Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian waits for 2027
Season 2 is now a 2027 broadcast with a new director, and the first teaser puts Alya and Masachika on a beach in summer uniforms.
Alya's second season now arrives in 2027, and there is finally something to watch. A teaser published on the show's own site on 20 September puts the cast on a beach in summer uniforms, while the broadcast page is blunt about the timing: 2027, with no month attached. The season had been expected sooner. A short notice in February told viewers the broadcast window had moved.
A new director, and the same studio
Hiroshi Haraguchi, who directed an episode of the first season, takes over as director from Ryota Itoh. Kim Sung-min is assistant director, Yuka Yamada writes the series, Yuhei Murota handles character design and Doga Kobo animates again. In the comments published alongside the trailer, the new director promises summer holidays, a training camp, new uniforms and a culture festival, and says the team is deep in production.
Uesaka Sumire returns as Alya and Tensaki Kohei as Masachika, with Fujii Yukiyo as Maria, Maruoka Wakana as Yuki, Aizawa Saya as Ayano and Hasegawa Ikumi as Sayaka back among the supporting cast. The teaser sets out the season's shape: Masachika and Alya close the distance over the summer, and Maria is holding something back.
Why the wait
The production says the second season was not planned in advance and exists because of how the first one was received, which is the reason preparation has taken as long as it has. Season 1 began in July 2024; a continuation was announced, then the February notice pushed the schedule back. There is no streaming licence or territory attached to the new season either, so nothing about where it turns up outside Japan follows from where the first one played.
For now the studio has released a teaser and a set of director comments rather than a date. The show's own video page still carries the earlier ultra teaser from March, so anyone wanting a sense of the second season's look has about a minute of material to work with - and a year to wait for the rest.
Our opinion
Delays are easy to mock and much harder to argue with after the fact, and this one is being spent visibly: a new director, rewritten series composition and a teaser built from finished animation rather than a title card. A light novel adaptation gets one shot at the stretch where the main relationship actually turns, and a studio that says the second season only exists because viewers asked for it has a decent reason not to fumble it. The trade-off is a fandom that has been waiting since 2024 being told to wait a little longer with no date in hand. The real test is what gets shown when a month is finally attached.