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We haven’t made it any secret that one of our favorite anime of this year has been Dan Da Dan. The story takes all the best things about the manga and somehow makes them better. In fact, the only problem we’ve had with season one is that it would eventually come to an end. However, it didn’t take Netflix and Crunchyroll long to confirm that Dan Da Dan season two is on its way.

The second season of Dan Da Dan was confirmed to be in production after the season one finale aired, and it was a good thing, too. After finding out it was introducing a pair of new villains in the final episode, we knew we needed more Dan Da Dan in our lives. The weird and wild world that was introduced in season one was just the start.

Now comes the waiting. While Dan Da Dan season two has been confirmed, it won't arrive until July 2025, leaving us six months to try and wait for the conclusion of the first season cliffhanger. Thankfully, that's less of a wait than we might have been anticipating, but six months is still far longer than we'd prefer to wait in a perfect world of immediate gratification...!

Dan Da Dan remains one of the big anime hits of 2024, so it isn’t surprising that a second season is in the works. It combines action, adventure, and romance as well as any other Shonen series we’ve seen, which makes it a series well worth waiting for.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

• Why the finales of My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, and One Piece feel like the end of an era in manga
• Why is One Piece more popular now that the anime is 25 years old? We asked around and found out
• Dan Da Dan is weird, profoundly inappropriate, and the perfect anime this season
• Why One Piece's Monkey D. Luffy is the perfect anime hero for the dark times ahead
• 40 years after its debut, Dragon Ball is a pop culture force like few others
• Dan Da Dan's most emotionally devastating sequence proves that sometimes words aren't necessary
• Gnosia, the "Among Us meets Everything Everywhere All at Once" visual novel is getting an anime adaptation that needs to be as weird as possible
• Assassination Classroom is a Shonen anime well worth revisiting, ten years on
• Sony is making big moves to own the anime industry by buying Kadokawa, publisher of Oshi no Ko, Sword Art Online, and Konosuba