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Rilakkuma Short Anime Gets 3rd Season

The new short anime of San-X's Rilakkuma character ended episode 24 on Saturday with an announcement of the third season, Rilakkuma: Ki Mama ni Manpuku Biyori (Carefree, Well-Fed Days).

Yoshimi Itazu (The Concierge anime film, Rilakkuma anime announcement video) and Yumi Kamakura (The Grimm Variations, Mashin Sōzōden Wataru) are directing the anime at Production I.G. Chiyo Morita (The Concierge anime film, Rilakkuma anime announcement video) is designing the characters, and 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 are composing the music. Legendoor is in charge of music production, and Keiko Matsushita (The Concierge, Haikyu!! series) is the animation producer.

YOASOBI vocalist Lilas Ikuta narrates the anime, and also performs the theme song "stay with me."

The anime's first season premiered on April 4, and airs on TBS on Saturdays at 9:25 a.m. Crunchyroll is streaming the series. The first season featured the title Rilakkuma: Goyurori Yume no Tabi (Leisure Trip of Dreams), and the second season had the title Rilakkuma: Tekuteku Sekai Ryokō (Steadily Traveling the World, pictured right).

San-X launched the character that Aki Kondo created in 2003.

Netflix premiered the Rilakkuma and Kaoru (Rilakkuma to Kaoru-san) anime series in 2019, and the Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure stop-motion anime series in 2022.

Sources: Rilakkuma anime's website, Comic Natalie