BODY: Barely a beat after its 24-episode run wrapped, the anime adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's Yomi no Tsugai has locked in a second season β and the announcement came with enough polish to suggest it was never really in doubt.
The official website confirmed the renewal on Sunday, pairing the news with an announcement visual and a promotional video. Studio Bones Film, which handled the first season, returns to production. The debut season began airing in Spring 2026 and ran a full two cours, with Crunchyroll streaming the series internationally across multiple subtitle tracks and dubs.
For readers new to the property: Yomi no Tsugai, released in English as Daemons of the Shadow Realm, is Arakawa's dark fantasy about twin siblings bound to shadow-dwelling entities called tsugai. Arakawa began serializing it in Square Enix's Monthly ShΕnen Gangan in December 2021, and the publisher has since released 13 collected volumes. It is the creator's first major original fantasy serial since Fullmetal Alchemist, a comparison the marketing has never been shy about inviting.
No broadcast window, staff changes, or episode count have been announced for the second season yet β only that it is in production. That is standard practice for a same-day renewal reveal, and further details will likely surface at a Square Enix or Aniplex showcase later in the year.
The insider take
A renewal announced this quickly, with finished promotional material attached, almost always means the second season was greenlit during production of the first β not after ratings came in. That is the Gangan playbook in miniature: Square Enix treats Arakawa as a generational asset and plans her adaptations on multi-year horizons rather than cour-by-cour gambles. Bones Film, the production arm spun out to run alongside the parent studio, gets a flagship title to establish its own identity with, which is no small thing in a Tokyo animation market where studio branding increasingly drives staffing. Expect the manga's volume sales to spike again in Akihabara and Ikebukuro shops this autumn β the reliable domestic tell that a renewal has landed.
Originally reported by News - MyAnimeList (English).