No game no life ss2
All in all, it would still behoove the anime production committee to greenlight the production of No Game No Life Season 2. While it’s rare for anime to come back after such a long wait it’s not unheard of. Just ask Log Horizon.
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The last time the topic of NGNL Season 2 came up was in February 2019 when anime producer Junichiro Tamura was directly asked about No Game No Life Season 2 in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything).
Tamura is not involved in the NGNL anime at all since he’s a business producer for book publisher Kadokawa and the NGNL books are published by Media Factory, but one Reddit user asked, “How come certain shows don’t get a second season despite being very popular such as No Game No Life?”
“It is difficult to say as there are many different reasons why this may be the case, but I cannot comment on No Game No Life as I am not involved,” Tamura correctly responded.
However, Tamura did provide insight into the overall anime production process. Tamura claims the “most difficult part is securing the schedule of talented staff” and the “biggest time bottlenecks in the creation of an animated series” is forming the anime committee.
So if the finances behind the NGNL anime are solid, the biggest hurdle might be production scheduling. Anime studios are often booked out for projects years in advance. The delay for NGNL Season 2 may be largely due to availability and that’s assuming the second season is not farmed out to an animation studio other than Madhouse. (As in, the NGNL anime is given the One Punch Man treatment.)
Just how busy are the main staff at studio Madhouse? Director Atsuko Ishizuka helmed the first season in 2014, the NGNL movie back in 2017, and in 2018 she directed A Place Further Than The Universe. In 2019/2020 she worked on the storyboards for the Chihayafuru anime. As of the last update to this story in June 2021, it’s currently unknown what her next project will be.
From 2019 through 2021, Studio Madhouse itself was producing Ace Of Diamond Act 2 (Ace Of Diamond Season 3), Afterlost, No Guns Life 1 and 2 (see our article on No Guns Life Season 3), Chihayafuru 3, Kyuuketsuki Sug Shinu, and the Sonny Boy original story.
Perhaps fans will get lucky and the creative minds behind the NGNL anime will eventually provide a hint about when NGNL Season 2 is coming down the pipeline. Except for the aforementioned anime projects, let’s just say Madhouse’s release schedule for late 2022 is publicly a blank slate at this time.
No Game No Life Volume 11 release date on the horizon
The story for the anime is based on the No Game No Life light novel series by author Yuu Kamiya, who is also known for co-writing Clockwork Planet. Published by Media Factory, the books are up to Volume 10 as of January 2018.
The latest NGNL novel focused on dwarves. A Gaiden/side story volume called Practical War Game was released in late 2016 and featured six side stories.
The afterword of Volume 10 teases that Volume 11 will be about Sprites, or fairies. Since there was a long wait for the previous book fans have been patiently awaiting any news on a new No Game No Life book.
The No Game No Life Volume 11 release date has not yet been announced. However, the author has been steadily plugging away at the new book.
On June 14, 2021, the author indicated in a tweet that he had finished writing the first draft of NGNL Volume 11 that ended on page 290.
“I’ve finally made it to this point. …… I’ve got a lot of work to do from here, including writing the final draft, adjusting the number of pages, and writing the illustrations, so the goal is still a long way off,” Kamiya tweeted. “So I’m going to shut down Twitter for a while longer and do my best.”
The last sentence was disappointing to some fans who enjoyed reading his tweets about random things and family events.
The official English translation of the No Game No Life novel series is licensed for North American release by Yen Press. There were fan translation projects, but most ended with Volume 6.
The English version came out slowly over the years. The English No Game No Life Volume 10 finally caught up on February 18, 2020.
No Game No Life books compared to the anime
Reviews of the first season lauded the characters, story, and pacing of the anime adaptation. The very first light novel volume was covered by the events of the first four episodes, while the second volume was finished with Episode 8. The third volume was adapted with similar pacing, although Episode 12, Rule Number 10, finished off by jumping ahead to an event that occurred in a later book.
When we last saw Shiro and Sora, they had just won the “world’s most brutal coin toss” against the Warbeasts and formed the Elkia Federation. Team Blank intends on challenging the god Tet by collecting all of the chess-shaped race game pieces. These events were based on the story from Volume 3.
The shrine priestess Miko ups the ante by summoning an Old Deus, one of the first-ranked old gods called the Exceed. This Old Deus resides within the priestess, having lost its status when Tet became the One True God at the end of the Great War.
While this scene was a great way to tease No Game No Life Season 2 with a cliffhanger ending, the issue is that it comes from the very end of Volume 6. Besides skipping way ahead in the plot, the scene also included more characters than were present in the light novels. Presumably, the second season would retcon that ending entirely, pretend it never happened, but then redo it again with the full reveal of the identity of the Old Deus from Volume 7 (see the spoilers section below for more details).
No Game No Life Season 2 Spoilers
The second season will kick off with a more-lighted story where Sora and Shiro make plans in the Werebeasts’ Eastern Union for the inevitable beach vacation episode that features skimpy swimsuits aplenty. Following the alliance between humans and Werebeasts, Izuna Hatsuse is now a constant companion to Team Blank and they spend the night at her house.
While on vacation, they are visited by Plum, the last remaining male Dhampir on Disboard. The Dhampir are like a combination between succubi and vampires. They’re weak against sunlight and they live by consuming soul essence from bodily fluids from other races. In order for a Dhampir to reach adulthood, a young Dhampir must bite a willing subject and consume blood.
Unfortunately for Dhampir, mere survival is difficult because the Ten Pledges require them to win games in order to gain soul essence and blood.
Centuries ago, the Dhampir found a solution to this crisis by forming a mutually beneficial pact with the mermaid-like Sirens, who must reproduce by mating with other races in order to extract soul essence (they don’t use DNA so half-breed Sirens don’t exist). In exchange for giving blood to the Dhampir females, the Siren Empress, Laira Lorelei, had been reproducing with Dhampir males.
But 800 years ago Laira grew bored with life and encased herself in solid ice and put herself to sleep using the Ten Pledges. The mating pact continued, but other Sirens have trouble controlling their desires and thus many Dhampir males were dying during mating. The situation was so bad that Plum became the last remaining male.
The entire Dhampir species is facing extinction and even Plum is starving when he meets Team Blank, only surviving by licking the sweat off of Shiro’s foot. Plum has disguised himself as a female Dhampir and looks like a goth girl. He requests the help of Team Blank and so they set out to the Siren’s country, Oceando.
Team Blank may be ultimate gamers but the Sirens expose their ultimate weakness: they are terrible at dating sim games. In order to awaken the Siren Empress, they must enter Laira’s dream state and get her to fall in love with them in a realistic romance game. As a Dhampir, Plum is very powerful and can use a variety of magic. He’s able to shapeshift and create love potions, so they use deception in an attempt to fool Laira into falling in love, but even those tactics fail to awaken the slumbering Siren.
It turns out even the Sirens don’t know the exact conditions for winning the romance game in their Empress’ mind. So, the team splits up to investigate, with some traveling to Avent Hiem, home of Jibril the Flugel, and others go back to the previous human king’s hidden library.
Finally catching up with the ending of the first season, the Old Deus that the Werebeast priest Miko had summoned is named Horou. Blank challenges the Werebeast god to a game in which Miko uses her own life as a bargaining chip. If they lose the game, they will be forced into the Horou’s servitude. If they win, the Old Deus will grant them their wish.
Horou creates a life-sized board game where participants use dice to complete a series of tasks while traveling thousands of kilometers. The journey is certainly longer than any Monopoly game, but their time limit for winning is only a month. The gamers lose a whole day’s worth of memories, but they’re also told that a traitor who retained full memories exists has been planted amongst them by Horou.
The stakes are very high this time around. Horou is testing everyone by creating challenges where the winning conditions require that a friend be killed. One friend loses memories and then abruptly challenges Team Blank to a game within the game. It’s a full-on simulated recreation of the Great War where the loser commits suicide. Sora and Shiro must win this war simulation by leading humanity to victory. There will also be plenty of revelations since this part of the story touches on reincarnation in Disboard, the Star Grail, and how Tet’s existence came to be.
No Game No Life Season 2 might find an ending with Volume 7 in order to keep the same pacing, but ending with Volume 8 might be better since it completes the story arc related to Horou’s game. The book also finishes off with a cliffhanger that would be a perfect setup for No Game No Life Season 3.
Let’s just hope fans don’t have to wait too long to watch No Game No Life Season 2 on their TV screens. Stay tuned!
