Detective Conan Fallen Angel of the Highway opened to 3.5 billion yen and 2.32 million tickets across its first three days in Japan, breaking the previous opening record set by last year's One-eyed Flashback film.
MyAnimeList user scores as of mid-April 2026 put Witch Hat Atelier at the top of the Spring 2026 season with an 8.74 community score, followed by Re:Zero Season 4 at 8.69 and Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3 at 8.30.
The cozy slice-of-life anime Ichijyoma Mankitsu Gurashi premieres on Rakuten Viki, Ocean Veil, ADN, and the It's Anime YouTube channel on April 12 across North America, Europe, Australia, and Latin America.
Prime Video and Netflix launched an English dub of Kill Blue on April 11, matching the subtitled debut on the same day. Bang Zoom Studios is handling the dub for the Spring 2026 Shonen Jump adaptation.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4's premiere week delivered the highest opening among new Spring 2026 TV anime, with a 3.1% Kanto household rating. One Piece and Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 followed.
Crunchyroll will start streaming an English dub for The Beginning After the End Season 2 on April 15, with Amber May voicing Arthur and Christopher Wehkamp returning as Grey.
Wit Studio apologized on April 10 for using generative AI in background art for the opening sequence of Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 and confirmed it will redraw the affected cuts before the second episode airs.
The Spring 2026 romantic comedy Yowayowa Sensei debuts on Ani-One India at 6:30 p.m. IST on April 11, with HIDIVE handling an uncensored international stream alongside the Japanese AT-X broadcast.
Akira returns to UK and Ireland cinemas April 17 in a 4K IMAX re-release from Anime Limited, with both IMAX and standard bookings open through major UK chains in subtitled Japanese and English dub formats.
Beyblade X moves from TV Tokyo to the official Beyblade YouTube channel on April 17, debuting the True Future arc with a double-episode premiere and Aoen's new ending theme Youth.
Blue Lock chapter 343, titled 'Vivien Hugo,' releases April 14 at 11 a.m. ET on K Manga, continuing the tied France match from chapter 342 as Isagi reconsiders his role on the Blue Lock side.
Cardfight!! Vanguard will get a new TV anime in 2027 for its 15th anniversary, and Divinez's theatrical finale Unmei Seisen-hen opens October 2, 2026 with Kinema Citrus animating and CLAMP designing characters.
Ichijyoma Mankitsu Gurashi began streaming April 12 on Rakuten Viki, OceanVeil, ADN, and the It's Anime YouTube channel, covering North America, Europe, Latin America, and Oceania on launch day.
Japan's trade ministry is targeting a 6 trillion yen anime overseas market by 2033, nearly tripling 2024 export value and rewriting studio subsidy rules to reward larger productions and broader localisation.
Japan's household TV anime ratings for the week of March 30-April 5 show Sazae-san, Detective Conan, and Chibi Maruko-chan leading, with Slime Season 4 at #4 and Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 at #7.
Kill Blue opened April 11 across Netflix, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Rakuten Viki, Plex, and four other North American services, with a same-day English dub from Bang Zoom on Prime Video and Netflix.
Odekake Kozame's second season debuted April 12 in TV Tokyo's Animori! block, with director Chihiro Kumano and studio ENGI returning and Karin Takahashi joining the cast as new character Kitsune-chan.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend's Tomoe Koga memorial visual went up April 12 as the third in a weekly heroine-spotlight campaign leading to the film's October 16 Japanese theatrical release.
Yen Press has launched Avocado House, a new imprint for international fiction in English translation, with a Fall 2026 debut slate led by Keigo Higashino's Laplace's Witch and 12 titles per year.
Yowayowa Sensei premiered April 11 on AT-X with Brains Base producing, Hiroshi Ishiodori directing, and Daoko's 'COMIT COMET' as the opening theme. Ani-One India is streaming the series on YouTube.
Ace of Diamond Act II Second Season is premiering in April 2026 on TV Tokyo and AT-X, with new director Hideaki Oba taking over at OLM after a four year hiatus.
Kadokawa announced a new Date A Live anime called F Last Date with director Junji Nishimura at studio Fugaku, returning the original cast including Nobunaga Shimazaki and Marina Inoue.
The Detective Is Already Dead Season 2 reveals a new trailer introducing a Siesta lookalike named Noches, while delaying its broadcast from July to October 2026.
Dorohedoro Season 2 launched April 1 on Netflix and Crunchyroll, six years after MAPPA's original adaptation, with director Yuichiro Hayashi returning for an 11 episode run.