Arcane Season 2 Release Date Is Further Away Than Expected

A new release window for Season 2 of Arcane has been detailed by Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent, and unfortunately, it's coming much later than many fans have surely been hoping for. Following the release of the League of Legends animated series back in 2021, Netflix announced that it was in the process of working with Riot on a second season of Arcane. Since that announcement, though, no further news on Season 2 has ended up coming about, which has led to many questions from fans. Sadly, it seems like this lack of information is something that will only end up continuing for the remainder of the year. 

Speaking to the LPL's Guan Ze Yuan in a new interview, Laurent made clear that Arcane isn't going to be released before the end of 2023. Recently, Laurent said that he watched the third episode of Season 2 and expressed excitement about what is being done with the show. For those that are eager to see more of Arcane for themselves, though, Laurent said blatantly that they'll have to wait until 2024. 

"It is not ready yet and there [are] two reasons for that," Laurent said when asked about where Arcane Season 2 is at. "One, you want the quality. We just don't want to rush and so that takes time. So that's the good reason. The bad reason is, honestly, we didn't know if Season 1 was going to be a success so we didn't start Season 2 until [later]. If I had known, we could have started Season 2 way earlier. But we didn't know so we waited a bit and now we're paying the price. So, unfortunately, it's not going to be this year."

Although this is disappointing news to receive from Laurent, his explanation of why Season 2 of Arcane is taking so long makes sense. The only positive takeaway from all of this is that if Season 3 ends up happening further down the road, Riot and Arcane are already likely planning for it. As such, that future season (which has yet to be formally confirmed) should end up being released much sooner after Season 2 wraps up. 

Are you saddened to hear that Season 2 of Arcane won't be dropping this year? And what do you expect to see from the show's next season whenever it does release? Share your own thoughts with me either down in the comments or shoot me a message on Twitter at @MooreMan12. 

[H/T Dexerto]