The “Overlap Bunko All-Star Gathering Special 2026 Part 1” livestream event on Sunday unveiled a teaser promotional video, a new key visual, the new and returning staff members, and the July premiere for the second television anime season based on Ennki Hakari’s light novel series Skeleton Knight in Another World. The series is also known as Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechū or Skeleton Knight, going out to the parallel universe.
Overlap also announced that PelleK, the artist who performed the opening theme song for the first season, will return to perform the new season’s opening theme song. The Norwegian singer-songwriter has a video message for the anime’s fans:
Katsumi Ono will direct the second season at Aura Studio. Character designer Tōru Imanishi, monster designer Yoshihiro Nagamori, and sound director Satoshi Motoyama will all return for the second season.
Toshizo Nemoto, known for his work on That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime fourth season and Inu X Boku Secret Service, will be in charge of series scripts, replacing Takeshi Kikuchi. Chisa Shibata will take over as sub-character designer, replacing Hideki Inoue. Jia Fang Lu will replace Kenta Tsuboi as art director. Other new staff includes color key artist Harue Ono, CGI director Tomotaka Aoki, and animation producer Yasuhiro Uema.
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The anime’s first season premiered in Japan in April 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and also streams an English dub.
The series stars:
Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the light novel series and its manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:
One day, a gamer played video games until he fell asleep…and when he woke up, he found himself in the game world—as a skeleton! Equipped with the powerful weapons and armor of his avatar but stuck with its frightening skeletal appearance, Arc has to find a place for himself in this new, fantastical land. All his hopes for a quiet life are dashed when he crosses paths with a beautiful elven warrior, setting him on a journey full of conflict and adventure.
Ennki Hakari launched the novels on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s be Novelists) website in October 2014, and Overlap published the first volume with illustrations by KeG in June 2015, and the 10th volume in March 2022.
Akira Sawano launched the ongoing manga adaptation on Overlap’s Comic Gardo website in February 2017.
News Source: Animenewsnetwork.com
