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Netflix's Arcane: Season 2 Release Date, Cast, and Everything We Know
The second chapter will also be Arcane's last
When Arcane Season 1 launched in 2021, it quickly became one of Netflix's biggest shows of the year. The animated series based on lore from the popular PC game League of Legends featured high-octane action, a dynamic soundtrack (anyone else still listening to Imagine Dragons and JID's "Enemy" on repeat three years later?), and a moving story between two sisters. In addition to being a hit among League of Legends fans and non-video gamers, the series won three Emmy Awards and eight Annie Awards.
Arcane follows Vi (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and her younger sister, Jinx (voiced by Ella Purnell), who are arch enemies in League of Legends. They started off as loving siblings but, after a tragedy, ended up on opposite sides of a civil war between the wealthy city of Piltover and the slummy underbelly of Zaun. And this conflict is only going to worsen in Arcane Season 2.
Here's everything we know about Arcane Season 2.
Arcane Season 2
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On June 11, Netflix announced that Arcane will end with Season 2. "From the very beginning, since we started working on this project, we had a very specific ending in mind, which means the story of Arcane wraps up with this second season," series co-creator Christian Linke said in a League Dev Update. But Linke said Arcane is "just the first of many stories that we want to tell in Runeterra."
Netflix also released the official teaser for Arcane Season 2 on the same day, which you can watch below.
And for you home collectors out there, Arcane Season 1 will be getting a physical release later this year, according to Gizmodo. Watch that incredible animation in dazzling 4K!
Arcane Season 2 Teasers and Trailers
The official teaser for Arcane Season 2 launched on June 11. It teases an epic battle between the Piltovans and the Zaunites, on a larger scale than anything we saw in Season 1. In the video, Caitlyn Kiramman (voiced by Katie Leung) lays out her three-part plan: "Locate Jinx. Dismantle shimmer. And neutralize any agents still loyal to Silco."
In early January, Netflix released the first teaser for Season 2, and it was a short 40-second reminder of the Arcane world and that the series is coming back in November.
That's Singed, the diabolical doctor from Season 1, in the midst of a blood transfusion (or just extraction?), who checks his pocket watch and looks up to see some dangling monstrosity above him. It's not entirely clear, but everyone's best guess is that the beast is Vander, Vi and Jinx's adoptive father who died in Season 1, who is now being transformed into the undead werewolf Warwick, a playable character from League of Legends.
A video was previously released announcing the upcoming season.
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When is Arcane Season 2 coming out?
Arcane will be back for its second season in November 2024, Netflix announced in November 2023. November is a popular month for the series. Arcane Season 2 was announced back on Nov. 20, 2021, immediately following the release of the third and final part of its first season.
Who Will Be in Arcane Season 2?
Season 1 ended on a major cliffhanger — Piltover council chamber go boom — that will greatly affect which characters return.
On June 11, Netflix said in its press release that voices for Season 2 include:
- Hailee Steinfeld as Vi
- Ella Purnell as Jinx
- Katie Leung as Caitlyn
- Reed Shannon as Ekko
- Amirah Vann as Sevika
- Mick Wingert as Heimerdinger
- Ellen Thomas as Ambessa
- Brett Tucker as Singed
What is the Arcane docuseries?
To keep Arcane fans content during the long wait for Season 2, Riot Games released a five-part docuseries called Arcane: Bridging the Rift. In five episodes that run between 20 and 30 minutes, the YouTube series follows the production of Arcane Season 1, from conception to animation to music. They're available for free on YouTube, and we've linked 'em below.
- Part 1 - "I Only Dream in Risky" (Aug. 4, 2022)
- Part 2 - "Persistence (or When Your Best Still Sucks)" (Aug. 11, 2022)
- Part 3 - "Killstreaks Meet Keyframes" (Aug. 18, 2022)
- Part 4 - "Musical Misfits" (Aug. 25, 2022)
- Part 5 - "We Gave It Our Best Shot" (Sept. 1, 2022)
Where Can I Watch Arcane?
Arcane Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.
