If you finished Season 1 and immediately started searching for Season 2 news, you are in good company.
Honey Lemon Soda aired from January to March 2025 — twelve episodes that brought Uka Ishimori’s story to a global audience simultaneously. The Japanese broadcast began on January 9, 2025, on Fuji TV, while international viewers could watch the subtitled version on Crunchyroll the same day. The English dub followed two weeks later, starting January 22, and released weekly through the finale on March 27, 2025.
When that finale arrived, the response from viewers around the world was immediate: they wanted more.
Here is everything currently known about the possibility of a second season — and why, whatever happens with the anime, the story has a great deal left to offer.
What We Know Right Now
As of June 2026, there has been no official announcement of Honey Lemon Soda Season 2 from J.C. Staff, TMS Entertainment, or Crunchyroll.
That absence of announcement does not mean a second season won’t happen. Anime production typically takes twelve to eighteen months after a greenlight decision, which means that even if a second season were confirmed today, it would realistically arrive in late 2026 at the earliest — and more likely sometime in 2027.
What makes the situation particularly worth watching is that the manga completed its run in April 2026. With over 16 million copies sold, it stands among the best-selling shoujo manga in recent memory. That level of commercial success is exactly the kind of signal that tends to make studios take sequels seriously — and the manga’s completion means any future adaptation can plan its arc with a clear ending already in place.
Why the Wait Is Normal
The gap between a successful Season 1 finale and a Season 2 announcement is standard in the anime industry, and it’s worth understanding why.
Decisions about sequels involve multiple parties — the animation studio, the publisher, the streaming platform, and the original creator — and those conversations take time. Viewership numbers, merchandise sales, and the boost in manga sales that an anime adaptation generates all factor into the equation.
Season 1 of Honey Lemon Soda performed well on all of those measures. Fan interest remains high. The simulcast format meant the series reached international audiences immediately, building a global fanbase rather than a regional one. And the manga’s completion removes one of the more common complications in sequel planning — the uncertainty of adapting an unfinished source.
None of this guarantees a second season. But the conditions for one are better than they might appear from the silence.
What Season 2 Would Cover
Season 1 adapted roughly the first eight volumes of a thirty-one volume manga.
That means approximately twenty-three volumes of story remain — more than enough material for multiple seasons, let alone one.
The most significant territory a second season would enter is Kai’s backstory. Season 1 established him as quietly perceptive and unusually patient, but the reasons behind those qualities are only hinted at. The loss of his mother when he was three, his father’s disappearance during his third year of middle school — understanding that history changes how every earlier scene reads. It’s the kind of material that lands hard in animation, and it’s almost entirely unexplored in what Season 1 covered.
Uka’s growth also continues well beyond where Season 1 ended. The arc that takes her from someone consumed by her own survival to someone capable of genuinely caring for the people around her — noticing when Kai is quieter than usual, showing up for friends before they ask — is one of the most emotionally satisfying progressions in the manga. Season 1 only captured its beginning.
And of course, the central romance. Season 1 ended with Uka and Kai at a starting point, not a destination. The deeper development of their relationship — and the way it changes as Uka changes — is where the manga spends much of its remaining runtime.
What to Do While You Wait
If waiting for an announcement feels frustrating, there is a straightforward alternative.
The complete manga is available right now. All thirty-one volumes are in English through Yen Press. If you want to pick up where the anime left off, Volume 8, Chapter 29 is the right starting point. If you want to read from the beginning, that’s worth doing too — the anime is faithful but moves quickly, and the original source contains a significant amount of emotional detail that twelve episodes didn’t have room for.
The story has an ending. It arrives exactly where the series was always heading. And unlike a Season 2 announcement, it doesn’t require waiting.
The Bigger Picture
Whether or not Season 2 is eventually confirmed, Honey Lemon Soda has already accomplished something worth noting.
It brought a decade-long manga to a global audience at exactly the right moment — when international interest in shoujo anime was genuinely high, when the simulcast format meant fans everywhere experienced the story together in real time, and when the themes of the series resonated with viewers who recognized something true in Uka’s experience.
A second season would be welcome. But the story it would adapt already exists, complete and waiting.
That’s not a consolation prize.
That’s the whole thing.
Keep Reading
→ Should You Read the Manga After Watching the Anime? Where the anime ends, what the manga adds, and where to start.
→ Honey Lemon Soda Ending — The Boy Who Never Stopped Believing in Her What the complete story looks like — and where it finally arrives.
→ Honey Lemon Soda — A Manga About Growth, Quiet Support, and the Courage to Change The complete introduction to the story and why it’s worth your time.
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