The official Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Kanata Yanagino and Kususaga Rin's The Faraway Paladin (Saihate no Paladin) light novel series has announced that the anime is getting a second season.
Maki Kawase as Will (William)
Yuu Nobuta is directing the anime at Children's Playground Entertainment. Tatsuya Takahashi is overseeing the series scripts, and Koji Haneda is designing the characters. Ryuuichi Takada and Keigo Hoashi from MONACA are composing the music.
The anime's opening theme song titled, "The Sacred Torch" was performed by H-el-ical//.
The anime's ending theme song titled, "Shirushibi" was performed by Nagi Yanagi.
The anime premiered on October 9, 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the series.
MAIN CAST:
Maki Kawase as Will (William)
Katsuyuki Konishi as Blood / Yui Horie as Mary
Nobuo Tobita as Gus (Augustus) / Ayumu Murase as Menel (Meneldor)
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Aoi Yuki as Gracefeel
Hiroki Takahashi as Stagnate
Eri Suzuki as Bee (Robina Goodfellow)
Kōji Yusa as Tonio (Antonio)
Kenji Nomura as Reystov
Minoru Inaba as Bagley
Atsushi Tamaru as Ethelbald
KEY VISUAL:
J-Novel Club publishes the novels in English and describes the series as:
In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin. "I promised you. It's gonna take a while, but I'll tell you everything. This is the story of the deaths of many heroes. It's the story of how we died, and it's the reason you grew up here."
In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin. "I promised you. It's gonna take a while, but I'll tell you everything. This is the story of the deaths of many heroes. It's the story of how we died, and it's the reason you grew up here."