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Muse Asia Licenses Mushoku Tensei Season 3, Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Muse Asia announced on Saturday and Sunday that it has licensed Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation III, the third season of the Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation anime, as well as the second season of the Skeleton Knight in Another World anime. Muse Asia will announce distribution details for both anime at a later date.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation III will premiere in July.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both Rifujin na Magonote's original main light novel series and Yuka Fujikawa's manga adaptation. The company also licensed Shoko Iwami's Mushoku Tensei: Roxy Gets Serious (Mushoku Tensei ~Roxy Datte Honki Desu~) spinoff manga. Seven Seas describes the "epic and influential fantasy" story of the original novels:
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 then began publishing a print version in 2014. The 26th volume shipped in November 2022.
The first part of the novels' first anime adaptation premiered in January 2021, and the second part premiered in October 2021, after a delay from that July. Muse Asia streamed both parts in Southeast Asia as they aired in Japan. Muse Asia also streamed the unaired side-story original video anime (OVA) episode "Eris the Goblin Slayer."
The second season aired for two cours (two quarters of a year). The first half premiered on Tokyo MX on July 2, 2023 before airing on other networks, and the second half aired from April to June, 2024. Muse Asia streamed the second season as it aired in Japan.
The second television anime season based on Ennki Hakari's Skeleton Knight in Another World (Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechū or Skeleton Knight, going out to the parallel universe) light novel series will premiere in July.
Katsumi Ono returns to direct the second season at Aura Studio. Character designer Tōru Imanishi, monster designer Yoshihiro Nagamori, and sound director Satoshi Motoyama all return for the second season.
Toshizo Nemoto (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime fourth season, Inu X Boku Secret Service) is now in charge of series scripts, replacing Takeshi Kikuchi. First season sub-character designer Hideki Inoue is replaced by Chisa Shibata (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life, Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy), and Jia Fang Lu (My Clueless First Friend) replaces art director Kenta Tsuboi. Other new staff includes color key artist Harue Ono (MAD BOX, replacing Chiho Nakamura), CGI director Tomotaka Aoki (Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 3), and animation producer Yasuhiro Uema.
The anime's first season premiered in Japan in April 2022. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
The series stars:
- Tomoaki Maeno as Arc
- Ai Fairouz as Arianne
- Nene Hieda as Ponta
- Miyu Tomita as Chiyome
- Takuya Eguchi as Danka
- Kōsuke Toriumi as Dillan
- Yūko Minaguchi as Glenys
- Rumi Ōkubo as Eevin
- Ryōta Takeuchi as Goemon
- Kengo Kawanishi as Sekt
- Daiki Hamano as Dakares
- Saori Ōnishi as Yuriarna
- Akira Ishida as Domitianus
- Minoru Shiraishi as Cetrion
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 (A Bridge to the Starry Skies character design) launched the ongoing manga adaptation on Overlap's Comic Gardo website in February 2017.
