Overview
- Netflix confirmed the renewal after the series became a global breakout, topping the Non-English Global Top 10 and reaching the Top 10 in 88 countries, with four weeks at No. 1 in Japan.
- Lead actor-producer Junichi Okada and director Michihito Fujii issued statements through the streamer expressing excitement for the next chapter.
- The Meiji-era action series adapts Shogo Imamura’s Naoki Prize–winning Ikusagami and centers on a high-stakes survival contest with large-scale, stylized combat.
- The show garnered a Critics’ Choice nomination for best foreign language series and carries a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, according to the coverage.
- Creators have suggested Season 2 may draw on the source novel’s supernatural elements, though no production start date or release window has been disclosed.