The Ramparts of Ice Season 2 Premieres October 1
The quick renewal, announced immediately after the first season's 14th episode, signals strong early performance for a series that began as a webtoon and already has a completed manga to draw from.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The television anime adaptation of Kōcha Agasawa's manga The Ramparts of Ice will return for a second season on October 1, 2026. The announcement followed the broadcast of the 14th episode of the first season on July 2. The new season will air on Thursdays at 11:56 p.m. on TBS and 27 affiliated channels. A teaser visual accompanied the announcement. The first season premiered in April 2026 and streams globally on Netflix. The anime is produced by Studio KAI, with Mankyū directing and Yasuhiro Nakanishi handling series scripts. The cast includes Anna Nagase as Koyuki Hikawa, Shōya Chiba as Minato Amamiya, Fūka Izumi as Miki Azumi, and Satoshi Inomata as Yota Hino. The manga originally ran as a webtoon on the LINE Manga app from January 2020 to April 2022, and Shueisha published its 14th and final compiled volume in February 2025. The manga was nominated for the 69th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2023 and ranked second in the Rakuten Kobo E-book Awards' Vertical Scroll Comic category in 2024.
- Mankyū (Pui Pui Molcar the Movie: MOLMAX, Sumikkogurashi - Good to be in the corner, The IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors) directs at Studio KAI.
- Additional staff: assistant director Teru Ishii, sub-character designer Eriko Itō, prop designer Yūji Hamada, costume designers Kotono and Yū Fueki, art director Shin Maeda, color key artist Haruko Nobori, 3D CG director Naoya Sakayori, compositing director of photography Mika Watanabe, editor Masato Yoshitake, sound director Kōhei Yoshida, chief animation producer Hirokazu Shiba, animation producer Taiki Itō.
- Music composers Kanade Sakuma and Natsumi Tabuchi; background music production by Nichion.
- Additional cast members: Chiaki Kobayashi as Tsubasa Igarashi, Sakura Shinfuku as Tsukiko Shimojima, Akari Kitō as Momoka Kuriki, Kakeru Hatano as Yūki Azumi, Natsumi Kawaida as Akine Atagawa.
- The manga ranked #15 for male readers in the 2024 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook, and placed #2 on AnimeJapan's sixth "Most Wanted Anime Adaptation" poll in 2023.
- MangaPlaza publishes the English version of the manga.
- Agasawa also wrote You and I Are Polar Opposites, whose anime adaptation premieres its second season in August 2026.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network News The Ramparts of Ice Anime Gets 2nd Season in October
- Anime Corner The Ramparts of Ice Gets Season 2 in October 2026