The staff for the anime of Kurone Kanzaki and Amaru Minotake's sequel manga Demon Lord, Retry! R revealed the anime's October 5 premiere and information on its ending theme song "Clanssi:c feat. Yūho Kitazawa" by MIMiNARI on Tuesday.
Update: The anime's staff also revealed the main promotional video, third key visual, and the opening theme song "Ashita Sekai ga Owaru Toshite mo" (Even if the World Ends Tomorrow) by ASCA.
The anime will stream in advance in the ABEMA streaming service on September 28 at 11:00 p.m. JST. The anime will then premiere on October 5 on the Tokyo MX channel at 10:30 p.m. JST (9:30 a.m. EDT), and then on the RKB Mainichi Broadcasting at 26:00 JST (effectively, October 6 at 2:00 a.m. JST). The anime will then run on BS Fuji and BS NTV on October 8, and on TV Nagasaki on October 10.
Kazuomi Koga (episode director for Demon Lord, Retry!) is directing the anime at Gekkō. Katsuhiko Takayama (Aldnoah.Zero, Protocol: Rain) is overseeing the series scripts, and Minori Homura (Isekai Onsen Paradise) is designing the characters. Creator group SUPA LOVE is composing the music.
The anime stars a mostly different cast from the previous anime, including:
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Hakuto Kunai (reprising the role)
- Momo Asakura as Aku (replacing Kanon Takao)
- Azumi Waki as Akane Fujisaki (character has not yet been voiced)
- Iori Noguchi as Eagle (replacing Akari Kitō)
- Aina Suzuki as Luna Elegant (replacing Kaori Ishihara)
- Wataru Komada as Isami Tahara (replacing Tomokazu Seki)
- Minori Suzuki as Mink (replacing Chiyo Ousaki)
- Mirai Tachibana as Organ (replacing M.A.O)
- Kentarō Kumagai as Zero Kirisame (replacing Showtaro Morikubo)
The manga itself is a sequel based on Kurone Kanzaki's Demon Lord, Retry! (Maō-sama, Retry!) light novel series.
J-Novel Club licensed the original light novel series, the manga, and its sequel. It describes Demon Lord, Retry! R:
The Demon Lord continues his adventure in this re-vamped series! After encountering the mysterious entity in the lowest level of the Bastille Dungeon, he sets out for Hellion Territory, where Grand Devils vie for domination of the realm. With the addition of a new advisor—the (seemingly) hopeless optimist Akane—the Demon Lord's army grows even more colorful, and their hijinks even wackier.
Minotake launched the Demon Lord, Retry! R manga in Futabasha's Gaugau Monster website and app in March 2020.
The light novel series inspired the first television anime adaptation in July 2019. Funimation streamed the series as it aired.
Kanzaki published the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) and Hameln websites from October to December 2016.
Futabasha began publishing the story in light novel volumes with illustrations by Kōji Ogata in June 2017. Futabasha later reprinted the novels through its M Novels label with new illustrations by illustrator and animator Makoto Iino.
Amaru Minotake launched a manga adaptation of the story in October 2017 on Futabasha's Web Comic Action site. The fifth and final volume shipped in Japan in December 2019.
Sources: Press release, Demon Lord, Retry! R anime's website, Comic Natalie