Six new cast members have joined the second season of the Hell Mode anime.
The television anime adaptation of Hamuo and Mo's Hell Mode - Yarikomi Suki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musō Suru (Hell Mode - The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing) has revealed six additional cast members for its second season.
The newly announced cast includes characters from Rosenheim and several high-ranking demons, adding more characters to the ongoing story of the second season.
Hell Mode Season 2
Premiere window: 3, July 2026
Animation studio: Yokohama Animation Lab
Streaming platform: HIDIVE
Who are the new cast members of “Hell Mode” Season 2?
The newly announced cast includes:
- Yuuki Sanpei as Sigur, the supreme general of Rosenheim
- Yasuyuki Kase as Lukidral, a general of Rosenheim
- Kō Bonkobara as Gatoruga, Rosenheim's spirit summoner
- Satoshi Tsuruoka as Graster, a high-rank demon
- Takaaki Torashima as Neftira, a long-range demon
- Shinya Takahashi as Yagof, a demon with hyena-like vision
The previously announced cast for Season 2 includes:
- Takahiro Sakurai as Helmios
- Reiji Kawashima as Keel
- Kiyono Yasuno as Sophialohne
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Volmaar
- Miyu Tomita as Meruru
- Taketora as Dverg
- Shinichirō Miki as Theodojiil
Returning cast members from Season 1 include:
- Mutsumi Tamura as Allen
- Mayu Iizaka as Krena
- Tasuku Hatanamka as Dogora
- Sayaka Senbongi as Cecil
- Hideo Ishikawa as Rodin
- Sayaka Ohara as Theresia
- Makoto Koichi as Matthew
- Tomokazu Sugita as Butler von Granvelle
- Shouya Chiba as Mihai Granvelle
- Marie Miyake as Thomas Granvelle
- Akio Ōtsuka as Zenoff
- Takahiro Miyamoto as Carnell
- Takahiro Sakurai as Helmios
Masato Tamgawa continues to direct the series at Yokohama Animation Lab, with Daisho Tanimura handling series composition and Kei Tsushima designing the characters.
What is Hell Mode about?
The anime is based on a light novel series by Hamuo, which began serialising in November 2019 in the user-generated website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. Earth Star Entertainment later began publishing book volumes of the novel under their Earth Star Novel imprint in July 2020 with illustrations by Mo. A manga adaptation by Enji Tetta began publishing on the Comic Earth Star website in October 2020. The first season of the anime aired in January 2026 on HIDIVE.
J-Novel Club publishes the original novels and manga in English and describes the story as:
“‘Level up even while offline’?! That’s not a game on ‘easy mode’—that’s just an AFK game!” The online game Yamada Kenichi had been playing religiously is shutting down its servers, leaving him with a void in his heart. He looks for a new game to fill it, but everything he finds is way too easy. The kind of game he likes—the kind punishing enough to make players want to spend thousands of hours on it—just isn’t around anymore. “What’s this? ‘You are invited to a game that will never end.’” Kenichi stumbles upon an untitled game, one promising incomparable challenge with unprecedented potential. Without hesitation, he selects the “Hell Mode” difficulty. Lo and behold, he finds himself reincarnated in another world as a serf! Now called Allen, he sets out to unlock the secrets of his mystery-laden Summoner class; without the convenience of walkthroughs, game guides, or online forums, he must grope his way to the top of his new world!