The Ramparts of Ice Season 2 gets an English dub trailer
Koyuki and Minato are back. The Ramparts of Ice has opened its second season on TBS, and Netflix is streaming an English-dubbed look at the show set to THE BEAT GARDEN's opening theme, “Escort”.
Koyuki Hikawa's wall has another cour to survive. The second season of The Ramparts of Ice premiered on 1 October 2026, and Netflix has begun streaming an English-dubbed version of the season's trailer, cutting the show's ice-cold heroine against THE BEAT GARDEN's opening theme, “Escort”.
A second season that keeps the same team
Studio KAI returns to animate the season, with Mankyū directing. Yasuhiro Nakanishi handles series scripts, Miki Ogino designs the characters, and Kanade Sakuma and Natsumi Tabuchi compose the score — the same creative spine that carried the first season.
The new season airs on Thursdays at 11:56 p.m. on TBS and 27 affiliated channels in Japan, and it streams on Netflix as well as on other Japanese services. The first season followed the same pattern, launching on TBS on 2 April 2026 before arriving globally on Netflix the same day.
From webtoon to television
The Ramparts of Ice adapts Kōcha Agasawa's manga, published in English as Ice Castle Wall. Agasawa serialised the story as a webtoon on the LINE Manga app from January 2020 to April 2022, and Shueisha published the fourteenth and final collected volume in February 2025.
The manga follows Koyuki, an aloof high schooler who keeps people at arm's length, and Minato Amemiya, the classmate who refuses to take the hint. Around them sit two more students with their own complications, and the series builds its tension out of the small distances between them rather than any grand confrontation.
The title has drawn steady critical attention in Japan. It placed second in the vertical-scroll comic section of the 2024 Rakuten Kobo E-book Awards and ranked fifteenth for male readers in the 2024 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.
Our opinion
Few recent anime are as patient as this one, and that patience is exactly why the second season is worth watching. The Ramparts of Ice trusts silence and small gestures where most high-school romances reach for confession scenes, and the muted pink palette of the new trailer — a blushing close-up of Koyuki, sparks and all — promises more of the same restraint. The smart commercial move here is Netflix's: shipping the trailer in a dubbed form on day one signals that the platform sees the show as a keeper rather than a seasonal also-ran, and that is the kind of backing a quiet, character-led series rarely gets. The risk is pacing; a story built on glacial emotional progress can drift when it is given a second cour it did not strictly need. If the scripts keep finding new ways to make the same distance feel loaded, that will not matter.