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A Couple of Cuckoos Season 2 Anime Reveals July Debut, New Staff in Video
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Kadokawa revealed the cast and staff details, as well as a visual, video, and July premiere on Sunday for the second anime season based on Miki Yoshikawa's A Couple of Cuckoos (Kakkō no Iinazuke) manga. Kadokawa also revealed that 22/7 will perform the new season's ending theme song "Anata de Nakucha" (It Has to be You).
The anime will have a mostly new staff, as well as a new studio.
Masakazu Hishida (Ensemble Stars!, King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars, Pretty Rhythm All Star Selection) is the anime's new director at studio Okuru to Noboru. Kyoko Chika (Classroom of the Elite secondary character design) is the new character designer, and Jou Aoba (a penname of Hishida) is overseeing the series scripts. Rei Ishizuka is returning to compose the music at IMAGINE.
Other staff members include:
- Art Director: Ryūta Hayashi
- Color Design: Miho Hasegawa
- Director of Photography: Hoshino Kainuma
- Editing: Kiyomi Yamada
- Sound Director: Noriyoshi Konuma (returning from 1st season)
- Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
The anime will feature a returning cast, alongside a new cast member: Hina Yomiya as Ai Mochizuki.
The staff also revealed the character designs for the main characters:
Hiroaki Akagi (Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, Those Snow White Notes) was the chief director of the anime and Yoshiyuki Shirahata (episode director for Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Great Pretender) directed the anime at Shinei Animation and Synergy SP. Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War both seasons, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun) oversaw the series scripts, and Aya Takano (Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, Polar Bear's Café) designed the characters.
Kodansha USA Publishing publishes the manga in English, and it describes the romantic comedy:
16-year-old super-studier Nagi Umino, second-year student at the Megurogawa Academy high school, was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken, Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend as she never wants to actually marry. But once Nagi makes it to dinner, he finds his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised...who turns out to be none other than Erika herself!
Yoshikawa (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan) launched the ongoing manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in January 2020. Kodansha will publish the 27th compiled book volume on April 16.
Source: Press release
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