B: The Beginning Succession

6.2(36,109)

MAL Score

Ranked #9755

Popularity #2315

Action
Mystery
Suspense
Detective
Psychological
Super Power

Episodes: 6
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Mar 18, 2021
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

After the events of *B: The Beginning*, Keith Flick has faced his past at great cost and helped bring hidden truths about the Kingdom of Cremona into the open, while Koku finally reclaimed a treasured piece of his stolen childhood. Months later, the upheaval has faded from public memory, and life appears to have settled.

Keith returns to the Royal Police to quietly pursue his own investigation, as Koku and Yuna attempt to live peacefully and embrace a more ordinary routine. That fragile calm doesn’t last: the fallout from the Jaula Blanca experiments hasn’t truly ended, and Koku is forced to confront it when Kirisame—once believed dead—reappears.

Otaku Consensus

Succession is widely received as a sharply produced but underfed continuation: Production I.G’s direction, adult police texture, and psychological super-power imagery still give the series a distinctive thriller charge. The common verdict is that its six-episode structure works against it, leaving mysteries and confrontations feeling compressed compared with the first season’s stronger procedural momentum.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Succession if you want a compact, mood-heavy crime anime that mixes Royal Police investigation with engineered-body horror, not a long mystery box that spends a full cour explaining itself. It scratches a nearby itch to Psycho-Pass and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex in its adult-cast surveillance-and-crime atmosphere, while keeping B: The Beginning’s stranger superhuman mythology in the foreground. The appeal is the collision of two modes: Keith’s cool, forensic detective energy and Koku’s more operatic action material. At only six episodes, it plays less like a full second season than a tense aftershock for viewers who liked the first season’s contradictions: slick Production I.G craft, European-flavored setting, police jargon, fugitive pressure, and bursts of body-horror spectacle.

Key Characters

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Lily Hoshina(VA: Asami Seto)
Lily brings a younger, more reactive police presence to a cast otherwise dominated by damaged specialists and long-buried institutional secrets.
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Keith Kazama Flick(VA: Hiroaki Hirata)
Keith remains the franchise’s most compelling procedural element: a withdrawn investigator whose appeal comes from method, restraint, and emotional fallout rather than conventional heroics.
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Kokuu(VA: Yuuki Kaji)
Kokuu anchors the super-power side of the series, giving Succession its sharpest contrast between intimate vulnerability and violent mythic design.
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Yuna(VA: Satomi Satou)
Yuna’s role matters because she keeps the story’s engineered-human mythology tied to memory, recovery, and the possibility of ordinary life.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Succession is unusually short for a sequel season, running only six episodes, which directly shapes its reception: viewers repeatedly cite the compressed pacing as both easy to binge and narratively limiting.
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Production I.G handles the animation, keeping the franchise in the studio lineage associated by reviewers with sleek crime-action anime such as Ghost in the Shell and Psycho-Pass rather than a softer fantasy-adventure mode.
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Kazuto Nakazawa is not just attached as a marquee name; he is credited as chief director, series composer, and one of the character designers, making Succession a continuation with unusually visible creator continuity.
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AniList’s highest-weighted tags lean heavily into Police, Crime, and Detective, while Body Horror and CGI also appear, capturing the show’s specific hybrid of procedural investigation and engineered-superhuman spectacle.
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The season centers a primarily adult cast according to AniList tagging, which helps distinguish it from school-age battle mysteries and gives its conversations, workplaces, and power struggles a colder institutional tone.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Kazuto Nakazawa, identified in web coverage as a famed animator connected to Samurai Champloo and Steamboy, returned to Succession with multiple top-level credits rather than serving only as a legacy supervisor.
Fun fact 2: The character design credits are split among Akane Yano, Hideoki Kusama, and Kazuto Nakazawa, while Shinobu Tsuneki handled mechanical design and Miori Tsusaka and Ayako Oogi handled prop design.
Fun fact 3: Succession’s public scores line up across platforms: it holds a 6.21/10 on MyAnimeList from 36,056 votes and a 61/100 on AniList, reflecting a broad but notably lukewarm reception.
Fun fact 4: The sequel arrived on March 18, 2021, three years after the first season’s 2018 Netflix-era wave of reviews, which had praised the original’s visual style while already criticizing its uneven plotting.
Fun fact 5: Fan reviews commonly land in the 6–7/10 range, with recurring complaints that the season felt too brief, left too many mysteries unresolved, and did not match the first season’s stronger impact.