A special event for the Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation anime premiered a new teaser promotional video and key visual for the second half of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II.
The teaser and visual reveal that the season will resume on April 7. Ryōsuke Shibuya, who served as the storyboard and episode director for the first half of the second season, announced on Saturday that he will be the new director for the second half.
The upcoming episodes will air starting April 7 at 24:00 (effectively, April 8 at midnight or April 7 at 11:00 AM EDT) on Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, and BS11 channels, as well as the Sun TV channel.
The second season is scheduled for two cours, with the first half premiering on Tokyo MX on July 2 before expanding to other networks. The second half will be broadcast from April to June 2024. Crunchyroll is streaming the season as it airs, and the overall season will consist of 25 episodes.
In the first cours, Hiroki Hirano took over as the director at Studio Bind, replacing Manabu Okamoto. For the second cours, Ryōsuke Shibuya is assuming the role of director, while Toshiya Ono steps in as the series script supervisor. Sanae Shimada and Yoshiko Saitō are the new character designers.
The returning staff includes Masakazu Miyake as the art director, Makiko Doi as the color key artist, Shinji Tonsho as the compositing director of photography, Akinori Mishima as the editor, Jin Aketagawa as the sound director, Tsutomu Ueno as the sound effects artist, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa as the musical composer. EGG FIRM is producing the anime.
Seven Seas Entertainment has acquired the licensing rights for both Rifujin na Magonote’s original main light novel series and Yuka Fujikawa’s manga adaptation of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. Additionally, the company has secured the license for Shōko Iwami’s Mushoku Tensei: Roxy Gets Serious (Mushoku Tensei: Roxy Datte Honki desu) spinoff manga. The narrative of the original novels is described by Seven Seas as an “epic and influential fantasy” story:
Kicked out by his family and wandering the streets, an unemployed 34-year-old shut-in thinks he’s hit rock-bottom—just as he’s hit and killed by a speeding truck!
Awakening to find himself reborn as an infant in a world of swords and sorcery, but with the memories of his first life intact, Rudeus Greyrat is determined not to repeat his past mistakes. He’s going to make the most of this reincarnation as he sets off on the adventure of a second lifetime!
Rifujin na Magonote initially serialized the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) website from 2012 to 2015. Kadokawa’s MF Books imprint began publishing a print version in 2014, with the 26th volume released in November 2022.
The first part of the novels’ initial anime adaptation premiered in January 2021, and the second part followed in October 2021 after a delay from the original July release date. Funimation streamed the season, and Crunchyroll and Hulu are currently streaming the anime, which includes the unaired side-story original video anime (OVA) episode “Eris the Goblin Slayer.”