The Faraway Paladin

The Faraway Paladin (最果てのパラディン, Saihate no Paladin) is a light novel series by Kanata Yanagino, with illustrations by Kususaga Rin. It began serialization online in May 2015 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by Overlap, who have published 4 volumes since March 2016 under their Overlap Bunko imprint. J-Novel Club has released it digitally in English.

A manga adaption in Overlap's Comic Gardo by Mutsumi Okuhashi began September 25, 2017.

A TV anime adaptation by Children's Playground Entertainment premiered on October 9, 2021 and ran for 12 episodes to January 3, 2022. On December 25, 2021, it was announced that a 2nd season was in production.

Plot[]

In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin.