The Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You anime revealed four new cast members and confirmed Crunchyroll streaming across multiple regions for its July premiere.
Yuki Ikeda's parallel-world shonen manga Thunder 3 will publish its final chapter on June 5 in Monthly Shonen Magazine, weeks before its anime premieres on Fuji TV's +Ultra block in July 2026.
N LITE and Kodansha have announced a co-development deal to serialize a prequel manga for the MFINDA animated film in Biblio Sirius Magazine, expanding Congolese mythology into a cross-Pacific manga-to-film pipeline.
Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 2 claims No. 1 for the first time in the Spring 2026 Week 5 fan poll with 9.64% of over 7,000 votes, dethroning Witch Hat Atelier.
One Piece Chapter 1182 finally brings Rain God Zaza to life after a 23-year wait, with Saint Killingham's nightmare manifestation flooding Elbaf in a dramatic debut.
Netflix will begin streaming Zexcs' rakugo drama Akane-banashi worldwide on May 17, 2026, launching with two episodes and an English dub from day one.
The 29th Detective Conan theatrical film has drawn 6.28 million admissions and 9.31 billion yen across 23 days in Japanese theatres, setting up a Golden Week surge.
Netflix's Devil May Cry returns May 12 with a new trailer pitting Dante against his twin brother Vergil, as Adi Shankar and Studio Mir extend the animated Capcom adaptation.
Hirokazu Kore-eda's live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back headlines the Tokyo International Film Festival's Goes to Cannes showcase at the 79th Cannes Film Festival.
The Quintessential Quintuplets franchise unveiled two new anime projects at a May 2 Tokyo event, including a TV adaptation of Hajime Asano's Four Seasons sequel novels and a separate original OVA.
Netflix's Stage 2 pivot to weekly Steel Ball Run episodes in fall 2026 was supposed to end the uproar. The JoJo fandom has other ideas, and the cursed Johnny Joestar memes keep coming.
Jyura's romance manga Kanojo no Tomodachi will receive a TV anime adaptation in 2026 under WWWave Corporation's Deregula short-form anime label.
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 closed its 24-episode run as the highest-rated TV anime of 2025 on MAL, with critics praising its political depth and Aoi Yuki's central performance even as a few flagged pacing.
Cygames has acquired all shares of veteran 3DCG and VFX studio Griot Groove, whose credits span Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Ninja Gaiden 4, Attack on Titan and Chainsaw Man.
Mochimaru Sakaki's SQEX Novel fantasy series The World's Strongest Witch is heading to TV in October 2026, with Joji Furuta directing at Bridge and Aisle and Azusa Tachibana voicing Lorna.
Netflix's June 2026 anime lineup brings Shangri-La Frontier Season 2, Assassination Classroom Season 2, and One Piece Season 33 on June 1, plus weekly episodes of One Piece: Elbaf Arc and Kill Blue.
Netflix will release the second seasons of My Dress-Up Darling, Blue Lock, and Mushoku Tensei on May 25, 2026, though Mushoku Tensei remains unavailable in the United States.
MAPPA's Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc earned a Best Foreign Animation/Family nomination at the 26th Golden Trailer Awards, with the ceremony set for May 28 in Beverly Hills.
Newtoki, Manatoki, and Booktoki permanently shut down in late April 2026 ahead of South Korea's emergency copyright blocking law taking effect on May 11.
Netflix India added a Hindi dub for the Witch Hat Atelier anime on May 1, streaming episodes simultaneously alongside the Japanese broadcast.
Takeru Hokazono's Shonen Jump hit Kagurabachi will receive a TV anime adaptation in April 2027 from Studio Cypic, with a global world tour screening the first 20 minutes of episode one starting summer 2026.
Netflix's May 2026 anime lineup drops over a dozen titles across the month, from Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 and One Piece batch episodes on day one to Devil May Cry Season 2 and a late-month sequel triple-header.
Studio Bones' adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's Daemons of the Shadow Realm has surged to third in weekly anime polls and pushed all 12 manga volumes onto Oricon charts within weeks of its April premiere.
Netflix and Twin Engine will release The Ribbon Hero, a new anime film adapting Osamu Tezuka's Princess Knight, directed by Yuuki Igarashi at studio OUTLINE in August 2026.