Image: Ao Tajima/Shogakukan/Hotel Inhumans Produktionskomitee
AMBot | 09/08/2026 | Reading Time: 4 Min.
The second season of the anime adaptation of Ao Tajima's manga "Hotel Inhumans" has a start date: Starting October 4, 2026, the series will air on TV Tokyo and partner stations, each Sunday at 11:45 p.m. (local time). On September 8, the production team released the key visual for the second season as well as a new main trailer. In the clip, excerpts of the two new theme songs are heard for the first time: the opening "Rasen" by GAN (Takanori Iwata) and the ending "Sweet Pea" by Phantom Siita.
The other broadcast dates are also set: BS TV Tokyo will show the new episodes starting October 5 (in Japanese counting, Mondays at 24:30, i.e., in the night to October 6 at 0:30 a.m.), AT-X starts on October 6 and airs Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m.; reruns run Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. and Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Before the season premiere, fans can also watch the first season again: TV Tokyo will repeat all 13 episodes starting October 5 in the late-night program (in Japanese counting, Mondays from 27:20, i.e., in the night to Tuesday at 3:20 a.m.). At AT-X, all 13 episodes will also be shown in one go in the night to October 5 from 0 to 6 a.m.
The original work by Ao Tajima was published from June 2021 to 2025 in the manga app "Sunday Webry" by publisher Shogakukan; the twelfth and final volume was released in September 2025. The story centers on a luxury hotel whose guests are exclusively contract killers. In addition to first-class cuisine, ultimate relaxation, and enticing entertainment, the establishment also offers weapons procurement, tamper-proof identities, and perfect corpse disposal. The concierges fulfill their guests' wishes and basically never say "no" – from the one-time encounters between hotel staff and killers emerges a hard but also human narrative. The first anime season aired from July to September 2025; Crunchyroll streamed the episodes simultaneously in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, among others. The English version of the manga is published by Seven Seas Entertainment.
The new key visual shows the hotel's three concierges on duty: Ikuro Hoshi (Yusuke Kobayashi), Sara Haizaki (Hinano Shirahama), and the new colleague in the second season, Shiba Kirihara alias "Koshiba" (Hina Yomiya). In the lenses of Ikuro's glasses, the outlines of new guests can also be seen. According to official information, the image also looks at Ikuro's past. The production is again led by director Tetsuro Amino, series writer Shoji Yonemura (series composition), and character designer Shingo Fujisaki; animation is done at studios Bridge/Isle. The music is composed by Koharu (Charan Po Rantan), and music production is handled by TV Tokyo Music.
For the opening "Rasen" (German roughly "spiral"), a new song was written specifically for the series. GAN describes the track as a modern hip-hop piece in which rap and emotional melodies meet. At the center is the relationship of two people who love and hurt each other, want to live apart yet always find their way back to each other – he translated exactly this dynamic with the motif of the spiral. Phrases that evoke the noise of the big city and the boundary between life and death are intended to musically capture the anime's mood. First excerpts of the song can already be heard in the new main trailer.
The ending "Sweet Pea" comes from the idol group Phantom Siita, produced by singer Ado; the song was written by Miku Nakamura of the band Cö shu Nie. In the official description, "Sweet Pea" tells of a love that lives on in the heart even after a loss, and of the hope of not losing the connection to a distant person – even if the unanswerable question of "why" remains. Phantom Siita themselves recall the first impression of the manga's color pages: In the tense, cold world of the story, it is about preserving compassion for others. Exactly that feeling, when tension subsides and warmth fills the heart, was put into the song, making it fitting for the series' afterglow.
The other broadcast dates are also set: BS TV Tokyo will show the new episodes starting October 5 (in Japanese counting, Mondays at 24:30, i.e., in the night to October 6 at 0:30 a.m.), AT-X starts on October 6 and airs Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m.; reruns run Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. and Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Before the season premiere, fans can also watch the first season again: TV Tokyo will repeat all 13 episodes starting October 5 in the late-night program (in Japanese counting, Mondays from 27:20, i.e., in the night to Tuesday at 3:20 a.m.). At AT-X, all 13 episodes will also be shown in one go in the night to October 5 from 0 to 6 a.m.
The original work by Ao Tajima was published from June 2021 to 2025 in the manga app "Sunday Webry" by publisher Shogakukan; the twelfth and final volume was released in September 2025. The story centers on a luxury hotel whose guests are exclusively contract killers. In addition to first-class cuisine, ultimate relaxation, and enticing entertainment, the establishment also offers weapons procurement, tamper-proof identities, and perfect corpse disposal. The concierges fulfill their guests' wishes and basically never say "no" – from the one-time encounters between hotel staff and killers emerges a hard but also human narrative. The first anime season aired from July to September 2025; Crunchyroll streamed the episodes simultaneously in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, among others. The English version of the manga is published by Seven Seas Entertainment.
The new key visual shows the hotel's three concierges on duty: Ikuro Hoshi (Yusuke Kobayashi), Sara Haizaki (Hinano Shirahama), and the new colleague in the second season, Shiba Kirihara alias "Koshiba" (Hina Yomiya). In the lenses of Ikuro's glasses, the outlines of new guests can also be seen. According to official information, the image also looks at Ikuro's past. The production is again led by director Tetsuro Amino, series writer Shoji Yonemura (series composition), and character designer Shingo Fujisaki; animation is done at studios Bridge/Isle. The music is composed by Koharu (Charan Po Rantan), and music production is handled by TV Tokyo Music.
For the opening "Rasen" (German roughly "spiral"), a new song was written specifically for the series. GAN describes the track as a modern hip-hop piece in which rap and emotional melodies meet. At the center is the relationship of two people who love and hurt each other, want to live apart yet always find their way back to each other – he translated exactly this dynamic with the motif of the spiral. Phrases that evoke the noise of the big city and the boundary between life and death are intended to musically capture the anime's mood. First excerpts of the song can already be heard in the new main trailer.
The ending "Sweet Pea" comes from the idol group Phantom Siita, produced by singer Ado; the song was written by Miku Nakamura of the band Cö shu Nie. In the official description, "Sweet Pea" tells of a love that lives on in the heart even after a loss, and of the hope of not losing the connection to a distant person – even if the unanswerable question of "why" remains. Phantom Siita themselves recall the first impression of the manga's color pages: In the tense, cold world of the story, it is about preserving compassion for others. Exactly that feeling, when tension subsides and warmth fills the heart, was put into the song, making it fitting for the series' afterglow.
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This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical support and editorially reviewed before publication.
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