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The official website of the television anime adapting Yuusei Matsui's Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai) manga announced a second season on Monday.

Produced by CloverWorks, the first anime season began airing on July 6. Crunchyroll simulcast the anime with subtitles.

Matsui began serializing the adventure comedy manga in Weekly Shounen Jump in January 2021. Shueisha shipped the 17th volume on September 4. The manga has a cumulative 3 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in October 2021 and simulpublishes the manga in English. The 12th volume released on August 6, while the 13th volume is scheduled to go on sale on November 5. Shueisha's Manga Plus platform also simulpublishes the manga in English.

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Tokiyuki Houjou, a carefree eight-year-old noble, is content with the serene life in Kamakura and shows little regard for the serious responsibilities that come with his eventually succeeding his father as the next shogun. Instead of dedicating himself to rigorous training in swordsmanship or archery, Tokiyuki excels in the art of evasion, skillfully dodging his advisors and discovering perfect hiding spots. However, his peaceful existence is shattered when a sudden coup brutally wipes out his clan.

Overwhelmed with guilt for being the sole survivor, Tokiyuki contemplates joining his family in death. However, his fate takes an abrupt turn when the enigmatic priest Yorishige Suwa suddenly shoves him onto a battlefield. Yorishige, who prophesies that Tokiyuki will one day become a great hero, leaves the boy with no choice but to navigate his way free of enemy soldiers. As Tokiyuki struggles to survive against these foes, he finds a new thrill in raising the stakes of his usual hide-and-seek games.

With a renewed sense of purpose and the promise of powerful allies from Yorishige, Tokiyuki vows to avenge his family—not through his capability to fight, but through his extraordinary talent for running away. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Glad to see this, and the leaks were indeed real, eh?
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Oct 6, 9:07 AM
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@deg I mean when was this guy ever wrong.
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@deg I mean when was this guy ever wrong.
@MegamiRem yep but people here on mal forums are still doubting this leaker whenever i post a leak from them lol
Oct 6, 9:27 AM
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I heard that the original manga is extremely popular, but I was wondering if the anime adaptation would hold up. It turns out that yes.

@MegamiRem Is this the guy whose leak list was posted on the forum earlier? Or someone else?
Oct 6, 9:28 AM
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Good news. S1 alone was not going to cut it for me.
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The visuals for this show went hard which was a nice surprise so I'm glad we're getting more.
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MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol.


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The Japanese animation industry so damn random these days . For example Cloverworks, they announce a second season for this anime(and many other) as soon as it finishes and yet they make us a wait for a certain season 2 of an anime for 2+ years that brought them the bigger success after Spy X Family. Pure disappointment by the management of this studio
Oct 6, 9:39 AM
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I hope they continue to play around with the animation like they did in season 1. Season 1 had some of the most unique directing I’ve seen in recent time.
Oct 6, 9:48 AM

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I heard that the original manga is extremely popular, but I was wondering if the anime adaptation would hold up. It turns out that yes.

@MegamiRem Is this the guy whose leak list was posted on the forum earlier? Or someone else?
@RobertBobert which post are you refering to?
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Pretty obvious tbh. But I'll take it just to see even more weird villains coming down the line.
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@RobertBobert which post are you refering to?
@MegamiRem Last month, Deg created a thread dedicated to an allegedly massive leak about the studios' general plans. People said it was just a prediction based on obvious assumptions, but I don't know where he got that from.
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@MegamiRem Last month, Deg created a thread dedicated to an allegedly massive leak about the studios' general plans. People said it was just a prediction based on obvious assumptions, but I don't know where he got that from.
@RobertBobert I'll have to check.
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Praying for less horse fights.
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Yesss! Hands down my fave summer 2024 anime so I couldn’t be happier
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Yippee! Best anime of the summer season, and one of the best new series of the year
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@deg I mean when was this guy ever wrong.
@MegamiRem if I remeber right he teased Insomniacs After School S2.
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The Japanese animation industry so damn random these days . For example Cloverworks, they announce a second season for this anime(and many other) as soon as it finishes and yet they make us a wait for a certain season 2 of an anime for 2+ years that brought them the bigger success after Spy X Family. Pure disappointment by the management of this studio
@Yubisoft there is a difference between anime being planned as split-cour (just not announced as such immediatelly) and the anime being so surprisingly sucessful that they some how had to adjust a busy schedule (most of the good studios have work planned for 2 years ahead) to make a sequel.

Like one of the Bones produccers said in the recent interview: "All of our 6 substudios have projects for the next 2 years, if any of them becomes to sucessful - we are in trouble".
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@Yubisoft there is a difference between anime being planned as split-cour (just not announced as such immediatelly) and the anime being so surprisingly sucessful that they some how had to adjust a busy schedule (most of the good studios have work planned for 2 years ahead) to make a sequel.

Like one of the Bones produccers said in the recent interview: "All of our 6 substudios have projects for the next 2 years, if any of them becomes to sucessful - we are in trouble".
@Nachtwandler_21
I get what you are trying to say but you are comparing apples and oranges. We are not talkin about a demanding project like Frieren S2 and insane projects like what studios like Bones take. We are talking about an anime that most of the assets will be reused and the most work goes on making new textures for the characters(costumes, expressions etc) and new voice lines by the VAs. And a very small and specific amount of new animation like moving hand or feet. And when I say this
Yubisoft said:
Pure disappointment by the management of this studio

I mean it because if they weren't feeling confident, they shouldn't have announced it so early in development in public but only internally. Even the Japanese fans who are usually not as ''loud'' as the west fans when it comes to voicing their concerns , have begun complaining about this huge delay for such a simple project. The upper management of the people who agreed to this decision knew it was early but they did it anyways to only promote and increase manga sales etc without respecting the fans' anticipation.

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being planned as split-cour

And? Split cour is also basically complete season , not an OVA and it requires the same attention from the studio. The name for a season doesn't it make it different when in production.

Nachtwandler_21 said:
most of the good studios have work planned for 2 years ahead
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Not only we don't know if this true(these are just our assumptions) at all but there is a huge difference between planning something and when you begin production. Studios have different teams and not all the projects have the same difficulty.

In conclusion , the situation worries me because more and more anime studios are following a similar strategy with western game studios.... make people excited very early in production just for the sake of excitement and promoting merchandise(in this case manga, figures etc) aka milking fans' pockets in the meanwhile
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@Nachtwandler_21
I get what you are trying to say but you are comparing apples and oranges. We are not talkin about a demanding project like Frieren S2 and insane projects like what studios like Bones take. We are talking about an anime that most of the assets will be reused and the most work goes on making new textures for the characters(costumes, expressions etc) and new voice lines by the VAs. And a very small and specific amount of new animation like moving hand or feet. And when I say this
Yubisoft said:
Pure disappointment by the management of this studio

I mean it because if they weren't feeling confident, they shouldn't have announced it so early in development in public but only internally. Even the Japanese fans who are usually not as ''loud'' as the west fans when it comes to voicing their concerns , have begun complaining about this huge delay for such a simple project. The upper management of the people who agreed to this decision knew it was early but they did it anyways to only promote and increase manga sales etc without respecting the fans' anticipation.

Nachtwandler_21 said:
being planned as split-cour

And? Split cour is also basically complete season , not an OVA and it requires the same attention from the studio. The name for a season doesn't it make it different when in production.

Nachtwandler_21 said:
most of the good studios have work planned for 2 years ahead
\
Not only we don't know if this true(these are just our assumptions) at all but there is a huge difference between planning something and when you begin production. Studios have different teams and not all the projects have the same difficulty.

In conclusion , the situation worries me because more and more anime studios are following a similar strategy with western game studios.... make people excited very early in production just for the sake of excitement and promoting merchandise(in this case manga, figures etc) aka milking fans' pockets in the meanwhile
@Yubisoft it is not an assumption, it is a fact that most of popular studios CloverWorks included have work oplanned 2 years ahead. There were actuall interviews and industry statistics stating it.

I am not sure which show do you mean (SonoBisque) but the animation team team working on this show, Bocchi rthe Rock and SonoBisque is the same and in case of this show they werte booked for 2 cours initially, while in other two cases not, so they cannot just gert time for it immediatelly because the show got popular. It ius noit some 32dproduction there you can reuse a lot of character assets.
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Nice news! <3

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I'm kinda nervous as to how they could possibly keep the animation quality up over another production.
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Good, this was low-key one of the best manga adaptions of 2024.
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