The second Zodiac-themed visual has been released for The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten anime series, spotlighting Mahiru with the Zodiac sign, Cancer. The first Zodiac visual, released last month, showed her in a Gemini theme.
The anime’s first season ran from January 2023 to March 2023. The second season was announced in October 2023 and is scheduled to premiere in April 2026.
The second season’s director is Chihiro Kumano (Unnamed Memory assistant director, director of the upcoming The Kept Man of the Princess Knight). The previous season’s director was originally Kenichi Imaizumi (Kingdom Season 3 to 5 and After School Dice Club director), but sometime before the show premiered, the credits changed to list Lihua Wang/Reika Ou as director and Imaizumi as supervisor.
Keiichiro Ochi and Takayuki Noguchi are still serving as the series screenwriter and character designer, respectively, along with N-Nei Kurahashi as sub-character designer. Project No.9 returns to handle the animation production, as it did with season one.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Taito Ban as Amane Fujimiya
- • Manaka Iwami as Mahiru Shiina
- • Taku Yashiro as Itsuki Akasawa
- • Haruka Shiraishi as Chitose Shirakawa
The anime is based on the original light novel series, written by Saekisan and illustrated by Hanekoto, starting from the second volume onwards. It was published on June 15, 2019 under SB Creative’s GA Bunko imprint. Eleven physical volumes and two short story collections have been released as of March 2025, with another short story collection set to be published in Japan on September 13, 2025. Yen Press releases the light novel series in English under its Yen On imprint.
A manga adaptation by Wan Shibata was launched in Square Enix’s Manga UP! app and website on January 6, 2022. Five tankobon volumes have been released as of March 2025. Square Enix Manga & Books licensed the manga for release in English.
Crunchyroll streamed the first season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, describing the main synopsis as:
To thank him for his kind gesture, Mahiru cooks and cleans for her untidy neighbor Amane. But what was just a generous show of gratitude turns into more as they grow closer. This is the story of a sweet romance between a boy and the girl next door.
Sources: The Angel Spoils Me Rotten Official Twitter, Crunchyroll News
