Draw This, Then Die! Confirmed for a Second Season
Crunchyroll streams the adaptation of Minoru Toyoda’s manga, which debuted July 3 on NTV’s Friday Anime Night block.
Draw This, Then Die! will return for a second season, its official website announced Saturday. The first season ended Friday with episode 12.
The official website for the anime adaptation of Minoru Toyoda’s Draw This, Then Die! (Kore Kaite Shine) announced a second season on Saturday. The announcement followed Friday’s broadcast of the first season’s 12th and final episode.
The series debuted July 3 on NTV’s now one-hour “Friday Anime Night” block at 11:30 p.m. JST (10:30 a.m. EDT). Crunchyroll streams episodes as they air in Japan.
The cast includes:
- Akira Sekine as Ai Yasumi
- Saori Hayami as Rei Teshima
- Saya Hitomi as Kokoro Fujimori
- Kanon Fujimura as Sachi Akafuku
- Inori Minase as Hikaru Sekiryū
- Noriko Hidaka as Pokota, Ai’s imaginary friend and a character from her “bible manga,” Robota and Pokota (Robota to Pokota)
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Nana Teramura, who manages the manga rental shop Ai often visits
- Yukana as Hana Kongōji, a Shogakukan editor who previously edited Rei Teshima
- Kikuko Inoue as Hebichika-sensei, whose manga Sweet Hebi Ichigo sold more than 1 million copies
The main production staff includes:
- Director: Hiroaki Akagi (The Dangers in My Heart, Teasing Master Takagi-san), at Shinei Animation
- Series script supervisor and scriptwriter: Hiroko Fukuda (Teasing Master Takagi-san the Movie, Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me)
- Scriptwriter: Aki Itami (Teasing Master Takagi-san season 3)
- Scriptwriter: Kanichi Katō (The Eminence in Shadow 2nd Season)
- Character designer: Takekazu Segawa, sub-character designer on The Dangers in My Heart
Other production credits include:
- Color key artist: Kumiko Yanagisawa
- Art director: Reiji Kasuga
- Compositing director of photography: Shigemitsu Hamao
- Editing: Aya Hida
- Music: Hiroaki Tsutsumi (MIRACLE BUS)
- Sound director: Tatsuhiro Amano
- Sound production: Bit Grooove Promotion
Tatsuya Kitani sings the opening theme, “Isho,” while Regal Lily performs the ending theme, “Conifer.”
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga. Its synopsis follows Ai Yasumi, a manga-obsessed first-year high school student on the remote island of Izu Ōshima.
Ai learns that Yasuno-sensei, her longtime favorite manga creator and a recluse, will make a rare appearance at Comitia. She immediately decides to meet her hero.
That choice sparks encounters that upend her ideas about art, genius, and the meaning of creating.
Toyoda, whose works include Love Roma, began the manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday in November 2021. It also runs on Sunday Webry. The ninth collected volume shipped June 12.
The manga’s honors include:
- An award at the 70th Shogakukan Manga Awards in January 2025
- The 16th Manga Taisho award in 2023
- Sixth place among manga for male readers in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga is Amazing!) guidebook
Sources: Kore Kaite Shine anime's website via ANN
