Zee Community has formally renewed The Nice Indian Anime Present for a second season following a powerful debut season which captured thousands and thousands of viewers.
The Nice Indian Anime Present initially debuted as India’s first anime-centric discuss present broadcast on nationwide tv.
Co-created and co-produced by the Inamdar brothers, Aryansahil and Sahilaryan, the collection features as a devoted hub for Indian anime fans to have a good time their favourite medium via interviews, trade insights and deep-dive fandom discussions.
“With the conclusion of Season 1 and the unbelievable response we obtained from the viewers, a private dream of mine — changing into India’s primary anime content material creator — has change into a actuality. Over the past 5 years of my journey as an anime content material creator in India, I’ve had the chance to collaborate with a number of anime company, influencers, voice artists, and creators who’ve contributed to this rising neighborhood,” stated Aryansahil, expressing his happiness on the new growth.
The present’s 13-episode first season initially premiered on Dec 3, 2025 on tv, earlier than rapidly spreading out to Zee5 OTT platform.
Sahilaryan and Aryansahil had estimated that the primary season would attain round 5 million. Nevertheless, it exceeded expectations, amassing over 10.3 million views throughout tv and streaming platforms.
A major 76% of these viewers tuned in throughout the first 30 days of launch. This quantity jumped to over 20 million views when mixed with YouTube and different social media platforms.
In whole, the debut season generated over 34.35 million minutes of watch time throughout the Zee tv channels. The primary episode that includes AnimeTm Talks and Ashley and the third episode that includes BNFTV particularly, accounted for roughly 44% of the season’s lifetime views, with 2.39 and a pair of.21 million views respectively.
The story is a bit totally different in relation to YouTube although. On the time of writing, the episode, which options AnimeTm Talks because the visitor, has over 400k views on YouTube.
Nevertheless, the episode that includes voice actor Sanket Mhatre (Voice of Sasuke Uchiha, Roronoa Zoro, Ben10, Deadpool, and different characters) and the one that includes cosplayer RaRa and creator Anshika are essentially the most seen on the platform, with over 900k and 750k views respectively.
That is adopted by the episode that includes Nachiket Dighe( Voice actor for Ash ketchum in Pokemon) which had near 700k views. The general views on YouTube for the present has crossed 7.1 million views as of June 2026.
The Nice Indian Anime Present Season 2 Heads to Japan:
Trying forward, the brothers revealed that the second season is being deliberate to be shot totally in Japan, making historical past as the primary Indian tv collection about anime to be shot within the nation.
“Once we began planning Season 2 of The Nice Indian Anime Present, our preliminary thought was to convey creators and expertise from Japan to India. However we revisited that concept and requested ourselves — if we really wish to make this present identified worldwide and construct it into one thing larger, why not take audiences to the center of anime itself?” Sahilaryan elaborated.
The upcoming season will characteristic eight important episodes and 4 filler episodes with a runtime of twenty-two minutes every. Together with having conversations with company and trade stalwarts, Aryansahil stated that he may also information audiences via iconic areas like Tokyo’s Akihabara district to discover classic manga retailers and maid cafes.
The crew can also be gunning to achieve entry to working anime manufacturing studios, sound design amenities and voice recording periods to interrupt down the artistic course of behind well-liked collection, whereas additionally trying to get entry to historic locations together with Tokyo Tower, Himeji Fortress, Sensoji Temple and different cultural factors of curiosity for a greater understanding of their content material.
“The purpose is to remodel The Nice Indian Anime Present from an Indian anime present into a global IP. We consider this journey will open doorways for future seasons to discover anime communities, cultures, and creators throughout totally different international locations, like America and Korea for the forthcoming seasons, making this a really world celebration of anime,” Aryansahil added.
Although its within the planning phases, Season 2 is being projected to achieve over 15 million viewers throughout the Zee community and digital platforms.
That quantity appears doable as followers continued to find the present nicely after its preliminary launch, leading to a wholesome long-tail consumption. As an example, roughly 71% of the views for the episode that includes AnimeTm Talks occurred after the primary 30 days of its launch.
Each Aryansahil and Sahilaryan are actually specializing in securing a powerful visitor listing for the second season, to be able to replicate the large numbers posted by the primary season of the present.
“As i discussed at first, AniLyst is now Indias largest anime content material creator and thus my purpose is full, Now, I set my eyes on getting the World’s Number one Anime Content material Creator title,” Aryansahil added.
A few years in the past, it will have been arduous to think about that anime creators, influencers and trade insiders from India would get a platform on tv to speak about what they love essentially the most – anime. Nevertheless, that has now been made doable and it has additionally damaged the stigma of anime not being seen as mainstream.
The Nice Indian Anime Present made an impression on linear tv viewership for Zee Café, reworking a historically sluggish 3:30 PM afternoon slot by rising its common minute viewers by twenty occasions its regular price.
Viewers heading house from college or school turned the printed into an appointment viewing behavior, constructing a each day common attain of over 81,000 viewers. The collection additionally managed to ascertain a brand-new primetime viewers at 9 PM, drawing in older millennials and households.
Taking all this into image, the longer term appears brilliant, not only for The Nice Indian Anime Present, but in addition for all of the anime followers within the nation because it brings about extra avenues to debate their favourite medium.
