The second season adapts the third and fourth volumes of the light novels, with its episodes split between two arcs: The Excalibur of the Moonlit Schoolyard (. It was packaged as a bundle with the limited edition of the fifteenth manga volume. The second season, titled High School DxD New ( D×D NEW, Haisukru D D Ny), aired from July 7 to September 22, 2013. Additionally, one more OVA episode, titled as episode 13, was released on Blu-ray in late May of 2013 by Ishibumi. This OVA was titled the thirteenth episode of anime’s season 1, and after the ending credits, announced that there would be a season 2 for the anime. On September 6, 2012, an OVA episode was released alongside the limited edition thirteenth volume of the manga series. Each of these volumes came with an OVA titled Release the Swaying Delusions and other extra content. Media Factory also released six volumes for the series between March 21 and August 29 in 2012 on both DVD and Blu-ray. However, only AT-X’s airing of the series was uncensored the rest of the stations that ran reruns all heavily censored the anime. Soon after, other broadcasting stations, such as TV Kanagawa, TV, Aichi, and Tokyo MX aired reruns of the anime’s first season. The anime ran until March 23, 2012, releasing a total of twelve episodes for its first season. The series was first aired on the AT-X network on January 6, 2012. Tetsuya Yanagisawa directed the series, Takao Yoshioka wrote the script, Ryosuke Nakikashi was in charge of the music, Junji Goto worked on the characters, and Jun Hatano, Shigeru Saito, Hisato Usui, Shinsaku Tanaka, Tetsuya Tsuchihashi, and Takuro Hatakeyama all worked on its production.
