Dandelion Season 2 Anime: What Fans Are Hoping For

There's a good chance you've already fallen down the Dandelion rabbit hole, and if you have, you already know why everyone's asking the same question right now. Will there be a Dandelion Season 2? The show wrapped its first run on Netflix with just seven episodes, and somehow that was enough to leave an entire fanbase wanting way more. Here's what's actually known, what's just hopeful guessing, and what people watching the show are saying about it.

Catching You Up on Season One

Quick refresher in case it's been a minute since you watched. Dandelion follows Misaki and Tetsuo, two angels stuck in the lowest ranked squad of the Japan Angel Federation because Misaki refuses to do her job the easy way. Instead of sending spirits off the standard route, she actually sits down and listens to them first, which honestly sounds like it should be normal but apparently isn't in this world.

Things get shaken up when Masaki Kyoga, son of federation leader Daigoro Kyoga, gets assigned to whip the squad into shape. Eventually the group figures out Daigoro himself has been taken over by vengeful spirits, and after a chaotic final battle, Misaki's whole "listen first" method gets fully reinstated and officially validated. Even Hideaki Sorachi himself had something to say when the show was announced, and it was very on-brand for him. In a letter released alongside the announcement, Sorachi wrote,

"I try not to reread my debut work because it's rather embarrassing, yet here they are, digging it up to adapt it into an anime and expanding upon it in all sorts of ways. It seems Netflix has no concept of the word delicacy." - Hideaki Sorachi, Author

It's a pretty tidy ending, but tidy doesn't mean closed, and that's exactly why people are still talking about it months later.

So When Might We Actually See More

Nothing's confirmed. Netflix hasn't said a word officially, so anyone telling you a release date is guessing, same as everyone else. That said, if the show does get picked up soon, 2027 feels like a fair estimate going off how long these Netflix anime productions usually take once they're greenlit. Director Daisuke Mataga made it clear just how seriously the team took that responsibility, saying,

"Dandelion is truly compelling both as a comedy and as a drama. I am very happy to have had the opportunity to take on the challenge of adapting it into an anime. At the same time, I felt anxiety and fear about whether fans would be pleased, and I worked under considerable pressure." - Daisuke Mataga, Director

Here's the interesting part though. The source manga is literally a one shot, just 30 pages, and all of it got used up in episode one. Everything after that was written fresh. That's actually good news for a sequel, because the writers clearly already know how to build in this world without needing the manga to hand them material.

Where The Story Could Go from Here

There's no shortage of loose threads sitting around waiting to be picked back up. Based on how things were left, here's what a second season could dig into:

1. The vengeful spirit problem, which never actually got solved, just contained for now
2. That scientist with the soul separating machine who's still out there somewhere, unbothered
3. Masaki's brothers Yuichi and Shinji, who barely got any real screen time
4. Misaki possibly getting an actual open relationship with her mom now that the federation isn't as strict
5. The other squads and clans in the Send Off Department, since a lot of viewers wanted way more of them

Go check the Season 1 trailer below if you need a refresher on the tone before Season 2 rumors get you hyped up for something completely different.

What People Are Actually Saying About It

Reactions have been genuinely split, which makes this a lot more fun to talk about than a show everyone just agrees on. A lot of viewers connected hard with the emotional shift around episodes 5 and 6, where the show suddenly stopped being purely silly and started dealing with burnout, generational trauma, and what happens when compassion gets treated as inefficient. That tonal jump caught people off guard in a good way.

Where the show lost some people was the ending. Pinning Daigoro's entire personality shift on demonic possession felt like a shortcut to a lot of viewers, especially since it kind of let him off the hook instead of making him actually reckon with who he'd become. There's also a fairly common complaint that 7 episodes just wasn't enough room to breathe, and that a full-length season would let side characters, like the intimidating leader from the Sumiregumi clan, actually get developed instead of just showing up for a scene or two.

Where Fans Stand on Season 2

Even with those complaints, most people land in the same place. They'd take a second season in a heartbeat, ideally longer, ideally slower paced, with more of that case of the week charm mixed in with the occasional gut punch episode. A smaller group is fine leaving things where they are, which honestly says a lot about how well the ending worked even with its flaws.

If you're into this kind of speculation, it's worth checking out a couple other pieces covering shows in similar limbo, including one on Kirio Fan Club Season 2 and another on Eren the Southpaw Season 2, both dealing with the same kind of uncertain but hopeful situation.

Right now, Dandelion is still sitting on Netflix waiting for new viewers to discover it, and given how much goodwill this first season built, a second one feels less like wishful thinking and more like a matter of when, not if.