#Head Start at Birth Short Anime Series Announces 2nd Season, Premieres January 5

A second season of the short anime series Head Start at Birth has been announced to begin broadcasting in Japan on January 5, 2025. The first season ran for 12 episodes from July 7, 2024 to September 22, 2024. 

Media company Digimerce made the announcement today and also confirmed that the second season will run on various streaming services in Japan such as ABEMA, DMM TV, U-NEXT, Anime Hodai, Bandai Channel, Hulu, Animate Times, and AnimeFesta. 

The voice cast and staff from season one are returning for the new season. The anime stars Hina Kino as Lilia Carol and Yoshitaka Yamaya as Elk von Luxel. 

The manga adaptation is written by Umika and illustrated by Reku Hayase, and was first published by Shusuisha’s Shojo Sengen digital magazine on September 29, 2020. Seven tankobon volumes have been released as of September 2024. The manga is released in English by Global Bookwalker and is also available digitally on the Coolmic website. 

The series originally began as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel, of which the anime adapts from, and was published from September 29, 2019 to July 6, 2021. A light novel version of the manga was released on September 29, 2023.  

Pocket Comics describes the main story as:

Lilia, a genius marquess’ daughter, can not only use magic, but is also good at territory management. Having a strong gamer spirit, Lilia finds out about the existence of magic in the world where she was reincarnated and remembers her previous life in a different world. Even though she was still a newborn and could not even walk, she started to actively develop her abilities. 

As a result, she can exercise advanced magic, control high-ranking spirits, and actively participate in the management of the marquess’ premises. No matter whether this world is a RPG or a ranch game, this cheat is unbeatable! Lilia cannot go unnoticed by the royal family who invite her to have a birthday party at the court. Could it be that this is an Otome game involving political marriage with the princes?! Just please don’t make her the villainess!!!

Source: Anime News Network, Comic Natalie