A third season of Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World is officially in the works. The announcement came at the Fantasia Bunko Grand Thanksgiving Festival 2026 Online event on October 25, 2026, along with a teaser visual and confirmation that the cast and staff from the second season are coming back.
Yuki Inaba returns to direct at Studio Palette and SILVER LINK, and is also in charge of series scripts. Kaori Yoshikawa is designing the characters again. Both worked on the second season.
The Japanese title is Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjō, Arui wa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen, usually shortened to Kimisen. No premiere date has been announced.
Where the story picks up
The teaser comes with a story introduction that follows directly out of the second season. Sisbell has been taken to the Empire, and Iska enters enemy territory with the N07 unit and Rin to bring her back. Alice stays behind in the Sovereignty, where the awakening of the founder Nebulis beneath the royal palace pulls her into a new fight.
That setup puts the two leads on separate fronts for at least part of the season. It also points at the buried history from a century earlier, which the event's introduction ties to the "true destiny" connecting Iska and Alice.
A production history with delays
This franchise has had a rough broadcast record, and it is worth knowing before the new season arrives. The second season aired its first four episodes in July 2024, then stopped. Episodes from the fifth onward were delayed in August 2024, with the production citing the need "to maintain the quality" of the release. The season eventually restarted from episode one in April 2025.
That was not the first shift. The second season had originally been scheduled for 2023 and was pushed to July 2024 before the mid-season break. Crunchyroll streamed the season as it aired and also produced an English dub.
The light novels behind it
Kei Sazane writes the series with illustrations by Ao Nekonabe. Kadokawa has published the novels in print since May 2017, and there are 16 volumes in Japan so far. Yen Press releases the novels in English, along with the manga adaptation.
Okama launched that manga in Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine in May 2018, and it runs to seven volumes. A spinoff light novel series, Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World: Secret File, has three volumes out.
The premise is a long war between the scientifically advanced Empire and Nebulis, a nation of witches, ending in a meeting between the Empire's youngest knight to hold its strongest title and the princess of the other side. Yen Press's description frames it as enemies who find something in each other worth protecting.
Why it matters
Fantasia Bunko used this same online event to announce several adaptations at once, and a third season is the strongest signal of confidence a light novel series can get. Sixteen volumes and a completed seven-volume manga give the anime plenty of material to adapt, which means the season does not need to end where the source material thins out.
For viewers who dropped the second season during its long gap, the returning staff matters. Inaba and Yoshikawa keep the visual direction consistent with what came before, rather than restarting the look. That continuity is probably the best argument for picking the series back up.
The same event also set a March 26, 2027 date for the Date A Live film F Last Date, which closes out a franchise that has run since 2011.
The bigger question is scheduling. A production that already needed a year-long pause once will be watched closely for how much lead time it gets this time. Studio Palette and SILVER LINK are both busy shops, and no date has been attached, which usually means the season is at an early stage.
Source: Anime News Network, citing the Fantasia Bunko Grand Thanksgiving Festival 2026 Online event
Source: Anime News Network, citing the Fantasia Bunko Grand Thanksgiving Festival 2026 Online event
Featured image: Teaser visual for Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World Season 3, via Anime News Network.
