The official website and account for the anime adaptation of Tsukikage and Chyko's Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Woe Is the Weakling Who Leads the Strongest Party light novel series have announced that it's getting a TV anime sequel. The announcement, accompanied with a special video, was made following the broadcast of the Season 1 finale (Episode 13), but a release date hasn't been officially confirmed. Crunchyroll will stream Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Season 2 when it premieres in the future.
Chyko, the illustrator of the original light novel series, shared a special illustration to commemorate the the anime's renewal:
Zero-G studio produced the animation for the first season of Let This Grieving Soul Retire!, with Masahiro Takata (High-Rise Invasion, The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch, The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World) as the director. Saber Links was in charge charge of the sound production while Zero-G was also credited as the sound director. Hideki Shirane (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Date A Live) was the series composer; Yūsuke Isouchi (Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It) and Shingo Fujisaki worked as the character designers; Ryōhei Sataka (Release the Spyce, D4DJ First Mix, Do It Yourself!!) was the music composer, and Avex Pictures was credited for music production.
The Japanese voice cast includes:
Kenshō Ono as Krai Andrey
Miyu Kubota as Tino Shade
Haruka Shiraishi as Lapis Fulgor
Yū Serizawa as Kris Argent
Satomi Amano as Chloe Welter
Hana Hishikawa as Éclair Gladis
Here's the announcement from Let This Grieving Soul Retire! anime's official X account:
What is Let This Grieving Soul Retire! about?
The upcoming anime is based on the light novel series Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Woe Is the Weakling Who Leads the Strongest Party (Japanese: (Nageki no Bōrei wa Intai Shitai: Saijaku Hunter ni Yoru Saikyō Party Ikusei-jutsu) written by Tsukikage and illustrated by Chyko. The comedy fantasy series began serialization as a web novel in the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website n January 2018.
Micro Magazine later acquired the series, and in August 2018, it began publishing it under their GC Novels light novel imprint. The series also received a manga adaptation by by Rai Hebino, which began serialization on Kadokawa's ComicWalker manga site in April 2019. J-Novel Club, the English publisher of the light novel series, provided a plot description for Let This Grieving Soul Retire!:
It's the golden age for treasure hunters—adventurers hungry for wealth, fame, power, and glory, who risk their lives in treasure vaults throughout the world. “Let's become treasure hunters.” Krai and his childhood friends swore to become the greatest of them all, but that dream should have died the day Krai realized he wasn't cut out for the job! Yet expectations continue to mount, right along with Krai's fear for his life. While his childhood friends climb closer toward their dream, this grieving soul has one simple wish: to pack it all in and retire!
Yen Press, the publisher of the manga adaptation, will publish Volume 9 on February 18, 2025.
Source: Press Release
