The wait is almost over! The “Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun Kamome Gakuen Natsu Matsuri” event just revealed the exciting news that the second season of the anime adaptation of Iro Aida’s Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun manga will premiere in January 2025! And that’s not all – the event also announced the October 7 premiere of the four-episode sequel of the short television anime of After-School Hanako-kun spinoff manga.

Get ready to dive back into the world of Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun with the new season’s logo, which was also revealed at the event:

The second season of Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun will premiere on 28 TBS affiliate channels in January 2025, every Sunday at 4:30 p.m. JST, with a returning cast. Yōhei Fukui, who directed episode 10 of the first season, is taking the helm for the main second season at Lerche, replacing Masaomi Andō. Yasuhiro Nakanishi, who handled series scripts, and character designer Mayuka Itou are both returning from the first season.

The four-episode After-School Hanako-kun short anime will premiere on TBS on October 7 at late night, with a returning cast and staff.

The official website for the Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun anime announced last December that the anime project was “restarting,” and now we know what that means! The first main anime season premiered in Japan in January 2020 and had 12 episodes. Funimation streamed the series with an English dub and English subtitles.

Yen Press is releasing the manga, and it describes the story:

“Hanako-san, Hanako-san…are you there?”

At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school’s Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls’ bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom…but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy’s Hanako-san…is a boy!

Aida launched the manga in Square Enix’s G Fantasy magazine in 2014. Square Enix shipped the manga’s 22nd compiled book volume on Friday, and Yen Press will release the 20th volume on September 17.

The first After-School Hanako-kun anime premiered on TBS in October 2023, and Crunchyroll streamed it on the same day but at 2:00 p.m. ET — ahead of the Japanese premiere — in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.

Aida launched the spinoff manga in pixiv Comic in February 2018 and ended it with the 25th chapter in October 2021. Square Enix published one compiled book volume for the manga in August 2019, and Yen Press published the volume in English in April 2021.

Sources: Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun anime’s website