Netflix Renews Haunted Hotel; Kadokawa Greenlights Anime

Kadokawa has greenlit a second season of the anime The Summer Hikaru Died after its 12-episode Season 1 run in Japan from July–September 2025; Season 1 was produced by CygamesPictures and the new season is reported to be co-produced by CyberAgent and Kadokawa, with principal cast members including Chiaki Kobayashi and Shuichiro Umeda expected to return. The series adapts Mokumokuren’s ongoing manga and has spawned a novelization and a stage-play adaptation, providing additional source material for future episodes. Separately, Netflix renewed adult animated horror-comedy Haunted Hotel for a second season just one week after its debut; the show is created and showrun by Matt Roller and produced by Titmouse and landed on Netflix’s Global English TV Top 10. Haunted Hotel features voices from Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo and Jimmi Simpson and lists Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna and Steve Levy among its executive producers. The Haunted Hotel renewal came despite mixed reviews and uneven early-week viewership metrics, illustrating Netflix’s willingness to extend niche genre animation. No release windows have been announced for either show’s new season.