Key art for The Journey to Killing You Season 2, a 2026 Japanese BL crime drama

The Journey to Killing You Season 2

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SYNOPSIS

The Journey to Killing You Season 2 (Japanese: あなたを殺す旅 Season 2) is the announced second season of the 2025 Japanese boys' love crime drama, scheduled to begin on 8 October 2026. It has not been released, and this record covers what the production has announced rather than what the season turns out to be.

The first season is catalogued here separately. It ran six episodes on FOD from September to October 2025, with a terrestrial Fuji TV broadcast following in January 2026, and this entry is linked to it in both directions.

FOD again holds it exclusively. Episodes one and two are released together from eight in the evening on Thursday 8 October, with one new episode weekly on Thursdays at the same hour afterwards. Anrico produces. Daisuke Kamijo returns as director, having directed the first season, with scripts by Natsuko Takahashi and Jun Narita. The source remains Asai Sai's manga for Tokuma Shoten.

Masanari Wada and Hiroto Takahashi return as Kinji Kataoka and Ren Odajima. The announced supporting cast includes Daiki Matsumoto as Rikao Hikari, Yoshihiko Hakamada as Ryo Ihashi, Ryoka Minaide as Kazuki Matsuyama, Tomohisa Yuge as Ruya Motoki and Ren Yagami as Yoshio Kataoka.

The premise as announced picks the two men up after they have left the organisation and settled into a quiet life in Okinawa. Pressure on the Kirii family from the larger Kotoku-kai draws them back, which means re-entering the world that nearly destroyed them both, and the season is framed around whether what they built together survives contact with it.

No episode count has been announced for the second season, nor a running time or a content rating, and those fields are left empty. The first season's six episodes are not evidence of this one's length.

CONTENT DETAILS

Native Title
あなたを殺す旅 Season 2
Original Title
The Journey to Killing You Season 2
Also Known As
あなたを殺す旅 シーズン2, Anata wo Korosu Tabi Season 2
Adaptation
Adapted from the BL manga Anata wo Korosu Tabi (あなたを殺す旅) by Asai Sai (浅井西), published by Tokuma Shoten. The same manga is the source of the first season, which this catalogue holds as a separate record.
Genres
ActionCrimeDramaEnemies-to-LoversRomanceThrillerYakuza
Themes
BL
Key Themes
Yakuza SequelOkinawa RetreatReturning To The OrganisationManga AdaptationStreaming ExclusiveDouble Episode PremiereInherited DamageLoyalty And ObligationSecond SeasonUnreleased Production
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Director
Daisuke Kamijo
Original Author
Asai Sai
Seasons
2
Aired Start
Release Year
2026

RELATED CONTENT

The Journey to Killing You (2025) official poster featuring Masanari Wada as Kataoka Kinji and Hiroto Takahashi as Odajima Ren — Japanese yakuza BL drama
The Journey to Killing You
Anata wo Korosu Tabi manga cover — yakuza BL by Asai Sai (浅井西)
Anata wo Korosu Tabi (Manga)

MAIN CAST & CHARACTERS

Masanari Wada, Japanese actor who plays Kinji Kataoka in The Journey to Killing You
Masanari Wada
Kinji Kataoka片岡錦司
Hiroto Takahashi, Japanese actor who plays Ren Odashima in The Journey to Killing You
Hiroto Takahashi
Ren Odajima小田島漣

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Announced Date: Scheduled for 8 October 2026 and unreleased when this record was written.
  • Double Première: Episodes one and two are released together at 20:00, with weekly Thursday episodes following.
  • Streaming Exclusive: FOD holds it exclusively; no terrestrial broadcast has been announced, unlike the first season.
  • Returning Creative Team: Daisuke Kamijo directs again for Anrico, with scripts by Natsuko Takahashi and Jun Narita.
  • Returning Leads: Masanari Wada and Hiroto Takahashi reprise Kinji Kataoka and Ren Odajima.
  • Same Source: Adapted again from Asai Sai’s manga for Tokuma Shoten.
  • Linked Record: The first season is held in this catalogue and is cross-linked from this entry in both directions.
  • No Score Recorded: The first season carries a score on this site; this one will not until it has been seen.

EDITOR’S VERDICT

Reviewed by Renkaze, editor of BL & GL Flix

What the announcement confirms

A first release on 8 October 2026, exclusive to FOD, with episodes one and two together at 20:00 and weekly Thursday episodes thereafter. Anrico produces. Daisuke Kamijo returns to direct, with scripts by Natsuko Takahashi and Jun Narita. Masanari Wada and Hiroto Takahashi return as Kinji Kataoka and Ren Odajima, with Daiki Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Ryoka Minaide, Tomohisa Yuge and Ren Yagami among the announced supporting cast. The source remains Asai Sai's manga.

What it does not

No episode count for this season has been published, and the first season's six is not a safe substitute. No running time, no content rating, no terrestrial broadcast plan of the kind the first season eventually received on Fuji TV. It is also unstated how much of Asai Sai's manga this season covers, or whether it moves past the published material. The supporting characters are named but their relationship to the returning pair is not described anywhere consulted.

What would change this record

The first two episodes. An episode order and a running time arrive with them, and so does the answer to the question this record cannot address: whether the shift from an internal threat to an external one, which the announced premise implies, costs the series the pressure that made the first season work. The first season carries an editorial score on this site. This one does not and will not until it has been watched.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

When does it start?

8 October 2026. Episodes one and two go up together at 20:00 that Thursday, and a new episode follows weekly on Thursdays at the same time.

Where can it be watched?

FOD, exclusively. The first season later received a terrestrial Fuji TV broadcast, but no equivalent plan has been announced for this one.

Is it a sequel?

Yes, directly. It is the second season of The Journey to Killing You, whose first season is catalogued on this site as a separate record and is linked from this entry.

Do I need to have seen the first season?

Almost certainly. The announced premise begins after the two leads have left the organisation and settled in Okinawa, which is a resolution of the first season rather than a starting position, and the returning cast play the same characters.

Is this based on something?

Yes, the BL manga Anata wo Korosu Tabi by Asai Sai, published by Tokuma Shoten, the same source as the first season. How much of it this season covers has not been stated.

How many episodes is it?

Not announced. The first season ran six, but the production has not confirmed a count for the second and this record does not carry the earlier number across.

Does this record carry anything over from season one?

Only what has been announced for it in its own right. Nothing of this season has been released. Episode counts, running times, per-episode dates, content ratings and reviews are all recorded here from the finished work, and a second season is not entitled to inherit its predecessor's figures.

Written and verified by Renkaze · Last updated 20 September 2026

A second season announced but not yet streamed is described here from its production’s own release; episode orders and dates for unreleased sequels shift regularly, and figures from the first season have deliberately not been carried across. See our site disclaimer.

What The Journey to Killing You Season 2 is about

A second season inherits a settled argument, and its first problem is finding a reason to unsettle it. The opening run of this series was organised around a standing order to kill: one man travelling with another under instruction to end him, with the tension living in whether the instruction would be carried out. That question has been answered. Whatever the second season is doing, it cannot be that.

The announced setup shows the shape of the substitution. Okinawa, distance, a quiet life, and then an external pressure that pulls both men back toward the organisation. The engine moves from an internal threat to an external one, which is the usual solution and carries the usual cost. An internal threat implicates the relationship directly, because the danger is one of the two people in it. An external threat unites them against something else, which is warmer and dramatically safer, and tends to convert a story about two people into a story about a situation.

The inheritance also runs the other way, into the audience. Anyone arriving at this season has watched the first, knows what each man did and failed to do, and brings that history to scenes written on the assumption it is present. That is an advantage no standalone production has: silences can be shorter, glances can carry more, and a gesture that would need explaining in a first episode can simply land. Sequels in this genre are often criticised for coasting, and the line between coasting and using what has already been established is not always obvious from a synopsis.

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