While it wasn’t a show that was generating much interest or noise overseas, Time Bokan 24 did solidly enough in Japan that a second season has been revealed through some promotional material at AnimeJapan 2017. No details as to when it will arrive but it’s presumed that the same staff and cast will be involved with it. The first season finished up last week with twenty-four episodes.
The Japanese cast includes Akihisa Wakayama as Tokio, Akari Kito as Calen, Eri Kitamura as Bimajo, Hiroaki Hirata as Tsubuyakky, Kenta Miyake as Suzukky, Takeshi Maeda as Peralino, Rikako Aikawa as Picobo, Bokanbures, Hori as Oyadama and Shigeru Chiba as Bokannare.
The project has Takayuki Inagaki as director working from the series composition by Youichi Katou with Tatsunoko Production obviously handling the animation.
Plot concept: The protagonist Tokio is a first-year middle school student living in modern Tokyo. One day to his surprise, he is suddenly appointed as a member of a 24th century organization, the Space-Time Administration Bureau. Tokio learns that, in reality, the history written in textbooks is all a lie and that the true history of the world contains amusing facts that remain hidden. For example, the beautiful woman known in history as Cleopatra is actually a stand-up comedy duo named Cleo and Patra. Additionally, the folk tale hero Momotarou is a man more demonic than all demons.
Tokio and fellow bureau member Calen use the Bokan Mecha 24, a machine which can transform and merge into various forms, to search for true history. Tokio and his friends must face three evils familiar to the Time Bokan series, Bimajo, Tsubuyakky, and Suzukky. Together, they form a group called the Akudama which has been hired by the world’s largest textbook company, History Paradise, to protect the history textbook. What true history will be revealed next?
