Chained Soldier Gets a Third Season. Its First Two Are Complete, Free, and Closed to US Readers
Twenty-four official English-subtitled episodes sit on a verified channel, and every one carries a country list that leaves out the United States. YouTube itself returns "Video unavailable".
By Riley Kuroda · AnimeSphere staff · August 2, 2026
Anime News Network reports that a third season of Chained Soldier has been announced. The announcement is not the part of this we can add anything to. What we can add something to is the two seasons that already exist. Both are in our index as complete, official, free runs totalling twenty-four episodes, and not one of them opens for a reader in the United States. The announcement is reported at Anime News Network.
What the index actually holds
We list the 2024 first season at 12 episodes and Season 2, from 2026, at 12 episodes. The second season ran those 12 and began on January 8. Every one of the 24 episodes is present as an official upload from Muse Asia, a channel carrying YouTube's verified badge. All 24 rows are live and undemoted, and no single video is filed against two different episode numbers.
The uploads are titled in English and label their own subtitles as English, as in "Chained Soldier - Episode 01 [English Sub]". Each video runs 1,422 seconds, about twenty-three and a half minutes, against the twenty-four-minute episode length we record. These are full episodes rather than clips.
The country list is the story
Each upload in our catalogue carries a permitted-country list, which is why the same series can be free in one country and closed in another. Every one of these 24 rows carries a list that leaves out the United States.
- Season 1: Bangladesh, Brunei, Bhutan, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
- Season 2: the same list, without India.
Free episodes of Chained Soldier reachable from the United States, across both seasons: zero.
Asked from a United States connection today, YouTube's own player returned the status UNPLAYABLE, with the reason given as "Video unavailable", for episode 1 of each season. The oEmbed service, asked about those same two videos, still returned their titles and channel. That combination is what separates a region-locked video from a deleted one. The episodes are there. They are simply shut to this reader.
A complete run that does open here
The genres we record for Chained Soldier are Action, Adventure, Drama, Ecchi, Fantasy and Romance. If the Action, Adventure and Fantasy part is what draws you, Magic Knight Rayearth shares all three, and its permitted-country list includes the United States.
We hold 20 episodes of 20, a complete free run, uploaded by Anime! on TMS Official Channel, which also carries YouTube's verified badge. It is an English dub: every upload title ends "English Dub", and YouTube's automatic captioning produced English text on it, which indicates English audio. All 20 videos were checked one by one today, with no fetch failures, the episode number in each title matching the number we store, and no two slots holding the same video. Episodes run about twenty-four and a half minutes. Our recorded genres for it are Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mahou Shoujo and Mecha.