TheArcanefandom was revived by asingle teaser last week, and now afull trailerhas come out of Annecy Animation Festival in France to prepare us for the new season in November. It looks like an incredible final chapter of Vi and Jinx’s story before Riot moves onto other animated stories in the League of Legends universe.
Chances are, we’ll be looking at a time skip of sorts, after which Vi joins up with Caitlyn and the Enforcers to hunt down Jinx and Silco’s remaining forces. We’ll also likely see Warwick, as Vi unpacks all the delightful trauma that comes with seeing her adopted father turned into some sort of twisted werewolf experiment. My mental health is not going to be okay after this season comes to an end. I just hope everyone makes it out relatively unscathed.
Vi Is Having A Pretty Hard Time In Arcane Season 2
I’ll delve into the full trailer in more detail soon, but today I wanted to talk about a scene that was shown behind closed doors at Annecy Festival. It shone more of a light on where Vi finds herself after the finale of the previous season, which saw Jinx fire an RPG towards the council that would undoubtedly tear Zaun asunder.
She is struggling, and now Jinx has finally fallen off the deep end and left her sister behind, and doesn’t have anyone else to protect. Piltover nor Caitlyn need her anymore, and it leaves our heroine struggling to find purpose in a world that has already left her behind.
“We all see Vi as a protector,” scriptwriter Amanda Overton said during the session, “and we wanted to ask who Vi would be if she had no one left to protect?”
The ‘Making Of’ Arcane session at Annecy focused primarily on a singular scene during the middle of the second season in which Vi has hit rock bottom as she resorts to becoming an underground fighter who relies on violence, alcohol, and stubbornness to keep on living. As some of the first season’s more memorable sequences were, it is presented through a lush montage that makes use of music, unorthodox visual elements, and repetition to instil in the viewer just exactly what Vi is going through, and how she has nowhere else left to turn.
One moment even has her applying black paint to fully cement her current mindset, while the mixture of time-lapse shots, eccentric VFX, and an enduring sense of brutality all help to pull you into the scene. I haven’t seen it myself, butAnimation Magazineproduced an amazing write-up that goes into greater detail about the entire scene and panel itself.
Will Arcane Season 2 Once Again Be Split Into Three Distinct Episodic Acts?
I always thought Vi was hilariously dramatic for breaking up with Caitlyn in the rain before her totally not girlfriend went home to cry in the shower about it, but it appears the second season is actually going to delve far deeper into the emotions that Vi has bottled up, using violence and substance abuse to pave over the cracks she is refusing to address.
It’s quite interesting that this moment also takes place in the middle of the season, hinting that some sort of dramatic event will take place after Vi becomes an enforcer that makes her want to retreat back into hiding and presumably abandon the life she built on the surface. Maybe it was her first encounter with Jinx, or the tragic discovery of Warwick and the fact her father figure is not only alive, but has been shaped into a monster by the same people who took her precious sister away. Vi always saw herself as a guardian, and now she is a failure.
Fortiche defining that Arcane S2 will have around 6 hours of footage (9,000+ shots with work ongoing), roughly 360 minutes, which aligns to 9 episodes for S2 with an average runtime of 40 minutes per episode 🎥✨️pic.twitter.com/8khwF39lbJ
— Arcane in Detail ✨️ (@arcaneindetail)May 07, 2025
There is a real possibility that the second season will follow the release model of the first, in which all nine episodes were released in three episode blocks; essentially three unique acts that told the same overarching story, but often with different time periods and character arcs.
Maybe we’ll see Vi opening the season as an enforcer alongside Caitlyn before a fatal encounter against Jinx or Warwick sends her crashing back to where it all began, leaving behind every piece of progress she’s made to surrender to old vices in fear of not only hurting herself, but all those she cares about.
It sure sounds logical to me, and would open the floodgates for a third act of episodes where Vi and Caitlyn reunite and hopefully end up making out a bunch while I openly sob.
Arcane has always felt marvelously paced because it is never afraid to give key characters and moments appropriate room to breathe, but knows that it must keep on moving to provide action, narrative, and purpose for the viewer to remain invested. Given the second season is also the final chapter in Vi and Jinx’s story, it has more weight on its shoulders than I thought it would, but that doesn’t mean I’m any less excited for it.
Karmas a butch.#Arcane#arcanedoodleversepic.twitter.com/2JjDwz35it
— A.G. Nonsuch 🦆🦎 (@AG_Nonsuch)Jun 18, 2025
I want to watch Vi come out strong, only to fall apart as everything proves too overwhelming, and she has no choice but to trust the people in her life who care to not only fight back against those who wronged her, but be happy for once in her life.If that means she has to get drunk, fight in underground arenas, and apply a tiny bit of gothic face paint, then so be it.
