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The Beginning After The End Season 2's New Video Unveils More Cast, Opening Song, April 1 Debut

The staff for the television anime of TurtleMe's The Beginning After The End web novel and its webcomic adaptation revealed on Wednesday the full promotional video, key visual, more cast members, and April 1 premiere for the anime's second season. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song "Sayonara Janai Hō ga Ii" (It Would Be Better If We Don't Have to Say Goodbye) by SIX LOUNGE.

Ryōta Ōsaka and Yumiri Hanamori join the second season's cast as Brald Landon and Samantha Tempest, respectively.

The anime will debut on April 1 on the +Ultra programming block on Fuji TV, Kansai TV, and AT-X at 24:45 JST (effectively April 2 at 12:45 a.m.).

Crunchyroll will stream the second season as it airs in Japan.

22/7 performs the second season's ending theme song "Futatsu no Michi" (Two Roads).

The first season of the anime premiered in April 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the anime worldwide excluding Asia (but including India), and also streamed an English dub as well as a French dub.

The anime, which was initially billed as "Season 1," will have 24 episodes. Tapas has stated the anime is the first anime adaptation of an American web novel and webcomic.

Keitarō Motonaga (Date A Live first three seasons, Katanagatari, Jormungand) is directing the anime at Studio A-Cat. Takamitsu Kōno (Utawarerumono: The False Faces, Absolute Duo) is overseeing the series scripts. Masami Sueoka (The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human) is the character designer, and Keiji Inai (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level) is composing the music. Slow Curve is producing the anime.

TurtleMe is the story supervisor and executive producer. Tapas Entertainment's Mike Zhu, Kevin Nicklaus, and TurtleMe LLC's Gabrielle Luu are also executive producers on the series.  

The anime's Japanese title is Saikyō no Ō-sama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru?, which is the title of the webcomic in Japan.

TurtleMe's web novel series launched in English on Tapas in January 2017. Tapas describes the story:

The Beginning After The End follows the thrilling journey of King Grey, a once-powerful ruler reborn into a vibrant world of magic, mythical creatures, and epic battles. Now living as Arthur Leywin, a boy with untapped potential, he discovers that his new life is filled with danger and adventure at every turn. From mastering powerful spells to facing fierce enemies, Arthur must use his skills and wits to protect those he cares about and uncover the secrets of his mysterious reincarnation. Along the way, he finds friendship, challenges, and a destiny that could reshape the very world around him.

The webcomic launched on Tapas in July 2018. TurtleMe is in charge of the story and adaptation for the webcomic. The webcomic started with artist Fuyuki23, but the artist changed in June 2023 for Season 6 to Rise Entertainment. The webcomic went on hiatus in August 2024, and returned in October 2024. For the return, MGK-story is producing the webcomic. Season 6 ended in July 2025, and the series is now on hiatus.

Yen Press is releasing the webcomic in print, and released the 10th volume on February 24.

The franchise is available in seven languages worldwide, and has more than 61.8 million reads, with more than 36.1 million for the webcomic and more than 25.7 million for the web novel. The franchise globally grosses nearly US$500,000 monthly.

The web novel series had a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for print editions. The campaign funded "Premium Editions of Volumes 1-3 of TurtleMe's acclaimed series." Rocketship Entertainment, a Ringo award-winning publisher and entertainment company that is publishing the Let's Play web comic in print, is operating the Kickstarter.

Sources: The Beginning After The End anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie