Thunder 3 confirms a second season for 2027
The late-night anime adaptation of the viral Thunder 3 manga will return in 2027, with Fuji TV's official channel publishing a teaser to confirm the second season.
Fuji TV has confirmed a second season of Thunder 3, with the anime returning in 2027 and a teaser video already published on the broadcaster's official anime channel.
The 2027 confirmation arrived in a short teaser posted on 30 September, days after the first season finished its run. The clip carries the series' logo and the line "SEASON 2 2027年放送決定" — season two, broadcasting confirmed for 2027 — and offers a first glimpse of where the story goes next.
What we know about Thunder 3 season 2
Thunder 3 is an adaptation of the manga that went viral on social media, built around three brothers and a multiverse premise that the first season leaned into hard. Season one began airing on 8 July 2026 in Fuji TV's +Ultra late-night slot and streams on Netflix.
The teaser confirms the 2027 return without a date, episode count or cast list. Studio and production credits for the second season have not been announced either, so the safe read is that the show has been greenlit and is in production rather than finished.
Why the renewal was expected
Thunder 3 arrived with unusually loud word of mouth for a late-night series, and the promotional apparatus around it has kept ticking: key visuals, cast additions and a steady run of campaign posts through the season. Broadcasters rarely commission a second run for a show that has not found an audience, so the confirmation was a question of when rather than whether.
Our opinion
A quick renewal is the easy part; the harder trick is what Thunder 3 does with it. The first season traded on the shock of its own premise, and a follow-up has to convert that novelty into a story that can carry a second year without leaning on the same reveal. The teaser is deliberately coy about that, which is probably wise.
What is genuinely promising is the format. Late-night +Ultra slots have become a reliable home for shows that would be too strange for a mainstream berth, and Thunder 3 fits that remit better than most. If the second season keeps the multiverse logic intact and stops treating it as a punchline, there is room here for something that outlasts its own gimmick.