The first main trailer and two new cast members have been revealed for the upcoming second season of The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior. The second season will premiere in Japan in April 2026.
The new cast for the second season include Shinnosuke Tachibana as Leon (left below) and Hikaru Midorikawa as Cedric (right below).
They join an anime voice cast that stars:
- • Fairouz Ai as Pride
- • Maaya Uchida as Stale
- • Haruka Tomatsu as Tiara
- • Junya Enoki as Arthur
- • Kikuko Inoue as Roza
- • Toshiyuki Morikawa as Albert
- • Koji Yusa as Gilbert
Norio Nitta (Odd Taxi assistant director, Kira Kira Happy Hirake! Cocotama director) is returning as director for the second season after directing season one. Other returning staff include Deko Akao (Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days, Komi Can’t Communicate) as series composer and Hitomi Kono (Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout chief animation director) as character designer. OLM Team Yoshioka is handling the animation production once again.
Hanae Nakamura (I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss co-composer), Tatsuhiko Saiki (The Dawn of the Witch), Kanade Sakuma (My Wife Has No Emotion co-music composer), and Junko Nakajima (Girlfriend, Girlfriend Season 2 co-music composer) are returning as the music composers. New music composers for the second season will include Misaki Tsuchida (The New Gate co-music composer), Tsugumi Tanaka (A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics co-music composer), and Kaho Sawada (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! co-music composer).
HIDIVE streamed the anime’s first season in select English-speaking countries and territories.
The villainess isekai light novel series is written by Tenichi and illustrated by Suzunosuke, and was first published under Ichijinsha’s Iris NEO imprint on June 4, 2019. Twelve volumes have been published in Japan as of July 2025.
The series began as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel on April 19, 2018. It also inspired a manga adaptation by Bunko Matsuura, which ended serialization in late 2022 due to Matsuura’s health. A second manga adaptation was published from June 2023 to December 2024 and a third manga series was launched in March 2025.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen light novels and first manga series in English. It describes the light novel series as:
Pride Royal Ivy is only eight years old when she realizes that she’s been reincarnated, destined to become the future wicked queen and final boss of an otome game. She’s got it all in this new life: razor-sharp wit, boss-tier powers, and influence over the kingdom as crown princess. Determined to sow despair and destruction across the land, she… Wait, what kind of a rotten future is that?! Princess Pride decides to drop the maniacal villainess act and protect the male love interests instead, cheating her way to saving everyone she can! Will this final boss end up earning the adoration of her kingdom?
Sources: The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen Official Twitter (2), Official Anime Website, Anime News Network