The Monster Strike franchise is getting another anime. MIXI announced on September 27 a new series titled Mera×Death: Shinigami to Boku no Ijō na Koi — roughly, Mera×Death: The Unusual Love Between Me and the Grim Reaper — which will debut in Japan on January 5, 2027.
The show will air on TOKYO MX and ten other channels, and will also stream on streaming services. A promo video and key visual were released alongside the announcement, along with the full principal staff.
Who is making it
Kenta Kushitani is directing the anime at Qzil.la and studio keel. Kushitani has worked as an episode director on Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story-, Shangri-La Frontier and Kaiju No. 8.
Daisuke Ōhigashi is overseeing and writing the series scripts. His credits include As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill Season 3, Fate/strange Fake and The Vermillion Mask.
Tadashi Sakazaki is the character designer, with past work on Zoids Wild Zero, ZOIDS: Chaotic Century and Zoids/ZERO. The music is being handled by three composers: Masaru Yokoyama, whose credits include Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans and Hana-Kimi; Kana Hashiguchi (Classroom of the Elite, Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games); and Natsuki Hamada (Always a Catch!).
The franchise’s recent anime run
The new series follows Monster Strike: Deadverse Reloaded, which MIXI described as the first anime series based on the Monster Strike mobile RPG franchise to premiere on broadcast television. It debuted in October 2025 and aired for one cour of 10 episodes. Amazon Prime Video added all 10 episodes with English subtitles in January.
Before that, the franchise’s animation history lived mostly online. The original game launched on iOS and Android in Japan in 2013, with an English version arriving the next year; that English release ended service in 2017. A Nintendo 3DS game followed in Japan in 2015.
The first 52-episode net anime, Monster Strike the Animation, premiered in October 2015 after originally being announced for broadcast. Its second season ran in two parts across 2017: the first from April to September, and the 13-episode second part, Monster Strike the Anime: The Fading Cosmos, in October 2017.
A third season followed in July 2018 with 12 episodes. The franchise then branched into character spinoffs — five episodes for Arthur, seven for Lucifer and 13 for Solomon, all counted as part of that third season overall — plus the Arthur Kishiō no Kakusei anime in May 2019 and the Noah Hakobune no Kyūseishu anime in July 2019. Lucifer: The Final Arc premiered with English subtitles in October 2020. The net anime’s final arc, Monster Strike: End of the World, arrived on YouTube in November 2019, and the interactive Hareruya: Unmei no Sentaku streamed in September 2020.
On the film side, the first Monster Strike The Movie opened in Japan in December 2016 and came to Crunchyroll in May 2017. A second film, Monster Strike The Movie: Sora no Kanata, opened in October 2018, and Lucifer Dawn of Despair followed in November 2020, reaching Crunchyroll in August 2021.
Why it matters
Mobile-game franchises have become a steady source of anime, but most of them arrive as promotional tie-ins. Monster Strike is different: its anime arm has run for more than a decade across net anime, spinoffs, films and now broadcast television, and it is treating TV as the new home base rather than a one-off. A January 5 premiere also slots the show into the winter 2027 season, where it will compete for attention with the usual sequel-heavy line-up.
The confirmed details are the date, the channel spread, the staff and the promo materials; the episode count and the international streaming platform have not been announced yet. You can track further 2027 titles in our 2027 anime releases guide, and follow the current winter-season scheduling as it firms up in our Fall 2026 anime season guide.
Source: Anime News Network
Featured image: Promo visual for the Mera×Death: Shinigami to Boku no Ijō na Koi anime, via Anime News Network.
