Blue Box Season 2 Opens With Episode 26, Déjà Vu
Season 1's Crunchyroll Anime Awards Best Romance win gives this premiere a benchmark the sources themselves name, so the new season opens under a trophy rather than a question mark.
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Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 And My Melody & Kuromi Land International Emmy Nominations
The International Emmy nominations put two Japanese animated works with very different release routes, an anthology that went through festival and cinema screenings and a Netflix stop-motion series, on the same awards slate outside Japan.
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Mission: Yozakura Family Adds Five Cast Members For Season 2 Part 2
Part 2 gets its cast and its October 11 broadcast date settled, and the unnamed Kosmos Akizakura leaves one piece of the roster open for a later announcement.
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Where Is the Elf Teacher's Toilet? Manga Gets TV Anime
The adaptation moves a two-volume, still-running Comic Cune gag manga about an isekai elf's bathroom problem onto the broadcast slate, with its own official account already posting the announcement art.
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Red River Anime Posts Full Video For Second Part
A full promo and main visual landing together for part two means Tatsunoko Production has finished enough of the next run to cut a trailer, and the second part now has a face to sell.
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Chiikawa Anime Halts New Episodes for 25-Episode Rebroadcast
The pause comes while the Chiikawa film is the top earner at the Japanese box office this year, so the rebroadcast routes viewers from the theatrical run back toward the episodes the film draws on.
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Crunchyroll Sets One-Day U.S. Screenings For Dive In Wonderland On November 16
A single-day U.S. run through Anime Nights gives the P.A. Works film a theatrical footprint in a market where Crunchyroll is now routing its anime releases through its own screening program rather than a conventional wide rollout.
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Psyren Anime Second Episode Gets World Premiere At Global Stage Hollywood
Screening episode two before its broadcast, with the original creator present, positions the festival slot as the first public look at how the adaptation handles material beyond the manga's opening.
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Hotel Inhumans Season 2 Adds Shoya Chiba As Subaru Yoda
The cast addition and the returning staff list confirm season 2 is running on the same production setup as season 1, with the premiere dates now fixed across three broadcasters.
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Re:ZERO Season 4 Turns To Julius And Ram In Episodes 17 And 18
The two episodes pair Julius and Ram as characters whose losses leave them clinging to what they have left, and the season pays that off with its strongest fight animation and a plot thread about Subaru's Authority of Greed left underexplained.
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Bless Anime Adds Yoshino Aoyama And Momoka Terasawa To Cast
The announcements keep filling in the Sumeragi family ahead of a January 2027 Noitamina premiere, while the same manga's live-action series is set for Amazon Prime Video in spring 2027.
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Iceblade Sorcerer Season 2 Adds Shiki Aoki And Kazuyuki Okitsu
The two additions fill out the season's new roster alongside Miyu Kubota taking over the Elisa Griffith role from the retired Nana Harumura, while the production shifts from Cloud Hearts to Zero-G under a returning director.
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Isshiki-san Wants to Know About Love Anime Reveals Four New Cast Members
The casting rollout is filling out the supporting roster while the January 2027 premiere stays fixed, and Yen Press is now aligning its English manga release under the same title ahead of its October 13 first volume.
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Saga of Tanya the Evil II Reaches Its Climax With Episodes 11-12
Zettour's plan to make the war so costly that all sides accept any end reveals that Rudersdorf died not because he was too extreme but because he was not extreme enough, leaving Tanya with a betrayal she did not see coming.
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Shin Oishinbo Anime Casts Yōhei Azakami As Shirō Yamaoka
Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki's manga has been on hiatus since 2014, so the 2027 series is the franchise's first television anime since the 1988 to 1992 adaptation, now staffed and cast at Synergy SP and Vega Entertainment.
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Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly Second Part Gets Main Trailer
The trailer and the October 4 broadcast date close out the gap between the show's two cours, and pairing an ILLIT opening with an ending sung by the characters themselves keeps the idol framing inside and outside the story.
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Aoki Densho Welsh & Shedar Trailer Adds Cast, Names Theme Artists
The trailer locks the broadcast date and the Kageyama and Okui theme song, moving Ankama's original production into its final promotional stretch before the October 2 Tokyo MX premiere.
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Star Detective Precure! Film Opens at #3 as Eiga Chiikawa Holds #1
Two films in the same weekend chart slot separate audiences: a long-running kids' franchise opening modestly while a Chiikawa film in its ninth weekend still outsells it.
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Gelpiyo Anime Sequel Sets October 21 Premiere on Tokyo MX1
A mascot anime built around Taica's Alpha Gel technology is getting a second television run with a returning cast and two bands voicing in-story counterparts of themselves, which keeps the corporate mascot tied to music promotion rather than a standalone character short.
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Saga of Tanya the Evil Gets Film Concert For 10th Anniversary
The concert anchors a 10th anniversary year that also included the second season's July 8 debut on AT-X, tying the franchise's current run to its orchestral and voice cast history in one Tokyo event.
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Chiikawa Film Passes 15.84 Billion Yen as English Dub Hits YouTube
Chiikawa's theatrical run and a dedicated English YouTube channel put the franchise's money and its English-language rollout in the same news cycle, with no new production announced behind either.
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One Piece Episode 1179 Turns On Gaban's Rescue Of Collun And His Fight With Gunko
The episode pushes a supporting figure to the front and builds its tension around a hostage rather than just a match of strength, which is the kind of character work the series has been doing with its side cast.
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Anime News Network Names Its Top 11 Anime of Summer 2026
The list is the outlet's own record of how the season's pre-season headliners and its long-running sequels sorted out in practice, and it sets the baseline for the year-end Best of the Year debate ANN says it is already having.
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Kura Sushi Rolls Out The Apothecary Diaries Menu And Prizes
The tie-in puts the series in front of US diners ahead of the third season's October 2026 first cours and April 2027 second cours.
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