Clevatess II (officially Clevatess II -The King of Magical Beasts and the Legend of the False Hero-) wraps its second season with Episode 13 on Wednesday, September 30, 2026. The finale, titled “The True Hero” (真の勇者), arrives on Crunchyroll for international audiences at 5:00 AM PT / 8:00 AM ET, with Japanese broadcast airing at 9:00 PM JST on Tokyo MX and AT-X that same day. Episode 13 is the season finale and the 13th and final episode of Season 2, bringing the Solsein Divine Academy arc to its conclusion. The episode will stream with English subtitles and will later receive an English dub on Crunchyroll, consistent with the season’s release pattern.
Key Facts
- Episode: Clevatess II Episode 13 (Season 2 Finale)
- Title: “The True Hero” (真の勇者)
- Release Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
- Crunchyroll Stream Time: 5:00 AM PT / 8:00 AM ET / 12:00 PM GMT
- Japanese Broadcast: 9:00 PM JST on Tokyo MX, AT-X, and 27 other stations
- Total Episodes (Season 2): 13
- Streaming Platform: Crunchyroll (worldwide simulcast)
- Episode Runtime: Approximately 24 minutes
Exact Worldwide Release Times for Clevatess II Episode 13
Clevatess II Episode 13 releases on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at the same time as all previous Season 2 episodes. Crunchyroll streams new episodes weekly at 5:00 AM Pacific Time, which corresponds to different local times depending on your region. Below is the complete breakdown by time zone and region.
North America
- Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) – Los Angeles, Vancouver, Seattle: 5:00 AM
- Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) – Denver, Calgary, Edmonton: 6:00 AM
- Central Daylight Time (CDT) – Chicago, Dallas, Mexico City, Winnipeg: 7:00 AM
- Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) – New York, Toronto, Miami, Atlanta, Montreal: 8:00 AM
- Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT) – Anchorage: 4:00 AM
- Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST) – Honolulu: 2:00 AM
Europe and Africa
- British Summer Time (BST) – London, Dublin, Lisbon: 1:00 PM
- Central European Summer Time (CEST) – Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich: 2:00 PM
- Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) – Helsinki, Athens, Bucharest, Kyiv: 3:00 PM
- West Africa Time (WAT) – Lagos, Accra: 1:00 PM
- South Africa Standard Time (SAST) – Johannesburg, Cape Town: 2:00 PM
- Moscow Standard Time (MSK) – Moscow: 3:00 PM
Asia and the Middle East
- India Standard Time (IST) – Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore: 5:30 PM
- Pakistan Standard Time (PKT) – Karachi, Lahore: 5:00 PM
- Bangladesh Standard Time (BST) – Dhaka: 6:00 PM
- Indochina Time (ICT) – Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta: 7:00 PM
- China Standard Time (CST) – Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila: 8:00 PM
- Japan Standard Time (JST) – Tokyo, Osaka: 9:00 PM (Japanese broadcast)
- Korea Standard Time (KST) – Seoul: 9:00 PM
- Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: 10:00 PM
- Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) – Perth: 8:00 PM
- New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) – Auckland: 12:00 AM (October 1)
South America
- Brasília Time (BRT) – São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro: 9:00 AM
- Argentina Time (ART) – Buenos Aires: 9:00 AM
- Chile Standard Time (CLT) – Santiago: 9:00 AM
How to Watch Clevatess II Episode 13
Clevatess II Episode 13 streams exclusively on Crunchyroll for viewers outside Japan. The platform holds worldwide simulcast rights for the series across North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, the CIS region, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. A Crunchyroll subscription is required to watch new episodes on release day, though free users can access episodes one week after their premiere. The episode will be available in Japanese audio with English subtitles at launch, with an English dub to follow. Crunchyroll also offers the series on its Amazon Channel in select regions, and the show is available for purchase on the Apple TV Store.
In Japan, Episode 13 airs on Tokyo MX and AT-X at 9:00 PM JST on September 30, 2026, with 27 total broadcast stations carrying the finale. German-language viewers on Crunchyroll can also watch the episode with German subtitles and German dubbing at 2:00 PM CEST on the same day.
Clevatess II Anime Overview: Complete Story and Production Details
Clevatess II is the second season of the dark fantasy anime Clevatess, adapted from Yuji Iwahara’s manga Clevatess -Majū no Ō to Akago to Shikabane no Yūsha- (Clevatess: The King of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero), serialized on LINE Manga since 2020. The anime is produced by Lay-duce and directed by Kiyotaka Taguchi, with Keigo Koyanagi handling series scripts and Souichirou Sako serving as character designer and chief animation director.
- Official Title: Clevatess II -The King of Magical Beasts and the Legend of the False Hero-
- Season 2 Premiere Date: July 8, 2026
- Season 2 Finale Date: September 30, 2026
- Total Episodes (Season 2): 13
- Studio: Lay-duce
- Director: Kiyotaka Taguchi
- Series Composition: Keigo Koyanagi
- Character Design: Souichirou Sako
- Music Composer: Nobuaki Nobusawa
- Opening Theme: “Foreshadow” by Mayu Maeshima
- Ending Theme: “Awake Anew” by MYTH & ROID
- Original Creator: Yuji Iwahara
The story centers on Clevatess, one of the Lords of Dark Beasts, whose reign is upended when he revives a hero he personally killed and adopts an orphaned humanoid baby, Luna—the last hope to save a dying world. The first season aired from July to September 2025, with a second season confirmed at the end of its run.
The main cast includes Haruka Shiraishi as Alicia, Mutsumi Tamura as Klen, Yūichi Nakamura as Clevatess, Saya Aizawa as Luna, Tomoyo Kurosawa as Naie, Shūichirō Umeda as Rei, Yurina Kikuchi as Mary Mary, Tatsumaru Tachibana as Andrew, Ryōta Suzuki as Tigel, Hiromu Mineta as Leon, Misaki Kuno as Sarasa, Kōtarō Nishiyama as Edison, Akira Sekine as Mirea, Shirō Sano as Romain, Megumi Han as Zavthier, and Tomokazu Sugita as Lasswell.
Clevatess II Episode 12 Recap: The Millennium of the Dark Beast King
Episode 12, titled “The Millennium of the Dark Beast King” (魔獣王の千年), aired on September 23, 2026, and delivered the season’s biggest lore reveal while setting up the final confrontation. The episode was a lore-heavy flashback that fundamentally changed how viewers understand the world of Clevatess, the true nature of the “Heroic Legend,” and the motivations of the season’s antagonist, Vordin. It received a community score of 4.2 on Anime News Network, with praise for its world-building despite some criticism of the production values during the flashback segments.
The True Hero’s Story: Write and the Fall of Toah
The central revelation of Episode 12 is the story of Write (also spelled Wright), the legendary True Hero and the first isekai protagonist summoned to the world of Clevatess. Write was a writer from another world with a unique ability: anything he wrote became reality. He created the Books of Toah and the Heroic Legend, which were designed to guide summoned heroes through their battles. However, Write’s true purpose was far darker: he intentionally created these texts as a long-con to destroy the kingdom of Toah from within.
Toah, it turns out, was a deeply cruel and apathetic kingdom that summoned heroes from other worlds and threw them into an endless cycle of brutal violence and reincarnation, treating them as disposable weapons. Write recognized this injustice and orchestrated Toah’s destruction not through a Dark Beast, but through the very systems the kingdom relied upon. The apocalypse of Toah was not the doing of any Dark Beast, but the work of a nerdy writer with a talent for playing the long-con—a twist that ANN’s reviewer called “damned fine world-building”.
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Vordin’s Motivation: The Desire to Revive a Rival
The episode also revealed why Vordin, the Dark Beast King and the season’s primary antagonist, has been so relentless in his pursuit. Vordin’s goal is not conquest or destruction—it is the resurrection of Write, his greatest rival and the only opponent who ever truly challenged him. Vordin spent a year fighting alongside Write before the True Hero’s death, and after a millennium, no other opponent has ever compared. Vordin’s obsession with Write is framed as a desperate craving for the blood-soaked attention and intimacy of a heated rivalry, a motivation that ANN’s reviewer described as carrying “aggressive homoerotic subtext”.
Clevatess vs. Vordin: The Battle in the Secret Room
While the flashback unfolded, the present-day battle between Clevatess and Vordin continued in the secret room beneath Solsein. Vordin overwhelmed Clevatess in direct combat, landing a punch so powerful that the entire medium shifted to live-action with a rotoscoped miniature explosion—a visual technique that ANN’s reviewer noted was “ripped straight out of an Ultraman joint”, a nod to director Kiyotaka Taguchi’s tokusatsu background. Vordin also pointed out the existential boredom that has held Clevatess back for centuries, humbling the Dark Beast King in a way viewers had not seen before.
The episode ended with Write’s resurrection, setting up the three-way confrontation between Wright, Vordin, and Clevatess for the finale.
Alicia’s Second Trial and the Defeat of Mirea
Alicia’s storyline in Episode 12 focused on her second trial within the mirror world. She faced an illusory version of her father and was tempted by a path of comfort, but she refused to cut down the false father or take the easy route. Instead, she arrived at the one “correct answer”: to affirm herself as she is and move forward. By accepting her true self, Alicia successfully cleared the second trial, and a second crest appeared on her face. Enraged by Alicia’s success, the dark Mirea attacked her, but the episode ended with Alicia’s new power beginning to turn the tide.
Klen and Luna’s Progress
Klen, now serving as Luna’s personal magic instructor, continued his infiltration of Solsein Divine Academy alongside Alicia. The secret room that General Drel left behind became the center of a three-nation summit involving Hiden, Boelate, and Esrin, with envoys from each country arriving at the academy. Klen’s battle with Solsein’s forces continued in the secret room, running parallel to Clevatess’s fight with Vordin.
What to Expect in Clevatess II Episode 13: “The True Hero”
Episode 13, titled “The True Hero” (真の勇者), is the season finale and will resolve the three-way conflict between Clevatess, Vordin, and the resurrected Write. The official preview reveals that Alicia, having cleared her second trial, now wields the power of her second crest and uses it to corner the dark Mirea. With Mirea defeated, the only remaining enemy is Vordin—and Alicia is determined to settle the score. The finale will also address the fate of Solsein Divine Academy, the truth behind the Heroic Legend, and whether Write’s resurrection will bring about the destruction Vordin desires or something else entirely. The episode is expected to deliver the final confrontation while answering the major questions raised by Episode 12 about Write’s true purpose, Toah’s surviving influence, and Vordin’s ultimate goal.
Also Read: Clevatess Season 2 Episode 11 Recap: Alicia Overcomes Her Greatest Emotional Battle
Clevatess II delivers its season finale with the kind of narrative payoff that dark fantasy fans have been waiting for—stay locked on VvipTimes for more anime release coverage and in-depth recaps.
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