Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms Season 2 Reveals Teaser, Returning Cast, and Key Staff Changes

You can feel it like a door cracking open in a quiet hallway: Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms (Kuroiwa Medaka ni Watashi no Kawaii ga Tsūjinai) is stepping into season 2, and it arrives with a fresh teaser video and a new teaser visual that set the mood fast.

What season 2 just revealed

The official site for the TV anime’s second season dropped a compact but loaded update. If you like tracking what changes and what stays steady, this one is a clean snapshot of where the production is headed.

Returning voices you’ll recognize

• Ryōta Iwasaki returns as Medaka Kuroiwa.
• Yū Serizawa returns as Mona Kawai.

Have you watched season 1 yet, or are you coming in fresh for season 2?

Staff lineup: what’s staying, what’s shifting

Season 2 keeps some familiar anchors, and swaps a few key roles—like changing drivers mid-journey, but keeping the same destination.

• Director: Yoshiaki Okumura returns at Synergy SP.
• Series scripts: Yoriko Tomita takes over, replacing Kazuyuki Fudeyasu.
• Character design: Mayumi Watanabe returns.
• Sound direction: Nozomi Nakatani joins Noriyoshi Konuma.
• Music: Akiyuki Tateyama returns.
• Color design: Aiko Yamagami returns.
• Compositing director of photography: Shinichirō Nagano joins, replacing Tetsuya Nishimura.
• Art director: Hiroki Matsumoto joins, replacing Masakazu Miyake.

Action for you: rewatch a key Mona-versus-Medaka scene and then watch the teaser—do you notice how the tone lands on you differently now?

Where the story stands (and why it stings so good)

The first season premiered in January 2025, and it streamed as it aired on Crunchyroll, which also offers an English dub. I still remember watching episodes squeezed between Mexico City traffic and my own playlist—that feeling of switching from Spanish street noise to Japanese dialogue is like stepping from sun into shade.

On the page, the manga follows a simple, sharp clash:

• Mona is the girl who has built her whole presence to shine at school.
• Medaka stays stone-cold, raised at a temple with strict rules about not getting close to women.

Which pull hits you harder right now: Mona’s relentless confidence, or Medaka’s quiet resistance?

Manga notes if you want to catch up

• Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in English (digital and print).
• Ran Kuze first published it as a one-shot in December 2020.
• The full serialization began in May 2021.
• Japan’s first collected volume shipped in August 2021.
• Volume 24 ships on May 15.

Next step: if you’re anime-only, grab the latest manga volume info and set a reminder—because season 2 updates like this are the spark, but the pages are the slow-burning fuse.