The staff for Clevatess II -Majū no Ō to Itsuwari no Yūsha Denshō- (Clevatess II -The King of Magical Beasts and the Legend of the False Hero-), the second anime season based on Yuji Iwahara’s Clevatess -Majū no Ō to Akago to Shikabane no Yūsha- (Clevatess – The King of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero) manga, revealed the anime’s third promotional video, two additional cast members, and July 8 premiere. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song “Foreshadow” by Mayu Maeshima.
The newly announced cast members are:
Megumi Han as Zavthier
Image via Clevatess anime’s X/Twitter account
©Yuji Iwahara/LDF/クレバテスⅡ製作委員会
Tomokazu Sugita as Laswell
Image via Clevatess anime’s X/Twitter account
©Yuji Iwahara/LDF/クレバテスⅡ製作委員会
The anime will first stream on the d Anime Store, U-NEXT, and Anime Hōdai streaming services in Japan on July 8 at 10:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EDT), before it debuts on the Tokyo MX channel at 10:30 p.m. JST.
Image courtesy of Kadokawa
©Yuji Iwahara/LDF/クレバテスⅡ製作委員会
Crunchyroll will stream the season as it airs.
The previously announced new cast members are (character name romanizations are not confirmed):
The anime stars:
Kiyotaka Taguchi (kaiju designer for SSSS.Dynazenon film) returns to direct the anime at Lay-duce. Keigo Koyanagi (Brave Bang Bravern!, The Rising of The Shield Hero) is again in charge of series scripts, and Souichirou Sako (Buddy Daddies, Magi: Adventure of Sinbad) is again the character designer and chief animation director. Natsuko Kondou is a new sub-character designer and chief animation director. Nobuaki Nobusawa (Mr. Villain’s Day Off, Police in a Pod, Steins;Gate 0) is again composing the music. MYTH & ROID performs the ending theme song “Awake Anew.”
Other returning staff members include:
The first season premiered in July 2025. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.
Yen Press licensed the manga and will publish the first compiled book volume in English on August 25. The company describes the story:
The hero was slain, the king was felled, and the child of fate was seized. Clevatess, a lord of dark beasts blessed with both peerless strength and superhuman intellect, raged at the thirteen heroes who felled him and vowed to wipe humanity out…Instead, he has found himself saddled with a terrible burden: a newborn human baby. Is this an omen of the end times or the birth of a new era?!
Iwahara (Darker than Black character designer; King of Thorn, Dimension W manga creator) launched the manga on the LINE Manga app in August 2020. Kadokawa started serializing the manga on its Comic Alive+ website in April 2024. Kadokawa is publishing a new edition of the manga’s compiled book volumes.
Sources: Press release, Clevatess anime’s website
