Why should season 2 never have existed? The directors tell

While Netflix has just revealed the first episodes of the second and final season ofArcanethe directors revealed that the series adapted from League of Legends Shouldn't have even had a season 2.

It's a long wait that ended this Saturday, November 9 for Netflix subscribers. After three years of waiting, they can finally discover the first three episodes of season 2 ofArcane. In 2021, the animated series had experienced resounding success, ranking number 1 in 85 countries around the world and being crowned with no less than four Emmy Awards. From the world of video games League of Legendsfiction is therefore highly anticipated for this second chapter which will also be the last as Netflix has already announced. And if fans were disappointed when they heard this news, they should know that originally, Arcane Shouldn't even have had a second season.

Arcane : why the Netflix series adapted from League of Legends Should have only had one season?

Last October, the teams in the series Arcane were present in Paris for an exceptional conference dedicated to season 2 and given at the Forum des Images. The teams from Riot Games, publisher of the game, were gathered there. League of Legends and producer of the series, as well as those of Fortiche, the French animation studio which produced the series. And Pascal Charrue, co-founder of Fortiche and co-director ofArcanetook the opportunity to explain that this season 2 should never have seen the light of day: “Originally, it should have only been one season, the project was designed like that. We expected it to be a success but not to this extent. What was supposed to be one season became two seasons. This is a decision that really followed an exchange between us and the Riot Games teams” he first explained.

Arcane : why will season 2 of the Netflix series be the last?

As for justifying why the adventure will end there for the series ArcanePascal Charrue's response is clear: “I know we are being asked for a season 3 but two seasons was already eight years of work, eight years of writing, eight years of producing the series. Which resulted in twelve hours of content. That's the equivalent of seven animated films, so that's already a lot. When we made the first pilot, the quality was so high that, to keep up, we had to send the sequel back to be written. We only increased the ambitions of the series.” For her part, Kiahna Manker, creative producer at Riot Games, confirmed that the end ofArcane was only the beginning of the declination of the universe League of Legends and that many projects were in preparation.