The hit romcom anime is set to come back with a Season 2!
Great news for the Makeine fans: Season 2 is now in production! The hit 2024 anime Make Heroine ha Oosugiru (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!) confirmed the news with a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) account, along with a trailer for the show.
MakeIne Season 2 now in production
The news was announced on 6 April (Sunday) at the Tsuwabuki Koukou Bungei-bu Kagai Katsudou event for the anime. The second season will once again be animated by A-1 pictures, although returning staff are yet to be confirmed.
The main cast will most likely reprise their roles, those being:
- Anna Yanami: Hikaru Tono
- Lemon Yakishio: Shion Wakayama
- Chika Komari: Momoka Terasawa
- Kazuhiko Nukumizu: Shuuichiro Umeda
The first season of Makeine aired from 14 July to 29 September for the 2024 Summer season with a total of 12 episodes, with Crunchyroll simulcasting the anime. Shoutaro Kitamura directed the anime, with scripts written by Masahiro Yokotani, and character design by Tetsuya Kawakami. The music was composed by Kana Utatane, and the series was produced by Aniplex.
Makeine is based on a series of light novels written by Takibi Amamori and Illustrated by Imigimuru. The series began publication under Shogakukan’s Gagaga Bunko imprint in 2021. There are seven volumes and a short story volume as of 2024. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the series in English.
A manga adaptation illustrated by Itachi began serialisation in Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday website and MangaOne app in 2022, and currently has four tankobon volumes as of January 2025. Seven Seas Entertainment has also licensed the manga adaptation for English release in 2024.
MyAnimeList describes the plot of Season 1 as:
Despite not understanding much about fleeting teen romance, first-year high school student Kazuhiko Nukumizu still wonders how he would react if his life were to be turned into a love story. Regardless, as a self-proclaimed "background character," Nukumizu is satisfied continuing his life as an introvert with a negligible social life. However, he suddenly finds himself too close to the spotlight when he witnesses his popular classmate Anna Yanami be rejected by her childhood friend in the middle of a family restaurant.
While Nukumizu wishes he could just forget what he saw and move on, Anna ends up forcefully confiding herself in Nukumizu, lamenting her status as a childhood friend fated to have her beloved stolen. As he becomes dragged into Anna's situation, Nukumizu soon gets caught up in the relationship drama of two more girls: Lemon Yakishio, an outgoing member of the track and field club; and Chika Komari, a shy member of the literature club. Now thrust out of his comfort zone, Nukumizu finds himself a major character in the lives of too many losing heroines.
