A second season of The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash has been announced.
The first season of the TV anime aired during the Winter 2024 anime season. It adapts the TO Books-published light novel series written by Honobonoru500 and illustrated by Nama, which began in 2019 and has 14 volumes as of June 2025. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the book series’ synopsis as such:
In Ivy’s world, stars are everything. She’s a Tamer, born to subdue monsters and animals, but she was also born starless! With her life in danger, Ivy flees into the forest where she befriends a weak little slime named Sora—the one creature she can tame. Together, the unlikely pair set off on a journey, salvaging rubbish to survive. Along the way they’ll win hearts, evade danger, and discover there’s more to starless Ivy than meets the eye!
Aside from the anime, other things the light novels have inspired include a manga drawn by Tou Fukino, a TO Junior Bunko label version, a drama CD, and a 2023 calendar. The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash began as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel in 2018.
Staff (Season 1)
• Director: Naoki Horiuchi (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- Episode 3 and 7 director, The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2 Episode 3 director)
• Chief director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi (A Town Where You Live director)
• Series composer: Katsuhiko Takayama (The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat)
• Character designer: Fengcheng Hu (“Let You Down” animation director)
• Character designer: Yuki Ikeda (WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! chief animation director)
• Compositing director: Akihiro Fujishima (“Let You Down”)
• Music composer: Kujira Yumemi (Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible)
• Animation production: STUDIO MASSKET
Cast (Season 1)
• Aina Suzuki as Ivy
• Mutsumi Tamura as Sora
Source: @saijakutamer
