Black Clover Season 2: October 2026 Release Date, Trailer, and Cast

Five years. That’s how long Black Clover fans have been sitting on episode 170’s cliffhanger, watching a movie come and go while the anime stayed dead. In July 2026, TV Tokyo posted the main PV for Black Clover 2nd Season, 91 seconds, a WANIMA opening playing over it, and an October broadcast window stamped right in the title.

Here’s what the trailer confirmed, which arc is finally getting animated, and the one detail that explains why this return was worth waiting for.

Key Takeaways

• Black Clover 2nd Season begins broadcasting in October 2026 on TV Tokyo and affiliates, with Crunchyroll streaming. No exact date yet.
• Studio Pierrot returns, with Ayataka Tanemura directing, the same person who handled the original anime’s final stretch and the 2023 film.
• The season adapts the Spade Kingdom Raid arc, resuming exactly where episode 170 stopped in March 2021.
• WANIMA performs the opening theme, “Kienai Riyuu,” previewed in the main PV.
• The manga finished first. Chapter 392 ended the series on May 1, 2026, so the anime now has a complete story to adapt, roughly 122 unadapted chapters.

What Does the Black Clover Season 2 Trailer Show?#

The video making the rounds is the official main PV, posted to TV Tokyo’s anime channel on July 5, 2026 (Japan time). It runs 91 seconds and had passed 504,000 views by August 7, 2026. That’s a strong number for a 90-second Japanese-language promo with no English subtitles attached.

Note the word “main.” This isn’t the first footage, a teaser PV went up in December 2025 when the season was announced at Jump Festa. The July video is the full promo, and it does the heavy lifting: it names the broadcast month, plays the opening theme, and shows the fights that season one never got to.

Coverage of the reveal points to Asta and Liebe training, Nacht’s Devil Union, and the Magic Knights massing for a counterattack on the Spade Kingdom. If you’ve read the manga, you know exactly which sequences those are, and you know how much of the season’s budget is about to go into them.

The timing wasn’t accidental either. The PV landed during Anime Expo 2026, where episode 1 got a world premiere screening and Asta’s voice actor Gakuto Kajiwara appeared on stage. Studios don’t screen a first episode at a convention three months early unless they’re happy with it.

We break down more fall premieres over on the upcoming 2026 anime hub.

When Does Black Clover Season 2 Come Out?#

October 2026, on TV Tokyo and affiliated stations. That’s what the official site and the PV title both say, and it’s the entire confirmed answer. As of August 7, 2026, there’s no announced day, no time slot, and no episode count.

You’ll see October 1 quoted in a lot of places. The Animanga Planet entry for Black Clover Season 2 lists exactly that, and it’s a genuinely handy tracker page, studio, genre tags, status, and links out to the official Japanese site and Crunchyroll in one place. But that date is a database convention: when a production announces a month and nothing more, trackers fill the first of the month so the entry sorts correctly. Read it as “October, day unconfirmed.”

Our read: expect the hard date and the time slot in early-to-mid September. TV Tokyo locks its autumn schedule around then, and the pattern for a series this size is a date announcement bundled with the ending theme reveal. The ED still hasn’t been named, which is usually the last piece to drop.

Crunchyroll has confirmed it will stream the season internationally, so a same-day simulcast is the safe expectation rather than a delayed release.

What Arc Does Black Clover Season 2 Adapt?#

The Spade Kingdom Raid arc. The original anime stopped at episode 170 on March 30, 2021, roughly at chapter 270 of the manga, right as the Magic Knights were preparing to invade the Spade Kingdom to rescue Yami Sukehiro and William Vangeance from the Dark Triad.

You don’t have to take that on faith. The official cast list published with the PV names Dante, Zenon, and Vanica Zogratis, all three Dark Triad members, alongside Nacht Faust and Liebe. Those five characters exist almost entirely to drive this arc. A cast sheet is a spoiler-free arc confirmation if you know what to look for.

Why the Spade Kingdom Raid Suits a Comeback Season#

It’s a good arc to come back on, too. The Spade Kingdom Raid is where Black Clover stops being a tournament-and-training story and turns into a war, the Magic Knights split into strike teams, captains fight separate battles across a hostile country, and several long-running characters finally get the spotlight the earlier arcs kept deferring. It’s structurally built for an anime: multiple simultaneous fights, natural episode breaks, and a clear objective driving all of it.

It’s also the arc that leans hardest on the devil lore the series had been quietly seeding since season one, which is why Nacht and Liebe showing up in the cast list tells you so much about the season’s shape.

How Much Black Clover Manga Is Left to Adapt?#

Here’s the part that matters for how much runway the season has.

Roughly 122 chapters of story sat unadapted when the anime went quiet. That’s a lot, comfortably more than one cour, and enough that a single 12-episode season won’t finish it. Nobody has announced how many episodes this season runs, so treat any “Season 2 will cover X” breakdown you see right now as a guess.

Why Did Black Clover Stop, and Why Is It Back Now?#

The original anime ended in 2021 for an unglamorous reason: it had nearly caught up to the manga. Weekly production burns source material faster than a weekly manga can produce it, and Black Clover was running out of runway.

That problem no longer exists, and this is the real story behind the October return.

The Black Clover Manga Finished First#

Yuki Tabata’s manga finished. Chapter 392 closed an 11-year run on May 1, 2026, capping a serialization that started in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2015 before moving to the quarterly Jump GIGA for its climax. The final volume 38 arrived on August 4, 2026, collecting chapters 381 through 392 in a 250-plus-page edition.

Shueisha put out a guidebook the same day, Black Clover: Perfect Grimoire, which includes a brand-new 15-page chapter by Tabata covering Asta’s coronation as Wizard King, a scene the serialization skipped past.

What a Completed Story Changes for the Anime#

The adaptation is no longer chasing a moving target. Pierrot can plan against a finished story with a known ending, which means no filler arcs invented to buy time, no anime-original detours, and no second five-year hiatus while the manga catches its breath. Nearly every complaint about the 2017–2021 run’s pacing traces back to a problem that no longer exists.

Who Is Making Black Clover Season 2?#

Studio Pierrot is animating again, and the continuity at the top is the most reassuring thing about this production. From the credits published with the main PV:

• Original creator: Yuki Tabata (Shueisha, Jump Comics)
• Director: Ayataka Tanemura
• Series composition: Keiichiro Ochi
• Character design: Itsuko Takeda
• Sub-character design: Kumiko Tokunaga
• Music: Minako Seki
• Animation production: Studio Pierrot

Tanemura is the name to watch. He directed episodes 153 through 170 of the original, the stretch most fans consider its visual peak, and then directed the 2023 film Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King. He isn’t a new hire learning the property; he’s the person who was already steering it when it stopped.

Itsuko Takeda returning on character design and Minako Seki returning on music means the season should look and sound like the show people remember, rather than a soft reboot with a different house style. For a series resuming mid-arc after five years, that continuity matters more than it would for a fresh adaptation.

Who’s in the Black Clover Season 2 Cast?#

The original Japanese cast is back, and the roster published with the PV runs past 30 names. The core:

• Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno
• Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro
• Kana Yuuki as Noelle Silva
• Hiro Shimono as Nacht Faust
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Liebe
• Rikiya Koyama as Dante Zogratis
• Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Zenon Zogratis
• Yui Ogura as Vanica Zogratis

Beyond those, the full sheet brings back essentially every Magic Knight captain and Black Bull, Nozel Silva, Fuegoleon and Mereoleona Vermillion, Charlotte Roselei, William Vangeance, Julius Novachrono, Luck, Magna, Vanessa, Charmy, Gauche, Gordon, Grey, Henry, and Zora among them. Nobody has been recast.

No English dub cast has been announced. Crunchyroll typically confirms dubs closer to premiere, and sometimes a few weeks into a simulcast.

Who Sings the Black Clover Season 2 Opening?#

Rock band WANIMA performs the opening theme, titled “Kienai Riyuu.” A preview of it plays over the main PV, which is a large part of why that video travelled as far as it did, the song reveal and the trailer were the same event.

WANIMA aren’t strangers to shonen. They performed “GONG” for the 2019 film One Piece: Stampede. Black Clover has always leaned on a loud, punchy OP rotation, so the pick fits the show’s history rather than steering away from it.

The ending theme hasn’t been announced. Minako Seki is back on the score itself, which is the continuity that matters most for how the Spade Kingdom fights will actually land.

Do You Need to Rewatch Before October?#

Not all 170 episodes. That’s about 60 hours, and most of it isn’t load-bearing for where the story picks up.

The efficient refresher is the last stretch of the original run, roughly episodes 160 to 170. That covers the Spade Kingdom’s invasion, the capture of Yami and William, and the setup the new season opens on. If you want a little more context on the Dark Triad’s magic, back up to around episode 155.

Reading instead? Start at chapter 270 and you’ll be exactly where the anime left you. The whole manga is now complete through volume 38, so there’s no waiting involved if you’d rather just finish the story.

A note for anyone tempted to speed-read to the end first: the season adapts a long, dense arc, and knowing its outcome removes most of what makes it work. Episodes 160–170 is the better preparation.

If you’re building out a fall watchlist, we also covered the Overgeared anime’s October 2026 premiere, and anime like Solo Leveling if you want more shonen-adjacent power progression while you wait.

What Still Hasn’t Been Announced?#

Knowing the gaps helps you spot real news when it breaks. As of August 7, 2026, none of the following is confirmed:

• An exact premiere date or time slot. October 2026 on TV Tokyo is all that’s official.
• Episode count. No cour length stated. Given ~122 chapters of material, a single cour can’t finish the story.
• The ending theme. Only WANIMA’s OP has been named.
• English dub cast and schedule.
• How far this season goes. No end point for the arc has been announced.
• Whether the film is required viewing. Sword of the Wizard King was a standalone story; nothing indicates it’s setup for this season.

The Bottom Line#

Black Clover’s return isn’t a cash-in on nostalgia, it’s the adaptation finally getting the one thing it never had, which is a finished story to work from. The manga wrapped in May, the final volume landed on August 4, and the anime comes back in October with Tanemura directing, Pierrot animating, the original cast intact, and about 122 chapters of the Spade Kingdom conflict waiting.

The main PV did what a main PV should: named the month, played the song, and showed the fights. What’s left is the exact date, the episode count, and the ED, and if TV Tokyo runs its usual autumn schedule, that should land in early-to-mid September.

We’ll update this post the moment a hard date drops. Until then, the anime news feed is where the fall 2026 lineup is firming up week by week.

Frequently Asked Questions#

When does Black Clover Season 2 come out?#

October 2026, on TV Tokyo and affiliated stations, with Crunchyroll streaming internationally. As of August 7, 2026, no exact premiere date has been announced. Listings showing October 1 are database placeholders for an unspecified October date, not confirmations.

What arc does Black Clover Season 2 adapt?#

The Spade Kingdom Raid arc. It resumes where episode 170 stopped in March 2021, around chapter 270. The official cast list confirms it by including all three Dark Triad siblings alongside Nacht Faust and Liebe, the characters who carry that arc.

Who sings the Black Clover Season 2 opening?#

WANIMA performs the opening, “Kienai Riyuu,” previewed in the July 2026 main PV. The band also performed “GONG” for the 2019 film One Piece: Stampede. No ending theme has been announced. Minako Seki returns as the series composer.

Is Studio Pierrot still animating Black Clover?#

Yes. Ayataka Tanemura directs, having previously handled episodes 153 to 170 and the 2023 film Sword of the Wizard King. Keiichiro Ochi is on series composition, Itsuko Takeda returns on character design, and Minako Seki returns on music.

Has the Black Clover manga finished?#

Yes. Chapter 392 ended the series on May 1, 2026 in Jump GIGA, closing an 11-year run that began in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2015. Final volume 38 and the Perfect Grimoire guidebook released August 4, 2026, the latter with a new 15-page chapter by Tabata.

Do I need to rewatch Black Clover before Season 2?#

No. Episodes 160 to 170 are enough, they cover the Spade Kingdom invasion and the captures of Yami and William Vangeance, which is exactly where the new season resumes. Manga readers can simply start from chapter 270.