Rilakkuma Short Anime Announces a Third Season
Production I.G animates the series, which airs Saturdays on TBS and streams on Crunchyroll.
The Rilakkuma short anime announced its third season at the end of episode 24 on Saturday. The new season is titled Carefree, Well-Fed Days.
The short anime featuring San-X’s Rilakkuma announced a third season at the end of episode 24 on Saturday. Its title is Carefree, Well-Fed Days (Rilakkuma: Ki Mama ni Manpuku Biyori).
YOASOBI vocalist Lilas Ikuta narrates the series and sings its theme song, “stay with me.”
The first season premiered on April 4. The anime airs Saturdays at 9:25 a.m. on TBS, and Crunchyroll streams the series.
The first season was titled Leisure Trip of Dreams (Rilakkuma: Goyurori Yume no Tabi). The second carried the title Steadily Traveling the World (Rilakkuma: Tekuteku Sekai Ryokō).
Production I.G produces the animation, with the following staff:
- Directors: Yoshimi Itazu (The Concierge anime film, Rilakkuma anime announcement video) and Yumi Kamakura (The Grimm Variations, Mashin Sōzōden Wataru).
- Character designer: Chiyo Morita (The Concierge anime film, Rilakkuma anime announcement video).
- Composers: Kōta Yokoseki (If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord), Yoshiya Ikeda (Mobile Suit Gundam Silver Phantom VR film), and Mizuki Kanno.
- Music production: Legendoor.
- Animation producer: Keiko Matsushita (The Concierge, Haikyu!! series).
Netflix debuted the anime series Rilakkuma and Kaoru (Rilakkuma to Kaoru-san) in 2019. The stop-motion anime series Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure followed on Netflix in 2022.
San-X introduced Rilakkuma, created by Aki Kondo, in 2003.
Sources: Rilakkuma anime's website via ANN
