Popverse's top stories

• DC has unveiled a major new Wonder Woman villain over two years in the making, co-created by one of James Gunn's top writers
• Simon Kinberg on writing X-Men movies, producing Glenn Powell's The Running Man remake, and co-creating Star Wars Rebels [Popversations]
• Livestream Monster Hunter Wilds, Borderlands 4, Magic: The Gathering x Spider-Man, and more PAX West 2025 panels live

We haven’t made it any secret that one of our favorite anime of this year has been Dan Da Dan. The story takes all the best things about the manga and somehow makes them better. In fact, the only problem we’ve had with season one is that it would eventually come to an end. However, it didn’t take Netflix and Crunchyroll long to confirm that Dan Da Dan season two is on its way.

The second season of Dan Da Dan was confirmed to be in production after the season one finale aired, and it was a good thing, too. After finding out it was introducing a pair of new villains in the final episode, we knew we needed more Dan Da Dan in our lives. The weird and wild world that was introduced in season one was just the start.

Now comes the waiting. While Dan Da Dan season two has been confirmed, it won't arrive until July 2025, leaving us six months to try and wait for the conclusion of the first season cliffhanger. Thankfully, that's less of a wait than we might have been anticipating, but six months is still far longer than we'd prefer to wait in a perfect world of immediate gratification...!

Dan Da Dan remains one of the big anime hits of 2024, so it isn’t surprising that a second season is in the works. It combines action, adventure, and romance as well as any other Shonen series we’ve seen, which makes it a series well worth waiting for.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

• Aggretsuko vs Chainsaw Man: Two Wildly different anine with the same anti-capitalist message
• The Summer Anime season return of Kaiju No. 8, Sakamoto Days, & Dan Da Dan are forcing me to break my vow of watching less anime
• From Tomo-Chan to Oshi No Ko: How some of your favorite manga creators got their start in hentai
• Piracy is baked into anime's past, but, like Crunchyroll, we should move on from it
• Flying whales, mechs, and Miyazaki vibes: Inside Netflix's Leviathan anime with the people who made it
• How AI translations of manga continues the 'enshitification' of the medium, and why Japanese publishers are "less precious" about it
• I never wanted a Cyberpunk Edgerunners sequel, but God help me I'm going to watch it
• The Summer Hikaru Died delivers its cosmic horror at an agonizingly slow pace
• The one thing that Dan Da Dan does better than Demon Slayer ever did
• Studio Ghibli movies have never been as cozy as you think they are and that's what makes them magic