Studio KAI Picks the Story Back Up Mid-Sentence
The Ramparts of Ice doesn't reset for its second season. Season 1 ran 14 episodes from April to July 2026, and the new season keeps counting from there, opening at episode 15 instead of starting over at one.
The production carries over just as cleanly. Mankyū returns to direct, with Yasuhiro Nakanishi on series composition, Miki Ogino on character design, Ioriko Itō on sub-character design and Kōhei Yoshida as sound director. Animation production stays at Studio KAI (Super Cub, The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup). Kanade Sakuma and Natsumi Tabuchi are back on the score.
The theme songs are new. THE BEAT GARDEN performs the second season's opening theme, "Escort" (エスコート), and Superfly handles the ending theme, "Hanakage" (花蔭). Both can be heard in the season 2 promotional video.
Inside Episode 15, "Clouds and Rain"
The episode is titled 「曇雨天」, listed in English as "Clouds and Rain." According to the report from Japanese anime news site Anime Anime that published the synopsis and preview stills, Miki agonizes over her answer and then turns Yota down.
Minato, worried about Miki, goes to talk to her. The more he listens, the more uneasy he becomes about his own feelings for Koyuki. Koyuki, meanwhile, has already heard how the confession went from Yota's side. She tries to talk to Miki about it, and Minato and Yota happen to be right there when she does.
That's where the synopsis stops. The four-way conversation plays out in the episode itself.
Four Students and a Set of Misaligned Arrows
The setup is small and specific. Koyuki Hikawa is a high school student who struggles with people and builds walls between herself and everyone else. She spends her days quietly, with no company except her childhood friend Miki Azumi. The story starts moving when Minato Amamiya, a boy with no concept of personal distance, pushes his way in.
Over the first season, Koyuki and Minato grew close enough to feel something past friendship, and Yota Hino finally said out loud what he had been carrying for years. Anime Anime describes the result as an ensemble youth drama in which everybody's arrows increasingly miss their targets: the aloof Koyuki, former school idol Miki, no-personal-space Minato, and Yota, the quiet, gentle member of the basketball club.
Anna Nagase voices Koyuki, with Fūka Izumi as Miki, Shōya Chiba as Minato and Satoshi Inomata as Yota. The supporting cast has Sakura Shinfuku as Tsukiko Shimojima, Chiaki Kobayashi as Tsubasa Igarashi, Akari Kitō (Nezuko Kamado in Demon Slayer) as Momoka Kuriki, Kakeru Hatano as Yūki Azumi and Natsumi Kawaida as Akine Atagawa.
The source is a manga by Kōcha Agasawa that ran on the LINE Manga app and has passed 190 million cumulative views there. Counting digital editions, the collected volumes have over 3.4 million copies in circulation. Shueisha publishes the 14 volumes under its Jump Comics imprint.
Looking Ahead
Episode 15 went out at 12:26 a.m. on October 1 across TBS and 27 affiliate stations, and the series now settles into its regular Thursday 11:56 p.m. slot on the same network. Japanese anime satellite channel AT-X picks it up on October 4, Sundays at 10:30 p.m.
Netflix got season 2 first among streaming services in Japan, starting October 2, with Prime Video, Disney+, U-NEXT and others following on October 9. Netflix also carries the show internationally, and streamed an English dub trailer for the new season on October 1, so the dub is rolling out alongside the subtitled episodes. All of season 1 is on Netflix.
Readers who want to get ahead of the anime have one legal English option: the manga is available digitally through MangaPlaza in North America. There is no English print edition.