A second trailer has been released for SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary Season 2 ahead of its next arc, “Touki Gentei Bonbon Chocolat Jiken” (The Winter-limited Bonbon Chocolat Incident”). A visual for the new arc was also released.
The new trailer begins with Kobato getting hit by a vehicle. At the hospital, Kengo mentions that he had heard of an accident occurring at the same location, which soon leads to the trailer taking us three years into the past (to Kobato’s third year in middle school) to witness one of Kobato’s earlier investigations and his encounter with Osanai.
SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary Season 2 premiered 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
• Background 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
Source: tv asahi animation YouTube channel
