During the event 2024 Tencent Video V Vision Conference it was reported that the second season of the animated series of Arcane has scheduled its premiere for sometime in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October-December). Based on fan feedback, it is estimated that the premiere will take place in November 2024, to coincide with the premiere window of the first season and the fifteenth anniversary of League of Legends.
In total, we will have to wait three years for the second season of Arcane. It’s a long time, but Riot Games, the developer of the video game, made it clear that, despite the success of the first installment, it would not rush to release a sequel. In fact, it has not been until today that there is official information about this continuation.
Arcane is one of the many animation adaptations of video games that achieved incredible success thanks to a high level of production. Arcane’s first season took the cake and almost every international award it was nominated for, drawing attention even from people who had never played a game in their lives. League of Legendsthe video game that inspires the story.
When the first season ended, the second one was announced shortly after, which left the fans quite satisfied. However, this continuation was not in the plans of the production team, which did not expect the adaptation to be tremendously successful. This was commented by the CEO of Riot Games, Nicolo Laurent during the short segment of an interview:
- «I just watched the third episode of the second season before my flight, so we’re making progress on it. It is not ready yet and there are two reasons for it. One, we want quality. We just don’t want to rush. We honestly didn’t know if the first season was going to be a success. (…) If we had known, we could have started the second season much earlier. But we didn’t know, so we waited a bit. Now we are paying the price. So unfortunately it won’t be released this year.».
Arcane Synopsis
The story takes place in the cities of Piltover and Zaun. Although Arcane focuses only on these two cities, they belong to the Runeterra world. Piltover is the academic and scientific and wealthy city, while Zaun is the opposite, with suburbs full of crime, poverty and infested with toxic chemicals, where there is no authority whatsoever. The tensions and rivalries that exist between these two cities divide families and friends, as in the case of Vi and Powder, two Zaunite sisters; or Jayce and Viktor, two inventor friends and apprentices of the legendary scientist Heimerdinger. All these relationships will overflow with the creation of Hextech in Piltover, a technology with which anyone is able to control magical energy, while in Zaun a new drug transforms humans into monsters.
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