Medalist 2nd Season Anime Unveils January 2026 Debut in Teaser Video

The dependable internet region for the tv anime of Tsurumaikada‘s Olympic ice-skating manga Medalist printed on Sunday the 2d season’s teaser visible and promotional video, and its January 2026 debut on the “NUMAnimation” programming block on TV Asahi and 23 other affiliate channels.

The 2d season will characteristic returning solid and staff. The first season’s 3DCG setting supervisor Hazuki Nakamura is the paintings director for the contemporary season, replacing Yōko Nakao. Kentaro Kashiwagi, the principle season’s 3DCG composite supervisor, is the 2d season’s compositing director of photography, replacing Shin’ichi Komeya.

The anime premiered in Japan on the “NUMAnimation” programming block on TV Asahi and 23 affiliated channels on January 4 at 25:30 (effectively, January 5 at 1:30 a.m.), and on BS Asahi on January 6. Disney+ streamed the anime.

Outdated Olympic skater Akiko Suzuki (returning for the 2d season) choreographed the skating routines in the principle season of the anime, in collaboration with retired figure skater Yuhana Yokoi and active competitive figure skater Hinano Isobe.

Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga, and it describes the account:

Tsukasa, whose needs had been beaten. Inori, left to fend for herself. These two share a dream…and their tenacity might per chance well also very effectively be the finest thing that sees them thru. Their destination? The ice…on the area’s stage!

Tsurumaikada launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Afternoon magazine in Could well 2020. Kodansha printed the thirteenth compiled e-book volume on June 23.

The manga won in the Simplest Total Manga category of the 68th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2023. The manga won Simplest Total Manga at Kodansha‘s Forty eighth annual Manga Awards in Could well 2024.

Sources: Medalist anime’s internet region, Silly Natalie

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