The official website for the anime based on Shigeru Sagazaki‘s From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru: Tada no Inaka no Kenjutsu Shihan Datta noni, Taisei Shita Deshitachi ga Ore o Hōttekurenai Ken) light novel series announced on Wednesday that the series is getting a third season. The website unveiled a visual and a video message from the protagonist Beryl Gardenant’s voice actor Hiroaki Hirata to commemorate the news:
© 佐賀崎しげる・鍋島テツヒロ／SQUARE ENIX・「片田舎のおっさん、剣聖になるII」製作委員会
The 12th and final episode of the second season aired on Wednesday.
©佐賀崎しげる・鍋島テツヒロ／SQUARE ENIX・「片田舎のおっさん、剣聖になるII」製作委員会
The second season debuted in the “IMAnimation W” programming block on TV Asahi and its affiliated channels throughout Japan on July 8. The anime also airs on AT-X and BS Asahi. Amazon Prime Video started exclusively streaming the anime worldwide on July 9.
The second season’s returning staff includes Akio Kazumi (Loner Life in Another World, Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis), who again directed the series at Passione and Hayabusa Film. Kunihiko Okada (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, By the Grace of the Gods season 2) was back in charge of series scripts, Satsuki Hayasaka (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki) returned to design the characters, and also returned as chief animation director. Yasuharu Takanashi (Baki Hanma vs. Kengan Ashura, Fairy Tail) again composed the music.
Rock band Unicorn perform the second season’s opening theme song “Kurenai no Ha” (Crimson Leaf). BLUE ENCOUNT perform the ending theme song “Mikansei” (Unfinished).
The anime’s first season premiered in April 2025, and is streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video worldwide.
Sagazaki launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in November 2020. Square Enix is publishing the novel volumes with illustration by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima.
J-Novel Club licensed the novel series and describes the story:
Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man,” is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural, backwater village. In his younger years, he dreamed of glory as a master swordsman, but those days are long behind him. Out of the blue, he receives a visit from a famous former pupil who brings him world-shattering news—he’s been appointed as special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order! With his life now turned upside down, Beryl travels to the capital and reunites with some of his former students: elite knights, an ace wizard, and even an adventurer who’s attained the highest guild rank possible. But why do they all want his tutelage?! As far as he’s concerned, they clearly don’t need him anymore.
Can Beryl live up to his new position? And will he ever get a moment’s peace away from his adoring students?!
Kazuki Satō launched the novels’ manga adaptation in Akita Shoten‘s Dokodemo Young Champion magazine in August 2021. Yen Press releases the manga in English. The franchise also has two spinoff manga.
Sources: From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman anime’s website, Comic Natalie
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