‘Knights Of Guinevere’ Episode 2 Nears 9 Million Views In Two Days

A year after its pilot became a breakout YouTube hit, Knights of Guinevere has returned with another impressive launch. The indie series’ second episode reached six million YouTube views in its first day and nearly nine million by day two, demonstrating that enthusiasm for Glitch Productions’ first 2D series has carried well beyond its initial debut, despite a long gap between its first two episodes.

Released on October 9, “Wolves Around The Corner” continues the sci-fi psychological thriller created by The Owl House creator Dana Terrace alongside longtime collaborators John Bailey Owen and Zach Marcus. The series follows Andi and Frankie, two laborers whose discovery of a damaged princess android draws them into the secrets beneath a planet-wide amusement park.

The most useful viewership benchmark is probably the show’s own first episode. Released September 19, 2025, the pilot passed eight million views in its first two days. Episode two, therefore, has launched at a comparable, slightly higher level. That’s an encouraging sign that the series can turn pilot attention into sustained interest as the fully greenlit first season continues.

Other indie animation successes put that achievement into further perspective. Lackadaisy, the independently produced 2D pilot adapted from Tracy Butler’s webcomic later boarded by Glitch, attracted more than 3.5 million views in its first week. At the blockbuster end of the spectrum, Glitch’s The Amazing Digital Circus reached 30 million views within 24 hours of its second episode’s May 2024 release.

Those launches aren’t directly comparable: the productions arrived with different audiences, promotional reach, and recognition. But they help establish the context. Millions of views within days represent a major achievement for independent animation, even in a field where Digital Circus has set an extraordinary benchmark.

For Knights of Guinevere, the response also underscores the production experiment behind the series. Glitch greenlit the full show in February, following a pilot that established an entirely new 2D pipeline at the previously CG-exclusive studio. Speaking to Cartoon Brew at the time, Terrace described the ambition, saying: “We are trying to figure out a pipeline that can provide beautiful and interesting animation while still being sustainable.”

The wait between Episode 1, launched on September 19, 2025, and last weekend’s E2 may have raised questions about the show’s staying power, which have now been emphatically answered. Fans now face a much shorter wait for more new KoG, with episode three scheduled for January 22, 2027, and episode four for April 16, 2027. Before then, the first two episodes will open L.A.’s Animation Is Film festival with a theatrical screening on October 16.