The official website of the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! (The Bears Bear a Bare Kuma 2nd Season) unveiled the main staff, returning cast, a promotional video, and a key visual (pictured) on Friday. The anime is set to premiere in April 2023.

Maki Kawase (Saihate no Paladin) and Azumi Waki (Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta Beast Tamer, Saikyoushu no Nekomimi Shoujo to Deau) are returning to join the cast as Yuna and Fina, respectively.

Staff
Director: Yuu Nobuta (Saihate no Paladin)
Series Director: Hisashi Ishii (Yuusha, Yamemasu)
Series Composition: Takashi Aoshima (Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Yuki Nakano (Boku no Tonari ni Ankoku Hakaishin ga Imasu.)
Art Director: Katsufumi Haryuu (Genshiken Nidaime) NEW
Color Design: Mika Iwami (Renai Boukun)
Prop Design: Shinobu Irako (Ousama Ranking animation director) NEW
Director of Photography: Youichirou Satou (White Album 2) NEW
Editing: Motoki Niimi (Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria)
Sound Director: Hiroto Morishita (Noumin Kanren no Skill bakka Agetetara Nazeka Tsuyoku Natta.)
Music: Shigeo Komori (Senyoku no Sigrdrifa)
Music Production: Nippon Columbia
Studio: EMT Squared

Note: New staff involved with the anime series are denoted with the legend NEW.

The anime adapts Kumanano's comedy fantasy light novel, which originally began on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on October 2014. Shufu to Seikatsusha acquired the novel and began publishing it under their PASH! Books imprint in May 2015, featuring illustrations by 029 (Hataraku Maou-sama!). The 19th volume shipped on October 7. The series has over 2.7 million cumulative copies in circulation.

Sergei began a manga adaptation on the Comic PASH! website in March 2018. The ninth volume went on sale on November 4.

Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both the light novel and manga in October 2019. The 11th light novel volume went on sale on July 12, with the 12th and 13th volumes scheduled to be released on December 13 and February 28, 2023, respectively. The sixth manga volume shipped on January 11, and the seventh manga volume is scheduled for a July 11, 2023 release.

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Source: Comic Natalie