The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Dojyomaru's How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (Genjitsushugi Yūsha no Ōkoku Saikenki) light novel series has released a new key visual and promotional video for the anime's second cour. The PV previews the opening theme song.
Inori Minase will be performing the second cour's opening theme song "REAL-EYES," and Aimi will perform the ending theme song "Lights."
The second cour of the anime will premiere in January 8, 2022.
NEW KEY VISUAL:
MAIN PV:
Inori Minase, who voices Liscia Elfrieden, performed the first opening theme song titled, "Hello Horizon."
Aimi performed the first ending theme song titled, "Kazania."
The anime premiered on July 3, 2021.
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom will stream on Funimation in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and Mexico; on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand; and on Wakanim in Scandinavia.
Yūsuke Kobayashi voices protagonist Kazuya Souma and Inori Minase voices the heroine Liscia Elfrieden.
Reina Ueda is cast as Juna Doma, a songstress from the Kingdom of Elfrieden.
Ikumi Hasegawa is cast as Aisha Udgard, a dark elf who supports Kazuya with her martial arts.
Kazuyuki Okitsu is cast as Hakuya Kwonmin, Kazuya's right-hand man.
Aimi is cast as Carla Vargas, the daughter of General Castor Vargas and Liscia's close friend.
Aimi is cast as Carla Vargas, the daughter of General Castor Vargas and Liscia's close friend.
Moeka Kishimoto is cast as Tomoe Inui, a girl from the Wolf Tribe, and Masaaki Mizunaka is cast as Poncho Panacotta, who is talented in eating.
Taiten Kusunoki as Georg Carmine
Yui Horie as Excel Walter
Jun Fukuyama as Castor Vargas
Hisako Kanemoto as Maria Euphoria
Yui Ishikawa as Jeanne Euphoria
M・A・O as Roroa Amidonia
Mugihito is cast as the previous king of Elfrieden, Albert Elfrieden, Kikuko Inoue as the previous queen of Elfrieden, Elisha Elfrieden, Tetsu Inada as the sovereign prince of the Principality of Amidonia, Gaius Amidonia, and Kenji Nojima as the son of Gaius, Julis Amidonia.
Takashi Watanabe is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Go Zappa and Hiroshi Ohnogi are writing the scripts. Mai Otsuka is designing the characters. Akiyuki Tateyama is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa is the audio director. WOWMAX is credited as producer.
The English dub cast includes:
Alejandro Saab as Souma
Anairis Quinones as Liscia
Keith Silverstein as Albert
Ernesto Jason Liebrecht as Castor
Cory Phillips as Chief Priest
Anastasia Munoz as Elisha
Marti Etheridge as Excel
Marcus Stimac as Georg
Michelle Rojas as Jeanne
Dawn M. Bennett as Maria
Ivan Jasso as Marx
Chris Guerrero as Narrator
Jad Saxton as Roroa
Neil Kaplan as Sebastian
Mark Stoddard as Souma's Grandfather
Brook Chalmers as Tolman
Shawn Gann is directing the English dub and Emily Fajardo is the assistant ADR Director. Xavier Earl is the lead ADR engineer. James Bakers and Manuel Aragon are the assistant ADR engineers. Clayton Browning is writing the script and Jeramey Kraatz is supervising. Jennifer Alyx is in charge of ADR prep. Nathanael Harrison is the mix engineer.
Alejandro Saab as Souma
Anairis Quinones as Liscia
Keith Silverstein as Albert
Ernesto Jason Liebrecht as Castor
Cory Phillips as Chief Priest
Anastasia Munoz as Elisha
Marti Etheridge as Excel
Marcus Stimac as Georg
Michelle Rojas as Jeanne
Dawn M. Bennett as Maria
Ivan Jasso as Marx
Chris Guerrero as Narrator
Jad Saxton as Roroa
Neil Kaplan as Sebastian
Mark Stoddard as Souma's Grandfather
Brook Chalmers as Tolman
Shawn Gann is directing the English dub and Emily Fajardo is the assistant ADR Director. Xavier Earl is the lead ADR engineer. James Bakers and Manuel Aragon are the assistant ADR engineers. Clayton Browning is writing the script and Jeramey Kraatz is supervising. Jennifer Alyx is in charge of ADR prep. Nathanael Harrison is the mix engineer.
The English Dub premieres July 31, 2021.
J-Novel Club is releasing the novels digitally and Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the novels in print. J-Novel Club describes the story as:
"O, Hero!" With that cliched line, Kazuya Souma found himself summoned to another world and his adventure--did not begin. After he presents his plan to strengthen the country economically and militarily, the king cedes the throne to him and Souma finds himself saddled with ruling the nation! What's more, he's betrothed to the king's daughter now...?! In order to get the country back on its feet, Souma calls the wise, the talented, and the gifted to his side. Five people gather before the newly crowned Souma. Just what are the many talents and abilities they possess...?! What path will his outlook as a realist take Souma and the people of his country down? A revolutionary transferred-to-another-world administrative fantasy series starts here!
TEASER VISUAL:
"O, Hero!" With that cliched line, Kazuya Souma found himself summoned to another world and his adventure--did not begin. After he presents his plan to strengthen the country economically and militarily, the king cedes the throne to him and Souma finds himself saddled with ruling the nation! What's more, he's betrothed to the king's daughter now...?! In order to get the country back on its feet, Souma calls the wise, the talented, and the gifted to his side. Five people gather before the newly crowned Souma. Just what are the many talents and abilities they possess...?! What path will his outlook as a realist take Souma and the people of his country down? A revolutionary transferred-to-another-world administrative fantasy series starts here!