Painting Rivers and Lakes 2, Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2, 画江湖之不良人 第2季, Hua Jianghu: Bu Liang Ren II, Hua Jiang Hu: Bu Liang Ren 2nd Season, 画江湖之不良人 第二季, 画江湖之不良人II, The Degenerate-Drawing Jianghu 2
Announcement status
Official announcement records with supporting citations.
Official announcement logged Jan 1, 2018, 12:00 AM.
Franchise timeline
Review every Courcast-tracked season for this series and jump between entries.
Courcast score breakdown
CourScore weighs signals for an official sequel announcement within 18 months, blending attention velocity, completion strength, and catalogue health.
CourScore measures renewal signals out of 100. It is not a calibrated probability of an official sequel announcement within 18 months.
Signal coverage: 100% • Signal freshness: High • Updated 9 hours ago
Top reasons
- Strong renewal expectation - Strong signals suggest renewal is expected.
This is an anime original, not an adaptation, so there is no source material to run down - renewal turns on sales and popularity rather than runway.
CourScore history
CourScore over time
Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2 renewal questions
Common questions about this title's renewal prospects, answered by Courcast's daily analysis.
- Is Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2 getting a new season?
- Yes - Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2 has an officially confirmed continuation. See the Announcement Status section above for the full details and citations.
- Will Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2 be renewed?
- Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2 has already been confirmed for a new entry - it has cleared the renewal hurdle. See the Announcement Status section for the source citation.
- What is Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2's renewal probability?
- Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 2's CourScore is 100 as of the latest update. CourScore is Courcast's proprietary metric that aggregates over a dozen renewal signals - from source-material runway to social buzz - into a single daily signal score out of 100.
Fresh telemetry
Courcast watches every connected signal to surface the freshest indicators of momentum.
| Source | Metric | Geo | Value | Collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anilist | average score | GLOBAL | 54 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | favorites | GLOBAL | 7 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | popularity | GLOBAL | 347 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | trending | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode count | GLOBAL | 60 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode dislikes | GLOBAL | 1,824 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode likes | GLOBAL | 30,656 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | series available | GLOBAL | 1 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest daily | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | favorites | GLOBAL | 2 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | member count | GLOBAL | 335 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | rating rank | GLOBAL | 2,244 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | score mean | GLOBAL | 75.57 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | completed | GLOBAL | 516 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | members | GLOBAL | 1,435 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | plan to watch | GLOBAL | 503 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | watching | GLOBAL | 215 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mangadex | source status code | GLOBAL | 2 | Oct 26, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| comments 7d | GLOBAL | 32 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| mentions 1d | GLOBAL | 1 | Aug 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| mentions 7d | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| score 7d | GLOBAL | 63 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| thread count | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| threads 7d | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| shikimori | completion ratio | GLOBAL | 0.07 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | member count | GLOBAL | 696 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | score mean | GLOBAL | 64.7 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| simkl | score mean | GLOBAL | 75 | Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | popularity | GLOBAL | 1.13 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | vote count | GLOBAL | 5 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |