginoji

The day earlier than the primary season’s finale aired in December 2020, anime information leaker Spytrue claimed {that a} Tonikaku Kawaii Season 2 TV anime announcement was forthcoming. It simply took loads longer than anticipated for the information leak to be confirmed in November 2021 and the manufacturing was even delayed.

On November 21, 2022, the brand new particular episode “TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You ~Uniform~ was launched. On that day, a brand new TONIKAWA Season 2 teaser PV was launched. The finish of the video included a brand new teaser visible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Q1zZ0Ovfo

Additionally, Warner Bros. Japan additionally launched a particular music video titled “Tsukasa’s Kitchen,” which was carried out by Tsukasa’s voice actor Akari Kito.

On June 22, 2022, the official Twitter account acknowledged {that a} particular episode known as “Uniform (Seifuku)” will probably be streaming on Crunchyroll forward of TONIKAWA Season 2. On April 3, 2022, the preliminary announcement included a trailer for the brand new particular episode.

Unfortunately, on August 5, 2022, it was introduced that the TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You ~Uniform~ launch date was being delayed. The TONIKAWA particular episode was initially scheduled for August 2022, however its premiere was pushed again to Fall 2022.

The announcement of TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season 2 was made on the duvet of Weekly Shonen Sunday Issue 50, 2021. Pic credit score: Weekly Shonen Sunday

The first TONIKAWA Season 2 trailer was launched on November 6, 2021.

A TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You OVA episode additionally beforehand launched in 2021. The Virtual Crunchyroll Expo 2021 occasion was streaming a preview of the OVA, which is titled Tonikaku Kawaii ~SNS~.

(See the Tonikaku Kawaii OVA part under for the trailer and extra particulars.)

The TONIKAWA Season 2 workers and studio are each confirmed to be returning.

The anime’s first season was produced by animation studio Seven Arcs, which is greatest identified for fantasy anime sequence like Dog Days, Trinity Seven, and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Earlier in 2020 in addition they launched the Arte anime, a historic drama that’s loosely based mostly on the lifetime of Seventeenth-century feminine painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

The TONIKAWA Season 2 anime will probably be helmed by returning director Hiroshi Ikehata. The director is greatest identified for Akiba’s Trip, FLCL Progressive, Space Battleship Tiramisu, and the 2020 BEM Movie: Become Human. He’s additionally been an episode director for Accel World, Black Bullet, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Kill la Kill, Princess Principal, and Gurren Lagann.

With the exception of the artwork director, many of the most important workers has beforehand labored collectively on the Akiba’s Trip anime. Writer Kazuho Yodo (ReLIFE) is dealing with the sequence scripts. Artist Masakatsu Sasaki (We Never Learn: BOKUBEN) is the character designer.

Yukihiro Shibutani (Case Closed, Netflix’s Godzilla trilogy) is the artwork director. Satoshi Motoyama (The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2, We Never Learn: BOKUBEN) is the sound director. Composer Endo (Akiba’s Trip) is writing the music.

The key visible for the Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You Season 2 anime that was launched in November 2021. Pic credit score: Studio Seven Arcs

The TONIKAWA Season 2 OP and ED haven’t but been introduced.

For the primary season, the TONIKAWA OP (opening) theme track music was “Song of Love that includes Tsukasa Tsukuyomi” as sung by Japanese voice actress Akari Kito. The ending (ED) was “The Moon and the Starry Sky” carried out by KanoeRana, composed by Endo, and written and organized by DJ Yunomi.

The finale is TONIKAWA Episode 12, launched on December 18, 2020.

• Updated November 21, 2022: TONIKAWA Season 2 launch date confirmed for 2023. Added teaser PV trailer and visible.
• Updated August 5, 2022: Crunchyroll streaming particular episode in Fall 2022.
• Updated November 5, 2021: TONIKAWA Season 2 confirmed!
• Updated May 20, 2021: Added TONIKAWA OVA data from Crunchyroll.
• Updated March 24, 2021: TONIKAWA Part 2 confirmed for the manga sequence. Added Tonikaku Kawaii OVA launch date and new trailer.
• Updated December 18, 2020: TONIKAWA 2021 OVA episode confirmed!
• Updated December 17, 2020: Added Tonikaku Kawaii Season 2 anime rumor from Spytrue.
• Updated November 12, 2020: TONIKAWA dub launch date and forged added.

This article offers every part that’s identified about TONIKAWA Season 2 (Tonikaku Kawaii Season 2/TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season 2/Fly Me To The Moon Season 2) and all associated information. As such, this text will probably be up to date over time with information, rumors, and evaluation. Meanwhile, let’s delve down into what is understood for sure.

Crunchyroll’s TONIKAWA Season 2 English dub launch date predictions

The TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You anime was one of many 2020 Crunchyroll Originals, which incorporates TV reveals like In/Spectre, Noblesse, Tower of God, and The God of High School. As such, the primary season was streaming solely on Crunchyroll for the autumn 2020 anime season.

The TONIKAWA English dub forged consists of Zach Aguilar as Nasa Yuzaki and Lauren Landa as Tsukasa Tsukuyomi.

Initially, Crunchyroll was solely streaming the anime with English subtitles. Eventually, the TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You English dub launch date was scheduled for November 20, 2020, which meant the dubbed model premiered over a month after the episodes first started streaming with English subtitles.

Hopefully, the turnaround time for the TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season English dub launch date will probably be quicker. Ever since Sony bought each Funimation and Crunchyroll the dubbing course of has moved to Crunchyroll’s studios in Texas. Typically, dubbed episodes have been popping out inside 3 weeks of the preliminary premiere of an anime TV present.

Tonikaku Kawaii Season 2 launch date predictions: Is Summer 2023 possible?

As of the final replace, Studio Seven Arcs, Crunchyroll, or any firm associated to the manufacturing of the anime has not formally confirmed the precise TONIKAWA Season 2 launch date. However, the manufacturing of a Fly Me To The Moon Season 2 sequel was introduced in November 2021. A 12 months later, it was confirmed that the TONIKAWA Season 2 launch date will probably be in 2023, however the particular time-frame wasn’t introduced.

Once the information is formally confirmed this text will probably be up to date with the related info.

In the meantime, it’s doable to take a position about when the TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season 2 premiere date will happen sooner or later.

The elephant within the room is that not one of the preliminary Crunchyroll originals in 2020 have completed the primary season after which instantly introduced a continuation. Instead, every finale has ended with a “go learn the Webtoon/manga” ending.

Thankfully, the identical didn’t occur with the TONIKAWA anime, which instantly introduced an OVA episode. Plus, the Tonikaku Kawaii Season 2 rumors from anime information leakers started early on, which was signal.

The secondary subject is whether or not there may be sufficient supply materials. Fortunately, in that regard, there is no such thing as a drawback (see the manga comparability part under for extra particulars).

As for the monetary numbers, on one hand, the TONIKAWA Blu-Ray/DVD gross sales in Japan have been dangerous, numbering solely 390 copies within the first week. However, because the critiques have been stable and the anime was trending on Crunchyroll’s well-liked anime checklist evidently the streaming numbers have been ok to have TONIKAWA renewed for a second season.

Considering that the early manufacturing rumors began in 2020, Anime Geek beforehand predicted that it was doable that the 2nd season would come out within the first half of 2023, maybe in Spring 2023. However, because the launch time-frame wasn’t specified on November 21, 2022, it’s predicted that the TONIKAWA Season 2 launch date will probably be in Summer or Fall 2023.

A key visible for Crunchyroll’s TONIKAWA OVA launched in late April 2021. Pic credit score: Crunchyroll

TONIKAWA OVA launch date was in August 2021

When the primary season’s finale aired, a TONIKAWA OVA episode was introduced together with a trailer. The TONIKAWA OVA launch date was on August 18, 2021.

Crunchyroll was seaming the brand new episode internationally on that day. In addition, it was launched as a Blu-Ray disc in Japan.

The new OVA episode is formally titled Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You – SNS. A second trailer was launched on March 24, 2021.

Crunchyroll previewed the primary quarter-hour of the TONIKAWA OVA throughout the free 2021 Virtual Crunchyroll Event.

TONIKAWA manga in comparison with the anime

The anime is predicated on the Tonikaku Kawaii manga sequence by Kenjiro Hata. Launched in February 2018, the weekly manga is already properly over 100 chapters lengthy and has been collected into 21 volumes as of September 15, 2022.

The TONIKAWA Volume 16 cowl artwork was particularly controversial because it was utterly sudden for a rom-com sequence. Since the duvet artwork comprises main spoilers you will want to click on this hyperlink to be able to see it.

Warning: The following paragraph comprises main spoilers.

In March 2021, Weekly Shonen Sunday Issue 17, 2021 introduced that TONIKAWA Part 2, which started releasing within the following subject. The story is ready 1,400 years prior to now and focuses on heroine Tsukasa’s backstory.

A particular preview trailer for the brand new manga sequence confirmed how Tsukasa Yuzaki’s actual identification is lastly revealed.

The most important manga storyline just isn’t ending. Tonikaku Kawaii Chapter 148 resumed the story in Issue 22.

Viz Media is publishing the official English translation of the TONIKAWA manga, which is named Fly Me To The Moon manga in North America. Viz Media’s launch schedule may have the English model catch up pretty shortly throughout 2023. As of January 10, 2023, the English Fly Me To The Moon manga sequence was as much as Volume 15.

The TONIKAWA Season 2 anime will decide up the story once more with manga Volume 5. Pic credit score: Kenjiro Hata

The manga has stood out from opponents within the crowded romcom market largely because the premise begins with the 2 characters married but feeling like digital strangers. Thus, there’s much less pressured drama and anime audiences received’t be ready round for a number of seasons simply to see if the principle characters ever declare their love for one another.

Instead, there may be the bigger thriller of who precisely Tsukasa Tsukuyomi is in relation to Princess Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Without stepping into spoilers, the opening episode/chapter hints that one thing is off.

Later episodes present a “16-year-old” Tsukasa rescuing a younger Chitose… and but years later Tsukasa remains to be 16 when she registered her marriage?

Tsukasa’s information of historic trivia is off the charts regardless of having zero curiosity in sightseeing historic landmarks and she will learn historic languages and wield a katana. She frequently makes feedback and references like an older particular person.

During the journey to go to Nasa’s dad and mom in Nara, she even makes whimsical feedback like, “Despite a thousand years passing by, the form of the mountains by no means change, surprisingly…”

Even Tsukasa’s final title Tsukuyomi is a part of the thriller because it actually is the title of the Japanese god of the moon. What’s extra, lots of the manga chapters have intro panels that includes Tsukasa touring in unique areas… which regularly appear to be set within the distant previous!

But that central thriller most likely received’t be resolved shortly. In reality, even when the anime is renewed for a number of seasons we most likely received’t obtain a stable reply even in TONIKAWA Season 3.

That shouldn’t be shocking since Hata can also be the creator of the long-running Hayate the Combat Butler manga sequence. It featured supernatural entities and even aliens. Notably, a significant revelation about the principle character was held again for over 500 chapters.

The TONIKAWA anime is uncommon in comparison with most RomCom anime. Not solely is it an everlasting hand-holding buffet, however the principle characters have been additionally kissing inside the first a number of episodes. TONIKAWA Season 2 will get much more heated, particularly when Kaname provides them each a chart describing the which means of several types of kisses. Pic credit score: Studio Seven Arcs

TONIKAWA manga followers have been significantly happy by the anime adaptation, which has been very trustworthy to the supply materials. For many of the first season, it’s virtually a panel-by-panel adaptation with solely minor tweaks right here and there (generally the anime enhanced the jokes with visible gags).

The final a number of episodes rearranged some occasions and there may be some skipped content material but it surely’s often solely minor scenes. For instance, in Episode 5 Nasa is working at his job and he involves the self-realization that he solely began the job so he may discover his spouse. But when he asks his boss if he may stop the latter man cries out, “No! I’d go bankrupt with out you!”

Here is a information to how the episodes have been tailored.

• TONIKAWA Episode 1: Chapters 1 – 4
• TONIKAWA Episode 2 Chapters 5 – 8
• TONIKAWA Episode 3: Chapters 8 – 11
• TONIKAWA Episode 4: Chapters 12 – 14
• TONIKAWA Episode 5: Chapters 15 – 18
• TONIKAWA Episode 6: Chapters 19 – 22
• TONIKAWA Episode 7: Chapters 23 – 26
• TONIKAWA Episode 8: Chapters 27 – 30
• TONIKAWA Episode 9: Chapters 31 – 33, 35, 36
• TONIKAWA Episode 10: Chapters 37 – 40, 40.5 bonus
• TONIKAWA Episode 11: Chapters 41, 42, 44
• TONIKAWA Episode 12: Chapters 88, 89, 80

As you may see, Episode 12 jumped forward for the ending. Besides skipping Chapter 34 and 43, the one main a part of the manga that’s skipped is many of the omake (bonus) chapters.

Despite being hilarious, it’s not shocking they didn’t make the reduce contemplating the primary one, Chapter 2.5, broke the fourth wall and brazenly mentioned how readers don’t need a married couple as protagonists and that they’d fairly be studying Hayate 2.

Episode 5 was the primary time any kind of content material was modified. In this case, the anime studio skipped a MCU reference joke the place Tsukasa breathlessly listed all of the names of all of the Marvel films, making it sound like a magic spell to Nasa’s non-otaku ear. They additionally censored a non-essential scene the place Kaname tried to persuade Nasa to hire an grownup film known as Nausicaa: With Her Valleys of The Wind (severely). Pic credit score: Kenjiro Hata

Due to the weirdness of the ending, the finale, TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Episode 12, discovered a stopping level in manga Volume 9. In order to keep up the continuity, some plot factors have been eliminated, and when Tsukasa and Nasa attended the competition (Chapter 80) a number of the dialogue was shifted over from the chilly story (Chapters 88 and 89).

Manga readers who want to learn forward of the anime ought to soar to Volume 5, which comprises chapters 39 by 48. The greatest start line for TONIKAWA Season 2 can be Chapter 43 because it has Nasa and Tsukasa going to the aquarium as their first official date as a married couple.

The excellent news is that such a stopping level leaves loads of room for the TONIKAWA Season 2 anime. Arguably, there are already sufficient chapters accessible for making TONIKAWA Season 3.

The solely dangerous information is that English-only manga readers who want to learn forward of the anime might want to wait till May 2021 when the English Volume 5 releases.

TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season 2 anime spoilers (plot abstract/synopsis)

The final time we watched Nasa and Tsukasa, they attended a competition collectively. But the second season might want to again up the plot by many chapters to ensure that the longer term to make sense.

They have been dwelling within the bathhouse after their Tokyo condo was destroyed in a hearth brought on by a fluke lightning strike. Well, no person instructed Chitose what occurred so she’s fairly shocked in Episode 11 when she reveals up the place the condo ought to be solely to see building.

It’s hinted fairly strongly that Chitose believes Tsukasa would survive the fireplace whereas Nasa wouldn’t. So, Chitose is relieved to study each have been in Nara when the fireplace occurred.

It simply so occurs that Tsukasa was strolling by on an errand. Chitose calls for to know the place she was dwelling, however Tsukasa is ready to give the gullible woman the slip… or so she thought. Chitose manages to observe Tsukasa dwelling and meets Kaname and Aya Arisugawa.

Kaname scolds Nasa for by no means taking Tsukasa on an actual date earlier than. Nasa doesn’t see any logical purpose to take his spouse out since they’ve enjoyable simply hanging out. He additionally believes they’re probabilities for dangerous relationship flags.

But Kaname convinces Nasa that dates are occasions that married {couples} use to study extra about one another. Nasa doesn’t need to be straight-forward, so he invitations his spouse on a date to purchase a smartphone. Along the best way, he proposes that they go to an aquarium.

Nasa is not any clean operator so Tsukasa shortly picks up on what’s actually happening. She’s pleased, regardless, though subsequent time she desires the motive for the date to come back from Nasa himself.

With the massive date out of the best way, Nasa lastly presents Tsukasa along with her very first smartphone. She has enjoyable including associates on the Line app and speaking to Siri, however she’s additionally anxious about these Zoltaxian aliens…

Tsukasa has lengthy since seen her husband is a genius. But she’s nonetheless shocked when he’s capable of reply troublesome math questions shortly whereas multi-tasking on the laptop. The women aren’t precisely thrilled to be overwhelmed so soundly so that they concoct a plan to distract Nasa with seduction by having Tsukasa put on Charlotte’s maid outfit.

Nasa occurs to run into his outdated center college homeroom instructor, Yanagi Naoko. While the instructor is anxious about her former scholar’s future, it seems that Nasa has a lesson for his sensei.

Chitose and Aya begin a combat within the bathhouse however they find yourself bonding over video video games.

When Nasa’s cousin Onimaru Ginga-kun visits the bathhouse, Tsukasa mistakenly errors him for a Yakuza delinquent who may intend on harming her husband. But it seems the cousin merely wanted assist with an deserted kitten they find yourself naming Toast.

Despite Ginga’s scary delinquent demeanor, he’s really class president and head of his household. Pic credit score: Kenjiro Hata

The cuteness of his spouse mixed with a cute cat is simply an excessive amount of for Nasa. And, wouldn’t you understand it, however they find yourself turning into cat house owners.

Having a cat makes Nasa notice his spouse enjoys being spoiled. Fortunately, Ginga is ready to assist with that by giving them free tickets to an amusement park.

And it simply so occurs that they run into Sensei. She was invited by one other male instructor named Taniguchi however Sensei denies it’s a date, believing that the person wouldn’t need a “boring woman like me”.

Tsukasa realizes that they’re about to get caught up in a manga trope by ruining the instructor’s second so she shortly evades by dragging Nasa away. And that’s when the “magic” begins to occur.

Speaking of tropes, in TONIKAWA Season 2, Ginga and Aya persuade Tsukasa to take Nasa on a so-called “uniform date”. That means Tsukasa attire up in a Japanese schoolgirl uniform. Pic credit score: Kenjiro Hata

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