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NEWS: Vinland Saga 2nd Season Anime's New Trailer Reveals January 9 Premiere (Updated)

The anime will stream in Japan on Netflix and other services, and outside of Japan on Netflix and Crunchyroll, among other services.

Crunchyroll will stream the season in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Alto Adige France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, and Andorr

I wonder if Crunchyroll will also acquire wider streaming rights to S1 to have both seasons on the platform in more territories than just French- and German-speaking Europe. Neither Netflix's nor Hidive's license is exclusive so it's definitely possible.

Are you sure ANN?
The website says the following
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Well, not 100 percent true. Crunchyroll will be streaming Vinland Saga season 2 Worldwide except Asia.

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Crunchyroll will stream the season in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Alto Adige France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, and Andorr

Where did you get this ANN since the site your sourcing directly says nothing of the sort?

The Official site says CR will stream it Worldwide except Asia just like Netflix & CR's own blog post lists territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS

Source - https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2022/10/24/crunchyroll-to-stream-vinland-saga-season-2-anime-in-january-2023

Yeah, the article seems to confuse the Crunchyroll streaming territories of seasons 1 and 2. For S2 the website explicitly says Crunchyroll will stream it "worldwide except Asia".

I wonder if Crunchyroll will also acquire wider streaming rights to S1 to have both seasons on the platform in more territories than just French- and German-speaking Europe. Neither Netflix's nor Hidive's license is exclusive so it's definitely possible.

The anime's website initially and specifically listed Crunchyroll as streaming season 2 in "Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Alto Adige France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra" on Monday at 9:00 p.m. JST (8:00 a.m. EDT). It updated with the current listing ("Worldwide except Asia") less than 20 minutes later.

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The anime's website initially and specifically listed Crunchyroll as streaming season 2 in "Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Alto Adige France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra" on Monday at 9:00 p.m. JST (8:00 a.m. EDT). It updated with the current listing ("Worldwide except Asia") less than 20 minutes later.

I also had a look at the website once the official twitter account posted about it and remember season 2 being listed as WW x Asia from the beginning. I think ANN maybe got it confused with the rights of S1 for CR which is only streaming on French- and German-speaking CR.

The official Twitter account did not post about overseas streaming until at little after 9:00 p.m. JST (8:00 a.m. EDT). At that time, the anime's website had not updated to list season 2 on Crunchyroll for "Worldwide except Asia."

Egan Loo wrote:

The official Twitter account did not post about overseas streaming until at little after 9:00 p.m. JST (8:00 a.m. EDT). At that time, the anime's website had not updated to list season 2 on Crunchyroll for "Worldwide except Asia."

The JP account posted the streaming availability at exact 9:01 p.m. JST (8:01 a.m. EDT). https://twitter.com/V_SAGA_ANIME/status/1584515297238691840

Urgh, who cares; it wasn't right in the article, and now it is after some delay. That's it.

Looking good! I think the new OP fits the vibe of this arc quite a bit, especially since it's different from the first season.

I'm glad I can stream it on Crunchyroll, but does that mean we'll be getting two different dubs again? Will Crunchyroll use a more Funimation-based cast while Netflix uses their LA cast? Or will Crunchy try to bring back the Sentai cast?