Here’s some good and bad news for fans of Netflix’s Arcane series. For starters, the acclaimed animated show has dropped a trailer for Season 2. The catch? It will mark the end of Vi and Jinx’s story.
The extended look at the sequel begins in the devastating wake of Jinx’s attack on the council at the end of Season 1. While the fates of its members were kept deliberately vague with the cliffhanger conclusion, it sounds like the assassination attempt was successful. “Your council is dead,” says Ambessa Merdarda, Mel’s mother, in the trailer. “Wrath must be met with wrath.”
This incites an all-out war between the utopian city of Piltover and Zaun, officially pitting Vi and Jinx on opposing sides. Bringing the battle to Zaun are Caitlyn and Vi, who will head into the oppressed undercity to find Jinx, destroy the drug Shimmer, and hunt down any remaining Silco loyalists. The intense trailer also includes glimpses of other characters, including Ekko, Heimerdinger, and Sevika, alongside the terrifying silhouette of a roaring Warwick.
It ends with a preview of the tragic, inevitable showdown between Vi and Jinx, which is likely to set up the “devastating” tearjerker that Jinx’s voice actor Ella Purnell warned of. After all, the relationship of the estranged sisters forms the core of its story, and it’d be interesting (and painful, we reckon) to see how Arcane Season 2 will further develop their dynamic when it releases on Netflix in November.
The conclusion of the popular series doesn’t mean that animation studio Fortiche is done with League of Legends, however. In an update, co-creator Christan Linke expressed a keen interest to explore the storytelling potential of Riot Games’ video game universe.
“Arcane is just the beginning of our larger storytelling journey and partnership with the wonderful animation studio that is Fortiche,” he said. “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.”
Arcane Season 2 will reunite Purnell (Fallout, Yellowjackets) with Hailee Steinfeld (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Hawkeye) and Katie Leung (Annika,The Peripheral), who voice Vi and Caitlyn, respectively. Also confirmed are Amirah Vann (How to Get Away with Murder) as Sevika, Reed Shannon (The Wilds) as Ekko, Ellen Thomas (EastEnders) as Ambessa, Brett Tucker (Neighbours) as Singed, and Mick Wingert (What If…?) as Heimerdinger. Additional cast are expected to be announced in due time.
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