The ring is open again.
Bloodhounds is returning for its second season in April and the official teaser has dropped along with an intense visual that encourages the fighters to “bite down and protect to the bitter end.” The teaser opens with the two fighter friends promising to support each other and be there for each other until the day they die. A new villains enters the ring in the form of Baek Jeong, the leader of an underground boxing league who will stop at nothing to win–and has his eyes on Geon-woo, the new champion.
Returning to Season 2 are Woo Do-hwan and Lee Sang-yi who play Kim Geon-woo and Hong Woo-jin, respectively. Geon-woo is a former Marine and a talented boxing prospect who, in the first season, embarks on a dangerous mission to bring down Smile Capital, a bloodthirsty loan shark organization. In his quest to save his mother, he meets Woo-jin, another former Marine and a delinquent, and the two form an unlikely friendship.
K-Pop legend Rain joins Season 2 as the new villain Baek Jeong, four years after his last role in Ghost Doctor.
Ghost Studio and Studio N co-produced the drama and Kim Joo-hwan will direct and write the second season. Premiering on June 9, 2023 with eight episodes, Season 1 won Lee Sang-yi the Excellence Award for Acting at the Korea Drama Awards that same year. The late Kim Saeron also acted in Season 1 as Cha Hyun-joo, Choi Tae-ho’s foster granddaughter.
Written and illustrated by Jeong Chan, all 84 episodes of Bloodhounds launched on the English WEBTOON platform on March 8, 2022. The series has garnered 2.4 million views.
The synopsis reads:
Bark, bark! Yes, I aim to please and do your bidding. And I’ll certainly never bare my teeth – that is, as long as you don’t show your back. Because it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. Whether you’re a judge, CEO, boss of the criminal underworld, or a nobody, it doesn’t matter. In the face of money, all are equal.
Bloodhounds Season 2 jumps into the Netflix ring on April 3. The webcomic can be read on WEBTOON.
Source: Netflix
