Netflix's Arcane will end with Season 2, new trailer and images released

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Here’s a new look at Arcane’s second and final season.

There’s some good news and bad news for fans of Netflix’s League of Legends animated series Arcane today. We’ll start with the bad news: Arcane’s second season will be its last, wrapping up Jinx and Vi’s story as Zaun and Piltover head into bloody war. Good news: we now have an official teaser for Season 2, and confirmation that animation studio Fortiche is already hard at work making more projects in the Arcane universe.

It’s a real mixed bag, but at least Season 2 is looking every bit as good as Season 1. Watch the trailer here:

Arcane Season 2 will end the series, new trailer released

Netflix has announced that Arcane Season 2 will be its final chapter, concluding the stories of Vi, Jinx, and their companions scattered across Zaun and Piltover. However, this won’t be the end of animation studio Fortiche’s collaboration with Riot Games. Fortiche and Riot apparently always planned for Arcane to be a two-season show, but the series will be, “just the first of many stories that we want to tell in Runeterra,” according to creator Christian Linke.

Here is Linke’s full quote:

Arcane is just the beginning of our larger storytelling journey and partnership with the wonderful animation studio that is Fortiche. From the very beginning, since we started working on this project, we had a very specific ending in mind, which means the story of Arcane wraps up with this second season. But Arcane is just the first of many stories that we want to tell in Runeterra.

That means Arcane wasn’t cancelled by a long shot, with the decision to end the show being made by Fortiche and Riot themselves. Season 2 looks appropriately climactic for a final season too, focusing on the citizens of Zaun and Piltover being embroiled in war after Jinx fired her rocket into Piltover’s council chambers, destroying any hope of a peaceful resolution to the brewing conflict.

Mel’s mother Ambessa Medarda appears this season (and will later join the League playable roster) to push Piltover towards winning the war, while Caitlyn and Vi have teamed up as Enforcers in Zaun to hunt down Jinx and end the Shimmer threat. A few more characters shown in the trailer are confirmed to return from Season 1, including Ekko, Heimerdinger and Sevika. The teaser ends with Vi and Jinx finding and immediately fighting each other.