A few weeks ago, we reported that Classroom of the Elite would be getting a second season.
Turns out it’s getting a second and third season.
That’s the word from a streaming special about the series from this weekend. The second season will air in July 2022, and the third season will air in 2023. That’ll cover the entire first-year story arc, according to the event.
The staff and cast are largely returning in their same positions and roles. That includes musicians: ZAQ will return to perform the opening song, and Mai Fuchigami will perform the ending song.
Classroom of the Elite is based on a series of light novels by Syougo Kinugasa. Here’s how Crunchyroll describes the first season:
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it’s said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school’s problem children. What’s more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class. One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school…
Source: ANN