The second season of Sabikui Bisco, announced at the Dengeki Bunko 30th Summer Festival Online 2023 event.

Japan’s post-apocalyptic wasteland replete with dust can only be saved by one thing—fungus. Bisco Akaboshi, a wanted criminal and skilled archer, searches for a legendary mushroom, known as Sabikui, said to devour any and all rust. Joining him on this epic saga to save the country is a giant crab and a young doctor. Can this unlikely trio find the fabled fungi and save the land? 
 
(Source: Funimation)

In the far future, a disaster known as the “Rusty Wind” has transformed the majority of Japan into a barren desert and left civilization in tatters. After his teacher falls prey to the rust, the roguish Bisco Akahoshi embarks on journey through the sandy wastes to obtain a mushroom known only as the Rust Eater, rumored to cure the ailment. Together with the dashing young doctor Milo, the pair will have to contend with the unforgiving environment and their fellow wanderers in order to make it back alive. 
 
(Source: Yen Press)
 
Note: Sabikui Bisco won Silver Prize in the 2017 Dengeki Novel Prize, and placed first in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! ranking in the best light novel category in 2019.

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