Gushing Over Magical Girls turned a character's birthday into a full season announcement. The anime marked Magia Baiser's birthday on Saturday with a reveal video in which Baiser herself hijacked the celebration to announce that Season 2 will air in 2027, alongside an ultra teaser visual and confirmation that the main cast and core staff are all returning.
The announcement came through the anime's official website, which posted the broadcast window, the visual and the returning lineup together. The ultra teaser visual shows Magia Baiser wearing a blissfully enraptured smile, and carries the tagline "Sorry to keep you all waiting...♡"
Watch the birthday reveal video here:
The returning main cast:
Fuka Izumi as Utena Hiiragi / Magia Baiser
Misato Fukuen as Venalita (Toga Himiko in My Hero Academia)
Aoi Koga as Kiwi Araga / Leopard (Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love is War)
Shiori Sugiura as Korisu Morino / Nero Alice
Yuka Aisaka as Matama Akoya / Loco Musica
Minami Tsuda as Nemo Anemo / Leberblume (Yui Funami in Yuru Yuri)
Kaori Maeda as Haruka Hanabishi / Magia Magenta (Shizuku Osaka in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
Mayuko Kazama as Sayo Minakami / Magia Azul
Misaki Ikeda as Kaoruko Tenkawa / Magia Sulfur
Behind the camera, the first season's team is intact. Masato Suzuki and Atsushi Otsuki return to co-direct at Asahi Production, Noboru Kimura is again overseeing the series scripts, and Tomoka Otaki returns as character designer.
Season 2 was first announced in October 2024, and Saturday's reveal is the first substantial update since — the production chose to hold it for Baiser's birthday, with Fuka Izumi and Aoi Koga each posting comments marking the new season. The gap had stretched past a year with no word on when the season would air or whether its cast would return intact, which is part of why the announcement was staged as a takeover: the villain of the series delivering the news herself, in character, on the day the production had been quietly pointing toward.
What is Gushing Over Magical Girls about?
Gushing Over Magical Girls is a magical girl comedy manga written and illustrated by Akihiro Ononaka. It began serialization on Takeshobo's Storia Dash website in March 2019, and J-Novel Club publishes the manga in English.
Yen Press, the English publisher of the manga, shared a description for the series:
Hi, I’m Hiiragi Utena. I’m a normal magical-girl-loving middle school girl—or at least I was, but then some talking mascot showed up out of the blue and cast a spell on me! Now’s my chance to join my beloved magical girls as...a villain? Hang on, something’s wrong with my outfit! This can’t be happening! Nooooooo! Don’t post pictures! Watch this shy magical-girl fan transform into a sadistic dominatrix! When good and evil collide, who will be the one to submit?!
Gushing Over Magical Girls Season 2 will air in 2027. No exact premiere date or broadcast details have been announced yet.
Sources: the official website of Gushing Over Magical Girls, KADOKAWAAnime YouTube channel
