{"rewrite":{"id":"r_a2f6ab0f437bcb8532bdb867","clusterId":"c_4e98158b0d320d0e6943feb8","slug":"thunder-3-anime-gets-second-season-in-2027","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Thunder 3 Anime Gets Second Season In 2027","summary":"The television anime of the Thunder 3 manga will return for a second season next year, the staff announced Thursday. Hiroya Oku confirmed in September that he created the manga under the pen name Yuki Ikeda. The adaptation premiered on Fuji-TV's +Ultra block on July 8 and streamed worldwide on Netflix the same day. Kodansha USA publishes the manga in English.","whyItMatters":"A second season was greenlit while the source manga is already finished, so the continuation rests on the adaptation's own standing rather than on a still-running serialization.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe second season was announced with an illustration drawn by Yuki Ikeda, the pen name Hiroya Oku confirmed he used for the manga. Oku said he wrote under the name to keep a first-chapter surprise intact for readers who would have recognized the Hiroya Oku credit. The manga ended on June 5, and Kodansha published its 10th volume on August 17. Kodansha USA shipped the eighth volume in English on February 10.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Hiroya Oku created Thunder 3 under the pen name Yuki Ikeda, and the anime already aired on Fuji-TV's +Ultra block and Netflix. A second season follows a manga whose author kept his own name off it.","twitterPost":"Thunder 3's second season extends a manga Hiroya Oku wrote under the pen name Yuki Ikeda, not his own name.","threadsPost":"Thunder 3 gets a second season, but the more useful detail is the author. Hiroya Oku confirmed in September he created the manga under the pen name Yuki Ikeda, so the anime's credit line points away from the name most viewers know him by.","newsletterBlurb":"Thunder 3 will return for a second season in 2027, the staff announced Thursday, with an illustration from Yuki Ikeda. Hiroya Oku confirmed in September that he created the manga under that pen name to protect a first-chapter surprise. The manga ended on June 5; Kodansha USA publishes it in English.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-30/thunder-3-anime-gets-2nd-season-in-2027/.242360\",\"title\":\"Thunder 3 Anime Gets 2nd Season in 2027\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4537,"outputTokens":560,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791093572,"createdAt":"2026-10-04T05:56:35.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-04T05:58:25.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T05:58:25.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_4e98158b0d320d0e6943feb8","canonicalTitle":"News\nThunder 3 Anime Gets 2nd Season in 2027","representativeArticleId":"a_696a34ac91a7abbafee0403d","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Thunder 3\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Hiroya Oku\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-30T23:16:23.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-30T23:16:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T05:58:22.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-30/thunder-3-anime-gets-2nd-season-in-2027/.242360","title":"News\nThunder 3 Anime Gets 2nd Season in 2027"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Thunder 3"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Hiroya Oku"],"type":"announcement","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}