The official website for the anime project “Reiwa Period” for Kei Ikeda's Zenryoku Usagi manga announced on Monday that the television anime will have a second season in 2025. The website also revealed the key visual for the new season as well as returning cast and staff. The announcement coincides with Japan's “Public Architecture Day” on November 11.
Image via Zenryoku Usagi anime website
© イケダケイ/ビー・バード/THEATER ACADEMY
The returning cast members are:
Atsushi Nigorikawa will return to direct the second season at Rising Force. Mimi Satsuki is writing the script for the second season, replacing Misaki Morie and Miki Urashima as character designers. PICKUP's Shinya Satō and Hiroshi Ukai (Bros. Bird, Inc) also return as producers.
The anime's first season premiered in October 2023.
The comedy revolves around hard-working builders — who happen to be bunnies — with the simple mottos “Give everything you've got in everything you do” and “Live with everything you've got.”
Ikeda first published the manga online, and Media Factory (later Kadokawa) published the manga in four volumes with two side stories.
The manga inspired a series of 52 short films that aired in Japan in the Chibi Ani Gekijō (Little Anime Theater) program in 2008 (during Japan's former Heisei period). Ikeda and Media Factory have also created many spin-off products featuring the characters.
Source: website, Comic Natalie
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