Chiikawa Episodes 1-362 Set for 11-Day Free Marathon on ABEMA
The marathon turns the app's anniversary into a mass catch-up window for a manga that started on X and now spans a long-running TV anime, a film, and a game with 3 million downloads in under a month, so ABEMA is betting the back catalog can still pull an all-ages audience.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime Anime.
To mark 1.5 years since the Chiikawa Pocket app launched, ABEMA will open a Chiikawa Official Free Channel from September 19 to 29 and air anime Chiikawa episodes 1 through 362 in a free nonstop marathon. All aired episodes stay free for one week after broadcast, and a serial code revealed around 10:00 AM on September 27 gives Chiikawa Pocket players 5000 free Gems.
The channel runs for 11 days only, from September 19 at 10:00 AM to September 29, and carries all 362 episodes of the TV anime in one nonstop block. Episodes remain watchable free for a week after they air, so the window extends past the marathon itself.
The giveaway is tied to the same anniversary: a serial code shown on the free channel and posted to the Chiikawa Pocket official site, scheduled to appear around 10:00 AM on September 27, grants the in-game item Gems (free) x5000 to anyone who enters it. Chiikawa Pocket released in March 2025 across 43 countries and regions and passed 3 million downloads in less than a month. A film, Chiikawa the Movie: Secrets of the Mermaid Island, is set for July 2026.
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