Joseph Luster
July 28, 2025 
A new trailer arrived for Medalist season 2, revealing plans for a January 2026 broadcast premiere in Japan. The anime continues the adaptation of Tsurumaikada’s Olympic ice-skating manga of the same name, and you can see more of what happens next in the video below.
Medalist Season 2 Trailer
There’s also a new visual:
The show got its start on January 4. As a way to be more accurate, multiple figure skaters were involved for the choreography: Akiko Suzuki, a former Olympic skater; Yuhana Yokoi, a retired figure skater; and Hinano Isobe, who is still taking part in competitive figure skating. The main staff and cast are returning for the second season.
Before that it started as a manga by Tsurumaikada, first appearing in the pages of Afternoon magazine from Kodansha in 2020. At the 2024 Shogakukan Manga Awards, it received the award for Best General Manga. It also got the Best General Manga Award at the 48th annual Manga Awards from Kodansha.
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English, and it gave this description for the plot:
Medalist Plot
Inori is a little girl who dreams of becoming a figure skater. Yet, the obstacles to this dream feel insurmountable: Inori’s already “too old” (she’s 11); she’s always had trouble at school; and, worst of all, her older sister’s skating dreams ended in failure, so her mother is dead set against putting her other daughter through a similar experience. Still, the rink is the only place Inori can be herself, and she’s out on the ice when a fateful meeting takes place. Tsukasa, a frustrated coach on the edge of giving up competitive skating himself, will join Inori to form an unstoppable duo powered by hard work, transcendent joy, and an unshakeable belief that they can prove everyone wrong.
You can also check out this music video for Kenshi Yonezu’s opening theme song “Bow and Arrow” here. It includes Olympic skater Yuzuru Hanyu.
Source: Anime News Network
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