The official Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Shu and Yoshinori Shizuma's The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History's Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants (Maō Gakuin no Futekigōsha ~Shijō Saikyō no Maō no Shiso, Tensei Shite Shison-tachi no Gakkō e Kayō) light novel series has released a new key visual and the first promotional video for the anime. Season 2 is set to premiere in January 2023.
Yuichiro Umehara replaces Tatsuhisa Suzuki as the voice of the lead character Anos.
Shin Oonuma is the chief director for the anime. Masafumi Tamura is the director with Mirai Minato as the assistant director. SILVER LINK is producing the animation. Kazuyuki Yamayoshi is adapting Yoshinori Shizuma's original character designs for animation. Jin Tanaka is writing the scripts. Ryousuke Naya is the sound director, and Keiji Inai is composing the music.
Despite their appetite for destruction, even demon kings tire of all the blood and chaos sometimes! When Anoth reincarnates in the hopes of a more peaceful life, he ends up going to school with his descendants in his old castle 2,000 years later. But with magic on its last legs in this era, no one is able to assess Anoth's true power!
Season 2 is set to premiere in 2023. It will be split into 2 cours.
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Square Enix publishes the manga adaptation of the novels and describes the story as: