Daemons of the Shadow Realm is coming back in the future. After the first season's 24th and final episode aired in Japan on Sunday, the official site and social accounts confirmed that a second season is in production and posted a teaser built around the next stretch of the story.
The first season ran two consecutive cours with no mid-year break. It opened April 4, 2026 on Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, and Tochigi TV at 11:30 p.m., then spread to HTB Hokkaido TV, Aomori Broadcasting, Miyagi TV, Sakuranbo TV, TV-U Fukushima, Television Niigata Network, and other local stations. Cour 2 started July 4 in the same Saturday slot. Episode 24 closed that run on September 19. Check out the teaser and visual below:
Crunchyroll streamed the series first in its territories and launched a same-day English dub on premiere weekend, with Ben Stegmair as Yuru and Molly Zhang as Asa. The dub later slipped off that same-day pace for a stretch before weekly English episodes resumed.
The show adapts Hiromu Arakawa's manga Yomi no Tsugai, published in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan since December 2021. English readers know it through Square Enix Manga & Books, which licensed the series in July 2022. Japan is on volume 13 as of July 10, with volume 14 dated for November 12. Circulation sat at 7.5 million copies by July. That figure is no surprise for an Arakawa book that has been building for four and a half years, even if it is still well short of Fullmetal Alchemist. The English line reached volume 11 on August 11, with volume 12 due in January 2027.
Square Enix's English copy still frames the opening setup the way new readers meet it. In a remote mountain village watched by two stone guardians, Yuru lives off the land beside his twin sister, Asa. She carries out a village "duty" from inside a cage. The questions under that quiet life are why she is locked up, and what the village is hiding.
The larger premise is sharper than that village postcard. Certain people command paired supernatural beings called tsugai, or Daemons in the English title. Twins billed as "the children who sunder day and night" are supposed to stand over that system. Yuru and Asa were separated young. The first season sent Yuru out of Higashimura with his Daemons and the fixer Dera after the life he knew collapsed, hunting the real Asa and the family story buried under the village.
Masahiro Ando directed the first season at Bones Film, with Bones listed on production supervision. Ando's film work includes Sword of the Stranger. His TV credits include Canaan and Blast of Tempest. Noboru Takagi handled series composition after Golden Kamuy and later Kingdom seasons. Nobuhiro Arai designed the characters and served as chief animation director, following Bungo Stray Dogs. Kenichiro Suehiro wrote the score, he has previously worked on Golden Kamuy, Re:ZERO, and Fire Force. Other first-season credits included Koji Sugiura and Yoshiyuki Ito on tsugai design.
The production line for season two should look familiar to anyone who tracked Arakawa's last major TV run. Square Enix, Aniplex, and Bones are together again. Bones Film is the studio that animated the weekly episodes. The first season did not confirm that every name above is locked for Season 2.
The Japanese cast for season one was stacked the way a Bones action show usually is with:
- Kensho Ono as Yuru
- Yume Miyamoto as Asa
- Yuichi Nakamura as Dera
- Misaki Kuno as Gabu-chan
- Takako Honda as Left
- Rikiya Koyama as Right
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Hana
- Junichi Suwabe as Jin
- Akira Ishida as Asuma Kagemori
- Shinichiro Miki as Ivan Yosano
- Kappei Yamaguchi as Hikaru Kagemori
- Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kai
The finale teaser also put names on faces that had been moving through Higashimura's lower-world network. Jin Urayama voices the President, the old man who coordinates East Village people operating outside the mountain. Hikaru Tanaka and Hayata Ookawa voice his Daemons, the paired calamity gods known as Saishin.
The new teaser does not spell out episode counts or a lot of details for season two, we will have to find that out in the future. Japanese coverage of the clip says it puts Yuru, Asa, Left and Right, Gabu-chan, Dera, and Hana back on screen, then cuts to Ivan and to Goryo, a leading figure on the West Village side who is after the twins. That is the conflict the preview is selling: the hunt does not end because the first two cours did.
Ando spent the first 24 episodes getting the village lie, the twin split, and the Daemon contracts on their feet. Cour 2 already pushed that material into raids, faction errands, and the question of who around Yuru is actually on his side. Season 2 now has room to stay with the West Village pressure and the people who want the twins for the authority tied to their birth.
The manga is still running, so the anime adaptation has plenty of material to work with. The staff also did not promise another two-cour block. All that is on the table right now is a second season, a teaser, and a visual. Crunchyroll still has the complete first season of the anime for fans to enjoy until season two arrives.
Will you jump back in as soon as Season 2 gets a date, or are you waiting to see how much of the manga it covers? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.