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SinisterOracle



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:30 pm Reply with quote
YES!!!!!!! I wasn’t sure if this show would see a season 2 anytime soon so this is fabulous news!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:32 pm Reply with quote
Great news! I hope for a complete adaptation!
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:35 pm Reply with quote
Yesssss
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SaiyanHeretic



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 5:29 pm Reply with quote
Thank god it's actually a second season and not a movie.
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Cardcaptor Takato



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 6:29 pm Reply with quote
I'm glad it's getting more made but this makes it more baffling why Netflix didn't dub this.
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Harleyquin



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 7:30 pm Reply with quote
No surprise whatsoever. It's been clear for the last few weeks that one quarter wasn't going to finish the story, and with the show being popular both on this website and other metrics which streaming companies like Netflix monitor it's a foregone conclusion this was getting at least another quarter.
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James02



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 9:12 pm Reply with quote
SaiyanHeretic wrote:
Thank god it's actually a second season and not a movie.


I’m glad that I’m not the only one tired of movies being the sequels to anime seasons.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 10:48 pm Reply with quote
The first season was a fantastic adaption so I'm glad that not only are we getting a second season but it's likely to complete the story!

(Though it'll probably be a while before we see it...) [/list]
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Zhou-BR



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:07 pm Reply with quote
MFrontier wrote:
The first season was a fantastic adaption so I'm glad that not only are we getting a second season but it's likely to complete the story!

(Though it'll probably be a while before we see it...) [/list]


Yeah, just now I checked out Young Ace UP's website and the manga is only up to chapter 39, which means the anime has already covered two thirds of the existing material. I guess they'll have to wait for the manga to end before animating the rest of it.
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Revan32



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 1:48 am Reply with quote
I have just been thinking about picking this up - even despite of the light BL content - but now I think I'll hold off until the second season is out and the story is finished.
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EmeraldSaucer



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 2:47 am Reply with quote
Hope what seems like the success of this first season affords them more time and resources (instead of what I fear, which is just getting less pre-production time to capitalize quicker). Because boy some of those episodes looked ROUGH as things went on, the final episode included
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James02



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 10:05 am Reply with quote
Revan32 wrote:
I have just been thinking about picking this up - even despite of the light BL content - but now I think I'll hold off until the second season is out and the story is finished.


Feel free to do so, but the manga is still going and season 2 might take more than a year to release because the season covered 2/3rds of the chapters released, I think.
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DisneyXAnimefan95



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 8:59 pm Reply with quote
Cardcaptor Takato wrote:
I'm glad it's getting more made but this makes it more baffling why Netflix didn't dub this.


Who could say but I guessed that Netflix was likely prioritizing with the weekly dub simulcasts for Sakamoto Days, DanDanDan, and to a lesser extent Witch Watch, particularly the former two anime series this summer which would likely explain why The Summer Hikaru Died didn't get a simuldub release despite being released weekly. It's similar to what happened to Blue Box when it was released weekly without a dub as Netflix was prioritizing with the simuldub releases on DanDaDan and Ranma ½ back in October of last year.

I guess Sakamoto Days was both a positive and to a degree a negative influence on Netflix's part for their anime output, as they put WAY Too much attention and priority on that show over the Summer 2025 anime Netflix licensed (e.g., The Fragrant Flower, The Summer Hikaru Died). Hopefully, whenever the second season of Hikaru returns, Netflix will give this a simuldub weekly release this time.
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Eddy2



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:55 am Reply with quote
Cardcaptor Takato wrote:
I'm glad it's getting more made but this makes it more baffling why Netflix didn't dub this.


This isn't uncommon with Netflix, not everything they license gets dubbed right away. You just have to be patient sometimes.
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Araki



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 10:52 am Reply with quote
Yay, another season of "This can't go on anymore...he's dangerous" every week!!
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