1st season premiered in October 2023
The official website for the anime based on Wookjakga‘s A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special (Kikansha no Mahō wa Tokubetsu Desu in Japanese) Korean web comic began streaming a promotional video for the anime’s second season on Friday. The video confirms the second season’s 2026 broadcast and streaming premiere.
Crunchyroll also unveiled an English-subtitled version of the video earlier on Thursday during its New York Comic Con panel:
Image via A Returner’s Magic anime Twitter
© A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special Animation Partners
Yen Press is releasing the series in English and it describes the story:
In a time when the Shadow World has taken over and most of humanity is wiped out, a party of six heroes strives and fails to save the world… But magician Desir Herman is given a second chance when he opens his eyes and finds that he’s gone back thirteen years in the past! It’s now up to him to gather his party once more and stop the greatest catastrophe in human history!
The first season of the anime premiered in October 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in English-speaking, Latin America, and European countries, along with an English dub.
The web comic is based on an original story by Usonan, which published on Kakao Page between September 2016 to August 2019. The webtoon adaptation with art by Wookjakga was launched in May 2018.
Sources: A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special anime’s website, Comic Natalie