It has been more than a year since fans last saw Hajime Nagumo on the small screen, so will he finally return in Arifureta Season 2? The anime's second installment has been announced before the first season ended, but it is yet to see the light of the day.

Fans are all waiting to see Arifureta Season 2. However, with the lack of news and update, some wonder it will still ever come to fruition.

According to TV Season Spoilers, before the first season managed to hit the small screens, it met a lot of delays. It was announced in 2017 but only aired in 2019.

There were also issues between the anime- and manga-only fans. However, it couldn't be denied that it was a success.

After the anime ended in October 2019, White Fox and Asread dropped two OVA episodes in 2020. Now, all eyes are on its makers and studio if their next release will be Arifureta Season 2.

White Fox and Asread announced the second season's coming after dropping the first season's final episode. They even promised to work together again to produce new episodes.

Later, the two studios confirmed the second season was already in development, while its production had started and going at the full pace. Anyhow, a year had passed, there was no news about it.

The much-awaited Arifureta Season 2 would surely continue the story of Nagumo and his high school class. In Season 1, most of Nagumo's classmates possessed powerful stats and abilities, while he didn't have even a single power, Anime News Network noted.

With the feeling of being "underappreciated" while also "unprepared," he ended up in the dungeon filled with monsters. Here, voracity and sacrifice were the only options he had.

To survive this bizarre world, Nagumo had no choice but to "welcome the abyss."

Arifureta is originally a light novel series written by Ryo Shirakome and illustrated by Takayaki. It was published under the Overlap Bunko Label and started serializing in 2015.

Anyhow, until today, neither Asread nor White Fox has announced the release of Arifureta Season 2, per Monsters & Critics. Although they revealed its production had started in 2019, they didn't give anything about its time frame.

However, if the works indeed began more than a year ago, fans expected it to come anytime this year. If it would have the same fate as Season 1, which took two years to be dropped after it was announced, it might come in late 2021 or early 2022.

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