The official Twitter account for the anime adaptation of Shu’s The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants (Maō Gakuin no Futekigōsha ~Shijō Saikyō no Maō no Shiso, Tensei Shite Shison-tachi no Gakkō e Kayō) light novel series announced that the anime will receive a second season. The season will air in two cours. SILVER LINK is returning to animate the second season.
【『魔王学院の不適合者』第2期 制作決定！】
— TVアニメ「魔王学院の不適合者 ～史上最強の魔王の始祖、転生して子孫たちの学校へ通う～」 (@maohgakuin) March 6, 2021
１期が終わったぐらいでアニメが終わるとでも思ったか……！
第2期ティザーPV、ビジュアルを公開しました！
《分割2クール》となり、史上最強の魔王は帰ってきます。https://t.co/kK9kbMvBiu#魔王学院 pic.twitter.com/Lz32YqbxFF
The novel series launched on the Shōsetsu ni Narō website in April 2017, and the manga adaptation launched on Square Enix’s Manga Up! website in July 2018. The first season of the anime premiered on July 4 2020.
Crunchyroll streamed the anime’s first season as it aired in Japan. Square Enix publishes The Misfit of Demon King Academy manga in English and describes its story as:
Despite their appetite for destruction, even demon kings tire of all the blood and chaos sometimes! When Anos reincarnates in the hopes of a more peaceful life, he ends up going to school with his descendants in his old castle 2,000 years later. But with magic on its last legs in this era, no one is able to assess Anoth’s true power!
Sources: The Misfit of Demon King Academy Twitter page, ANN
