Premieres October 2026 · Fall season
The Detective Is Already Dead Season 2 ends a five-year silence
Season 1 aired in summer 2021 and then the trail went cold for five years. October ends the wait, and the prep list is twelve episodes. You can be current by Sunday night.
October 2026
Exact date not announced yet. The road below is ready when you are.
12 episodes ahead of you · … gets you there before the window opens.
One season stands between you and the premiere. That is the whole list.
Jul – Sep 2021 · 12 episodes ≈ 5 h
Season 1 · The partnership
Kimihiko Kimizuka has a talent for walking into other people's disasters. At 30,000 feet a girl calling herself the master detective hires him on the spot, and the three years that follow happen mostly off screen. The present-day thread starts when a new client turns up asking about a heart that is not hers.
Ep 1★ 7.6
The double-length opener
A hijacking, a job offer nobody asked for, and the partnership the series runs on.
Ep 9★ 6.6
The thing behind the cases
What the detective was actually up against finally gets a name.
May 2021 · 5 shorts · optional
Mini Anime shorts
Five promotional shorts, one per light novel volume. Marketing rather than story: nothing in either season depends on them. Watch only if you want the extra jokes.
October 2026 · the premiere
Season 2 · The return
The Season 1 team is back: Manabu Kurihara directing at ENGI, Deko Akao on series composition, Yosuke Ito on character designs. Promotional material has introduced Scarlet and Mia, along with younger versions of Alicia, Siesta and Nagisa.
What everyone's talking about
The premiere conversation, condensed. Paraphrased from public chatter.
“After five years, three more months is nothing. Just let it be good.”
“I had written this one off completely. It actually got made?”
“Seeing these characters animated again was the whole event.”
Don't miss episode 1
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