Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian 2nd Season Anime Debuts in 2026

Kadokawa announced on Thursday that the second anime season of writer Sunsunsun and artsit Momoco‘s Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san) light novel series will premiere in 2026, and also revealed the new staff and first teaser visual.

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. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and also streams an English dub.

The anime stars:

• Sumire Uesaka as Alisa “Alya” Mikhailovna Kujō
• Kōhei Amasaki as Masachika Kuse
• Yukiyo Fujii as Maria “Masha” Mikhailovna Kujō
• Wakana Maruoka as Yuki Suō
• Saya Aizawa as Ayano Kimishima
• Maki Kawase as Chisaki Sarashina
• Kaito Ishikawa as Touya Kenzaki
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Sayaka Taniyama
• Yoshino Aoyama as Nonoa Miyamae
• Kōdai Sakai as Takeshi Maruyama
• Taichi Ichikawa as Hikaru Kiyomiya

Alya (as voiced by Sumire Uesaka) performed the first season’s opening theme song “Ichiban Kagayaku Hoshi” (“The Brightest Star”). Uesaka (as Alya) performed a cover of a different famous song for the ending theme of each episode.

Yen Press is releasing the novels in English, and it describes the story:

Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is Seiren Private Academy’s “solitary princess.” She’s a half-Russian beauty with silver hair, at the top of her class, student council accountant, and…completely unapproachable. For some reason, she’s also taken on the responsibility of reprimanding the slacker who sits next to her in class. Masachika Kuze is constantly frustrating her by falling asleep, forgetting his textbooks, and just being an overall unexemplary student. Or at least, that’s how it looks from the outside. She may put on a tough act, but she doesn’t mind Masachika as much as others would think. She even lets him call her by her nickname, Alya. Anyone hearing the comments she mutters in Russian under her breath might know how she really feels, but since none of her classmates understand the language, she’s free to say whatever she likes! Except…there is one person who knows what she’s saying. Masachika eavesdrops on her embarrassing revelations, pretending to be clueless, all the while wondering what her flirtatious comments actually mean!

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

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