As talked about above, “Tokyo Vice” ended up being an enormous hit worldwide. “Effectively, we’re actually lucky that the primary season was a success worldwide,” stated Poul. “And even in Japan, the place it was seen on the satellite tv for pc community Wowow, it had an amazing popularity. So we’re coming again to a really altered panorama.”
How altered? Effectively, it seems to be like folks preferred the present a lot that the filmmakers are discovering they’ve extra entry to shoot season 2. “[E]verybody is aware of what the present is, and all people is aware of that the present takes a really genuine Japanese perspective in describing Tokyo within the 90s,” Poul acknowledged. “So we’re discovering many extra doorways opening and other people really welcoming us, and even soliciting us, on the idea of how a lot they loved the primary season. In order that’s a dramatic change.”
Poul added that “Making the present work as effectively for Japanese audiences because it does for Western audiences was a really key aim for our showrunner, J.T. Rogers and the complete producing staff,” and it is clear that method paid off since extra doorways are actually being opened to the manufacturing. However the query stays: when will we see season 2? The second season was ordered again in 2022, and it seems like manufacturing has positively begun. Hopefully, we’ll know extra about “Tokyo Vice” season 2 quickly.