The streaming juggernaut Netflix has just released the official trailer for the second season of Arcane a few hours ago in a showcase that’s been long overdue. Though other League of Legends adaptions for TV will continue, the series Jinx’s story will be ending with the show’s second season, which comes as a surprising revelation considering that it was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed animated TV shows in 2021.
In the trailer, the people of Topside declare martial law as Jinx, now the ‘insane’ criminal outlaw, executes a colorful execution of a rebellious notion. We also see her sister Vi, Heimerdinger, Sevika, Ambessa, Ekko, Singed, and Warwick, as it seems a revolution kicks off this November season.
“Arcane is just the beginning of our larger storytelling journey and partnership with the wonderful animation studio that is Fortiche,” series co-creator Christian Linke said in a statement in June. “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. But Arcane is just the first of many stories that we want to tell in Runeterra.”
It’s a surprising to see the company move on from the show though one pretty understandable given the now momentous careers of its two leading voice actresses Hailee Steinfeld, who’s now the new HAWKEYE for the MCU, and Ella Purnell, who’s now the lead actress in the very popular Prime TV series FALLOUT.
Atop of this – Netflix itself is in a strange phase of quiet consolidation where it’s promoting things a lot less and slowly starting to hide its numbers, despite it’s record profitability and outright winning the streaming wars.
Most recently, a data leak of a large list of Netflix animated TV shows, anime, and even Arcane Season 2 itself – was unleashed online in a large security failure. As a result, many pirates have downloaded, leaked, and watched five of the upcoming episodes of the final season of Arcane Season 2.
Which is a shame. The show is fantastic and whatever it’s longterm legacy will be, it most definitely opened the doors for more serious video game adaptions onto the big/streaming screen.
