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Aharen-san wa Hakarenai Season 2 Casts Zutomayo Band Member ACAne

The official website for the second season for the television anime of Asato Mizu's Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (Aharen Is Indecipherable) romantic comedy manga announced that ZUTOMAYO band member ACANE is voicing a student in the 10th episode on Monday. (ZUTOMAYO performs the current opening theme song.) ACANE noted that the role is about five seconds long in which the student talks a bit about tuna mayonnaise sandwiches and their bread.

The season debuted on Tokyo MX on April 7 at 10:00 p.m., before airing on BS11 later that evening. The show debuted on MBS on April 8 and on AT-X on April 10, and is streaming on more than 15 streaming services in Japan.

Iori Saeki voices the character Henzan-sensei in the new season. She is a rookie teacher who has dreamed of becoming a passionate teacher since she watched a drama as a child.

Inori Minase and Takuma Terashima reprise their roles as Reina Aharen and Raidō, respectively. Nao Tōyama will voice Riku Tamanaha. ZUTOMAYO performs the opening theme song "Binetsuma," and shallm performs the ending theme song "Twilight."

Yasutaka Yamamoto (Servant × Service, Valkyria Chronicles) returns as chief director, along with Tomoe Makino (Woodpecker Detective's Office) as the director at Felix Film. Takao Yoshioka (High School DxD, I'm Standing on 1,000,000 Lives., Sekirei, WATAMOTE) is again in charge of the series scripts, and is also writing them with Kotsukotsu and Masanao Akahoshi. Yūko Yahiro (Diabolik Lovers, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko) is designing the characters.

Tomoko Iwasa returns as a chief animation director with Yumiko Ishii and Saori Yamamoto. The Chinese streaming service bilibili is presenting the project.

The first season of the anime aired in April 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired and also streamed an English dub.

Mizu launched the manga on Shonen Jump+ in January 2017. The series ended in April 2023.

The teen romantic comedy follows the "indecipherable" daily life of short, quiet Reina Aharen and Raidō who sits next to her in class. Aharen is not so good at gauging the distance between people (or personal boundaries), and Raidō initially sensed some distance between the two of them. Then one day, when Raidō picked up the eraser that Aharen had dropped, the distance between them suddenly became uncomfortably close. From "way too distant" to "way too close" ... Aharen is simply unpredictable.

Sources: Aharen-san wa Hakarenai anime's website, Comic Natalie