Yusuke Kobayashi voices Subaru in Re:Zero and Mitiya in Genshin Impact, and he is scheduled to appear at stage greetings for Witch on the Holy Night on November 21 and 22.
Yusuke Kobayashi's recent credits cover three separate productions. He voices Mitiya in Genshin Impact, a character introduced in the preview program for Version 7.2. HoYoverse streamed that program on October 23, 2026, and the program title appears in coverage as both "When the End Falls" and "Tracing the End." Gameplay footage of Mitiya was shown during the broadcast.
Kobayashi also voices Natsuki Subaru in Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-. The fourth season ended with a 45-minute extended finale on September 30, 2026, the 19th episode of the season and the 85th overall, titled Shaula / Hero. Kobayashi gave comments after the broadcast about Rem's awakening and about what comes next for the series. An epilogue visual of Rem followed, carrying the line Rem, I wanted to see you.
On the film side, Kobayashi is set to appear at stage greetings for Witch on the Holy Night, the ufotable adaptation of TYPE-MOON's visual novel, which opens November 20 with same-day IMAX screenings. The greetings are scheduled for November 21 at TOHO Cinemas Hibiya and November 22 at TOHO Cinemas Umeda, with Haruka Tomatsu also listed to appear.
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The theatrical anime Witch on the Holy Night opens November 20 with same-day IMAX screenings, and a new IMAX visual shows Aoko Aozaki and Alice Kuonji casting magecraft on an amusement park stage. ufotable animates the film, based on TYPE-MOON's 2012 visual novel. Stage greetings follow on November 21 at TOHO Cinemas Hibiya and November 22 at TOHO Cinemas Umeda, with Haruka Tomatsu and Yusuke Kobayashi scheduled to appear.
HoYoverse's preview program for Genshin Impact Ver. 7.2, streamed on October 23, showed gameplay footage of two new characters: Mitiya, voiced by Yusuke Kobayashi, and Valerie, voiced by Makoto Furukawa. The version preview video also featured Noi, voiced by Shinichiro Miki, and appearances by the Seven Archons. The program title for the update appears in two forms across the coverage: one write-up gives it as "When the End Falls," while another renders it as "Tracing the End." The stream broadcast the character footage rather than a standalone trailer, and the images circulating are captures taken from that broadcast. Both new characters were introduced by voice cast announcement and in-motion footage in the same program.
HoYoverse will stream the preview program for Genshin Impact Version 7.2, subtitled "When the End Comes," from 21:00 on October 23. The broadcast runs on the official Genshin YouTube channel and official X account. Yusuke Kobayashi (voice of Mitiya), Ayumu Murase (voice of Venti), and Gen Sato (voice of Alyosha) are listed as the cast for the program. The thumbnail image for the stream shows Anastasia alongside Mitiya, Vesna, and Noi. Noi is voiced by Shinichiro Miki and was named as one of the new characters at the opening of Snezhnaya. Other new characters have since appeared in the game, but Noi has yet to be addressed in the story. The illustration set the keyword "Noi-san" to No. 1 on X. HoYoverse announced the program on October 21, 2026. Inside also renders the subtitle as "When Descending to the End."
Shochiku announced Wednesday that Kou Sawada's Yumeneconnect manga is getting a television anime. Sota Yokote directs at Studio Massket, with Gigaemon Echikawa writing and supervising scripts and Yoshihiro Watanabe designing characters. Yusuke Kobayashi voices Yuhi Takamiya and Yu Sasahara voices Nano. The manga, launched in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine in September 2024, centers on a sickly shut-in boy and an alien salesman from planet Pokotsun.
The fourth season of Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- ended with a 45-minute extended finale broadcast on September 30, 2026. The final episode, the 19th of the season and the 85th overall, is titled Shaula / Hero. It marks Rem's return to the screen after roughly six years of story absence, and the episode prompted an epilogue visual released on the official account after broadcast. The art carries the line Rem, I wanted to see you, and shows Rem looking at Natsuki Subaru. Comments arrived from Yusuke Kobayashi, who voices Subaru, and Inori Minase, who voices Rem. Both speak about Rem's awakening and about what comes next for the series. The season's Recapture Arc had aired since August 12, 2026, with Masahiro Shinohara directing and WHITE FOX on animation production.
The official website for Devils' Crest, the television anime of Reki Kawahara's Demons' Crest novels, announced four classmate roles on Wednesday. Yusuke Kobayashi plays Teruki Sugamo, Maaya Uchida plays Aria Misono, Rie Murakawa plays Kai Kisanuki, and Sora Amamiya plays Sumika Watamaki. The anime premieres worldwide on November 6 on Amazon Prime Video, with Ado performing the opening theme.
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Shun Numa's Super Psychic Policeman Chojo manga unveiled a promotional video and visual on Thursday, revealing the cast. The anime is set to debut in October on Kansai TV and Fuji TV's new Tuesday night anime block.
Ufotable revealed on Saturday the returning voice cast and character visuals for the anime film adaptation of Type-Moon's visual novel Witch on the Holy Night. Haruka Tomatsu reprises her role as Aoko Aozaki, Kana Hanazawa returns as Alice Kuonji, and Yusuke Kobayashi voices Soujyuro Sizuki. The film is scheduled to open in 2026. The original visual novel, first released in Japan in 2012, is set in the late 1980s and follows Aoko, a high school student reluctantly apprenticed to the witch Alice, alongside the transfer student Soujyuro. A fully voiced HD remaster of the game launched on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in December 2022 and on Steam in December 2023. The PS4 and Switch versions have sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. The film was first announced in December 2021. Ufotable is handling animation production. A key visual was released in March 2026.