The official website of the Saihate no Paladin (The Faraway Paladin) television anime revealed on Friday the production staff, new cast, teaser visual (pictured), and first promotional video for the second season. The new season, subtitled Tetsusabi no Yama no Ou (The King of the Iron Rust Mountain), is scheduled to premiere in Fall 2023.

Shouya Chiba (86, Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e) is joining the cast as adult William G. Maryblood.

Staff
Director: Akira Iwanaga (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou 2nd Season) NEW
Series Composition: Tatsuya Takahashi (Saihate no Paladin)
Character Design: Tatsuya Arai (King's Raid: Ishi wo Tsugumono-tachi) NEW, Kouji Haneda (Scared Rider Xechs)
Monster Design: Eyushin (Kyoukai Senki mechanical animation director) NEW
Art Director: Zechen Yang (Bishounen Tanteidan background art) NEW
Color Design: Haruko Nobori (Shijou Saikyou no Daimaou, Murabito A ni Tensei suru)
Director of Photography: Takechi Kuchiba (Urasekai Picnic)
Editing: Yoshiki Ushiroda (Odd Taxi) NEW
Sound Director: Tomohiko Yaginuma (Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes) NEW
Sound Production: DAX Production
Music: Ryuuichi Takada (Summertime Render), Keigo Hoashi (Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song)
Studio: OLM NEW, Sunrise Beyond NEW

Note: The staff list also includes members from the first series. The new staff members for season two are denoted with the legend NEW.

The anime adapts Kanata Yanagino's adventure fantasy light novel, which they launched on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in May 2015. Overlap began publishing the novel with illustrations by Kususaga Rin the following March and released the fourth and latest volume in September 2017.

Mutsumi Okuhashi (Hai to Gensou no Grimgar) began drawing a manga adaptation on the Comic Gardo web manga portal in September 2017. Overlap shipped the tenth volume on October 25, while the 11th volume is scheduled to release on April 25.

J-Novel Club licensed both the light novel and manga adaptation in English in 2016 and 2019, respectively. The fourth novel volume went on sale in April 2018. The ninth manga volume shipped on February 8.

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Source: Comic Natalie