SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary is back for its second season, which, like the first season, comes with strong opening and ending animations. These have been released on the tv asahi animation YouTube channel.
The instantly eye-catching opening, which features a fulfilling mix of different mediums and a fire motif, is directed by Kyohei Ishiguro (Your Lie in April and Words Bubble Up lIke Soda Pop director). Meanwhile, the ending retains the video director (Tao Tajima) and anime-characters-in-real-locations theme of the first season’s ending sequence.
This season’s theme songs are Yorushika‘s “Kaseijin” (opening) and Yanagi Nagi‘s “SugaRiddle” (ending).
SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary Season 2 had its premiere on April 5 JST (effectively April 6 at 1:30 AM JST). The first season aired during the Summer 2024 anime season and is described by Crunchyroll as:
Kobato decides to become an honest, humble citizen after enduring a bitter experience known as “wisdom work.” He forms a pact with Osanai, his classmate with the same goal, and they plan to enter high school leading quiet lives. But for some reason, inexplicable events and disasters keep happening around them. Will Kobato and Osanai ever manage to live ordinary, peaceful lives?
The anime is based on the SHOSHIMIN Series by Hyouka‘s Honobu Yonezawa, which is published under Tokyo Sogensha Sougen’s Suiri Bunko label and had four main volumes released between 2004 to 2009. A short story compilation was released in 2020, and a new novel was released in April 2024. The first two books have inspired manga adaptations.
Staff (returning)
• Director: Mamoru Kanbe
• Series composer: Toshiya Ono
• Character designer: Atsushi Saito
• Sub-character designer and chief animation director: Mayu Gushiken
• Color designer: Yuki Akimoto
• Art director: Studio ARA’s Akira Ito
• Compositing director: T2studio’s Tomoyuki Shiokawa
• Music composer: Takahiro Obata
• Animation production: Lapin Track
Cast
• Shuichi Umeda as Jogoro Kobato
• Hina Yomiya as Yuki Osanai
• Makoto Furukawa as Kengo Dojima
• Teppei Uenishi as Takahiko Urino
• Yume Miyamoto as Tokiko Nakamaru
• Seiichiro Yamashita as Yuto Hiya
Source: tv asahi animation YouTube channel
