Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch!, the second season of 2020’s Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear anime adaptation, will begin airing in Japan sometime in April 2023. A trailer and key visual have been released.

The returning staff from Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear includes Yuu Nobuta as director, Hisashi Ishii as series director, Matakashi Aoshi as series composer, Yuuki Nakano as character designer and chief animation director, Mimika Iwa as color designer, and Shigeo Komori as music composer. EMT Squared is again the animation production company, The new staff members include art director Hariu Katsufumi (Slow Start) and photography director Youichirou Satou (White Album 2).

Meanwhile, the returning cast includes Maki Kawase as Yuna and Azumi Waki as FIna.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! is based on the light novel series written by Kumanano and illustrated by 029. 20 volumes, including a short story anthology, have been published under Shufu to Seikatsusha’s PASH Books label as of October 2022. 

Seven Seas Entertainment describes the light novels as:

Fifteen-year-old Yuna prefers staying home and obsessively playing her favorite VRMMO to doing anything else, including going to school. When a strange new update gives her a one-of-a-kind bear outfit that comes with overpowered abilities, Yuna is torn: the outfit is unbearably cute, but too embarrassing to wear in-game. But then she suddenly finds herself transported to a world like the game, facing down monsters and magic for real, and the bear suit becomes the best weapon she has!

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear began as a web novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou in 2014, with the light novel series beginning in 2015. The books have inspired a manga adaptation by Sergei, which are also licensed by Seven Seas, and a manga spin-off by Yukinori Satou.