Tonikawa Season 2 is coming soon, and with it comes a lot of speculation about what to expect. So far, we know that the release date is set for sometime in 2019, and that the series will be returning to its original format of 12 episodes. Since Tonikawa Season 1 aired in 2018, there has been a lot of speculation about what will happen in Season 2. Some people are wondering if the series will continue its focus on the mystery surrounding the disappearances of children in Tonikawa City, while others are wondering if any new characters will be introduced. We won’t know for sure until the release date arrives, but we can speculate based on what we do know so far. It’s possible that Season 2 could explore more of the backstory behind the disappearances and why they’re happening now. Alternatively, it’s possible that Season 2 could be all about resolving the mystery surrounding these children’s disappearances. Either way, we can’t wait to find out! ..
The cute love story revolving around Nasa and Tsukasa is back for another round of wholesome love delivery. The anime that stole many hearts is close to putting us into a trance of dreamy moments again with an upcoming OVA. After one season and an OVA, we are still not over the youthful adventures of the two main characters and the love between them. The more we dive into their story, the more we would like to see them.
Tonikawa is based on the manga by the same name written and illustrated by Kenjiro Hatam the manga has been serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday since 2018. Shogakukan has published 19 volumes of the manga so far under its Shōnen Sunday Comics imprint.
In 2020, the manga was adapted into an anime by Seven Arcs and was later licensed by Crunchyroll for its international viewers. This was followed by another 12-episode season and an OVA. Although fans were expecting an announcement about season 2 of the anime, the creators came back with the announcement of an OVA.
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Tonikawa Season 1 Ending
Season 1 of Tonikawa ended with some very warm and fuzzy moments. Nasa falls sick after overworking himself which worries Tsukasa. She takes care of him during his cold but NASA only worries that he might spread it to her. However, on Tsukasa’s reassurance, he rests.
Nasa feels better the next day and the couple goes to attend the summer festival. The two spend a lot of quality time there and have fun. They also meet with Kaname, Aya, Chitose, and her maids during the event. Tsukasa also receives her first smartphone that Nasa helps in setting up. With her new phone, she exchanges emails with her friends and of course, Nasa.
The couple return to their usual days as Nasa goes to work. Back at home, Tsukasa feels lonely. But when he returns, the two lay down in the futon and hug each other. The anime concludes with shy emotions as the two sleep embracing each other on the same futon.
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Tonikawa Seifuku: OVA 2 Release Date
The first season of Tonikawa concluded in 2020. An OVA was dropped in 2021. Later in 2021, it was also announced that another OVA of Tonikawa will be released later along with the long-awaited second season of the anime.
In April it was announced that the upcoming OVA of Tonikawa will be titled “Seifuku” meaning Uniform. It will be released in the Summer of 2022. The Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You OVA 2 will also be made available for streaming on Crunchyroll.
New episode Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You~ Seifuku PV
A new PV in commemoration of the upcoming OVA was released in April. It revealed the OVA’s summer release. Various shots of the two main characters; Nasi and Tsukasa, can be seen in the video.
Furthermore, the conclusion of the commemorative illustration project titled “Bride’s gallery” has also been announced. Since April 3, 2021, new illustrations have been updated every month for a year illustrating Tsukasa drawn on the stage of each season.
The illustration updated on April 3, 2022, marks the last illustration of the project. After the project, the illustration of Tsukasa in a wedding dress has been drawn.
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About Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You
Nasa Yuzaki meets a mysterious girl during high school. While staring at her, he meets with an accident where he is hit by a truck. The beautiful girl saves him and NASA immediately falls for her. He confesses to her and she surprisingly agrees but she only has one condition- they must be married first.
Tsukasa disappears and Nasa almost skips high school to look for her. On his 18th birthday, Tsukasa makes a grand entry into his life, this time in a wedding dress prepared to begin their relationship from marriage.
TONIKAWA manga compared to the anime
The anime is based on the Tonikaku Kawaii manga series by Kenjiro Hata. Launched in February 2018, the weekly manga is already well over 100 chapters long and has been collected into 17 volumes as of August 18, 2021.
The TONIKAWA Volume 16 cover art was especially controversial since it was completely unexpected for a rom-com series. Since the cover art contains major spoilers you will need to click this link in order to see it.
In March 2021, Weekly Shonen Sunday Issue 17, 2021 announced that TONIKAWA Part 2 will begin releasing in the following issue. The story is set 1,400 years in the past and focuses on heroine Tsukasa’s backstory.
The main manga storyline is not ending. Tonikaku Kawaii Chapter 148 will resume the story in Issue 22.
Viz Media is publishing the official English translation of the TONIKAWA manga, which is known as Fly Me To The Moon manga in North America. As of November 9, 2021, the English Fly Me To The Moon manga series was up to Volume 8.
Viz Media’s release schedule will have the English version catch up fairly quickly during 2022. TONIKAWA Volume 9 is scheduled to release on January 11, 2022, Volume 10 on March 8, 2022, Volume 11 on May 10, 2022, and Volume 12 on July 12, 2022. Based on that schedule, presumably, Volume 13 will be September 2022, Volume 14 will be November 2022, Volume 15 will be January 2023, and so on.
The manga has stood out from competitors in the crowded romcom market largely since the premise begins with the two characters married yet feeling like virtual strangers. Thus, there’s less forced drama and anime audiences won’t be waiting around for multiple seasons just to see if the main characters ever declare their love for each other.
Instead, there is the larger mystery of who exactly Tsukasa Tsukuyomi is in relation to Princess Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Without getting into spoilers, the opening episode/chapter hints that something is off.
Later episodes show a “16-year-old” Tsukasa rescuing a young Chitose… and yet years later Tsukasa is still 16 when she registered her marriage?
Tsukasa’s knowledge of historical trivia is off the charts despite having zero interest in sightseeing historical landmarks and she can read ancient languages and wield a katana. She continually makes comments and references like an older person.
During the trip to visit Nasa’s parents in Nara, she even makes whimsical comments like, “Despite a thousand years passing by, the shape of the mountains never change, surprisingly…”
Even Tsukasa’s last name Tsukuyomi is part of the mystery since it literally is the name of the Japanese god of the moon. What’s more, many of the manga chapters have intro panels featuring Tsukasa traveling in exotic locations… which often seem to be set in the distant past!
But that central mystery probably won’t be resolved quickly. In fact, even if the anime is renewed for multiple seasons we probably won’t receive a solid answer even in TONIKAWA Season 3.
That shouldn’t be surprising since Hata is also the creator of the long-running Hayate the Combat Butler manga series. It featured supernatural entities and even aliens. Notably, a major revelation about the main character was held back for over 500 chapters.
TONIKAWA manga fans have been greatly pleased by the anime adaptation, which has been very faithful to the source material. For most of the first season, it’s practically a panel-by-panel adaptation with only minor tweaks here and there (sometimes the anime enhanced the jokes with visual gags).
The last several episodes rearranged some events and there is some skipped content but it’s usually only minor scenes. For example, in Episode 5 Nasa is working at his job and he comes to the self-realization that he only started the job so he could find his wife. But when he asks his boss if he could quit the latter man cries out, “No! I’d go bankrupt without you!”
Here is a guide to how the episodes were adapted.
TONIKAWA Episode 1: Chapters 1 – 4TONIKAWA Episode 2 Chapters 5 – 8TONIKAWA Episode 3: Chapters 8 – 11TONIKAWA Episode 4: Chapters 12 – 14TONIKAWA Episode 5: Chapters 15 – 18TONIKAWA Episode 6: Chapters 19 – 22TONIKAWA Episode 7: Chapters 23 – 26TONIKAWA Episode 8: Chapters 27 – 30TONIKAWA Episode 9: Chapters 31 – 33, 35, 36TONIKAWA Episode 10: Chapters 37 – 40, 40. 5 bonusTONIKAWA Episode 11: Chapters 41, 42, 44TONIKAWA Episode 12: Chapters 88, 89, 80
As you can see, Episode 12 jumped ahead for the ending. Besides skipping Chapter 34 and 43, the only major part of the manga that’s skipped is most of the omake (bonus) chapters.
Despite being hilarious, it’s not surprising they didn’t make the cut considering the first one, Chapter 2.5, broke the fourth wall and openly discussed how readers don’t want a married couple as protagonists and that they’d rather be reading Hayate 2.
Due to the weirdness of the ending, the finale, TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Episode 12, found a stopping point in manga Volume 9. In order to maintain the continuity, some plot points were removed, and when Tsukasa and Nasa attended the festival (Chapter 80) some of the dialogue was shifted over from the cold story (Chapters 88 and 89).
Manga readers who wish to read ahead of the anime should jump to Volume 5, which contains chapters 39 through 48. The best starting point for TONIKAWA Season 2 would be Chapter 43 since it has Nasa and Tsukasa going to the aquarium as their first official date as a married couple.
The good news is that such a stopping point leaves plenty of room for the TONIKAWA Season 2 anime. Arguably, there are already enough chapters available for making TONIKAWA Season 3.
The only bad news is that English-only manga readers who wish to read ahead of the anime will need to wait until May 2021 when the English Volume 5 releases.
TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You Season 2 anime spoilers (plot summary/synopsis)
The last time we watched Nasa and Tsukasa, they attended a festival together. But the second season will need to back up the plot by many chapters in order for the future to make sense.
They were living in the bathhouse after their Tokyo apartment was destroyed in a fire caused by a fluke lightning strike. Well, nobody told Chitose what happened so she’s pretty shocked in Episode 11 when she shows up where the apartment should be only to see construction.
It’s hinted pretty strongly that Chitose believes Tsukasa would survive the fire while Nasa would not. So, Chitose is relieved to learn both were in Nara when the fire happened.
It just so happens that Tsukasa was walking by on an errand. Chitose demands to know where she was living, but Tsukasa is able to give the gullible girl the slip… or so she thought. Chitose manages to follow Tsukasa home and meets Kaname and Aya Arisugawa.
Kaname scolds Nasa for never taking Tsukasa on a real date before. Nasa doesn’t see any logical reason to take his wife out since they have fun just hanging out. He also believes they are chances for bad relationship flags.
But Kaname convinces Nasa that dates are events that married couples use to learn more about each other. Nasa doesn’t want to be straight-forward, so he invites his wife on a date to buy a smartphone. Along the way, he proposes that they go to an aquarium.
Nasa is no smooth operator so Tsukasa quickly picks up on what’s really going on. She’s happy, regardless, although next time she wants the motive for the date to come from Nasa himself.
With the big date out of the way, Nasa finally presents Tsukasa with her very first smartphone. She has fun adding friends on the Line app and talking to Siri, but she’s also worried about those Zoltaxian aliens…
Tsukasa has long since noticed her husband is a genius. But she’s still surprised when he’s able to answer difficult math questions quickly while multi-tasking at the computer. The girls aren’t exactly thrilled to be beaten so soundly so they concoct a plan to distract Nasa with seduction by having Tsukasa wear Charlotte’s maid outfit.
Nasa happens to run into his old middle school homeroom teacher, Yanagi Naoko. While the teacher is worried about her former student’s future, it turns out that Nasa has a lesson for his sensei.
Chitose and Aya start a fight in the bathhouse but they end up bonding over video games.
When Nasa’s cousin Onimaru Ginga-kun visits the bathhouse, Tsukasa mistakenly mistakes him for a Yakuza delinquent who might intend on harming her husband. But it turns out the cousin simply needed help with an abandoned kitten they end up naming Toast.
The cuteness of his wife combined with a cute cat is just too much for Nasa. And, wouldn’t you know it, but they end up becoming cat owners.
Having a cat makes Nasa realize his wife enjoys being spoiled. Fortunately, Ginga is able to help with that by giving them free tickets to an amusement park.
And it just so happens that they run into Sensei. She was invited by another male teacher named Taniguchi but Sensei denies it’s a date, believing that the man wouldn’t want a “boring girl like me”.
Tsukasa realizes that they’re about to get caught up in a manga trope by ruining the teacher’s moment so she quickly evades by dragging Nasa away. And that’s when the “magic” begins to happen.
Tonikawa Season 2 Discussion
Unfortunately, anime fans will have to wait until the TONIKAWA Season 2 release date to watch what happens next. Stay tuned!
