The final episode for Dojyomaru’s current television anime series How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (Genjitsushugi Yūsha no Ōkoku Saikenki) ended Sunday with a promotional video teaser. The video announced that the second season of the anime will premiere in January next year.
Inori Minase will contribute the second season’s opening theme song “Real-Eyes,” and Aimi will contribute the opening theme song “Lights.”
The first anime season premiered on July 3. Funimation is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
Takashi Watanabe (The Slayers, Ikki Tousen, Freezing) is directing the anime at JC Staff. Go Zappa (Koihime Musō, Moriarty the Patriot) and Hiroshi Ohnogi (Aquarion, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) are penning the script. Mai Otsuka (hakugan no Shana, Urara Meirochō, The Demon Girl Next Door) is designing the characters. Akiyuki Tateyama (Laid-Back Camp, ISLAND, Senryū Girl) is composing the music and Jin Aketagawa is the sound director. WOWMAX is credited as the producer.
J-Novel Club is releasing the novels digitally, while Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the novels in print. J-Novel Club describes the story:
“O hero!” With that cliché, Kazuya Souma finds himself summoned to another world and his adventure – has not begun. After presenting his plan to strengthen the country economically and militarily, the king cedes the throne to him and Souma finds himself shouldering the burden of governing the country! Furthermore, he is now betrothed to the king’s daughter…?! To get the country back on its feet, Souma calls upon the wise, talented and gifted to join him. Five people gathered in front of the newly crowned Souma. Just what are the many talents and abilities they possess…?! Which path will his path as a realist take Souma and the people of his country down? A revolutionary administrative fantasy series transferred to another world starts here!
Overlap published the first volume with illustrations by Fuyuyuki in Japan in May 2016. Satoshi Ueda also launched a manga adaptation of the novel on Overlap’s Comic Gardo website in July 2017, and J- Novel Club is also publishing the manga digitally.