The Good Reason There Will Be No ‘Arcane’ Season 3

If you’re wondering if there will be an Arcane Season 3 after this (currently) stellar season ends, the answer is no. It’s not canceled, Netflix isn’t that crazy, but it was always meant to end after two seasons.

It turns out there is a good reason for this. Not only because they designed the series with a specific story arc for these characters that doesn’t need to be dragged out endlessly (it is a good enough reason if you ask me), but because Riot has even bigger, broader plans for League of Legends content.

In an interview with ColliderArcane co-creator Christian Linke had this to say about future plans, where not just one, but many projects are in development:

“Yeah, we’re currently developing a lot of follow-up projects. Really, Arcane was always considered the first step, kind of like the trial by fire. You have to figure out, “Can we do this? Do we have the chops? Do we have the grades? Do we have the storytelling?” So now we’re working on follow-up projects, and it’s really fun to start looking at some of the other characters and regions of our world.”

The idea is to expand to the much, much wider world of the game, as there are currently 169 champions in its roster. They just added Arcane’s Ambessa. And in Arcane itself, we’ve seen that there are really only a dozen or so champions featured in starring, guest, or cameo roles, leaving over 90% of the cast available for other follow-up series in their own corners of the League- the universe.

It’s an interesting interview overall, as it addresses why these shows take so long to animate (given the quality, you might understand) and how getting Netflix to agree was “not easy to come by” to release the seasons in three-episode chunks for three consecutive weekends, something literally none of its hundreds of other shows ever do. But when you’re arguably the best-reviewed show in the history of the service, you get some special considerations (even if they were able to negotiate it themselves before premiere last time, which coincided with League of Legends esports).

I don’t think the bad news here is that Arcane is ending after season 2, but rather that it may take a very long time to see another show in this universe appear. Granted, I’d say Arcane Season 2 has been worth the wait, but I’m not looking forward to 2030 before another two-season League series can tell a full story.

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