Baki Hanma Season 2 Main PV Reveals Opening and Ending Theme Artists
The PV and theme song announcements confirm the second season's June 18 Netflix debut and set the tone for the arc featuring the cloned swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.
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Baki-Dou First Cour Gets Terrestrial TV Broadcast Starting July 5
The terrestrial broadcast brings the Baki-Dou anime to a wider Japanese audience ahead of the second cour's Netflix streaming debut on June 18.
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Haikyu!! and VNL Team Up for Third Collaboration With New Visual
The third annual tie-up between Haikyu!! and a real-world volleyball tournament shows the franchise's continued use of live sports partnerships to keep the property visible years after the manga ended.
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Crunchyroll Streams The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter OVA
The OVA extends the anime's story beyond its original 12-episode run, giving viewers a new chapter that was previously only available on home video.
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TOMOO Performs Theme Song for 33rd Crayon Shin-chan Film
TOMOO, a rising singer-songwriter who grew up watching the series, provides the emotional core for a film that centers on family bonds and the threat of losing memories, marking a personal and thematic shift for the long-running franchise.
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Always a Catch! Anime Casts Kana Hanazawa as Zaira
The casting adds a prominent voice actress to the supporting cast of a show that has already aired nearly half its run, suggesting the role may be a late-season antagonist or catalyst.
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Kagurabachi Anime World Tour Dates Announced, First Episode to Premiere at Anime Expo 2026
The world tour structure, with staggered international previews months before the Japanese premiere, reflects a strategy to build global audience anticipation for a series that has already won the Next Manga Award and sold 4 million copies.
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Crunchyroll Reveals Anime Expo 2026 Lineup With Demon Slayer, Apothecary Diaries and More
The lineup signals Crunchyroll is using its biggest annual convention presence to center its returning heavy hitters and newly licensed titles in a single branded destination.
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Crunchyroll Announces Summer 2026 Streaming Slate and Anime Expo Screenings
The announcement confirms Crunchyroll's lineup for the next year, including several high-profile sequels and new adaptations, and outlines its presence at Anime Expo 2026.
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Good Smile Company Announces Original Mecha Anime Dandivine
Good Smile Company, primarily a manufacturer of figures and toys, is expanding into original anime production with a multi-year franchise plan that commits to a new combining robot series each year through at least 2028.
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Marriage Toxin Episode 9 Embraces Absurdity With Bird Master Fight
The episode shows the series doubling down on comedic absurdity over internal logic, which makes the fight sequences more entertaining even as the character Kimie recedes into the background.
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Ryuya Suzuki's Self-Animated Feature 'Jinsei' Opens in U.S. Theaters
Suzuki's solo production pipeline-from learning Procreate in 2020 to a theatrical feature in five years-demonstrates that a single animator can complete a feature-length film without a studio or large crew.
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Rintaro Revives a Lost 1933 Japanese Film With New Animated Short
The short treats the absence of a lost classic not as a footnote but as a creative challenge, using animation to reconstruct a piece of Japanese cinema history that no longer exists in its original form.
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Ben Stegmair Discusses Mentorship and Manga Rushmore on Something Genuine
The interview highlights how deliberate career planning and mentorship, rather than late discovery, can define a voice actor's path in the anime industry.
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One Piece Episode 1164 Celebrates Nico Robin With a Slow but Rewarding Reunion
The episode delivers a long-awaited emotional payoff for Robin's character arc while advancing the Elbaph arc with necessary setup.
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New Hokuto No Ken Anime Adds Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Genki Okawa, Eiji Hanawa
The additions fill out the supporting cast around Kenshiro as the series continues its weekly broadcast run.
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Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You Early Version Airs on ABEMA June 3
The early distribution version gives subscribers a preview of the adult drama with unique song-and-visual pairings before the full broadcast run starts in July.
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Trapped in a Dating Sim Season 2 Adds Yui Ogura, Premieres July 8
The second season locks in a summer premiere and adds a key antagonist character, signaling the adaptation will cover the Principality of Fanoss arc.
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Abema to Air Six Slice-Of-Life Anime Free Every Weekend in June
The festival packages six catalog titles into a free, scheduled event, giving viewers a structured way to revisit or discover these shows without a subscription.
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Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi Gets Summer Premiere, Anime Expo Screening
The expansion of the 'The Ninth Jedi' short into a limited series marks the first long-form narrative in the Star Wars: Visions project, moving beyond the anthology format.
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Overgeared Webtoon Gets TV Anime in October 2026
The adaptation marks another major Korean webtoon-to-anime transition, following Solo Leveling and Tower of God, with a production team that includes J.C.Staff and veterans of Sword Art Online and Mushoku Tensei.
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Shin-Ei Animation Makes Web Anime for Lotte's Pie No Mi Snacks
A major snack brand is funding an original web anime series through a studio best known for long-running TV properties, marking a direct-to-consumer promotional strategy on YouTube.
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TEMPAL: The Power of Items TV Anime Announced for October 2026
REDICE STUDIO, the creator of Solo Leveling, is bringing another webtoon to anime, with a strong production team and a proven track record on Piccoma.
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Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Light Novels Get TV Anime
The adaptation marks another light novel from the PASH Books imprint making the jump to anime, though the lack of production details leaves the project's timeline and studio attachment uncertain.
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