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After-School Hanako-kun Season 2's English Dub Streams on Monday

Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will begin streaming the English dub for the second anime season adapting Iro Aida's Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun) spinoff manga After-School Hanako-kun on on December 2. The company revealed the English dub cast:

• Justin Briner as Hanako
• Tia Ballard as Nene
• Tyson Rinehart as Kou
• Alex Mai as Akane
• Emily Neves as Aoi
• Kyle Igneczi as Mitsuba
• Stephen Fu as Satou
• David Matranga as Teru
• Macy Anne Johnson as Tiara
• Alexis Tipton as Yako
• Aaron Campbell as Yamabuki
• Kyle Phillips as Yokoo
• Alejandro Saab as Cashier
• Lindsay Seidel as Mokke A
• Madeleine Morris as Mokke B
• Dani Chambers as Mokke C

Jad Saxton is the voice director. Susie Nixon is the producer, and Bonny Clinkenbeard is in charge of adaptation. Andrew Tipps is the mixer and Noah Whitehead the engineer.

The second season of four shorts premiered on October 7. The short anime has a returning Japanese cast and staff.

The first After-School Hanako-kun anime premiered on TBS in October 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the anime on the same day but at 2:00 p.m. ET — ahead of the Japanese premiere — in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.

Aida launched the spinoff manga in pixiv Comic in February 2018, and ended it with the 25th chapter in October 2021. Square Enix published one compiled book volume for the manga in August 2019. Yen Press published the volume in English in April 2021.

The second season of the main Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun anime will premiere on January 12 on 28 TBS affiliate channels, and will air every Sunday at 4:30 p.m. JST. The new season will have returning cast.

The first main anime season premiered in Japan in January 2020. The show had 12 episodes. Funimation streamed the series with an English dub and with English subtitles.

Yen Press is releasing the main manga, and it describes the story:

"Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?"

At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom...but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!

Aida launched the ongoing main manga in Square Enix's G Fantasy magazine in 2014.

Sources: Crunchyroll (Paul Chapman)