{"id":487070,"date":"2026-06-20T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487070\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:26:11","slug":"rilakkuma-short-anime-enters-2nd-season-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487070\/","title":{"rendered":"Rilakkuma Short Anime Enters 2nd Season – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

New promo video, key visual revealed for ongoing series<\/p>\n

Aniplex<\/a> revealed a new promotional video on Saturday for the new short anime<\/a> adaptation of San-X<\/a>‘s Rilakkuma<\/a> character. The video reveals the anime is entering its second season. The below visual features the title Rilakkuma: Tekuteku Sekai Ryok\u014d (Steadily Traveling the World). The first season had featured the title Rilakkuma: Goyurori Yume no Tabi (Leisure Trip of Dreams).<\/p>\n

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\"rilakkuma-kv.jfif\"Image via Rilakkuma anime’s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 SAN-X \/ \u30c1\u30fc\u30e0\u30ea\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30de<\/p>\n

The anime debuted<\/a> on April 4, and airs on TBS<\/a> on Saturdays at 9:25 a.m. Crunchyroll<\/a> is streaming<\/a> the series.<\/p>\n

Yoshimi Itazu<\/a> (The Concierge<\/a> anime film, Rilakkuma anime announcement video<\/a>) and Yumi Kamakura<\/a> (The Grimm Variations<\/a>, Mashin S\u014dz\u014dden Wataru<\/a>) are directing the anime at Production I.G<\/a>. Chiyo Morita<\/a> (The Concierge anime film, Rilakkuma anime announcement video<\/a>) is designing the characters, and K\u014dta Yokoseki<\/a> (If It\u2019s for My Daughter, I\u2019d Even Defeat a Demon Lord<\/a>), Yoshiya Ikeda<\/a> (Mobile Suit Gundam Silver Phantom<\/a> VR film), and Mizuki Kanno<\/a> are composing the music. Legendoor<\/a> is in charge of music production, and Keiko Matsushita<\/a> (The Concierge, Haikyu!!<\/a> series) is the animation producer.<\/p>\n

YOASOBI<\/a> vocalist Lilas Ikuta<\/a> narrates the anime, and also performs the theme song “stay with me.”<\/p>\n

San-X launched the character that Aki Kondo<\/a> created in 2003. <\/p>\n

Netflix<\/a> premiered the Rilakkuma and Kaoru (Rilakkuma to Kaoru-san<\/a>) anime series<\/a> in 2019, and the Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure<\/a> stop-motion anime series<\/a> in 2022. <\/p>\n

Sources: Rilakkuma anime’s website<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New promo video, key visual revealed for ongoing series Aniplex revealed a new promotional video on Saturday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-487070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}