The official website for the television anime adaptation of Kanata Yanagino's Saihate no Paladin (The Faraway Paladin) light novel revealed on Saturday a pair of additional cast, theme song artists, and a second promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere on October 9 at 10:00 p.m. on Tokyo MX, followed by AT-X and BS Nippon. d Anime Store will also stream the anime.


H-el-ical// (Gleipnir) is performing the opening theme "The Sacred Torch," which is previewed in the promotional video below. Nagi Yanagi (Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series) will perform the ending theme "Shirushibi."


Yuu Nobuta (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear) is helming the anime at Children's Playground Entertainment. Tatsuya Takahashi (Kenja no Mago) is handling the series composition and Kouji Haneda (Scared Rider Xechs) is designing the characters. Ryuichi Takada (Ikebukuro West Gate Park) and Keigo Hoashi (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru) are composing the music.

Yanagino originally launched the adventure fantasy novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in May 2015. Overlap began printing the series with illustrations by Kususaga Rin the following March and published the fourth volume in September 2017.

Mutsumi Okuhashi began serializing a manga adaptation on the Comic Gardo web manga portal in September 2017. Overlap published the seventh volume on April 25.

J-Novel Club licensed both the light novel and manga adaptation in English and released the fourth novel volume in April 2018. The fifth manga volume went on sale on July 27.

Source: Comic Natalie