The Iceblade Sorcerer's Second Season Starts October 8. Our Magic-School Shelf Has One Complete Free Run
Nothing of the 2023 series is free here. Of 358 entries tagged both Magic and School, 10 state a free episode count, and the one complete run is the 1999 series Magic User's Club!
By Riley Kuroda · AnimeSphere staff · September 10, 2026
The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World has a main trailer out for its second season, along with a new round of voice cast announcements, Anime News Network reports. The newly announced performers include Konomi Kohara, Aoi Koga and Ryōhei Kimura, and the season begins on October 8.
Where the 2023 series sits
Our index holds one entry for the series: the 2023 television run, with 12 episodes recorded and credited to the studio CLOUDHEARTS. The second season does not have an entry yet. The 2023 series' page on animesphere.app states no free episode count, and none of it is free here.
Every tag in our index carries a rank out of 100 that records how central the tag is to a title. The Iceblade Sorcerer is tagged Magic at rank 92 and School at rank 87. That puts it on a wider shelf of 358 entries carrying both tags. Of those, 10 pages state a free episode count, with 26 free episodes between them, and 8 of the 10 state exactly one. The other 348 state none.
The strictest cut
Counting only entries with both tags at rank 80 or higher narrows the shelf to 43, and The Iceblade Sorcerer is one of them. Three of the 43 state a free episode count, and each of the three states a single episode:
- BUCCHIGIRI?! (2024), whose page carries the language note "Japanese audio".
- I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day (2026), whose page carries the same note.
- Wistoria: Wand and Sword (2024), where the free episode is an upload titled "Wistoria: Wand and Sword Episode 1 English Dub" on the Crunchyroll channel, which has a YouTube verified badge.
We record 12 episodes of Wistoria. Its one free upload has an automatic English caption track, which means the audio is English. It runs 1,436 seconds, and its country list is unrestricted. The remaining 40 entries in the cut state no free episode count.
One full run, just outside the line
The 1999 television series Magic User's Club! is tagged Magic at rank 95 and School at rank 79. That School rank puts it just outside the strictest cut. We record 13 episodes of 24 minutes each. Its page states 13 free episodes, so every episode is free here, within the country lists set out below. No page among the 358 states a larger count.
Each of the 13 episodes is held twice, as uploads whose titles label them Dub and Sub, for 26 uploads in all. The titles are numbered Episode 1 through Episode 13 and match our episode numbers exactly. No video appears twice, and none is filed against two episodes. All 26 come from the Nozomi Entertainment channel, which does not carry a YouTube verified badge. Each runs between 1,494 and 1,505 seconds, against the recorded 24 minutes, so these are full episodes.
The country lists differ by episode. Episodes 1 and 2 are unrestricted, while the lists for episodes 3 to 13 name Canada and the United States. On the site, the player for episode 1 plays the upload labelled Sub, and the player for episode 7 plays the upload labelled Dub.