A new key visual has been revealed for the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! anime series. The visual features the main heroine, Yuna, along with two new characters named Mel and Senia, who will appear in future episodes of the series. The anime series first premiered in Japan on April 3, 2023.
The first Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear anime season ran for 12 episodes and aired from October 7, 2020 to December 23, 2020.
The main voice cast includes Maki Kawase as Yuna, Azumi Waki as Fina, Rina Hidaka as Noire Foschurose, and Inori Minase as Shia Foschurose.
The production staff from season one are returning to work on season two. It includes Yuu Nobuta as supervising director, Hisashi Ishii as series director, Takashi Aoshima as series screenwriter, Yuuki Nakano as character designer and chief animation director, Mimika Iwa as color designer, and Shigeo Komori as music composer. EMT Squared is handling the animation production for the second season.
Additional staff members include Katsufumi Haryuu (Slow Start) as art director and Youichirou Satou (White Album 2) as photography director.
The original light novels are written by Kumanano and illustrated by 029. It is published under Shufu to Seikatsu Sha’s PASH Books label and has released 19 volumes as of October 2022, including a short story anthology. Seven Seas Entertainment releases both the light novels and manga adaptation in English.
Funimation streamed the anime outside of Japan, before Crunchyroll transferred the series to its platform. The first season is described as:
Yuna’s not your typical 15-year-old. First, she’s crazy rich from playing the stock market. Second, she’s a recluse obsessed with a VRMMO game, and she’s really good at that too. Her life is pretty much perfect—until she wakes up one day inside the game she loves and back at level one. She has to start over, but this time, she has a powerful bear suit that’s guaranteed to take her places!
