Fruits Basket 2019’s Second Season Set for a 2020 Premiere

The first season of the highly-anticipated remake of classic shoujo anime Fruits Basket has just ended, and while you’re still wiping your tears from that 25^th episode aired last Friday, there is good news for all of us at the end of the episode.

Yes, we will be getting a second season! And we won’t have to wait long, as we’ll be getting it next year! However, no specific month has been mentioned yet, but as it is, this news is enough to tide us all over.

Additional news for the second season: two new characters and their voice cast has also been announced. Takuya Eguchi (Takeo Gouda in My Love Story!) will be playing Kakeru Manabe, who will serve as the student council vice-president (minor spoilers ahead) during Yuki’s term as president.

Ai Kakuma (Isuzu Sento from Amagi Brilliant Park) will be playing Machi Kuragi, Kakeru’s half-sibling and the student council treasurer. (Those who are aware of the manga’s story know that she plays a role bigger than that… in the future.)

On the Western side of Fruits Basket, we get Aaron Dismuke and Caitlin Glass voicing Kakeru and Machi, respectively.

The first season of Fruits Basket 2019 aired in Japan on July 5. Funimation has gained the exclusive rights to stream the series and release it on home video.

The Furuba reboot is produced by TMS Entertainment under the direction of Yoshihide Ibata. The script is penned by Taku Kishimoto, and character designs are done by Masaru Shindo.

The first anime adaptation of Furuba, which was released in 2001, was famously denounced by the series’ author Natsuki Takaya because she and Studio Deen ran into numerous creative disagreements. The end result was the series deviating from the original story in the manga, causing Takaya to reject offers for a remake or a second season—that is, until news came out last year that Takaya has finally agreed to a new adaptation. According to reports, she agreed on the condition of hiring an all-new cast and staff. TMS Entertainment, the studio handling the new adaptation, has also given Takaya lots of input in the process by naming her as the series’ Executive Supervisor.

Serialized from 1998 to 2006 in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine, Fruits Basket follows the story of sweet orphan girl Tohru Honda who ends up living with the members of the Soma clan. She is sworn to secrecy when she finds out that the Somas are cursed to turn into zodiac animals when they are hugged by someone of the opposite sex.

Source: Anime News Network