Whereas we’re nonetheless ready Sk8 the Infinity Season 2, an OVA has been confirmed for 2025, and a few followers will get an opportunity to see it sooner than others.
So far as sports activities anime go, they don’t come rather more radical than Sk8 the Infinity. As you may guess, the anime present includes skateboarding, the place teenagers have interaction in what quantities to unlawful drag racing on their boards late at evening.
It’s a enjoyable, carefree TV present that captures the youthful essence of skating and thrill-seeking. The primary season got here in 2022, and earlier than the following, we’re getting 4 episodes of an OVA, beginning March 19, 2025.
The upcoming mini-series, referred to as Sk8 the Infinity Additional Half, will run for 4 episodes. A brief teaser reveals that we’ll be seeing a lot of the major characters all through, although the context is saved minimal.
Moreover the four-part present itself, followers in Japan will get an opportunity to see the skating motion in cinemas, as Additional Half will get a restricted theatrical launch on January 24, 2025. Once we say restricted, we imply restricted – at present it’s simply listed for ten cinemas throughout Japan.
There’s at all times an opportunity for a expanded rollout, however as that is only a spin-off and never a brand new film, or perhaps a compilation movie, the chances are in all probability fairly small. If theaters within the UK or US get it, it’ll in all probability be a restricted time factor as effectively, since OVAs simply aren’t on the identical scale as pre-release compilations or full on function movies.
Nonetheless, extra Sk8 the Infinity may be very welcome whereas we look ahead to Season 2. Bones has been arduous at work since 2022, however we nonetheless don’t fairly know once we’ll get to see extra. The studio has been very busy on My Hero Academia to place out the anime film You’re Subsequent this yr alongside Season 7.
No matter when it arrives, the following chapter of Sk8 ought to be as sturdy because the final – and no less than now we have a scenic detour first.