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Banished From The Heroes' Party Anime's 2nd Season Video Reveals Staff, January 2024 Premiere
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Kadokawa revealed a new promotional video for the second season of the television anime of Zappon and Yasumo's Banished From The Heroes' Party (Shin no Nakama janai to Yūsha no Party o Oidasareta node, Henkyō de Slow Life Suru Koto ni Shimashita) light novel series on Sunday. The video reveals the anime's staff and January 2024 premiere date. The title of the second season is Shin no Nakama janai to Yūsha no Party o Oidasareta node, Henkyō de Slow Life Suru Koto ni Shimashita 2nd.
The first season's director Makoto Hoshino is now the chief director, with the director credit now going to Satoshi Takafuji, who storyboarded and directed the ninth episode of the first season. Studio Flad is now solely credited for animation production (the first season was a collaboartion between Studio Flad and Wolfsbane). Yukiko Ashino is now also credited for art setting alongside returning staff member Tsukasa Ohira, while also serving as returning art director. Norimasa Teramoto is replacing Kenji Takehara as director of photography. Takatoshi Hamano is replacing Nobuyuki Abe as sound director. Magic Capsule is replacing On-Lead for sound production. The rest of the main staff are returning.
Makoto Hoshino (DamePri Anime Caravan, KING’S RAID: Successors of the Will) directed the first season at Wolfsbane and Studio Flad. Megumi Shimizu (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, KING’S RAID: Successors of the Will) was in charge of the series scripts. Ruriko Watanabe (KutsuDaru., DamePri Anime Caravan) designed the characters.
Yen Press is publishing the light novels in English, and it describes the story:
Red was once a member of the Hero's party, a powerful group destined to save the world from the evil forces of Taraxon, the Raging Demon Lord. That is, until one of his comrades kicked him out. Hoping to live the easy life on the frontier, Red's new goal is to open an apothecary. However, keeping the secret of his former life may not be as simple as he thinks. Especially when the beautiful Rit, an adventurer from his past, shows up and asks to move in with him!
Zappon began serializing the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Nārō" website in October 2017, where it is still continuing. Kadokawa began publishing the story in print with illustrations by Yasumo in June 2018. Masahiro Ikeno launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine in May 2018. The franchise has over 2.2 million copies in circulation, including digital copies.
Source: Press release
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