During the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters series premiere, Mari Yamamoto’s character Keiko was thought to have died in 1959. We continued to follow along with her in scenes set earlier in the MonsterVerse timeline, but then it was revealed at the end of “Axis Mundi” that not only was Keiko still alive, she was still youthful. By the end of the Monarch Season 1 finale, Keiko finally returned to the surface, where it’s now 2017 in the series. Tory Tunnell, one of the Apple TV subscription-exclusive show’s executive producers, talked about how this Captain America-like situation she’s now in will be explored in Season 2, which will soon debut on the 2026 TV schedule.
For those who need more context, I’m referring to how Captain America ended up frozen in the final months of World War II and was thawed decades later, with the Super Soldier Serum in his body keeping him alive. It’s different for Keiko, as time flows differently in Axis Mundi, so she’d only been there for two months from her perspective. Nevertheless, now she finds herself nearly 60 years from when she first disappeared, and Tunnell had the following to say to SFX Magazine on CinemaBlend about the “uncomfortable emotional places” Keiko will find herself in:
