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Re:ZERO Season 4 Dominates Spring 2026 Rankings With Fifth Win

Re:ZERO Season 4's 20.08% vote share places it among only a handful of series-including Attack on Titan and BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War-to exceed 20% in Anime Corner's weekly polls, marking a rare level of dominance in a single season.

Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.

Re:ZERO Season 4 Dominates Spring 2026 Rankings With Fifth Win

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 has taken the top spot in the Spring 2026 weekly anime rankings for the fifth time, according to the Week 8 poll from Anime Corner. The series received 20.08% of over 5,000 votes, the highest vote share any anime has achieved this season. Daemons of the Shadow Realm placed second with 5.15%, and Classroom of the Elite IV earned its first top-three finish of the season in third place with 4.65%. Witch Hat Atelier and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 4 rounded out the top five. Re:ZERO Season 4 has now won five of the first eight weekly polls, extending its lead as the season enters its final weeks. The series began on April 8 and previously ranked first in Weeks 1, 2, 3, and 6. The season consists of 19 episodes split into two arcs: the 11-episode Loss Arc starting April 8 and the 8-episode Recapture Arc beginning August 12, with a two-month break in between. Anime News Network also noted that Dorohedoro and One Piece kept Witch Hat Atelier just shy of first place in their own rankings.

Anime Corner's Week 8 poll for Spring 2026 drew over 5,000 votes from fans worldwide, with Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 claiming 20.08% of the total. That figure is the highest vote percentage recorded by any anime this season and places the series in exclusive company: only Attack on Titan and BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War have previously crossed the 20% threshold in the poll's history. Re:ZERO Season 4 has now won five of the first eight weekly rankings, a pace that extends its lead as the season nears its conclusion. The series is split into two consecutive cours: the 11-episode Loss Arc, which began April 8, and the 8-episode Recapture Arc, starting August 12, with a roughly two-month gap between them. Anime News Network's separate weekly rankings highlighted a different top cluster, with Dorohedoro and Iruma-kun keeping Witch Hat Atelier just shy of first place, and Nippon Sangoku overtaking Akane-banashi in the cumulative standings.

  • Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4: 1st place, 20.08% of votes, fifth weekly win this season
  • Daemons of the Shadow Realm: 2nd place, 5.15%, new season-high ranking
  • Classroom of the Elite IV: 3rd place, 4.65%, first top-three finish of Spring 2026
  • Witch Hat Atelier: 4th place, 4.39%
  • Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 4: 5th place, 4.00%
  • Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 2: 6th place, 3.73%
  • I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class: 7th place, 3.26%
  • Marriagetoxin: 8th place, 2.43%
  • Agents of the Four Seasons: 9th place, 2.36%
  • The Ramparts of Ice: 10th place, 2.29%
  • Dr. Stone: Science Future Part 3: 11th place, 2.16%
  • Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai: 12th place, 2.08%
  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4: 13th place, 2.03%
  • Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!?: 14th place, 2.01%
  • The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Season 2: 15th place, 1.95%
  • Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy: 16th place, 1.68%
  • The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King: 17th place, 1.59%
  • Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun: 18th place, 1.49%
  • Ponkotsu Fuki Iin to Skirt-take ga Futekisetsu na JK no Hanashi: 19th place, 1.46%
  • Akane-banashi: 20th place, 1.40%
  • One Piece: 21st place, 1.35%
  • Kill Blue: 22nd place, 1.33%
  • Mission: Yozakura Family Season 2: 23rd place, 1.29%
  • Yowayowa Teacher: 24th place, 1.27%
  • The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch: 25th place, 1.25%
  • Even a Replica Can Fall in Love: 26th place, 1.24%
  • Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk: 27th place, 1.16%
  • Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke: 28th place, 1.07%
  • Dorohedoro Season 2: 29th place, 1.05%
  • Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5: 30th place, 1.03%
  • Observation Records of My Fiancée: The Misadventures of a Self-Proclaimed Villainess: 31st place, 0.98%
  • Farming Life in Another World Season 2: 32nd place, 0.92%
  • Haibara's Teenage New Game+: 33rd place, 0.89%
  • Always a Catch!: How I Punched My Way into Marrying a Prince: 34th place, 0.87%
  • The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior Season 2: 35th place, 0.83%
  • Rooster Fighter: 36th place, 0.81%
  • Mao: 37th place, 0.79%
  • Killed Again, Mr. Detective.: 38th place, 0.77%
  • Needy Girl Overdose: 39th place, 0.76%
  • The Strongest Job is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage, but an Appraiser (Provisional)!: 40th place, 0.74%
  • Go For It, Nakamura!: 41st place, 0.70%
  • The Beginning After the End Season 2: 42nd place, 0.66%
  • Liar Game: 43rd place, 0.65%
  • Petals of Reincarnation: 44th place, 0.63%
  • Kusunoki's Garden of Gods: 45th place, 0.59%
  • Scenes from Awajima: 46th place, 0.57%
  • Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 3: 47th place, 0.55%
  • Eren the Southpaw: 48th place, 0.53%
  • The Food Diary of Miss Maid: 49th place, 0.52%
  • Ichijoma Mankitsugurashi!: 50th place, 0.50%
  • Snowball Earth: 51st place, 0.48%
  • Ace of Diamond Act II Season 2: 52nd place, 0.46%
  • Pardon the Intrusion, I'm Home!: 53rd place, 0.42%
  • Kirio Fanclub: 54th place, 0.41%
  • My Wonderful Ribcarnation: 55th place, 0.33%
  • The Drops of God: 56th place, 0.30%
  • Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble?: 57th place, 0.28%
  • Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly: 58th place, 0.26%
  • Ghost Concert: Missing Songs: 59th place, 0.24%
  • FIST OF THE NORTH STAR: 60th place, 0.22%
  • Onegai AiPri: 61st place, 0.11%

Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.

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