Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Anime's 2nd Season Unveils Teaser, Visual
Kadokawa unveiled a new visual and "ultra teaser trailer" for the second anime season of writer Sunsunsun and artist Momoco's Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san) light novel series on Saturday. <span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>The new season was previously slated to debut this year, but was delayed to 2027 to improve the quality of the series.Hiroshi Haraguchi, the first season's episode 4 director, will direct the second season replacing Ryota Itoh, at Dōga Kōbō. Yuka Yamada, who wrote the script for episode 6, is now in charge of series scripts, also replacing Itoh. Yūhei Murota is again designing the characters.The anime's second season will continue from the light novel's fourth volume.The first anime season debuted in July 2024 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and also streams an English dub.Yen Press is releasing the novels in English, and it describes the story:Kadokawa publishes the novels under its Sneaker Bunko imprint. Saho Tenamachi (Shōsetsu no Kami-sama; Itsuka, Nemuri ni Tsuku Hi) launched a manga adaptation in October 2022 on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app. Yen Press and K MANGA both release the manga in English.Source: Press release, AnimeJapan 2026 panel
