Aoki directed the two new episodes that premiered in March 2019, as well as the eight new episodes that premiered in July 2019.
Pop Team Epic series director and scriptwriter Jun Aoki is returning from the second and third set of episodes to direct the anime at Fanworks (Aggressive Retsuko, Ganbare!
Takahashi Shoten began publishing the book series in 2016, and the resulting four volumes have more than 3 million copies in circulation.
Anime studio Fanworks announced on Wednesday that it will produce five new episodes for the television anime adaptation of the Zannen na Ikimono Jiten (Humorous & Adorable Evolutionary Creatures or literally, Encyclopedia of Pitiful Creatures) book series.