Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Season 2: Everything Confirmed So Far
"Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian" — better known to fans by its shorthand, Roshidere — is officially moving forward on a second season, and this week brought the first real look at it in a while. A new teaser trailer and visual surfaced on Sunday, September 20, 2026, according to Anime Corner, giving fans their first fresh piece of promotional material since the season was originally announced. Along with that teaser comes a less welcome piece of news: the release window has slipped from 2026 to 2027, and the production has confirmed changes behind the camera.
Here's a full rundown of what's actually locked in for Season 2, what changed on staff, and what's still left unconfirmed.
The new teaser, and one important caveat
Anime Corner's report on September 20, 2026, is currently the outlet reporting that a new teaser trailer and main visual for Season 2 have been revealed. As of this writing, no independent confirmation from Anime News Network or Crunchyroll News has surfaced corroborating that this specific teaser exists — this is a single-sourced claim, and it's worth flagging clearly rather than treating it as confirmed across the board. That doesn't mean it's wrong; Anime Corner has been a consistent source on this franchise's staff details in the past, corroborated elsewhere on other points. It just means this particular piece — the teaser itself — hasn't cleared the bar of multiple outlets reporting it independently yet.
What isn't being claimed here matters just as much as what is. Beyond the teaser and a new main visual existing, there's no detail available about what the footage actually depicts. No scene descriptions, no new character reveals, no dialogue snippets — just confirmation that new promotional material dropped. Anyone describing specific content from this teaser online right now is going further than the sourcing actually supports.
The delay: 2026 pushed to 2027
The bigger, more concrete piece of news here is the release window itself. Roshidere Season 2 was originally announced with a 2026 target, but that has now shifted to 2027. That's a real delay, not just a vague "later" update — the season was expected to land this year, and it no longer will.
Delays like this aren't unusual for anime productions, and a slip of roughly a year often lines up with exactly the kind of behind-the-scenes changes that came attached to this announcement: a new director and a new script supervisor both stepping into a project already in motion. Staff transitions mid-production are one of the more common reasons a studio pushes a release window back rather than rushing a season out on the original schedule.
A new director takes over
The most significant confirmed change is behind the camera. Hiroshi Haraguchi is stepping in as director for Season 2, replacing Ryota Itoh, who helmed Season 1. This staff change is corroborated by both Anime Corner and an Anime News Network report — though it's worth noting that ANN's piece on the staff change is dated July 2025, meaning it predates this week's teaser news specifically. The underlying fact of the directorial swap itself is solid and corroborated across sources; it just wasn't first reported this week.
Haraguchi isn't coming in as a total outsider to the franchise, either. He directed Season 1's episode 4, meaning he already has hands-on experience with Roshidere's tone, pacing, and the specific way the show balances its romantic-comedy beats against Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou's running gag of muttering her real feelings in Russian, assuming Masachika Kuze can't understand her. Promoting someone who already worked on the show, rather than bringing in a director cold, is a pattern that tends to reassure fans more than an outside hire would — there's precedent for exactly this kind of internal promotion working out well on other franchises moving into new seasons.
The script supervisor is also changing
Alongside the director swap, Yuka Yamada is taking over as series script supervisor for Season 2, also replacing Itoh. Yamada previously wrote Season 1's episode 6, giving her the same kind of direct, hands-on history with the series that Haraguchi brings to the director's chair. Having both of the departing director's former responsibilities picked up by people who already worked inside the production — rather than external hires — points to a production team trying to preserve continuity of tone even while replacing a significant chunk of its creative leadership.
It's worth being precise about what exactly changed here: Itoh is out as both director and script supervisor, and two separate people already familiar with the show are splitting those responsibilities between them going into Season 2. That's a meaningfully different situation than a wholesale creative overhaul would be.
What's staying the same
Not everything is in flux. Yuhei Murota returns as character designer, and Studio Doga Kobo is back animating the series, keeping the visual identity fans already associate with Roshidere intact. Given how much a character designer's work shapes a show's overall look, Murota's return is one of the clearer signals that Season 2 is meant to feel like a direct continuation rather than a soft reboot, even with new names now running the director's chair and script department.
The cast is staying put as well. All five main Season 1 cast members are reprising their roles for Season 2, including Sumire Uesaka returning as Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou and Kohei Amasaki returning as Masachika Kuze. For a romantic comedy built almost entirely around the chemistry between its two leads, keeping Uesaka and Amasaki attached is arguably the single most important continuity signal in this entire announcement — a new director and script supervisor can shift a show's pacing and framing, but a voice cast change would have altered the fundamental feel of the central relationship that makes Roshidere work in the first place.
The source material, and where Season 2 picks up
Roshidere is based on the light novel series written by SunSunSun and illustrated by Momoco, licensed in English by Yen Press. A manga adaptation by Saho Tenamachi runs alongside the original novels. Season 2 is confirmed to continue from light novel Volume 4 onward, giving fans with access to the source material a clear marker for where the anime picks the story back up after Season 1's run.
That Volume 4 starting point is useful context for managing expectations heading into 2027. Light novel adaptations frequently compress or restructure material relative to how it's originally paced on the page, so while Volume 4 marks the confirmed jumping-off point, exactly how much ground Season 2 covers from there hasn't been specified in any of the current reporting.
What's still missing
A few genuinely significant details remain unconfirmed. There's no specific 2027 release date yet — just the year itself, following the delay from the original 2026 target. There's also no confirmed streaming platform for Season 2 as of this writing; nothing in current reporting specifies where the season will be available to watch, and any platform claims circulating beyond that should be treated as unconfirmed until a primary source or the production itself says otherwise.
There's also no episode count, no confirmation of a full trailer with actual footage beyond the teaser itself, and no further plot details beyond the Volume 4 starting point. Given how the announcement rolled out — a delay confirmed alongside a staff change and a teaser whose existence is still resting on a single outlet's reporting — it's reasonable to expect Roshidere's production to still be firming up several of these pieces internally before locking in the kind of specifics that usually arrive closer to an actual premiere.
Why the staff change is worth watching
Director and script supervisor changes mid-franchise aren't automatically cause for concern, but they are the kind of detail worth tracking as more information comes out. Haraguchi and Yamada both bring direct prior experience on Roshidere specifically, having worked on individual episodes of Season 1 before stepping into their new, broader roles. That's a meaningfully different scenario than bringing in creative leads with zero history on the property, and it's the strongest evidence available right now that Season 2 is being built as a continuation of what Season 1 established rather than a fresh creative direction.
Combined with Murota staying on as character designer, Doga Kobo returning as the animation studio, and the full main cast reprising their roles, the overall picture is one of substantial continuity around two specific, confirmed leadership changes — not a production in disarray, but one that's shifted who's steering it while keeping nearly everything else in place.
Bottom line
What's confirmed for Roshidere Season 2: a 2027 release window following a delay from the original 2026 target, a director change from Ryota Itoh to Hiroshi Haraguchi, a script supervisor change from Itoh to Yuka Yamada, Yuhei Murota returning as character designer, Studio Doga Kobo returning to animate, the full Season 1 cast reprising their roles including Sumire Uesaka and Kohei Amasaki, and a confirmed starting point of light novel Volume 4. A new teaser and main visual reportedly exist as of September 20, 2026, per Anime Corner, though that specific claim remains single-sourced for now. Missing pieces still include a specific 2027 date, a streaming platform, an episode count, and any actual footage or plot details beyond what's outlined here. Expect those gaps to close gradually as 2027 approaches.
Expect a fuller trailer with actual footage, a streaming platform confirmation, and eventually a specific 2027 premiere date as production continues.