Skip and Loafer Season 2 Sets April 2027 Debut in Teaser Trailer
The April 2027 date gives the production a long runway, and the staff list shows several new hires in key roles like art direction and 3D direction, signaling a deliberate expansion of the team rather than a simple reassembly of the first season's crew.
Key Facts
- The second season of the Skip and Loafer anime will debut in April 2027, as revealed in a teaser video on the official website.
- Kotomi Deai returns as director and script supervisor at P.A. Works, with Takatsugu Wakabayashi returning as composer and new composer Michiru joining.
- Crunchyroll will stream the second season, continuing its role from the first season.
- The first season of Skip and Loafer aired from April to June 2023, running for 12 episodes.
- The Skip and Loafer manga has been serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine since August 2018.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The official website for the television anime of Misaki Takamatsu's Skip and Loafer manga revealed in a teaser video that the second season will debut in April 2027. The announcement also confirmed the return of key staff from the first season, which aired in April 2023 and ran for 12 episodes. Kotomi Deai, who directed the first season at P.A. Works, is returning to direct and oversee the series scripts, joined by first-season scriptwriter Yoko Yonaiyama. Takatsugu Wakabayashi is returning to compose the music, with new composer Michiru joining him. Manami Umeshita is returning as character designer and chief animation director, with Reina Igawa and Yusuke Inoue also returning as chief animation directors. The teaser trailer and visual were released alongside the announcement. Crunchyroll will stream the second season, as it did with the first. Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in English, both digitally and in print. The manga has been serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine since August 2018.
The teaser trailer for the second season of Skip and Loafer arrived with a full staff list that mixes returning veterans with new additions. Alongside director Kotomi Deai and scriptwriter Yoko Yonaiyama, the production brings in new sub-character designer Mio Fujishima, new main animators Hiroyuki Honda and Chieko Sato, and new art director So Senoo. The photography director role has shifted from Kazuto Izumita to Akane Ueda, and Junichi Higashi, previously listed as art supervisor, is no longer on the staff.
The first season premiered in April 2023 and was one of the biggest trends of Spring 2023, according to Anime Corner. The main voice cast from that season includes Tomoyo Kurosawa as Mitsumi Iwakura, Akinori Egoshi as Sosuke Shima, Maaya Uchida as Yuzuki Marashige, and Yuka Terasaki as Mika Egashira. The manga, which launched in August 2018, ranked #7 in the 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook for male readers and was nominated for the 13th Manga Taisho awards and the Best General Manga category at Kodansha's 44th Manga Awards, both in 2020. A stage musical adaptation ran in March 2026 in Tokyo and Osaka.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.