- Country Japan
- Original language Japanese
- Genres Drama, Romance
- Runtime 24 minutes
- Total runtime 2 hours 48 minutes
- Status Ended
- Network TBS (JP)
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Last update
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Horimiya (JP)
Although admired at school for her amiability and academic prowess, high school student Kyouko Hori has been hiding another side of her. With her parents often away from home due to work, Hori has to look after her younger brother and do the housework, leaving no chance to socialize away from school.
Meanwhile, Izumi Miyamura is seen as a brooding, glasses-wearing otaku. However, in reality, he is a gentle person inept at studying. Furthermore, he has nine piercings hidden behind his long hair and a tattoo along his back and left shoulder.
By sheer chance, Hori and Miyamura cross paths outside of school—neither looking as the other expects. These seemingly polar opposites become friends, sharing with each other a side they have never shown to anyone else.
Season 2 of The Ramparts of Ice premieres in just 14 days, on October 1, 2026, and Netflix has a quietly powerful anime romance ready to return at exactly the right moment. After a 14-episode first season that introduced viewers to Koyuki Hikawa, a high schooler weighed down by memories she cannot fully escape, the Japanese drama-comedy is coming back with more emotional tension, more awkwardly funny school interactions, and, hopefully, more of the fragile connections that made its first chapter resonate. If The Ramparts of Ice slipped past you during its first season, this is the week to put it back on your radar.
For lapsed viewers, the essential thing to remember is simple: Koyuki Hikawa is not your typical sunny anime heroine. Voiced by Anna Nagase, known to many anime fans for roles including Riko Amanai in Jujutsu Kaisen and appearances in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and One-Punch Man, Koyuki is a girl who keeps others at arm’s length because closeness feels dangerous. Season 1 was built around the slow thawing of that emotional distance, as three schoolmates began drawing her out of isolation. The title’s “ramparts” are not just metaphorical decoration; they are the defenses Koyuki has built around herself, and the first season carefully showed how hard it can be to let people cross them.
That is all the recap you really need before Season 2. The Ramparts of Ice is not a show that depends on lore dumps or complicated mythology. Its stakes are personal: a look in the hallway, a conversation that goes one sentence too far, a friendship that might become something more, a joke that lands at the exact moment the room needs oxygen. Fans of Horimiya, Sawako: Kimi ni Todoke, Honey Lemon Soda, 3D Kanojo: Real Girl, or Hori-san & Miyamura-kun will recognize the emotional territory, but The Ramparts of Ice has its own colder, more introspective flavor. It is romantic without rushing, comedic without breaking its sincerity, and dramatic without needing melodrama every five minutes.
