The official website of the Medalist television anime unveiled the production staff, teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promotional video for the second season on Sunday. The new season is scheduled to premiere on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block in January 2026.

New staff includes Hazuki Nakamura as art director, replacing Youko Nakao and Kentarou Kashiwagi (Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai) replacing Shinichi Yoneya as director of photography. Takasumi Miura replaces Kouki Kanbe as animation producer.

Yasutaka Yamamoto (Noblesse) returns to direct the second season at ENGI. Jukki Hanada (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu) is in charge of the series composition and script. Chinatsu Kameyama (Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. 2) is designing the characters and Yuuki Hayashi (Haikyuu!!) is composing the music.

Medalist adapts Tsurumaikada's sports drama manga, which began in Afternoon magazine in May 2020. Kodansha shipped the 13th volume on June 23.

Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in March 2021 and shipped the 12th volume on June 17.

Teaser PV


Source: Comic Natalie