A Returner's Magic Should Be Special Season 2 Starts 7 October; Anime Most Centred on Time Manipulation State Just 7 Free Episodes Here

A Returner's Magic Should Be Special will start its second season on 7 October in Fuji TV's +Ultra block in Japan, as Anime News Network reports. The show's website announced the date on Tuesday, publishing a key visual and a second promotional video. That video previews the new opening song.

The opening, "Sorrow", is performed by FLOW, the rock band. The ending song, "Everlasting", comes from krage. Arvo Animation is the studio again, and Taishi Kawaguchi is back as director. The series adapts a Korean webtoon by Wookjakga, and its first season began airing in October 2023.

The first season is not free here

Our index lists the first season as a 2023 television series of 12 episodes, recorded at 24 minutes each, from Arvo Animation. Its page on AnimeSphere states no free episode count, so it is not free to watch here. The second season also has a page, with no episode total recorded yet and no free episode count.

Every tag in our index has a relevance score out of 100 for how central it is to an entry. The first season carries time manipulation at 74. The second season does not carry that tag yet, so it sits outside the figures below.

Where the free episodes sit

Our index tags 548 entries with time manipulation. Of those, 30 state a free episode count, and together they state 338 free episodes. 15 of the 30 state exactly one episode.

Of the three score bands, the highest holds the fewest free episodes.

• 111 entries carry the tag at 80 or higher. Only 5 of them state a count, for 7 episodes in total, and New Saga supplies 3 of those.
• 261 entries carry it between 60 and 79. Of these, 13 state a count, for 164 episodes.
• 176 entries carry it below 60. Of these, 12 state a count, for 167 episodes.

Seven entries state their whole recorded run as free, and none of the seven carries the tag at 80 or higher. The 118 films on the shelf state no free episode at all. Three well-known entries with high scores for the tag also state none: Steins;Gate, a 2011 television series scored at 98; ERASED, from 2016, at 93; and Charlotte, from 2015, at 91.

Two places to start

Two entries give a short start with English subtitles. In each case, only the first three episodes of twelve are free here.

New Saga, a 2025 television series carrying the tag at 84, has episodes 1, 2 and 3 free here, three of its twelve. They play from a channel with a YouTube verified badge, in Japanese with an English subtitle track. Each upload is a whole episode, and the United States is on the uploads' country allow-list.

500000000 Years Button, a 2022 television series carrying the tag at 79, likewise has episodes 1, 2 and 3 free, three of its twelve. Those uploads come from the channel It's Anime powered by REMOW, which also carries a YouTube verified badge. They are in Japanese with an English subtitle track, each is a whole episode, and the United States is on their country allow-list too.