Gushing Over Magical Girls Sets 2027 Return for Season 2

Kadokawa announced Saturday that Gushing Over Magical Girls (Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete) will return in 2027. The anime adapts Akihiro Ononaka’s manga.

The sequel’s title is Gushing Over Magical Girls Season 2 (Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete Season 2). Kadokawa first announced it in October 2024.

The company shared the release news Saturday in a video celebrating Magia Baiser’s birthday.

Kadokawa also unveiled an “ultra teaser visual” and confirmed the returning cast and staff.

The returning cast includes:

• Fūka Izumi as Utena Hiiragi/Magia Baiser
• Aoi Koga as Kiwi Araga/Leopard
• Shiori Sugiura as Korisu Morino/Nero Alice
• Yuka Aisaka as Matama Akoya/Loco Musica
• Minami Tsuda as Nemo Anemo/Leberblume
• Kaori Maeda as Haruka Hanabishi/Magia Magenta
• Mayuko Kazama as Sayo Minakami/Magia Azul
• Misaki Ikeda as Kaoruko Tenkawa/Magia Sulfur
• Misato Fukuen as Venalita
• Kana Asumi as Vatz

The returning staff at Asahi Production includes:

• Masato Suzuki and Atsushi Ōtsuki as co-directors
• Noboru Kimura overseeing series scripts
• Yasuka Ōtaki designing the characters

The first season premiered on AT-X in January 2024. It also aired on:

• Tokyo MX
• BS11
• Sun TV
• KBS Kyoto

The anime has three versions with different censorship:

• The TV broadcast version censors audio and visuals.
• The “gushing” version on streaming services censors audio and some visuals.
• The “ultra-gushing” version on Blu-ray Disc and DVD leaves both audio and visuals uncensored.

HIDIVE streamed the anime as it aired in Japan and offers the “gushing” version.

Ononaka launched the manga in Takeshobo’s Manga Life Storia magazine in 2019. It moved to the Storia Dash website after the magazine ceased publication in July 2019.

The manga entered a hiatus in March 2024 because of Ononaka’s health. Serialization resumed in October 2025 on Takeshobo’s Takecomi! website.

J-Novel Club licensed the manga. Its story follows shy middle schooler Utena Hiiragi, a magical-girl fan whose life changes when a talking mascot casts a spell on her.

Expecting to join her beloved magical girls, Utena instead becomes a villain with an outfit she finds alarming. She transforms into a sadistic dominatrix as good and evil clash over who will submit.

Takeshobo published the manga’s 13th volume in Japan on September 16. The series has more than 3 million copies in circulation worldwide, including digital copies sold.