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The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Anime Gets 2nd Season
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The "10th Anniversary Memorial Fest! Overlap Bunko All-Star Gathering Special ~Night Dream Fest~" event on Sunday announced that the television anime adaptation of Yū Okano's The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Nozomanu Fushi no Bōkensha) light novel series will get a second season. The event also revealed a commemorative visual.
Cast members Ryōta Suzuki (Rentt Faina) and Ikumi Hasegawa (Sheila Ibarss) appeared at Sunday's event. The light novels' original character designer Jaian drew an illustration to celebrate the second season announcement:
The anime stars:
- Ryōta Suzuki as Rentt Faina
- Mikako Komatsu as Lorrane Vivie
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Sheila Ibarss
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Rina Rupaage
Noriaki Akitaya (Bakuman. all three seasons, Slow Loop) directed the anime at CONNECT. Yukie Sugawara (Overlord all four seasons) oversaw the series scripts, and Takao Sano (The Honor Student at Magic High School, Restaurant to Another World) designed the characters.
DJ/musical artist/music producer JUVENILE performed the first season's opening theme song "Immortal." Mao Abe performed the ending theme song "Keep Your Fire Burning."
J-Novel Club is publishing both the light novel series and the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the dark fantasy story:
Rentt Faina, a twenty-five-year-old adventurer, has been hacking away at monsters for a decade. However, without much talent for the job, Rentt finds himself stuck hunting Slimes and Goblins for meager amounts of coin every day. Little does he know, all this is about to change when he comes across a seemingly undiscovered path in the Labyrinth of the Moon's Reflection.What awaits him at the end of the path, however, is neither treasure nor riches, but a legendary dragon that wastes no time swallowing him whole! Waking up a short time later, Rentt finds himself not quite dead, but not very alive either— He is nothing more than a pile of bones! Armed with nothing but his trusty sword, tool belt, and ghoulish new looks, Rentt sets off on his quest as a newly reborn Skeleton to achieve Existential Evolution, hoping to one day return to civilization with a more human form.
Will Rentt succeed, or will the labyrinth consume him for the rest of his un-death...?
Okano launched the series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2016, and OVERLAP is publishing the series in print with illustrations by Jaian in October 2017.
A manga adaptation by Haiji Nakasone launched on OVERLAP's Comic Gardo website in November 2017.
Sources: The Unwanted Undead Adventurer anime's website, Comic Natalie
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