{"id":48052,"date":"2025-05-16T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=48052"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:42:17","slug":"suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/","title":{"rendered":"Suikoden II anime won&#8217;t cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suikoden IP Producer Rui Naito shared more details about the upcoming <strong>Suikoden II<\/strong> anime adaptation during the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E7hW4tl6gdo?si=4cdM23UX4vnEqZpG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Suikoden Live Broadcast last May 15, 2025<\/a>. As Konami Animation wants to fully depict the classic game\u2019s narrative, Naito confirms that the story won\u2019t end within a single season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1344\" height=\"755\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1344px) 100vw, 1344px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-001JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-001JPG.jpg 1344w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-001JPG-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-001JPG-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking place three years after the events of Suikoden, Suikoden II\u2019s main story centers on an unnamed protagonist and his best friend Jowy Atreides as they each gain one-half of the Rune of the Beginning \u2013 one of the 27 True Runes that hold immense power. In addition to their newfound powers, the player character and Jowy get caught up in an ongoing conflict between the Highland Kingdom and the City-States of Jowston. Suikoden II has multiple endings and side stories, many of which depend on your choices and willingness to recruit the 107 available party members (called \u201cStars of Destiny\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1354\" height=\"758\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1354px) 100vw, 1354px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-002.jpg 1354w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-002-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-002-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Naito did not specify how many episodes or which parts of the game\u2019s story would be adapted in the first season, his statement that the anime would \u201cfully depict the protagonist and Jowy\u2019s story\u201d carries a lot of weight and promise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TIjGwGAJJ4s?si=mQ-1QzSRbJzsdTa3&amp;t=1030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Suikoden: The Anime was announced earlier this March<\/a> and will be adapting the story of Suikoden II. <a href=\"https:\/\/animation.konami.net\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Konami Animation<\/a> will be producing the anime, with Yuzo Sato (Muteking The Dancing Hero, Trillion Game) as director. Considering how <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-i-ii-hd-remaster-took-5-years-to-make-because-the-devs-want-to-reboot-the-ip-with-a-faithful-remaster-that-honors-the-originals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Suikoden I &amp; II HD Remaster: Gate Rune &amp; Dunan Unification Wars successfully honored the original two games<\/a>, Konami\u2019s animation division might be on the right track.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suikoden IP producer Rui Naito suggests Suikoden: The Anime will have multiple seasons, depicting the story fully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":48054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73,17],"class_list":["post-48052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anime","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suikoden II anime won&#039;t cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Suikoden IP producer Rui Naito suggests Suikoden: The Anime will have multiple seasons, depicting the story fully.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suikoden II anime won&#039;t cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Suikoden IP producer Rui Naito suggests Suikoden: The Anime will have multiple seasons, depicting the story fully.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-16T03:42:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-16T03:42:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1344\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"747\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carlos &quot;Zoto&quot; Zotomayor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carlos &quot;Zoto&quot; Zotomayor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Suikoden II anime won't cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Suikoden IP producer Rui Naito suggests Suikoden: The Anime will have multiple seasons, depicting the story fully.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Suikoden II anime won't cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Suikoden IP producer Rui Naito suggests Suikoden: The Anime will have multiple seasons, depicting the story fully.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2025-05-16T03:42:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-16T03:42:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1344,"height":747,"url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/"},"author":{"name":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2812ca8facd5f161edfbc531cf81eb31"},"headline":"Suikoden II anime won&#8217;t cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0","datePublished":"2025-05-16T03:42:15+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-16T03:42:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/"},"wordCount":273,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-header.jpg","keywords":["Anime","News (Japan-related)"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/","name":"Suikoden II anime won't cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-header.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-16T03:42:15+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-16T03:42:17+00:00","description":"Suikoden IP producer Rui Naito suggests Suikoden: The Anime will have multiple seasons, depicting the story fully.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250515-48052-header.jpg","width":1344,"height":747,"caption":"Suikoden: The Anime"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suikoden-ii-anime-wont-cram-the-whole-story-into-one-season-series-producer-assures\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Suikoden II anime won&#8217;t cram the whole story into one season, series producer assures\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2812ca8facd5f161edfbc531cf81eb31","name":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","caption":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor"},"description":"Automaton West writer. Zoto has been playing video games for 30+ years now but has only recently come to grips with PC gaming. When he isn't playing video games, he watches romance anime and gets mad when his best girl never wins.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/carlos-zotomayor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48058,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48052\/revisions\/48058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}