The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic season 2 officially confirmed at Otakon

Modified Aug 05, 2024 20:22 GMT

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic season 2 officially confirmed at Otakon (Image via Shinei Animation, Studio Add)

Saturday, August 3, 2024, saw The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic season 2 officially confirmed as coming via a panel at the Otakon convention in Washington D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. While no additional information on the second season was provided at the convention, the announcement is nevertheless exciting for what ended up being one of Winter 2024’s most popular series.

That being said, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic season 2 will most likely premiere sometime by early 2026 at worst given the announcement’s timing and lack of promotional material. There is a chance that the series will premiere sometime in 2025 if production has been ongoing for some time, but this is unclear as of this article’s writing and likewise speculative.

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic season 2 production confirmed, but no additional info shared

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In turn, it’s unclear whether or not The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic season 2 will feature a returning staff from the first season, which aired in Winter 2024. While this seems likely as of this article’s writing, it’s not confirmed. A change in studio and staff would also explain the relative delay in the second season’s announcement from when the first season finished in March 2024.

However, there are other complications that could cause this slight delay in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic season 2's announcement, such as funding issues or the series being popular enough internationally to justify a sequel, but not so in Japan. In any case, it’s clear that the ultimate decision was to renew the series, which is likely the right one, considering just how popular the series grew to be.

Takahide Ogata directed the original anime at Studio Add and Shinei Animation, with Shogo Yasukawa in charge of the series scripts. Kenji Tanabe was in charge of character design for the anime, while Elements Garden (the duo of Hitoshi Fujima and Seima Kondo) composed the music for the anime series.

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The anime adapts the light novel series of the same name written by Kurokata and illustrated by KeG. This light novel is an adaptation of Kurokata’s original web novel series, which began on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website in March 2014 and is still ongoing today. The light novel began in March 2016 and concluded exactly four years later to the day in 2020, but was followed up by a sequel light novel series, which began in December 2023.

The series follows Ken Usato, who is transported into a fantasy world with student council president Suzune Inukami and classmate Kazuki Ryuusen while walking home together. While Suzune and Kazuki are the only ones summoned as heroes, Usato’s fate changes when it’s discovered he possesses the incredibly rare healing magic. Usato is then abducted by a healer known as Rose, starting his journey to becoming a healing mage.