Upcoming anime
| Picture | Name & Description | Premiere date |
|---|---|---|
 | BEASTARS (TV 4) | 2026-03-07 |
 | Rooster Fighter (TV) In a world where terrifying monsters walk the earth, one heroic rooster is destined for greatness. When giant demons threaten the innocent, he’s going to show them who’s boss. The neighborhood cock of the walk is more than just an ordinary rooster—he’s humanity’s greatest defender. His opponents may be ten stories tall, but nothing is bigger than his stout heart and his fearsome battle cry—cock-a-doodle-doo.(from manga) | 2026-03-14 |
 | STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (TV) America, 1890. The longest and largest race ever, the Steel Ball Run, is about to start. It's a race from San Diego, California all the way to New York City, New York, and while horses are the traditional racing medium, anything can be used. The winner is the one with the most points, via checkpoint placement, when they reach New York. The prize: $2,000,000. Gyro Zepelli, a mysterious man with an equally mysterious steel ball, is planning on winning the race. Johnny Joestar (JoJo) is a former jockey who's cockiness got him paralyzed from the legs down. An accidental contact with the steel ball made his leg twitch, so he's in the race the learn about Gyro's steel ball. But the challenges of Diego Brando, a popular European jockey, Pocoloco, a slave with the Devil's Luck, Sandman, a native american who is sprinting all the way to NYC, and others will make it hard for Gyro and JoJo to win.(from manga) | 2026-03-19 |
 | Daikenja Riddle no Jikan Gyakkо̄ (TV) Riddle is a young man who lost his companions to a mysterious group known as the "Box of Malice." On the brink of despair after 1,000 years, Riddle finally learns to reverse time. With a thousand years of knowledge and experience, the Great Sage Riddle journeys to the past.(from manga) | 2026-04-01 |
 | The Ramparts of Ice (TV) Koyuki Hikawa is an aloof high school student who struggles to get close to others and builds a wall between herself and others. Although she spends her time alone at school, for some reason, Minato Amemiya keeps getting closer to her. The frustrating story of youth follows the lives of four somewhat complicated individuals: Koyuki and Minato, plus the popular girl Miki and the laid-back boy Yōta.(from manga) | 2026-04-02 |
 | The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (TV 2) | 2026-04-03 |
 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (TV 5) | 2026-04-03 |
 | Snowball Earth (TV) Shy, socially awkward mecha pilot Tetsuo spent his entire childhood fighting kaiju – the intergalactic monsters threatening life on Earth. Out in deep space at the climactic moment of the final decisive strike against humanity's gargantuan enemies, something goes horribly wrong with his mecha Yukio's new doomsday weapon, the Omnidirectional Infinity Laser. With Earth's last-ditch strategy failing spectacularly, his beloved mecha sacrificing itself to save his life, sole survivor Tetsuo hurtles back to Earth in his escape pod and, eight years later, awakes from cold sleep to find his world inexplicably frozen from pole to pole.(from manga) | 2026-04-03 |
 | Daemons of the Shadow Realm (TV) In a remote mountain village under the watchful eyes of two stone guardians, the young Yuru contentedly lives off the land while staying close to the only family he has left—Asa, his precious twin sister. Asa, meanwhile, carries out a mysterious "duty" on behalf of the village while locked in a cage.(from manga) | 2026-04-04 |
 | Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy (TV) Kanan, a female demon, infiltrates a high school with the goal of devouring some delicious human souls. She sets her sights on the perfect target, a teen boy named Kyogi Yoji, and goes for the kill—only to somehow end up in a relationship with him instead. Kanan's never been in love before, and this oddly innocent demon creates absolute chaos as the two venture into romance with a first date and beyond.(from manga) | 2026-04-04 |
 | Ascendance of a Bookworm (TV 4) | 2026-04-04 |
 | Observation Records of My Fiancée (TV) Exceptionally gifted to his own detriment, Prince Cecil had always found life effortlessly mundane. One ordinary day, his life took an unexpected turn when he became engaged to Miss Bertia, the Chancellor's daughter. This engagement, however, was anything but typical. Bertia declares herself a villainess. She claimed to have memories of her former life, where she had been the antagonist in an "otome game". Her lofty ambition was to excel as a villainess and thus have her engagement annulled. However, despite her plans for various misdeeds, her attempts have always been unsuccessful.(from manga) | 2026-04-06 |
 | Eren the Southpaw (TV) Koichi Asakura is a young designer working at an advertising agency until one day, he loses his job. He once thought of himself as a high-level artist in art college, spending his time messing around. It was there he met Eren, a girl with extraordinary artistic talent. Asakura seeks her out and discovers she has quit painting.(from manga) | 2026-04-07 |
 | Tadaima, Ojamasaremasu! (TV) Rinko is a 24-year-old office worker and closeted otaku who lives alone in an apartment complex. Despite her busy work life, she finds time to unwind by reading her favorite manga, Usaneko-bu, and watching anime. But every time she watches anime, her neighbor to her right violently bangs on the wall, asking Rinko to quiet down. Rinko asks her gentleman neighbor to her left, Akito Satsuki, to speak to her right-side neighbor through the wall. But the right-side neighbor ends up kicking the wall down. Rinko gets surprised when she finds out that her right-side neighbor is actually the creator of her favorite manga, Haruma Usada. Haruma also kicks through Satsuki's wall, and a weird new kind of "room sharing" begins among the three neighbors.(from manga) | 2026-04-07 |
 | MARRIAGETOXIN (TV) As a deadly assassin from the poison clan, Gero swears he'll never settle down—that is, until the family orders his sister to produce the poison clan's next heir. Refusing to let his sister abandon her chance at true love with her girlfriend, Gero desperately turns to marriage swindler Mei Kinosaki for relationship advice.(from manga) | 2026-04-07 |
 | Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? (TV) Takuya Seo is an otaku who sits behind the popular gals in class, Ijichi and Amane. As people from different "castes," you wouldn't expect them to have much in common. But when their worlds collide over a borrowed eraser, Takuya slips up about his favorite anime, and Amane is rather quick to correct him. She says she's not a fan, but her familiarity with the series suggests otherwise.(from manga) | 2026-04-08 |
 | The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King (TV) Serafina de Lavillant, the strongest female knight in the West, was sent to subjugate the barbaric tribes of the East. But when her mission fails spectacularly, she's captured alive and imprisoned. Humiliated and dreading what horrific torture she'll endure, she asks to be put to death. To her surprise, rather than tearing her limb from limb, the tribe leader asks for her hand…in marriage.(from manga) | 2026-04-09 |
 | I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand (TV) With no other options, Luck makes the choice to hold the line against the unending demonic hordes alone, to make sure his comrades can escape with their lives. However, through a combination of fortune, skill, and ingenuity, he holds that line for ten straight years, eventually coming out on top single-handedly. Now he has to tackle the dilemma of how to occupy himself in a world where he holds a myriad of roles: that of a legend, that of a veteran, and that of a brand new face.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Kirio Fan Club (TV) Aimi and Nami love Kirio, down to his most biological level. If he farts, they debate how to pinpoint the distance of the object of their affections. These are the kinds of deep, philosophical questions the two friends/rivals in romance pose to each other to prove their love for this boy who hardly seems to know they exist. That won't stop them from conducting nightly rituals to entice him into their dreams, though, or listing out what exactly they like about him, down to the very last organ.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Petals of Reincarnation (TV) Tōya Senji is a high school boy who, despite excelling academically, sees himself as average because he constantly compares himself to his overachieving older brother. He desires to excel in something and become special. He encounters a long-absent classmate named Haito La Buffet, whom he considers exceptionally talented. He learns from her that she used a "branch of reincarnation" to claim talent from her "past life," where she was the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, effectively becoming a "Returner," a person reincarnated with their past life talent. Tōya also learns from Haito that there are other Returners who have more ambitious plans with their talents.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (TV 6) | 2026-04 |
 | The Strongest Job is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage (TV) One day, Hibiki Manabe, an ordinary high school boy, is suddenly transported to a vast grassland in another world where monsters lurk. Wandering aimlessly through this fantasy world he's never seen before, Hibiki suddenly realizes he has been given the skill of "Appraisal" and the occupation "Appraiser (provisional title)." And so, with the guidance of Emalia, a blonde elf he met in the grasslands, Hibiki becomes an adventurer. Together with Claude, a cursed beastman, Lillian, a sage from the future, and Vene, a sacred white cat beast, he gradually grows stronger as he searches for a way to return to his original world.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Kamiina Botan, Yoheru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana (TV) Botan Kamiina, a 20-year-old in her first year in college, who becomes a little bolder and says surprising things when she gets drunk.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi! (TV) Meiko Morita moves to Tokyo from the countryside to transfer into an elite girls' academy. In exchange for "free tuition if she does volunteer work," she begins living and working at Hedgehog, a manga café that also doubles as a girls' dormitory. She meets idiosyncratic characters such as Rie Amamiya (a wealthy heiress who serves as Hedgehog's dormitory keeper/café manager and who is into yuri and boys-love manga), Marika Suzuki (a popular streamer on "MuTube" under the name "Marica Belltree"), and Neo Nakano (a pro gamer who competes in world championships).(from manga) | 2026-04 |
| Hyakki Yakou Shou (TV) Ritsu has inherited the power to see the spirit world from his late grandfather, a famous novelist and spiritualist. With the power comes frightening vulnerabilities, for spirits, good and evil, tend to notice those who notice them. Fortunately, Ritsu is protected by a most unusual, but not necessarily benevolent, spirit.(from manga) | 2026-04 | |
 | Mahō no Shimai Lulutto Lilly (TV) Fū and Rui used to be close, but have been a bit distant from each other recently. One day, Fū encounters a mysterious spaceship and gains magical powers. At that same time, Rui also gains magical powers, and both transform into the adults they dream of being. The sisters' powers come with two conditions: they can use their magic only for one year, and no one must know about it. Unaware of each other's secrets, Fū and Rui become active as idols. | 2026-04 |
 | Always a Catch! (TV) Maria, the daughter of a duke, grew up believing she would one day inherit her father's dukedom. Accordingly, she focused her attentions on honing her martial arts prowess, while thoughts of marriage fell by the wayside. But the arrival of a baby brother in her family means she's losing her role as heir. Now that she's decided it's time to marry after all, she's arrived a little late to the game. Upon going to study abroad in a neighboring country where she might still stand a chance at getting hitched, she's bewildered when the crown prince there declares before all that his engagement to her is null and void, an engagement she didn't know existed. Apparently, he's mistaken her for the wrong girl. But once that's all cleared up and he catches sight of her knocking out a whole pack of bandits, it turns out that this prince may have a thing for ass-kicking young ladies after all.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Yowayowa Sensei (TV) Hiyori Hiwamura is a new high school teacher who just graduated from college. With Hiwamura's weak voice, weak stamina, and being basically weak in every aspect, one might have the urge to protect her. Ironically, students misread her meekness and fear her as the rumored "Ms. Scary" who will curse them if she gets upset. Nevertheless, she works hard for her students, and one student, Akihito Abikura, recognizes her true nature.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Oshiri Dandy the Young (TV) | 2026-04 |
 | Kill Blue (TV) Grizzled forty-year-old hitman Juzo Ogami has been living in the shadows his entire life. He tried the wife-and-family thing, but it ended in (amicable) divorce, and now he's back to just living for the job. Only his most recent job lands him in some unusual trouble – during an assignment, he accidentally unleashes a genetically-modified wasp, and when it stings him, he's returned to his thirteen-year-old body. The only way to figure out how to reverse things is to get cozy with the daughter of the pharmaceutical group that developed the wasp, so now Juzo has to take on a dangerous new job: attending middle school.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Wistoria: Wand and Sword (TV 2) | 2026-04 |
 | Needy Girl Overdose (TV) | 2026-04 |
 | Shō 3 Ashibe QQ Goma-chan (TV) | 2026-04 |
 | Mission: Yozakura Family (TV 2) | 2026-04 |
 | I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class (TV) Maki Maehara, a boy who has not made any friends or acquaintances at school. He makes his first friend Umi Asanagi — whom the gossip among male classmates have nicknamed the "second cutest girl in class." She usually hangs out after school with the No. 1 cutest girl, the naive Yū Amami. However, on Fridays, Asanagi would come to Maehara's home instead, thanks to their shared hobbies like movies, games, and manga.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Killed Again, Mr. Detective? (TV) Sakuya Otsuki is the son of a legendary detective, following in his father's footsteps with his assistant, Lilithea. However, something's different about this high-school sleuth. Wherever he goes, he always manages to get himself entangled in his cases—as a murder victim. When Sakuya is tasked to infiltrate a luxury cruise ship, he finds himself killed once again. But every time he reopens his eyes, Lilithea is there by his side, ready to help him get to the bottom of the mystery…(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | The Drops of God (TV) Shizuku Kanzaki works for a Japanese beer company and is the son of legendary wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki. Ironically, Shizuku loathes wine out of spite for his father's obsession and his childhood experiences of doing absurd things to refine his senses for wine. One day, Shizuku receives word that his father has passed away and is summoned to the family home to hear his father's will. At the hearing, a wine critic by the name of Issei Tomine appears, claiming to be Yutaka's recently adopted son and is in line for inheriting Yutaka's estate, wealth and esteemed wine collection. In order to determine who will receive the inheritance, the late Yutaka made a competition for the two; to identify and describe 13 different wines laid out by him known as the 12 Apostles and the "Drops of God". Much to Shizuku's chagrin, he accepts the terms in order to make sure Tomine doesn't claim his father's fortune, only to become enticed by the world of wine along the way.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Monster Eater (TV) Nobody wants "Grubby Forager" Rudd on their adventuring team. His nickname—and his stench—come from his constant treks into the Noxious Labyrinth to gather medicinal herbs, a job he survives only thanks to his status immunity skill. When he's finally recruited as a party porter, things seem to be looking up... Until a deadly dungeon monster appears and his fake allies use him as bait before abandoning him. Wounded, destitute, and barely surviving the attack, Rudd breaks a forbidden taboo to stay alive: eating monsters. But the more he devours, the more power he gains, kicking off a thrilling, adventurous gourmet fantasy.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Witch Hat Atelier (TV) Coco lives in a little village, and always dreamed of becoming a wizard. But being born without magical aptitude meant that she could never become a wizard, and could never hope to witness magic's spark. She gave up on her dream. But one day, a traveling wizard named Kiefley came to her village, and she happened to see him performing magic.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Ingoku Danchi (TV) Yoshida, the rookie caretaker, must protect the peace of the apartment complex from the threat of perverted married women donning "Libido Costumes."(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | MAO (TV) When she was seven, Nanoka was the sole survivor of a car wreck when a sinkhole opened up beneath the car she and her parents were traveling in. At the time, Nanoka remembers being pulled from the vehicle and seeing what looked like a shopping street burning, but there's no mention of the fire when she goes back to look up the accident. So when she hears girls in her class discussing ghosts at the location where the accident happens, Nanoka returns to the scene for the first time in years – and somehow finds herself standing on a street in the early twentieth century. She meets a strange young man named Mao, who claims that she's an ayakashi.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Kusunoki's Garden of Gods (TV) Deep in the countryside, Minato Kusunoki is left in charge of a terrifying house overflowing with evil spirits―or at least it was, until his extraordinary ability cleared them all out. Instead, a procession of unique and peculiar gods is drawn to the comfort of the purified Kusunoki residence, and Minato spends his days relaxing in the company of his spiritual neighbors.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | The Beginning After The End (TV 2) | 2026-04 |
 | Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (TV 4) | 2026-04 |
 | Akane-banashi (TV) Rakugo--the ultimate form of storytelling, where everything in a story is expressed with just your body and words. Shinta and his daughter Akane have been seduced by this wonderful form of classical entertainment. Having observed her father strive to pass the shin'uchi rakugo test, Akane will take her own steps into this unique world.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | I Want to End This Love Game (TV) After leaving behind his image as a quiet nerd, Yukiya's ready to break hearts and take names with the ultimate high school glow-up. Well, he's really just got one girl in his sights—his best friend, Miku. Using her favorite shojo manga as his weapon, he's prepared to pin her to the wall and gaze at her with the perfect smolder.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (TV 2) | 2026-04 |
 | The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch (TV) Witch apprentice Spica Virgo can't use magic at all. To earn a place in the magic school she dreams of entering, she needs a mentor, but she has neither money nor connections. One day, a mysterious black cat who speaks and wields magic appears before her. Spica wants to master sorcery, and the black cat longs to break a curse. The pair's goals align. Thus begins their secret master-apprentice pact. | 2026-04 |
 | Onegai AiPri (TV) | 2026-04 |
 | Scenes From Awajima (TV) Awajima Opera School—where countless girls from across the country flock in hopes of one day standing on the big stage. As they work toward achieving their dreams of stardom, their time at Awajima is filled with as much friendship and admiration as competition and jealousy. The precious feelings of girls who are at once both classmates and rivals, tenderly captured in the portraits of an ensemble cast.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? (TV) First-year middle school student Arata Kōda meets a mysterious bird-looking creature named Kujima in autumn. Hungry and craving Japanese food, Kujima ends up staying with the Kōda family at their house, where the atmosphere is tense because of Akira's older brother, who failed the college entrance exam. Kujima lives with the Kōda family until winter passes and a warm spring arrives.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Haibara's Teenage New Game+ (TV) When socially anxious college senior Natsuki Haibara thinks back on his high school life, all he has are fleeting fantasies of a happy adolescence that could have been. Imagine his bewilderment and surprise, then, when he inexplicably finds himself seven years in the past—one month before his first year of high school. He'll need all the help he can get to succeed, from a workout regimen to online how-to guides, a childhood friend, and plenty of sheer willpower. | 2026-04 |
 | Liar Game (TV) At the sight of greed, your average human being always chooses money over integrity; however, such a thing is impossible for the Nao Kanzaki, who is about the most honest person you can find. But when she accidentally joined "The Liar Game", her honesty has proved to be a deadly poison. In a game where every player has to either trick their opponents and get gain a large prize, or be burdened with a equally large debt, the honest Nao Kanzaki has no choice but to get help from Shinichi Akiyama, who is a genius con artist that conned a multi billionaire company. With the help of Akiyama, Nao Kanzaki now participates in the dangerous world of the "The Liar Game"(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Rent-A-Girlfriend (TV 5) | 2026-04 |
 | Ace of Diamond Act II Second Season (TV 2) | 2026-04 |
 | Farming Life in Another World 2 (TV 2) | 2026-04 |
 | Ponkotsu Fūkiin to Skirt Take ga Futekisetsu na JK no Hanashi (TV) Tōgo Sakuradaimon is a member of the discipline committee who checks the students' appearance in front of the school gates every morning. Poemu Kohinata is a high school girl whose skirt is deemed too short and who is stopped every morning during the checks. The two, who seem like oil and water, suddenly bump into each other one day during extra lessons. Sakuradaimon, whom everyone thought was serious and strict, is actually a useless member of the disciplinary committee who can't study at all. Although they are complete opposites, as they get to know each other, the distance between them gradually closes.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Nippon Sangoku (TV) In a near-future Japan where civilization has regressed due to nuclear war, natural disasters, and corrupt governance. The nation fractures into three, plunging into a new Three Kingdoms era as each vies for supremacy. Aoteru Misumi, once an obscure local bureaucrat, sets his sights on Japan's reunification. Armed with vast knowledge and exceptional eloquence, he steadily rises.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Megami "Isekai Tensei Nani ni Naritai Desu ka" Ore "Yūsha no Rokkotsu de" (TV) In an alternate world where one can choose the form in which one is reincarnated — but choices like the "demon king" or the "hero with cheat skills in a harem" are so popular that one would have to wait in line for one to 50 thousand years. So, our protagonist chooses to be reincarnated over and over again into other bizarre forms, such as the rib of a hero with cheat skills in a harem story's happy ending, a hermit crab, or a vegetable.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Dr. Stone: Science Future (TV 3) | 2026-04 |
 | Kumarba (TV 3) | 2026-04 |
 | The Food Diary of Miss Maid (TV) Follow maid-in-training Suzume Tachibana as she tries all sorts of Japanese food, from sweets like taiyaki and melon bread to savory snacks like takoyaki and onigiri.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
 | Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun (TV 4) | 2026-04 |
 | Rilakkuma (TV) | 2026-04 |
 | Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring (TV) In a world where the only season is winter, the creation of spring chips away at the solitary lifestyle of those enduring the cold. Before long, in accordance with the earth's wishes, summer and fall are born, and the four seasons are complete. The one who carries the burden of the cycle is called the "Agent of the Four Seasons." Now, one young goddess—granted spring by the god of the four seasons and called "Daisy" by her mother—holds that sense of purpose to her chest with pride. However, spring disappeared from this land ten years ago, and she must overcome hardship, fight back against disgrace, and return to the current god. Like a legend, the deepest part of her heart sends love to winter.(from manga) | 2026-04 |
Recent anime
| Picture | Name & Description | Premiere date |
|---|---|---|
 | Duel Masters LOST ~Bōkyaku no Taiyō~ (TV) | 2026-02-06 |
 | Star Detective Precure! (TV) Anna Akechi is a second-year middle school student who lives in Makotomirai Town. She travels back in time from 2027 to 1999 when her fairy partner named Pochitan appears on her birthday. In Makotomirai City in 1999, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, another second-year middle school student who dreams of becoming a star detective. The two girls witness the troubles caused by the Phantom Thieves who steal people's precious belongings. They transform into Star Detective Precures and use their deductive reasoning skills to protect people's smiles. | 2026-02-01 |
 | Medalist (TV 2) Tsukasa, whose dreams were crushed. Inori, left to fend for herself. These two share a dream and their tenacity may be the only thing that sees them through. Their destination is the ice...on the world's stage (from manga) | 2026-01-24 |
 | Gelpiyo (TV) | 2026-01-21 |
 | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV 2) On the road to Ende, Frieren confronts past bonds and rising threats with her newfound party. | 2026-01-16 |
 | Oshi no Ko (TV 3) It's been six months since "POP IN 2" was released. Thanks to MEM-Cho's hard work, B-Komachi is about to get their major break. Aqua is a multi-talented entertainer, and Akane's career as a talented actress is going smoothly. Meanwhile, Kana lost the cheerfulness she once had. To track down the truth behind Ai and Goro's deaths, Ruby keeps rising in the entertainment world. | 2026-01-14 |
 | 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess (TV 2) As the war between the Imperial Army and Hellhorde rages on, the Princess, despite being armed with her mythical sword Excalibur, is captured and imprisoned. | 2026-01-12 |
 | The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom (TV) The protagonist is reincarnated as Tiararose, the villainess of the protagonist's favorite otome romance game aimed at female gamers. The protagonist is resigned to accepting the in-game judgment event and the fate that awaits her. However, just as her fiancé breaks off their engagement, the game throws up a marriage proposal event that wasn't in the game's original scenario — from Aquasteed, the crown prince of the neighboring country. | 2026-01-11 |
 | Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- (TV) The fire-extinguishing samurai who stopped the great fire was called "The Fire-Eating bird." Matsunaga Gengo, once known as "The Fire-Eating Bird," was the best fire-fighting samurai in Edo. He had resigned from the fire brigade for a reason but suddenly received an invitation to serve in the Shinjo clan. The Shinjo clan's fire-fighting team had no money and no personnel and was looked down upon by those around them. With the encouragement of his wife, Miyuki, Gengo decides to rebuild the collapsed fire-fighting clan as its chairman. Gengo and his friends, all of whom have their own peculiarities, struggle to "save any life", despite being ridiculed as "ragged steeplejacks." In Edo, a mysterious series of suspicious fires called "foxfires" continues. | 2026-01-11 |
 | You and I Are Polar Opposites (TV) Suzuki has a desperate crush on Tani, a boy in her class, but she has no idea how to approach him. The two are on opposite ends of the class social hierarchy: she's loud and bubbly with lots of friends, and he keeps to himself, barely responding when she talks to him. But when she finally gets over her fears and admits her crush, it turns out that things aren't so hopeless after all. | 2026-01-11 |
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Anime stars Haruka Shiraishi as Celine, Takeo Ōtsuka as Wilfred― An official website opened on Friday to announce that author Kotoko and artist Kaname Hanamiya'sThe Final-Boss Prince is Somehow Obsessed with the Chubby Villainess: Reincarnated Me (Odebu Akujo ni Tensei Shitara, Nazeka Last Boss О̄jisama ni Shūchaku Sareteimasu) manga is getting a television anime. The website unveiled a promotional...
Anime in 2025: Is the Crunchyroll Cage Real?
Is it a death sentence when anime series stream outside of Crunchyroll? Kalai Chik looks at the numbers to see whether the common conception is true.― Over 250 anime titles premiered in the U.S. across Crunchyroll, Netflix, Amazon's Prime Video, HIDIVE, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max in 2025. To no surprise, series exclusive to Crunchyroll make up almost half of the anime that reach the U.S. market. Con...
Haruka Kawachi'sRainy Day Serenade Time-Travel Manga Gets TV Anime in 2027
Natsuyuki Rendezvous creator's story about girl time-traveling to late Meiji-era Japan― Kotowari announced on Friday that Haruka Kawachi'sRainy Day Serenade (Namidaame to Serenade) manga is inspiring a television anime in 2027. Kawachi drew the below visual to celebrate the anime's announcement. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga, and will begin releasing the manga in two-in-one omnibus vol...
WithFATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE, We're in a Horror Game Golden Age
When I got the chance to preview the opening chapters ofFATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE, I was excited to be reintroduced to the familiar tale. What immediately struck me, though, was just how thorough and considered a reconstruction this really is.― If there is one thing that I can say has been uniformly great about surviving the 2020s (so far), it's that we've gotten to experience a new ...
Ushiro no Shōmen Kamui-san Manga Gets TV Anime
Eroki, Shinko Konoshiro's manga debuted in 2020― An official X/Twitter account opened on Friday to announce that author Eroki and artist Shinko Konoshiro'sUshiro no Shōmen Kamui-san (Kamui-San Directly Behind You) manga is getting a television anime in summer 2026. WWWave Corporation's Deregula anime label is producing the anime. The account unveiled a logo and shared commemorative illustrations fr...
Hyakki Yakou Shou Manga Gets Series of Anime Shorts (Updated)
Anime based on Ichiko Ima'sBeyond Twilight manga debuts in April― The official X/Twitter account for Asahi Shimbun Publications'Nemuki+ magazine announced on Friday that Ichiko Ima'sHyakki Yakou Shou (Beyond Twilight) horror manga is getting a television anime adaptation in April. The anime will be a series of shorts, and will also stream online. Aurora Publishing, Inc. had previously published t...
Tougen Anki Episodes 13-24 Anime Series Review
This is hands-down, one of the worst shounen series I think I've ever seen.― I was very harsh with the first half of this season of Tougen Anki. I thought this show was a by-the-numbers shounen that barely had anything new or inventive to bring to the table. Anything unique it did bring was vastly undercooked to the point where it barely mattered at all in the grand scheme of things. I thought the d...
This Week in Anime - Fantasy Football
Are you ready for some football? No, not that kind - Coop and Lucas are talking about the football you actually play with your feet.― Are you ready for some football? No, not that kind - Coop and Lucas are talking about the football you actually play with your feet. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warni...
My Thoughts After 20 Hours WithMonster Hunter Stories 3
The same things that will inevitably make this game more tedious for some players will also scratch a hyper-specific itch for others.―Monster Hunter is one of those game franchises likeHarvest Moon/Story of Seasons, where it's not totally uncommon to find people who get super into it, have encyclopedic knowledge of it, and have save files easily exceeding 300 hours. I… am not one of those people. ...
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