The official website for the television anime season based on Ennki Hakari‘s Skeleton Knight in Another World (Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechū or Skeleton Knight, going out to the parallel universe) light novel series announced on Wednesday that the anime’s second season will premiere on the AT-X channel on July 4 at 8:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m.), and will also debut streaming on d Anime Store and ABEMA at the same time. The first episode of the second season will then have a repeat broadcast on AT-X on July 6, before running on Tokyo MX and BS11 on July 9. The anime will also air on Sun TV, but it does not yet have a premiere date on the channel.

Katsumi Ono returns to direct the second season at Aura Studio. Character designer Tōru Imanishi, monster designer Yoshihiro Nagamori, and sound director Satoshi Motoyama all return for the second season.

Toshizo Nemoto (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime fourth season, Inu X Boku Secret Service) is now in charge of series scripts, replacing Takeshi Kikuchi. First season sub-character designer Hideki Inoue is replaced by Chisa Shibata (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life, Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy), and Jia Fang Lu (My Clueless First Friend) replaces art director Kenta Tsuboi. Other new staff includes color key artist Harue Ono (MAD BOX, replacing Chiho Nakamura), CGI director Tomotaka Aoki (Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 3), and animation producer Yasuhiro Uema.

The anime’s first season premiered in Japan in April 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and also streams an English dub.

Sources: Skeleton Knight in Another World anime’s website, Comic Natalie

Japanese chocolate and snack maker Lotte Chocolate announced on Monday it has partnered with animation studio Shin-Ei for a new Pie no Mi web anime series, Pie no Mi: Oshi no Mori he Yōkoso (Pie no Mi: Welcome to Oshi Forest). The series will debut on the Lotte Chocolate YouTube channel on June 4 at 12:00 a.m. Japan Time (June 3 at 11:00 a.m. EDT).

The Pie no Mi web anime series stars Yumiko Kobayashi and Rie Hikisaka. Kobayashi is best known as Shinosuke “Shin-chan” Nohara from Crayon Shin-chan. Hikisaka provided the voice for Hana Nono/Cure Yell in 2018s Hugtto! Precure. The series will also star Akihiro Tajima, Shun Kimeda, Hana Tamegai, Marie Ōi, Shōta Hayama, Rina Honnizumi, Kōsuke Echigoya, Satsumi Matsuda, and Hinata Tadokoro.

Kazunori Minagawa and Miki Minagawa is directing the web series with key animation by Kazunori Minagawa and Miki Minagawa, and scripts by Yūko Kakihara and Azusa Serikawa.

The Pie no Mi: Oshi no Mori he Yōkoso web series adapts the four-panel manga series of the same name. Yuri Fujimaru writes the manga, and Aya Matsui illustrates it for release every Friday on the series’ website.

Sources: Lotte Koala no Mi’s X/Twitter account, Cinema Today, Anime Hack, Pie no Mi: Oshi no Mori he Yōkoso’s website via Hachima Kikō

South Korean webtoon studio REDICE Studio announced on Wednesday that its Overgeared webtoon is inspiring a television anime adaptation titled Tempal ~Item no Chikara~ (Tempal ~The Power of Items~). The anime will premiere in October.

Yen Press publishes the webtoon in English under its Ize Press label. Yen Press describes the story:

Youngwoo Shin is a deadbeat in real life, working odd jobs to barely pay off his loans. Even his family has written him off as a hopeless video game addict. But when he logs in to the massively popular VR game Satisfy, Youngwoo becomes Grid the Warrior…who is also painfully mediocre. Everything changes when he stumbles across a tome containing the lost knowledge of a legendary blacksmith. The catch is, using it resets all his levels! In order to survive after being forced back to square one, Grid will need to hone his skills and gather reliable allies…or not! Who needs all that when you’re decked out in god-tier items?!

The cast includes:

Tatsumaru Tachibana as Grid

Asami Seto as Yura

Ayako Kōno (Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night, Sword Art Online The Movie – Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night) is directing the film at J.C. Staff, with EGG FIRM producing the anime. Kenta Ihara (Saga of Tanya the Evil, Uncle From Another World, Blue Miburo) is in charge of the series scripts, and Kenta Ihara (Demon Lord 2099, I Want to End This Love Game) is designing the characters. Yoshikazu Iwanami is the sound director, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa is composing the music. Pony Canyon is credited for music production.

The webtoon is based on a web novel by Park Saenal. Lee Dong-Wook is writing the webtoon, and Team Argo is drawing the art.

Yen Press released the 10th volume of the webtoon on May 19.

Sources: Tempal anime’s website, Comic Natalie