Ever since 2021, followers have been ready for the subsequent season of Arcane, and now, as a part of the 2024 Netflix schedule, it is lastly right here! The season continues the story of Jinx, Vi, and everybody else inside their twisted world, nonetheless, we’re solely getting this one final season with them. Whereas this was a shock to followers, there’s nonetheless loads to stay up for, and I had the possibility to ask showrunner and co-creator Christian Linke what he plans to do subsequent on the earth of Arcane.
Arcane is undoubtedly one of many finest reveals to binge-watch on Netflix, and now, with the discharge of Season 2, it is solely going to shoot again as much as the charts. Nevertheless, the creators of Arcane made the powerful choice to finish the sequence after solely two seasons for the sake of telling a whole story and attempting to not stretch it out.
Nevertheless, Linke even mentioned on the sequence’ X account that whereas this story is coming to an finish, there are extra characters to comply with on the earth of League of Legends. Once I spoke with Linke forward of Arcane Season 2’s premiere, I requested what they may be doing subsequent after the sequence involves a detailed and if there have been characters from Arcane they needed to discover extra. They mentioned that’s a part of what they wish to do. Nevertheless, there have been additionally “a bunch” of different characters in LoL they might discover and, in truth, they only have to begin from the bottom up as soon as extra:
There positively are some characters that we wish to proceed their story, after Arcane. That’s a part of what we wish to do. However there’s additionally a bunch of others. I imply, now we have over 160 characters in our IP now. There is a bunch of them the place we’re tremendous excited, totally different areas, totally different storylines, that we wish to discover… it is similar to beginning Arcane once more, to be trustworthy with you. It is similar to, we type of began with nothing. You are like, “What ought to we do? Time to determine it out. Let’s determine it out.” We have to belief our intestine. That is what we did with Arcane.
When Arcane was launched again in 2021, the present turned large for thus many causes, together with the well-written Jinx and Vi and their tragic story of sisters and the opposite tales that we adopted. It is virtually laborious to think about falling for every other characters apart from these after we’ve established this shut relationship with them over the past three years.
Even so, Linke is appropriate in saying that the world of LoL is ridiculously large. You may throw a dart at a board and get a brand new character each time with new lore that would function the background to a recent present. So, even when we do not get to comply with characters we all know and love from Arcane in a brand new sequence, I positively can see myself loving new characters too.
However do not anticipate this new sequence to occur anytime quickly. I jokingly mentioned to Linke that any new sequence would take one other “decade” to come back out, similar to the primary season of Arcane. And he actually agreed, chuckling however saying that is simply how animation is and that it takes time to make these reveals a actuality:
I do know. That is simply the factor about animation. You’ll be able to’t do it rapidly. It is like, no matter you consider proper now, you assume, ‘Is that this going to take three to 5 years to make it?’
Animated reveals have been recognized to launch seasons a lot later due to how lengthy they take to create. There are such a lot of examples— from the lengthy wait between Invincible Seasons 1 and a couple of, to the artistic sequence Hazbin Lodge taking years to lastly premiere on Amazon Prime, to even a number of the finest anime on the market. Followers can typically wait years. Heck, between Seasons 1 and a couple of of Assault on Titan, viewers needed to wait 5 years. Good grief.
Both means, as somebody who does love the world of Arcane however is completely open to no matter story Linke and his co-creator, Alex Yee, wish to inform subsequent, I’m down to attend. I suppose within the meantime, I am going to watch different reveals like Arcane to carry me over.
Arcane Season 2 will launch three-episode acts on November 9, 16, and 23. With a Netflix subscription, you possibly can watch all episodes to see how Vi and Jinx’s story actually ends.