{"rewrite":{"id":"r_ded4ce213b7cff006a3f4ff3","clusterId":"c_915da56603877b2020e70eb5","slug":"there-was-a-cute-girl-in-the-hero-s-party-so-i-tried-confessing-to-her-gets-second-season","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her Gets Second Season","summary":"The staff announced on Saturday that production on a second season of the anime of Suisei's There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her light novels and Kairi's manga adaptation has been green-lit. The main cast will reprise their roles, including Kohei Amasaki as Yoki and Kana Hanazawa as Cecilia. The anime credits Kairi's manga adaptation as the original work rather than Suisei's text story.","whyItMatters":"A second season renewal with the full main cast returning keeps the adaptation anchored to Kairi's manga version, the work the anime credits as its source, rather than to Suisei's original novels.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe renewal comes with the cast intact: Kohei Amasaki as Yoki, Kana Hanazawa as Cecilia, Ryohei Kimura as Yuga, Yuko Natsuyoshi as Mikana, Toshiki Masuda as Duke, Minami Tanaka as Seek, Iori Noguchi as Happiness, and Ayumu Murase as Raven. The first season ran on Tokyo MX and other channels, with Crunchyroll streaming it worldwide excluding Asia but including India and the Indian Subcontinent. Yasutaka Yamamoto was chief director and Tomonori Mine directed at Gekko, with Yukie Sugawara on series scripts and Mina Osawa adapting La-na\u0026#39;s character designs.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The second season credits Kairi's manga adaptation as the original work, not Suisei's light novels. That credit line shapes which version the anime keeps adapting from.","twitterPost":"The second season credits Kairi's manga as the original work, not Suisei's light novels. That choice decides what the anime adapts from.","threadsPost":"There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her returns with Kohei Amasaki and Kana Hanazawa back in their roles. The credit that matters is the source line: Kairi's manga adaptation is listed as the original work, not Suisei's light novels.","newsletterBlurb":"A second season of There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her is in production, announced Saturday. The main cast returns, with Kohei Amasaki as Yoki and Kana Hanazawa as Cecilia among them. 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