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Netflix's Arcane: Season 2 Release Date, Cast, and Everything We Know
The League of Legends animated series will be back this year
It feels like Arcane Season 1 came out eons ago, and in the TV world, it basically did. The animated series based on lore from the real-time strategy PC game League of Legends was released in 2021, becoming one of Netflix's biggest shows of the year as well as a winner of three Emmy Awards and eight Annie Awards. After waiting for years, we finally know when Arcane will be back.
Arcane tells the story of two sisters, Vi (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and her younger sister, Jinx (voiced by Ella Purnell), who are arch enemies in League of Legends. Arcane tells us how they went from loving siblings to being on opposite sides of a civil war between the wealthy city of Piltover and the slummy underbelly of Zaun. There's magic, technology, explosions, death, romance, and a little furry dude named Heimerdinger. It's no wonder Netflix immediately renewed Arcane for a second season.
Here's everything we know about Arcane Season 2.
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After years of waiting, we finally have our first tease of Season 2. On Jan. 5, Netflix released the first teaser video for the upcoming season, featuring the scientist Singed and perhaps confirmation of a popular fan theory that relates to a character in League of Legends. Check it out below in the video section.
Arcane Season 2 release date
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.
In September 2023, Tencent — which owns League of Legends developer Riot Games — held a presentation at its Video V Vision Conference that said Arcane Season 2 would be coming out in winter 2024.
ARCANE Season 2 Release Date Revealed | #LeagueOfLegends
— League Of Legends Leaks & News (@LeagueOfLeaks) September 1, 2023
It has been revealed at the 2024 Tencent Video V Vision Conference that ARCANE Season 2 will premiere in Q4 (Winter) 2024.#Arcane pic.twitter.com/AZB5OeSxzC
Why is it taking so long between seasons? Back in April 2023, Nicolo Laurent, then the CEO of Riot Games, was interviewed by LPL caster Guan Ze Yuan (video clip here, courtesy of Reddit) and confirmed that Arcane Season 2 was not coming out in 2023. Laurent stressed that he doesn't want to rush the series because he wants to get it right. He also noted that they got a later start than usual because they didn't realize it was going to be such a big hit.
Arcane Season 2 Trailers and Footage
With Season 2 still a ways away, there's obviously not a trailer ready. But in early January, Netflix released the first teaser — and it's exactly that, a tease — for Season 2, a short 40-second reminder of the world of Arcane 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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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. So far, Netflix has only confirmed that Hailee Steinfeld (Vi), Ella Purnell (Jinx), and Katie Leung (Caitlyn) will be back.
As for those who were in the council chamber when Jinx blew it up — Jayce, Viktor, Mel, Hoskel, Cassandra, Bolbok, Shoola, and Salo — we'll just have to see who survives the blast.
Arcane Main Cast
- Hailee Steinfeld as Violet / "Vi"
- Ella Purnell as Powder / Jinx
- Katie Leung as Caitlyn Kiramman
What is the Arcane docuseries?
To keep Arcane fans content during the long wait for Season 2, Riot Games is releasing 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.
