Studio Ghibli will debut 'Majo no Tani no Yoru,' its first original short produced exclusively for Ghibli Park, at Cinema Orion on July 8, co-directed by Goro Miyazaki and Akihiko Yamashita.
Shihei Lin, the former Shueisha editor who shepherded Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family and Dandadan, has opened manuscript submissions for Mix Green, his new independent manga platform.
Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures will open the second Tensura theatrical film, Tears of the Azure Sea, in US and Canadian cinemas on May 1 with both subtitled and English-dubbed showings.
Re:Zero Season 4 tops the Spring 2026 global rankings for the second consecutive week, with Witch Hat Atelier leading the new-anime pack right behind it.
Public voting for the 10th Crunchyroll Anime Awards has closed, with the ceremony set for May 23 at Tokyo's Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa and a Yoko Takahashi Evangelion tribute on the bill.
The Criterion Channel has added Naoko Yamada's K-ON! The Movie to its curated May 2026 lineup, handing the Kyoto Animation feature a rare prestige-streaming slot.
Bones has released the creditless opening and ending videos for its Marriage Toxin TV anime, alongside a special segment, giving the spring 2026 premiere a fresh mid-season push.
Crunchyroll has unveiled the full English dub cast and staff for Studio KAI's spring 2026 comedy Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy, with the dub premiering April 19.
King Amusement Creative has greenlit a TV anime adaptation of Sawaragi and Gasuyama's age-gap mystery-romance manga A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage, serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal.
Biseuryu's hit murim manhwa Return of the Blossoming Blade has returned from a year-plus hiatus with Season 3 Episode 153, released simultaneously worldwide on Webtoon on April 14.
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc arrives on Crunchyroll in Spring 2026 following a theatrical run that pulled in roughly $185 million worldwide.
Science SARU's reimagining of Ghost in the Shell, directed by Kenji Iwaisawa (Mokochan), premieres in July 2026 on Prime Video with a new trailer unveiled at AnimeJapan 2026.
Week two of the Spring 2026 season has crystallised a clear pecking order across Japan's biggest streaming dashboards, with Re:Zero, Witch Hat Atelier and Daemons of the Shadow Realm out in front.
Crunchyroll has unveiled the English dub cast, crew, and release schedule for the spring 2026 villainess rom-com An Observation Log of My Fiancee Who Calls Herself a Villainess.
Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World returned for its fourth season on April 8, opening an 11-episode Loss Arc that streams weekly on Crunchyroll ahead of the Recapture Arc in August.
Kyoto Animation's original TV series Sparks of Tomorrow will premiere worldwide on Netflix on July 5, 2026, alongside a new key visual and trailer.
Crunchyroll India has added Haibara's Teenage New Game+ and Killed Again, Mr. Detective? to its Spring 2026 simulcast slate, joining an expanding lineup aimed at Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu audiences.
TV Tokyo's Drama 24 slot will premiere a 13-story live-action Junji Ito omnibus titled Strange on July 3, adapting classics like Lovesickness and Tomio: Red Turtleneck with IVE's Jigsaw as the theme song.
Muse India is now streaming the Hindi dub of Cells at Work free on YouTube, dropping a new episode every Sunday at 10 p.m. IST alongside a parallel Attack on Titan Season 2 rollout.
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a spoiler-article site operator to a suspended 18-month term and a one-million-yen fine, ruling that written plot summaries of Godzilla Minus One and other works constitute copyright-infringing adaptation.
Witch Hat Atelier episode 3, 'The Dadah Range Test,' has drawn near-unanimous critical praise for its animation and emotional stakes, with reviewers calling it the strongest anime episode of Spring 2026 so far.
Yuko Kaida joins the TROYCA-animated Always a Catch! as Queen Rubini, mother to leads Renato and Placido, in a mid-season cast addition announced April 15.
Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comics confirmed that Satoshi Kisaichi's demon-YouTuber comedy manga Black Channel is jumping from YouTube shorts to a full-length television anime.
Crunchyroll has revealed the English dub cast for Dorohedoro Season 2, with Aleks Le reprising Caiman alongside Griffin Burns, Cherami Leigh, Johnny Yong Bosch, and Cristina Vee for the MAPPA-animated sequel.