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Happy birthday, Mitsumi!
It's Mitsumi's birthday today (3 March), but it looks like Skip and Loafer fans are the ones receiving a treat! A brand-new teaser visual for the anime, along with updates regarding Skip and Loafer's Season 2 animation and staff, has just been released on the anime's official website and X (formerly Twitter) account:
The visual prominently features Mitsumi Iwakura and Sōsuke Shima, the main characters of the series. Also included are Makoto Kurume, Mika Egashira, Kento Yamada, Yuzuki Murashige, and Tsukasa Mukai, bringing the anime's familiar cast back into the spotlight.
A birthday surprise for Skip and Loafer fans
Skip and Loafer Season 2 will once again be produced by P.A. WORKS, with much of the original staff reprising their roles. Kotomi Deai returns as director, alongside series composer Yoko Yonaiyama. Manami Umeshita serves as both character designer and chief animation director, joined by Reina Igawa in the latter role.
Mio Fujishima is handling sub-character design, while Satomi Higuchi takes on prop design. Yuta Fujii is the art designer, with So Senoo as art director and Junichi Higashi supervising the art. Yuko Kobari is responsible for colour design, and Kazuto Izumida serves as director of photography. Motonari Ichikawa oversees 3D direction, Ayumu Takahashi is the editor, and Haru Yamada returns as sound director.
The first season aired in April 2023 and introduced audiences to Mitsumi Iwakura, a prodigious student from the countryside who moves to Tokyo to attend a prestigious high school. Despite her academic brilliance and meticulous life plan, her lack of social awareness leads to a series of missteps. However, her earnest and easygoing nature gradually wins over her classmates, forming an ensemble of distinct personalities who learn to understand and support each other. Through their shared experiences of frustrations and emotions, friendships blossom, turning their school lives into a heartwarming and comedic journey.
Skip and Loafer is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Misaki Takamatsu. Since its serialization in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon in August 2018, the manga has garnered widespread popularity. By March 2024, it had surpassed 2.3 million copies in circulation. The series also won the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2023, cementing its status as a beloved work.
As for Skip and Loafer Season 2, a release date has yet to be announced, leaving fans eagerly awaiting further details.
