The latest anime news, as it happens — new series announcements, season renewals, cast and staff reveals, trailers, delays and industry updates out of Japan, explained without the filler.
Toshio Masuda, the Japanese film director and screenwriter whose long career ran from 1950s Nikkatsu action films to the Space Battleship Yamato movies, has died. He was 98. Newspapers Mainichi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun both reported the news, saying Masuda…
Crunchyroll has announced the English dub cast and crew for the Overgeared anime, confirming that the series will get a same-day English dub when it launches. The anime is being released under the title Tempal: Item no Chikara (Tempal ~The…
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 will close out with an extended finale. The series’ fourth season ends with Episode 19, a 45-minute special, on September 30, 2026. The episode is the eighth instalment of the season’s second…
Two anime productions are in the running at the 2026 International Emmy Awards. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced its nominees on Wednesday, with the Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 anthology anime nominated in the Short-Form Series category and…
Draw This, Then Die! is getting a second season. The official website for the anime of Minoru Toyoda’s manga (Kore Kaite Shine) announced the renewal, which came just after the first season’s 12th and final episode aired on Friday. The…
Hell Mode is coming back. The official website for the anime of writer Hamuo and illustrator Mo’s light novel series announced that the show is getting a third season covering the “S-Kyū Dungeon Kōryaku-hen” (“S-Rank Dungeon Conquest Arc”), and released…
A second trailer for The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 is out, and it settles two questions fans had been asking: the ending theme, and exactly when the new season starts. TOHO animation began streaming the trailer on Friday, revealing that…
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is stretching further into 2027. The staff for the anime’s fourth season revealed that the show will return for its third cours in July 2027, and that Wataru Kajika’s spinoff manga That…
If you were hoping for a steady stream of new Chiikawa episodes this autumn, bad news: the show is taking a breather. The anime’s official website confirmed on Friday that regular broadcasts of new episodes are being put on hold…
The Chiikawa movie is still on top in Japan. Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu (Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island) held the No. 1 spot in its ninth weekend, selling 643,000 tickets and earning 999 million…
Level-5 has issued a statement addressing the use of generative AI in some of the promotional videos shown during its “Vision 2026 II Dream” presentation. The company said it would upload revised versions of those videos, and it drew a…
Yomi Hirasaka, the light novelist behind Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends and A Sister’s All You Need., confirmed on September 13 that he has retired as a light novelist. The reason, he said, is not burnout or the reaction…