The official website of the Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechuu (Skeleton Knight in Another World) television anime revealed new staff, teaser promo, and a key visual (pictured) for the second season on Sunday. The second season adapting Ennki Hakari's action fantasy light novel will begin airing in July 2026.

Staff
Director: Katsumi Ono (A-Rank Party wo Ridatsu shita Ore wa, Moto Oshiego-tachi to Meikyuu Shinbu wo Mezasu.)
Series Composition: Toshizou Nemoto (Log Horizon) NEW
Character Design: Tooru Imanishi (Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?)
Sub-character Design: Chisa Shibata (Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsu suru) NEW
Art Director: Jiafang Lu (Jijou wo Shiranai Tenkousei ga Guigui Kuru.) NEW
Art Design: Rika Mizoguchi NEW, Manami Takizawa (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season - Kanketsu-hen) NEW
Background Art: Kusanagi NEW
Color Design: Harue Oono (No Game No Life) (MADBOX) NEW
CGI Director: Tomotaka Aoki (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Season 3) NEW
CGI Technical Director: Norimitsu Hirosawa (Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japan) NEW
Monster Design: Yoshihiro Nagamori (Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su)
Prop Design: Shinichi Miyazaki (Atom: The Beginning mechanical design) NEW
Director of Photography: Sei Yamamoto (Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Kayou) NEW
Cinematography: Chiptune NEW
Editing: Yumi Jinguuji (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken) NEW
Music Production: Pony Canyon
Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama (Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu)
Sound Production: DAX Production
Studio: Aura Studio NEW

Note: The staff denoted with the legend NEW are new in their respective roles.

Singer-songwriter PelleK is returning to perform the opening theme.

Produced by Studio KAI and HORNETS, the first season aired in 12 episodes in Spring 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the anime with subtitles in multiple languages and English dub.

Hakari began penning the novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in October 2014. Overlap began publishing the novel with illustrations by KeG in June 2015 and published the tenth volume in March 2022. Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechuu has a cumulative 3.2 million copies of its volumes in circulation, including digital editions.

Akira Sawano began drawing a manga adaptation on Overlap's Comic Gardo web manga portal in February 2017. The 14th volume went-on-sale on June 25.

Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both light novel and manga in English in September 2018 and published the tenth novel volume in April 2023. The 13th manga volume went-on-sale in December 2024, with the 14th volume planned for a March 24, 2026 release.

Teaser PV


Source: Comic Natalie