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Dec 19, 2025 10:12 PM

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if that means we get s1 quality at the cost of another cour right away I'm fine with that.
Dec 19, 2025 10:31 PM

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bet they'll just make adapt eldorado into a movie, you ain't slick madhouse
Dec 19, 2025 10:52 PM
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@Suprgamr123 nah at best i expect double length episode for the first and/or last episode

i don't expect even that. definitely not for the first episode either considering how S1 left off.
Dec 19, 2025 11:00 PM
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I'II hope for they give up on this anime
@AspectOfJustice_ ok ok so let me get this straight season 1 finished airing in March 2024 in January 2026 they give a season 2 with 10 episodes and you want them to give up on the series? Go touch grass its completely delusional expecting double cour after a so short amount of time.
Dec 19, 2025 11:02 PM
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shouldn't 12 episodes be the bare minimum? idk tho i haven't read the manga.
@Aminthesaiyan 1 cour is between 8 and 13 episodes with no rule saying how many episodes a series will have those are decided by the production committee with the TV station who is on board.
Dec 19, 2025 11:40 PM

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Well shit, there goes the arc that I was most anticipating from this season... If they don't do a part 2 for the second season or at least a 1 cour season 3 after this im gonna be upset for a while 😭

What are the chances that this leak is wrong? I know this is a trusted leaker but still.
enthusiastpersonDec 20, 2025 12:01 AM
Dec 20, 2025 12:37 AM
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Seriously 10 Episodes, this is not 2014 where anime used to have 10 episodes per season
@RoyalDemon05 But if Demon Slayer had 8 episodes in season 4... there's no fixed rule
Dec 20, 2025 2:22 AM
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The same production line is doing the announced Shingo Natsume movie so its not surprising to me
Dec 20, 2025 3:50 AM
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I have no problem with it being only 10 episodes. Since the manga is on hiatus, its understandable to slow down the adaptation pace. I just don know how long it will take to adapt Season 3 after that.
Dec 20, 2025 6:23 AM
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I get the decision why, but I don't like it (if the rumors are true).

So season 1 was 28 episodes covering 60 chapters. At 2 chapters per episode, season 2 would take us to 80, and 81 is right where the next big story arc begins. That arc lasts for 24 chapters or 12 episodes - but they could also decide to make it a movie.

I get it because the manga is on indefinite hiatus while we are in the longest/biggest arc of the series so far, and in between season 1 and where we are currently (chapter 147), there's really only 1 big arc, and 2 smaller ones in terms of length, and a bunch of episodic "fillers".

Therefore, if you do another 60 chapters, your really don't have anything left for season 3 or a movie until the anime catches up with the manga.

I think it's likely they do this shortened 10ep season, a movie, another 10 episode season, then you're at where the source material is stuck at now.

Honestly, if you are anime-only, you probably lose out the most. Waiting all this time for a season 2 that will be episodic with a mini-arc instead of a grand, ambitious storyline.

That said, the trailers look good, and I'm hopeful it will be as enjoyable as last season!
Dec 20, 2025 6:40 AM
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Didn't season 1 have 28 episodes? Totally fair
Dec 20, 2025 7:17 AM

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bet they'll just make adapt eldorado into a movie, you ain't slick madhouse
Haunt88 said:
bet they'll just make adapt eldorado into a movie

A movie? You mean ONE movie? Come on, El Dorado Arc is freaking long, if one movie, then it will be 5 to 6 hours long. If two or three movies, the first will be definitely a flop, a box office failure (If you are a manga reader, you know what i mean here) and it will greatly affect the success of subsequent movies. In conclude, adapting El Dorado Arc into movie(s) is the worst decision ever lol
Dec 20, 2025 7:48 AM

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El Dorado arc would take roughly 14 episodes to cover, then Goddess Monument Arc would be about 8-10 episodes long + it’d make for a better season finale considering its content compared to the former.
It’d be overkill even for Madhouse to go for a THREE-cour season with the current industrial climate, and skipping the content right before El Dorado just cause “it’s filler” is out of character especially considering how the anime has a tendency to expand scenes that are otherwise short and faster-paced in the manga material.

Makes sense (especially when Fukishi is currently managing another upcoming original project) but yea I can kinda see why this is a bit of a letdown for many here.

Update: okay I’ve seen people arguing about why not catch up to the manga…well, I sure as hell don’t think the staff, many of whom are definitely fans of the source material, would want to fancy another situation like with Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 and Chrono Crusade where they had to completely diverge with no more manga material to cover.
RyuseishunDec 28, 2025 6:06 AM
Dec 20, 2025 1:58 PM
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im down with 10 eps, quality over quantity
Dec 20, 2025 5:35 PM

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It means about 2 volumes being adapted. It's very likely they will animate the next "Big Arc" soon after that.

Maybe by october or january of 2027.
Dec 21, 2025 11:19 AM

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Well, as a fan, and being honest, I'm obviously disappointed we are only getting 10 episodes, since Frieren is one of my favorite anime series, so I wanted to get a 2 cour 2nd season. But the reality is that it would be really difficult for them to produce a 2 cour season in the same quality of the 1st season with the amount of time they had, and so I'm not complaining about this season only getting 10 episodes. If it's for the anime to maintain the same quality, I super approve of this decision. I much prefer getting a shorter season, but of high quality, rather than a longer season, but of lower quality.
I'm just happy this 2nd season is already so close to air! Less than a month to be finally able to watch it!
Dec 21, 2025 4:42 PM

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I look foreword to the incredibly grating discourse of the show's fall off cause it will like have a score around 8.70 or whatever since its not gonna cover as much content as the first and by extension not be as good.

Immahnoob said:
Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit,

tokiyashiro said:

Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me

Dec 23, 2025 10:53 AM

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I look foreword to the incredibly grating discourse of the show's fall off cause it will like have a score around 8.70 or whatever since its not gonna cover as much content as the first and by extension not be as good.
@JizzyHitler Yes, this will be annoying, so I will stay away from this forum and enjoy these 10 episodes
Dec 23, 2025 1:59 PM

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I think I'm okay with only 10 episodes, but only IF that means we don't have to wait another 2-3 years for season 3. Now THAT would kinda suck.
Dec 23, 2025 5:04 PM
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WTF?!?!? WHY just 10 eps???
Dec 23, 2025 6:36 PM
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I believe Season 2 will be split cour, Cour 1 January 2026 and Cour 2 in October 2026/January 2027 with 12/14 episodes.
I don't want El Dorado to be a movie, because the story will be shortened.
Dec 25, 2025 9:01 PM
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I realized they definitely cannot adapt Golden Land (El Dorado) arc since that's a pretty long arc need to be covered, even the next arc (Goddess Monument arc) also quite long arc.

I think I still fine we only got 10 episodes in this season, perhaps they want quality over quantity. The fact we blessed with 28 episodes in previous season with top-notch quality makes this season much shorter than previous one quiet understandable.

The manga also quite often took a indefinite hiatus after El Dorado arc in pretty long time (somewhere between three up top eighth month) so it quiet understandable the anime doesn't want to caught up with the original manga franchise.

In my opinion just enjoy the 10 episode we got, if this is true, and hope next sequel not took quite long time to be announced.
Dec 27, 2025 10:38 AM
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This is a huge problem with anime. Why are they so afraid of catching up to the manga? They have already normalized there being years and years between seasons. Just adapt what there is to adapt and then have the long wait after the anime has caught up to the manga.
Dec 29, 2025 6:49 PM
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Nah ill wait for official confirmation.

Even if this is the truth, i find it dumb.

Like why are they now taking the Konosuba approach?
Dec 29, 2025 6:50 PM
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I'II hope for they give up on this anime
@AspectOfJustice_ Why are you here if you dont like it?
Dec 31, 2025 3:29 PM
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I was thinking about this during the holidays, and reading some of the posts after mine convinced me to change my mind.

Originally, I thought they would make "season 3" / El Dorado into a movie (rather, a 2 part movie) since the entire arc covers a whole regular season, and I didn't think they would want to do this alternating "strong/weak" seasonal thing.

But then I realized season 1 being a mega 2-cour production distorted my perception of arcs in Frieren.

Really, the first half of season 1 is self-contained episodes with a mini arc introducing the demons; the second half was just the mage exam. Meaning Frieren's storytelling has always swapped between SOL-like episodes culminating in a mini-arc, and then a big ass arc that takes a full season from the first episode.

So if season 2 is actually 10 episodes, it's just Frieren returning to your regularly scheduled programming (tl;dr season 1 spoiled us).
Jan 2, 2:06 AM
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im down with 10 eps, quality over quantity
@fqdnl That's what I'm saying. If this is what it takes for the anime to maintain a level of quality, then so be it. I don't think anybody wants a rush job.
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Everyone believing is leak is simply ignorant. Let's assume they want first cover the next two arcs, then do Golden Land seperately. 10 episodes is too much unless they start an ep or two into the Golden Land, which would entirely defeat this argument. Look at the chapters on the wiki. Compare the average chapter by episode adaption rate. It's impossible. Unless they stretch out an entire chapter into an episode, or add a ton of fillers (NONE OF WHICH WAS DONE IN S1 BTW), it won't happen. So just use a little bit of deductive reasoning please.
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Everyone believing is leak is simply ignorant. Let's assume they want first cover the next two arcs, then do Golden Land seperately. 10 episodes is too much unless they start an ep or two into the Golden Land, which would entirely defeat this argument. Look at the chapters on the wiki. Compare the average chapter by episode adaption rate. It's impossible. Unless they stretch out an entire chapter into an episode, or add a ton of fillers (NONE OF WHICH WAS DONE IN S1 BTW), it won't happen. So just use a little bit of deductive reasoning please.
@VanillaMeurs Dude, the leak is from a very reliable source, so it's true, season 2 will have 10 episodes :)
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@VanillaMeurs Dude, the leak is from a very reliable source, so it's true, season 2 will have 10 episodes :)
@feyyazu35 So yeah, let's disregard my arguments because it's from a "reliable source". You're a waste of time
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@feyyazu35 So yeah, let's disregard my arguments because it's from a "reliable source". You're a waste of time
@VanillaMeurs Dude, I'm really curious where you think the leak is coming from :D


You know the source of the leak, right :D
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@VanillaMeurs Dude, I'm really curious where you think the leak is coming from :D


You know the source of the leak, right :D
@feyyazu35 Nope, enlighten me please :D
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Everyone believing is leak is simply ignorant. Let's assume they want first cover the next two arcs, then do Golden Land seperately. 10 episodes is too much unless they start an ep or two into the Golden Land, which would entirely defeat this argument. Look at the chapters on the wiki. Compare the average chapter by episode adaption rate. It's impossible. Unless they stretch out an entire chapter into an episode, or add a ton of fillers (NONE OF WHICH WAS DONE IN S1 BTW), it won't happen. So just use a little bit of deductive reasoning please.
@VanillaMeurs I took a look at the wiki and although it does say the Golden Land arc starts on chapter 77, Frieren's party only get to the golden city at chapter 81 (chapter 77 gives us a small look into the golden city but chapter 78 to 80 aren't related), so the number of chapters between the end of season 1 (chapter 60) and the start of the Golden Land arc (chapter 80) is exactly 20 chapters and if you assume that season 2 will follow what season 1 did and adapt 2 chapters per episode then the 10 episode count does actually make sense. I'm guessing that they will do what a lot of studios do these days and have a half a year break in between the two cours, which isnt so bad when you think about it cause that means they will be able to give their full focus to the Golden Land arc and give it the attention and care it deserves instead of doing a half-assed adaptation
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This isnt absolutely confirmed, so im just gonna wait and see
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@feyyazu35 So yeah, let's disregard my arguments because it's from a "reliable source". You're a waste of time
@VanillaMeurs Gotta love how you're like "don't trust this source - even though it's been proven right 90% of the time -, but trust me even though I'm going purely out of hypotheticals"
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