Comedy

When Does Space Patrol Luluco Season 2 Come Out? Is It Renewed?

Space Patrol Luluco ended after Season 1.

IMDb

7.0/10

Seasons

1

Episodes

13

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Network
Tokyo MX
First aired
2016-04-01
Last aired
2016-06-24
Runtime
8 min
Rated
TV-14

Awards 1 win & 3 nominations

Predictive Logic Analysis

Space Patrol Luluco has concluded its run. Production records list the series as ended, meaning the story has been brought to a planned close rather than left open. Barring a revival, there is no Season 2 in development.

What is Space Patrol Luluco about?

Space Patrol Luluco is a gleefully anarchic comedy that finds its humor in the collision between mundane adolescence and cosmic chaos. The show follows Luluco, an aggressively ordinary middle school girl living in Ogikubo, a designated zone in space where humans and aliens coexist, yet she remains determinedly, almost stubbornly unremarkable despite her extraordinary surroundings. When the mysterious transfer student ΑΩ Nova crashes into her life, he drags her into the absurdist machinery of Space Patrol—a bureaucratic law enforcement agency—and Luluco's quest to maintain her perfectly normal existence becomes the comedic engine that drives the series. The premise rests on a deceptively simple joke: what if the most interesting thing about a girl surrounded by aliens and danger was her complete refusal to find any of it interesting?

The show's execution is distinctly Trigger—rapid-fire visual gags, deliberately crude animation that shifts styles moment to moment, and a sensibility that treats the cosmic and the mundane with equal, irreverent absurdity. Rather than building elaborate sci-fi world-building, Luluco weaponizes its thirteen-episode runtime with sprints of escalating weirdness punctuated by genuinely affecting character moments. The tonal whiplash is intentional, creating a show that feels simultaneously lightweight and surprisingly tender, where jokes about space bureaucracy sit comfortably beside sincere explorations of parent-child relationships and first love. It's maximalist storytelling in miniature form.

Audiences and critics embraced Luluco as a cult favorite, appreciating its fearless commitment to comedy over narrative convention and its genuine affection for its characters beneath all the mayhem. The show developed a devoted following despite its short run, with viewers praising its fearless pace and willingness to pivot tone without warning. Its seven out of ten IMDb score understates the enthusiasm of those who connected with its particular brand of controlled chaos.

Within the crowded landscape of anime comedy, Space Patrol Luluco occupies a distinctive niche as a show uninterested in explaining itself or apologizing for its weirdness. It emerged at a moment when studio Trigger was establishing itself as a voice for kinetic, irreverent animation, and Luluco became a calling card for the studio's ability to build genuine character investment within deliberately unserious frameworks. The series remains a high-water mark for shorts-format anime ambition, proving that brief runtime and small budgets need not constrain imaginative storytelling.

Themes

spaceschoolanime

Is Space Patrol Luluco renewed or cancelled?

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The series is listed as ended

Space Patrol Luluco Season 2 Release Date

No new season is expected. Space Patrol Luluco has ended, so there is no upcoming release to anticipate unless a revival is announced.

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Space Patrol Luluco seasons

Season 12016 · 13 ep
  • 1. I'm a Normal Middle School Student2016-04-01 · ★ 7.0
  • 2. A New Transfer Student Arrives!2016-04-08 · ★ 7.0
  • 3. Battlefield Classroom2016-04-15 · ★ 7.0
  • 4. Into the Sky All Alone2016-04-22 · ★ 7.0
  • 5. What Should I Do?2016-04-29 · ★ 7.0
  • 6. That One Part Awakens2016-05-06 · ★ 7.0
  • 7. The Trap of Fate's Threads2016-05-13 · ★ 7.0
  • 8. The Trap of the Mystical Power2016-05-20 · ★ 7.0
  • 9. The True Trap2016-05-27 · ★ 7.0
  • 10. It's All Over2016-06-03 · ★ 7.0
  • 11. I Was Clueless2016-06-10 · ★ 7.0
  • 12. Confession2016-06-17 · ★ 7.0
  • 13. I'll Give Chase to the Ends of the Universe2016-06-24 · ★ 7.0

Space Patrol Luluco cast

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Mao Ichimichi

Mao Ichimichi

Luluco (voice)

Junya Enoki

Junya Enoki

ΑΩ Nova (voice)

Mayumi Shintani

Mayumi Shintani

Midori (voice)

Tetsu Inada

Tetsu Inada

Over Justice Honbuchou (voice)

Mitsuo Iwata

Mitsuo Iwata

Keiji (voice)

Nobuyuki Hiyama

Nobuyuki Hiyama

Blackholeian (voice)

Yoko Honna

Yoko Honna

Lalaco Godspeed (voice)

Junichi Gotou

Inferno Cop (voice)

Wataru Takagi

Wataru Takagi

Machspeed (voice)

Mitsuki Nakae

Mitsuki Nakae

Secchan (voice)

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    Frequently asked

    When does Space Patrol Luluco Season 2 come out?
    Space Patrol Luluco ended after Season 1.
    Is Space Patrol Luluco renewed or cancelled?
    Space Patrol Luluco has ended. Its final season has already aired and no further seasons are expected.
    How many seasons of Space Patrol Luluco are there?
    Space Patrol Luluco has aired 1 season so far.
    How many episodes of Space Patrol Luluco are there?
    There are 13 episodes of Space Patrol Luluco across 1 season.
    Where can I watch Space Patrol Luluco?
    Space Patrol Luluco is available to stream on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel and Apple TV Store.
    What is Space Patrol Luluco's IMDb rating?
    Space Patrol Luluco holds an IMDb rating of 7/10 from 733 votes.