Great news for fans of comedy/gag anime today as the official Twitter account of the hilarious hit comedy series, Pop Team Epic, announced the release date of the upcoming second season. Pop Team Epic season 2 will be adding to the incredibly stacked Fall 2022 anime season, with the first episode of the upcoming series dropping on October 1 at 25:30 JST.
The series' surprise return was announced earlier in July this year, with a set of key visuals bringing the wacky duo of Popuko and Pipimi back into focus after their takeover of the scene back in 2018.
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The returning comedy series, based on the manga of the same name created by Bkub Okawa, will be produced by Kamikaze Doga and Space Neko Company. The chaotic and absurd anime series will see the return of first season chief-director and writer Jun Aoki, who is also responsible for the direction of yet another gag anime series, Gal and Dino.
The original manga is a 4-koma series, and perhaps one of the closest examples of the conversion of 4-koma manga into hilarious sketch comedy anime series. With its surrealist tones and wacky hijinks, a surprise return for Pop Team Epic is simply part of the show's characteristic, weird and chaotic charm.
Follow these two crazy high school girls as they try pretty much anything under the sun to make audiences snort with laughter, parodying virtually anything they can get their hands on, all with the ambition of turning their little skit comedy into a real anime. The first season of the Pop Team Epic anime was released in Winter 2018, running for twelve episodes from January to March that year.
A «repeat version» of the first season began airing in October 2021, switching up the roles of voice actors and making changes to
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