Overview
- Netflix formally confirmed the second season on Dec. 19 in Japan, following a brief early post from Netflix France a day earlier.
- Since its November debut, the series topped Netflix’s Global Top 10 for non-English series and charted in 88 countries, holding No. 1 in Japan for four consecutive weeks.
- The show became the first all‑Japanese production nominated for the Critics’ Choice Award for best foreign language series.
- Lead star Junichi Okada also serves as producer and action choreographer alongside director Michihito Fujii, adapting Shogo Imamura’s Naoki Prize‑winning Ikusagami novels.
- Netflix has not announced a production start or release window, and creators have only hinted that later seasons could incorporate supernatural elements from the source material.