Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Animation: Episode of Savanaclaw got a new visual and a premiere date. The second season lands on Disney+ on December 23, 2026, and will stream weekly.
The season runs eight episodes. That matches the first season, which premiered on October 29, 2025 and also aired eight.
Fairouz Ai joins the cast as Yuga Hirasaka. Her casting was confirmed earlier when the season’s teaser trailer dropped. The new visual puts her character alongside the Savanaclaw lineup.
What Savanaclaw covers
The anime was ordered as three seasons, each named after one of the manga adaptations of the Twisted-Wonderland mobile game. Season 1, Episode of Heartslabyul, drew from Alice in Wonderland. Season 2 takes on The Lion King.
Savanaclaw is the dormitory built around that film’s characters, which in this franchise means a pack of beastmen with a competitive streak and a leader who does not lose gracefully. The tone shift from Heartslabyul should be noticeable. Alice in Wonderland gave the first season a puzzle-box feel. The Lion King gives the second one a power struggle.
A third season is part of the original order but has no date yet. If the pattern holds it will be named after another of the manga adaptations, and the game’s remaining dormitories leave plenty of options.
The studio setup
Yumeta Company and Graphinica are handling animation, the same pairing that worked on the first season. Disney+ holds exclusive streaming rights. There is no word on a wider release, and the show has not appeared on another platform.
Keeping both studios on a second season is not automatic in this industry. Studios get pulled onto other projects, schedules slip, and it is common for a sequel to change hands or lose its chief animators. The fact that the team is intact is one reason to expect the visual quality to hold.
Where the franchise came from
Disney Twisted-Wonderland started as a smartphone game, built around a simple hook: take classic Disney villains and rebuild them as students at a magic academy. Each dormitory maps to a film. Heartslabyul to Alice in Wonderland, Savanaclaw to The Lion King, Octavinelle to The Little Mermaid, and so on through Scarabia, Pomefiore, Ignihyde and Diasomnia.
That mix of familiar characters and unfamiliar school politics did the heavy lifting. A manga line followed, with each adaptation taking its name from a dormitory arc, and a fourth, Episode of Scarabia, has since been announced. The anime is the last step in that chain, and it is working through the same names in order.
Game anime adaptations often arrive years late and with a fraction of the budget the source deserved. This one has kept its staff and its eight-episode structure across two seasons, which suggests Disney and the production committee are treating it as a continuing series rather than a promotional push.
What to expect
The episode count is the thing to watch. Heartslabyul’s story had to fit into eight episodes, and the season moved through its central mystery at a decent clip. Savanaclaw has a clearer antagonist structure to work with, so the adaptation has more room to slow down and let scenes sit.
Weekly streaming from December 23 also means the season will run into late February, past the start of the winter 2027 anime slate. That is a crowded window, and it says something that Disney is not trying to squeeze the show in before it. A late-December start also means the premiere arrives during Japan’s New Year holidays, when most shows take a break.
For a look at what else is waiting on the other side of that slate, see our report on Though I Am an Inept Villainess cour 2.
No English dub cast has been confirmed.
Source: Anime Corner
Featured image: the new key visual for Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Animation: Episode of Savanaclaw, via Anime Corner.
