Returning cast, staff also revealed
Kadokawa revealed on Saturday that the second season of the anime based on Akihiro Ononaka 's Gushing Over Magical Girls ( Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete ) manga will debut in 2027, under the title Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete Season 2 ( Gushing Over Magical Girls Season 2 ). The new season was first announced in October 2024.
The company revealed the news in a birthday celebration video for Magia Baiser on Saturday.
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Kadokawa also revealed an "ultra teaser visual," and confirmed the new season's returning cast and staff. The returning cast includes:
Masato Suzuki and Atsushi Ōtsuki are both returning to co-direct the anime at Asahi Production . Noboru Kimura is again overseeing the series scripts, and Yasuka Ōtaki is again designing the characters.
The first season debuted on the AT-X channel in January 2024, and the series also aired on Tokyo MX , BS11 , Sun TV , and KBS Kyoto . The anime has three different versions: the TV broadcast version, the "gushing" version on streaming services, and the "ultra-gushing" version on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. The TV broadcast version censors the audio and visuals, the "gushing" version censors the audio and some of the visuals, and the "ultra-gushing" version does not censor either.
HIDIVE streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and has the series' "gushing" version available for streaming.
Ononaka launched the manga in Takeshobo 's Manga Life Storia magazine in 2019. After the magazine ceased publication in July 2019, the manga moved to the Storia Dash website.
The manga went on hiatus in March 2024 due to Ononaka's health, and resumed serialization in October 2025 on Takeshobo 's Takecomi! website.
J-Novel Club licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Hi, I'm Hiiragi Utena. I'm a normal magical-girl-loving middle school girl—or at least I was, but then some talking mascot showed up out of the blue and cast a spell on me! Now's my chance to join my beloved magical girls as...a villain? Hang on, something's wrong with my outfit! This can't be happening! Watch this shy magical-girl fan transform into a sadistic dominatrix! When good and evil collide, who will be the one to submit?!
Takeshobo published the manga's 13th volume in Japan on September 16. The manga has more than 3 million copies in circulation worldwide, including digital copies sold.
Source: Press release
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