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Muse Asia Licenses Wistoria Season 2, The Exiled Heavy Knight Anime

Muse Asia announced on Thursday that it has licensed the second season of the television anime of Fujino Ōmori and Toshi Aoi's Wistoria: Wand and Sword (Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria) manga, as well as the television anime of Brocco Lee's manga adaptation of Nekoko's The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System (Tsuihō Sareta Tensei Jū Kishi wa Game Chishiki de Musō Suru) light novel series. Muse Asia will announce distribution details at a later date.

The second season of Wistoria: Wand and Sword will premiere in Japan in April 2026.

The first season's director Tatsuya Yoshihara is the new season's general director, and Hideaki Nakano (Saiyuki Reload Blast, Servamp) is the new director at first season animation studios Actas and Bandai Namco Pictures. Sayaka Ono returns as character designer and chief animation director, and Yūki Hayashi also returns to compose the music. ASH DA HERO performs the second season's opening theme song "Believers," while Shiyui performs the ending theme song "Reachlight."

The first season premiered on TBS and 27 affiliated channels in July 2024. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.

Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in English. The company describes the story:

A new, magical dungeon-adventure fantasy series from the author of Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?! To fulfill the promise he made to his childhood friend, Will Serfort enters Regarden Magic Academy with the goal of making it to the top of the magical world. There's just one problem—he doesn't know how to use magic! Will the seemingly ordinary sword in his hand be the key to unlock his true potential?

The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System will premiere in Japan on July 2. The anime will air for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year).

• Takeo Ōtsuka as Elma Edvan
• Shion Wakayama as Luce Rubis
• Natsuko Abe as Maris Edvan

Shingo Suzuki is the general director, and Katsumasa Yokomine (The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, Momentary Lily) is directing the anime at GoHands. Takayuki Uchida (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, W'z) is designing the characters, and also serving as one of the chief animation directors along with Keiji Tani (Momentary Lily) and Makoto Furuta (Momentary Lily). Tetsuichi Yamagishi (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie key animation) is the chief director, Hiroshi Ōkubo (K, The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses) is the main animator, Glovision is in charge of sound production, Enji Nakajima and Tetsuya Gunji are the sound directors, and Ludvig Forssell (BELLE film) is composing the music.

Kodansha is releasing the manga in English through its K MANGA service, and it describes the story:

"You good-for-nothing bastard. You are the son of a Sword Saint, yet you dare pull such a defective Class!?"

During the Divine Blessing Ceremony of the 15-year-old Elma who came from a lineage of Sword Saints, he had manifested a commonly deemed defective class known as the Heavy Knight. He had been deprived of his position as the next head of the Edvan Household and was then exiled. The Heavy Knight class had an unbalanced status and useless skills, to top it off, it was even said to be a class cowardly and indolent people have.

But, Elma knew better—that this world was the world of the game he had used to play before—and that the Heavy Knight class was the strongest class to exist. Elma made full use of the knowledge he had in his previous life and began his efficient walkthrough of the world he was reincarnated into.

Source: Muse Asia's Facebook page (link 2)