New promotional material for the Skip & Loafer anime adaptation has dropped in the form of a second trailer and key visual, providing another look at the characters and character art for the high school-themed show.

The trailer also includes a preview of the opening song “Mellow” by Keina Suda, which was newly announced with the ending song “Hanauta to Mawarimichi” by Rikako Aida. An April 4 premiere date for the show was revealed as well.

Skip & Loafer is based on the Kodansha-published manga series by Misaki Takamatsu, which began serialization in Monthly Afternoon in 2018. Eight tankoubon volumes have been published under the Afternoon KC label as of January 2023.

Seven Seas Entertainment describes the manga as: 

Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She’s got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she’s massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.

Kotomi Deai (Natsume’s Book of Friends director) is serving as director and series composer for the anime with Yuriko Abe (The Aquatope on White Sand episode director and storyboarder) as assistant director. P.A. Works is the animation production company. 

Other staff include Manami Umeshita (Stella Women`s Academy, High School Division Class C3 character designer) as character designer and one of the chief animation directors,  E-Caesar as art director, Yuuko Kobari (Inu-Oh) as color designer, Kazuto Izumida (The Heike Story) as photography director, and Takatsugu Wakabayashi (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer) as music composer. 

Meanwhile, the cast includes Tomoyo Kurosawa as Mitsumi Iwakura, Akinori Egoshi as Sosuke Shima, Yuka Terasama as Mika Egashira, Maaya Uchida as Yuzuki Murashige, and Megumi Han as Makoto Kurume.