Ryoma and his army of slimes are back for more relaxing isekai goodness after the anime’s website confirmed its renewal and premiere on January 8, 2023.
Apart from revealing the debut date of By the Grace of the Gods season 2, the announcement on November 25, 2022, also unveiled a new key visual, as well as new characters and cast members.
Earlier on September 16, 2022, the website unleashed a series of developments in the form of a teaser PV, a teaser visual, and the new character Miyabi.
The new season will be set three years after the end of the season when Ryoma and Ellaria cutely bind themselves with a promise to meet again.
Old and new fans are anticipating how well Ryouma is faring with his slimes and booming business.
Updates +
- January 15, 2023: Complete rewrite.
- December 29, 2022: Updated with confirmed release date; updated with new PV; updated with info on theme songs and new cast members; edited text to match the updates.
- November 15, 2022: Initial publishing.
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By the Grace of the Gods Season 2 Release Date
By the Grace of the Gods Season 2 Release Date
Countdown to January 8, 2023 at 11:00 AM (UTC)
Confirmed
The official website revealed on November 25, 2022, that Ryoma and his slimes are coming back on January 8, 2023.
By the Grace of the Gods season 2 will premiere on Tokyo MX on January 8, on J:COM and JTV on January 10, and on BS Fuji on January 11.
Crunchyroll will also stream Ryoma and his adventures as it airs in Japan.
We previously predicted this exact date based on the release date of By the Grace of the Gods’ first season. Hopefully, we can replicate those results with this article.
Last season’s broadcast was a Sunday timeslot, and if the studio aims to give love to the fans by broadcasting By the Grace of the Gods early, a January 8, 2023 premiere seems like a workable date.
And the people at Maho Film didn’t disappoint their fans.
Most of the production staff from the first season are returning for the new season, with director Takeyuki Tanase leading the animation at Maho Film.
The upcoming season will also feature a new writer, Yuka Yamada (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid), who should boost the fantasy slice-of-life content of Ryoma’s life.
The new character highlighted in the initial announcement was Miyabi, voiced by Yuiko Tatsumi.
On the November 25 announcement, the website revealed 12 more characters.
The newly revealed characters are Makoto Yasumura as Serge, Junya Enoki as Dorche, Risa Kubota as Carla, Sakura Nakamura as Calum, Hiro Shimono as Tony, Kenichi Suzumura as Pioro, Daisuke Hirakawa as Prenance, Tetsu Inada as Worgan, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Tekun, Takuya Eguchi as Fernobelia, Akira Ishida as Caulkin, and Manami Numakura as Robelia.
By the Grace of the Gods Season 2 Trailer
Maho Film released this new PV on December 16, 2022.
The new promotional video showed more of the upcoming second season, with glimpses of Ryoma’s booming slime laundry business and his interactions with old and new characters.
Most importantly, it showed Ellaria, whom Ryoma was looking forward to seeing again.
It could be remembered that the duo parted ways and promised to meet again after three years.
Highlighted also on the video were broadcast details and the debut date, as well as a preview of the anime’s opening theme song, “Way to go” by MindaRyn.
The first teaser PV for By the Grace of the Gods season 2 was released along with a key visual during the announcement on September 16, 2022.
It was quite a lengthy lull as the initial announcement for the anime’s renewal for season 2 was reported last June 4, 2021.
Thankfully, the people behind By the Grace of the Gods won’t have to make the fans wait long.
By the Grace of the Gods Story
For someone who lived a troubled life, Ryoma Takebayashi is doing relatively well in the new world he transmigrated in.
After undergoing a torturous life and dying the lousiest of deaths, three gods pity him and decide to reincarnate him into a child in a new world.
Eight-year-old Ryoma is reborn in the Forest of Gana in a world called Seilfall.
Deep in the forest, young Ryoma tests the abilities and blessings the gods gave him. And surprisingly, the boy formed a strange hobby.
Ryoma starts keeping various types of slimes as pets and studying them and their different specialties.
In this kind of solitary peace, the Jamil household, in search of aid, finds Ryoma three years after he is reborn.
Ryoma helps the strangers treat their wounded. These people found it odd how a kid like Ryoma stayed safe after all those years.
The Jamil family convinces Ryoma to go with them and go to a nearby town. Ryoma finally starts to explore his new world.
The kid tasked by the Gods to savor his new life finds himself in the most tranquil isekai adventure, exploring a vast world beyond his forest home.
By the Grace of the Gods News
By the Grace of the Gods, also known as The Man Picked Up By the Gods by its light novel fans, was a delightful slice-of-life addition to the isekai subgenre.
This Japanese light novel series started as a collaboration project between author Roy and illustrator Ririnra, published in Shōsetsuka ni Narō since 2014.
A revised version of the same novel series also started serialization in September 2015.
Hobby Japan acquired the publishing rights of By the Grace of the Gods, releasing all 11 volumes since September 2017 under their HJ Novels imprint.
A manga adaption by mangaka Ranran also started serializing online in November 2017 through the Manga UP! website of Square Enix.
Ryoma and his slimes were finally given TV life after Hobby Japan announced the anime adaptation in 2020.
Maho Film, with director Takeyuki Yanase in the lead, produced the anime’s first season, officially running for 12 episodes from October 4 to December 20, 2020.
In 2021, half a year after the last episode, a second season was greenlit for production.
It took until September 16, 2022, to confirm the release window of the second season of By the Grace of the Gods, along with the announcement of new casts and a new head writer.
By the Grace of the Gods is another isekai product of Shōsetsuka ni Narō, a popular novel self-publishing website that has recently grabbed the spotlight for being the home of several great isekai stories.
Some of these well-known isekai titles are Mushoku Tensei, The Rising of the Shield Hero, KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Log Horizon, Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World, and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
Even popular anime such as The Irregular at Magic High School and I Want to Eat Your Pancreas had their first breaks on Shosetsu.
