Polar Opposites Season 2 Has Three Episodes Left to Close

You and I Are Polar Opposites Season 2 has three episodes left, and MyAnimeList users have scored the sequel 8.49 against 8.27 for the 12-episode winter run.

The continuation premiered on July 5, 2026, in the same Sunday 5 p.m. Japan slot that carried season 1, and it is scheduled to end on September 27. Lapin Track is adapting a manga that already finished in 2024, so these last three broadcasts are the landing, not a tease for another cour.

The Same Sunday Slot, 98 Days Later

Season 1 ran 12 episodes from January 11 to March 29, 2026, on MBS, TBS and the rest of the JNN network, 28 stations in all. The first season signed off on a Sunday, and the Season 2 July confirmation landed that same afternoon at AnimeJapan, with a trailer and a date.

That gap is 98 days. For a TV anime, it is a short turnaround: the same director, the same studio, the same Sunday block, and a 13-episode order instead of 12. The production committee behind the bet is Dentsu, Shochiku, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Shueisha, Shochiku Music Publishing and AbemaTV.

Takayoshi Nagatomo is still directing at Lapin Track. Teruko Utsumi still handles series composition and also serves as animation producer. Miyakomako is on character designs, with Naho Kozono as supporting character designer and chief animation director, and tofubeats is still writing the score. The English staff and theme list on the official site keeps those names in one place, and it is the same crew that got the winter run to 8.27 on MyAnimeList from 122,613 users.

THE 98-DAY TURNAROUND

1. January 11, 2026: Season 1 premieres on the Sunday 5 p.m. JNN block.
2. March 29, 2026: The 12th episode airs and Season 2 is announced the same day for July 5.
3. July 5, 2026: Season 2 episode 1, “Christmas Eve,” premieres; the English dub follows on July 19.
4. September 6, 2026: Episode 10 airs, the tenth of 13.
5. September 13, 2026: Episode 11 is scheduled, with episodes 12 and 13 set for September 20 and September 27.

New episodes stream on Crunchyroll at 1:30 a.m. Pacific each Sunday, with the Japanese broadcast at 5 p.m. JST. Each installment runs about 24 minutes. The series page on Crunchyroll carries a 4.9 rating from 78.2k user scores for the show as a whole, season 1 included.

Season 2 Starts After They Are Already Dating

Most high-school rom-coms spend a cour getting two people to admit they like each other. Kocha Agasawa’s manga did that early, and the winter anime followed it. Season 2 opens six months after Miyu Suzuki, voiced by Sayumi Suzushiro (Nijika in Bocchi the Rock!), and Yusuke Tani, voiced by Shogo Sakata (Aki Hayakawa in Chainsaw Man), started going out.

Suzuki is the loud one who still checks the room. Tani is the quiet one who says the thing anyway. The sequel’s first episode, “Christmas Eve,” puts them in a kitchen trying to bake a cake, which is a small plot and a clear statement of intent: the show is now about being a couple, not becoming one.

The AnimeJapan trailer that locked the July date is the last piece of that announcement cycle.

The larger payload is the friend group. Kentaro Yamada still cannot pick his moment with shy Natsumi Nishi, until the Valentine episode has her say the words first. Shuuji Taira, who works at a convenience store and treats the class like a ranking chart, has Shino Azuma paying him more attention than he knows what to do with. Manami Watanabe, Aoi Sato and Rikako Honda keep the noise up around them.

THE THREE PAIRINGS ON SCREEN

• Suzuki and Tani: Six months into dating, they move from a Christmas cake to New Year at his house, then into exam season.
• Yamada and Nishi: He stalls, she overthinks, and the Valentine broadcast has her blurting “I love you” before he finds a speech.
• Taira and Azuma: They share a middle-school past and part-time jobs, and her feelings are the part of the story that does not stay fluffy.

That split is why the sequel can run 13 episodes without repeating the confession. It is also why a second cour was a real wager rather than a victory lap: once the main couple is together, a rom-com has to become a group portrait or it goes stale.

The songs changed with the shift. Season 1 opened on noa’s “Lose the Frames” and closed on PAS TASTA’s “Pure,” with Eriko Hashimoto on the feature vocal. Season 2 opens on 7co’s “nekojarashi” and closes on Mega Shinnosuke’s “You Are the One,” the track also listed in Japanese as Unmei no Kimi. Nanako Ashida and Ryuja, the pair behind 7co, wrote the new opening around a foxtail grass and Tani’s cat.

When I first read the story, I seriously found myself wishing there was a way to go back to being a student again. I’m so obsessed with Tani’s cat Tempura that I’m pretty sure every demo I made had Tempura in the lyrics somewhere.

7co, Season 2 opening artists, official series site

Mega Shinnosuke said he aimed for a rock track that could push someone through youth, and told listeners to turn it up. The tone change in the ending is not a secret: the sequel is willing to be louder and a little rawer than the winter cour’s soft close.

An 8.49 Score With Three Episodes Still Unshown

MyAnimeList has Season 2 at 8.49 on the Season 2 MyAnimeList score page, from 18,371 users, with 110,599 members tracking it. Season 1, which has finished airing, sits at 8.27 from 122,613 users, with 249,610 members. The sequel’s number is higher. The sample is much smaller, and three episodes have not aired, so it is a live reading rather than a verdict.

SEASON 1 AND SEASON 2 SIDE BY SIDE

User reviews on the sequel page currently break 11 recommended, 1 mixed feelings, 0 not recommended. Several of the early write-ups call the side stories the reason they stayed. That matches what the show is doing with its extra episode: 13 installments instead of 12, used on Yamada, Nishi, Taira and Azuma rather than on stretching the cake-baking date.

The English-language clips that still travel in September are the soft ones, the almost-kiss frames and the Christmas kitchen. Japanese posts on September 11 were still sitting with overall episode 22, Season 2’s tenth broadcast, where Tani talks about putting some distance between himself and Suzuki and the mood turns thin. Promo and the weekly episode are no longer selling the same night.

Taira and Azuma Carry the Risk

Shuuji Taira, voiced by Wataru Katoh, builds little speeches in his head so he does not get hurt, then reads the room as a threat. Shino Azuma, voiced by Miyuri Shimabukuro, works hard at looking cool and does not believe it. They already knew each other in middle school. Season 2 is where that history stops being flavor and starts costing them.

Shimabukuro said on the official site that if she and Azuma had been in the same class, they might never have spoken, and that she wanted to treat the part with care “together with the amazing staff and with Taira.” Katoh has been with the manga since the one-shot, and he described Taira as someone who translates every feeling into words internally, then sees the world a little worse because of it.

The published outline for episode 11 has Azuma holding her distance so she does not break what she has with him, while Suzuki watches Tani grind through exam work and worries he is pushing too hard. That is the stretch a fast sequel has to survive. A winter cour about two people who actually talk to each other can live on warmth. A summer cour that follows them into third-year exams and a friend who will not say yes has to keep the same tone without faking a painless outcome.

The objection that showed up after episode 10 is simple: the last two broadcasts poured cold water on the easy feeling, and a late recovery may not put that feeling back. The counter is already on the page in the first season’s method. Agasawa writes people who say the awkward thing in the same scene, not three episodes later. If that habit holds, Taira and Azuma do not need a miracle speech. They need one honest hour.

Eight Volumes and a Closed Book

The manga began as a one-shot on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ on January 7, 2021, then ran from May 2, 2022, to November 25, 2024. It is 65 chapters in eight Jump Comics+ volumes, and the English edition is in print from Viz Media, whose eighth volume landed on February 3, 2026. Readers can still open the completed manga on MANGA Plus, where the last chapter is listed as “You and I Are Polar Opposites.”

THE BOOK THE ANIME IS CLOSING

• Run: One-shot on January 7, 2021, then May 2, 2022, to November 25, 2024 on Shonen Jump+.
• Length: 65 chapters collected in eight volumes, with the English print edition from Viz Media.
• Reach: More than 2.1 million copies in circulation, including digital editions, by May 2026.
• Prizes: Third place in the 16th Manga Taisho, ninth in Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 for male readers, and a string of bookstore-staff lists after that.

A finished 65-chapter rom-com is a specific kind of adaptation job. There is no next arc to protect. Tani’s university plans, the long stretch after graduation, and whatever Azuma does with a no all have an ending on paper already. The anime’s bet is that Lapin Track can get there in 25 episodes of television, 12 in winter and 13 in summer, without padding and without cutting the friend group that made the book travel.

Suzushiro has said she felt, at the audition, as if she were playing herself, because she recognized too much of Suzuki. Sakata had been reading the series on Jump+ from the start and called Tani someone who is not good at the small weather of other people’s feelings, then changes because Suzuki is there. Those are the terms the last three episodes still have to honor: two people who do not share a temperament and still have to tell the truth in the same room.

What the Last Three Sundays Have to Close

Episode 11 airs on September 13, 2026, under the Japanese title Ibasho, a place to belong. Episode 12 follows on September 20. Episode 13, the last of the 13, is set for September 27. In the story, Suzuki is already watching Tani overwork for exams. Azuma is already trying not to say the thing that would make staying friends impossible. The broadcasts have two weeks after the 13th to decide how much of that they will hold and how much they will release.

The English-language push has not treated the season as over. On September 10, Crunchyroll posted Suzushiro and Sakata performing a Season 2 scene at Anime Expo, a live reminder that the leads are still the product even while the Japanese episodes have moved into the harder chapters.

The Japanese voice actors of Suzuki and Tani brought this scene from You and I Are Polar Opposites Season 2 to life at Anime Expo 😍 pic.twitter.com/LHqo9fyvtm

— Crunchyroll (@Crunchyroll) September 10, 2026

A popup shop is booked for September 25 through October 8 at Laforet Harajuku’s fifth-floor SHED BY ACG, with stills from the series and a second round of small goods. The doors open two days before the finale and stay open into October, which is a merch calendar built around an ending, not around a renewal teaser.

If the 8.49 holds after September 27, the 98-day recommission will look obvious in hindsight. If the Taira hours leave a bruise that the last two episodes cannot cover, the same recommission will look like a committee that ordered 13 because 12 had sold, then ran into the chapters the manga never softened. The remaining work is those three Sundays, on the same 5 p.m. block, with a book that already knows how it ends.