The upcoming third season of the Hyakusho Kizoku-the farmer’s days short TV anime series has unveiled a new key visual and confirmed its premiere in Fall 2025. The announcement was made at AnimeJapan 2025.
The first season of the short anime series premiered in Japan from July 7, 2023 to September 22, 2023 for 12 total episodes. The second season first aired in Japan on October 4, 2024 and concluded with another 12 episodes on December 20, 2024.
Yutaro Sawada (Inui-san!) directed season one and was also credited as scriptwriter and line director. Ayane Matsumoto (Bocchi the Rock! Ending 3 animator) served as the character designer, animation director, and animator. Precious tone is the music composer and Ari is credited with creating the background drawings. Pie in the sky is handling the animation production for the series and will once again work on the third season.
Meanwhile, the main voice cast for the anime includes:
- • Mutsumi Tamura as Hiromu Arakawa
- • Mariko Honda as Ishii
- • Shigeru Chiba as Oyaji-dono
- • Kujira as Okan
Remow streamed the first season on YouTube with multiple subtitle languages.
The anime is based on Hiromu Arakawa’s autobiographical farming essay manga, which follows her seven years as a farmer in Hokkaido before becoming an established manga artist.
It has been serialized in Shinshokan’s Wings magazine since July 28, 2009. It ran in Un Poco from December 28, 2006 to March 28, 2009, before the magazine ceased publication. The series is published under the Wings Comics label and has released eight tankobon volumes as of December 2023. The manga was digitally published in English by the defunct JManga service in 2012.
Japan Media Arts Festival describes the main premise of the Hyakusho Kizoku manga as:
Before becoming a manga artist, Arakawa Hiromu spent seven years working as a farmer in Hokkaido. Well acquainted with the many emotions that are part and parcel of agricultural work, she captures the harsh realities of Japanese dairy farming while also shedding light on this tough and powerful way of life in a series of side-splitting episodes. Known for numerous works in which she celebrates the joys of life, in this essay-style comic Arakawa reveals her own roots and little-known truths about farming life.
Source: Hyakusho Kizoku Official Twitter
