If the embed above has been seized by the forces of evil, the announcement video is also here on YouTube.
The second season of Gushing Over Magical Girls will be broadcast in 2027, Kadokawa has confirmed, ending a wait that began when the sequel was first promised back in October 2024. No month, episode count or streaming home has been announced yet. What we have is a year, a new teaser image and the knowledge that everybody involved is coming back.
The manner of the announcement was at least in keeping with the programme. Saturday 14 November is the official birthday of Magia Baiser, the series’ villain, and the production put out what looked like a routine birthday greeting video. Baiser then commandeered her own party to reveal the broadcast year, which is the sort of thing villains do and marketing departments wish they had thought of sooner.
For the uninitiated, and there is no shame in it, this is an adaptation of Akihiro Ononaka’s manga, published by Takeshobo since 2019 and now 13 volumes long. Its heroine, Utena Hiiragi, is a shy girl who worships magical girls and dreams of joining them, only to be recruited by a talking mascot to the other side, where she discovers a worrying aptitude for the work. It is a send-up of the whole Sailor Moon tradition by people who clearly know it backwards, and it is also, we should say plainly, a strictly adults-only comedy of the raciest kind. The first season in 2024 was released in three versions with escalating amounts of censorship removed. It is not one for younger viewers, and not one for watching on the 7.52 to Waterloo either.
The team is unchanged. Masato Suzuki and Atsushi Otsuki return as directors at Asahi Production, with Noboru Kimura in charge of the scripts and Tomoka Otaki on character designs. Fuka Izumi is back as Utena, and the rest of the principal voice cast return with her, including Aoi Koga and Kaori Maeda. In the English-speaking world the first season streams on HIDIVE and the manga is published by J-Novel Club; nobody has yet said who will carry the new episodes.
Here at SFcrowsnest, we note without comment that the announcement was among the most-viewed anime posts on X this weekend, a weekend that also offered a new clip of Hogwarts and a Disney premiere. The magical girl has been a fixture of Japanese television for sixty years, and every genre that lasts that long eventually acquires a disreputable cousin who turns up at the wedding. This one is evidently staying for the reception.
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