I recently saw a news article on Anime News Network hinting that there may be a 2nd season of the anime Kimi ni Todoke!  During a live commentary the director Seiji Mizushima said that his assistant, director Kenji Nagasaki, is busy storyboarding more Kimi ni Todoke.  He said, “Director Kenji Nagasaki said he didn’t want to come out in public, he’s busy with Kimi ni Todoke…. He’s now putting all his efforts into drawing the storyboards.”   One can assume that this is for a second season of the anime which is perfect timing as the live-action version of Kimi ni Todoke will open in Japan on September 25.

If you haven’t seen the first season of Kimi ni Todoke I think it’s really worth watching as long as you are ok with shojo high school comic romance.  Nothing too serious is going on in this story, just relationships and young love.   The story centers around a young girl named Sawako Kuronuma who is ostracized by her classmates because of her resemblance to a character called Sadako from a Japanese horror film series called Ring.

What I don’t really understand is the reason she looks like Sadako from the horror film is that she’s thin and has long straight black hair.  Isn’t that like 95% of the women in Japan?

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