Shueisha will publish the 100th and final chapter of LINK and Savan's World's End Harem: Fantasia on April 26, closing the sword-and-sorcery spinoff after roughly seven years of serialization.
Dorohedoro season 2 has opened to a 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score, with reviewers praising MAPPA's upgraded 3DCG, sharper action choreography and the show's unapologetic gore after a six-year wait.
Hideaki Sorachi ends his seven-year post-Gintama silence with Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz, a 66-page lead color debut in Weekly Shonen Jump issue 21.
Pokemon Horizons launches its eighth arc, Wonder Voyage, on May 22, introducing a new female trainer with a Ditto companion and tie-ins to Pokemon GO, UNITE and Sleep.
Two episodes into Re:Zero season 4, reviewers agree Subaru is sharper, faster, and more tactical in the Augria Sand Dunes arc — even as some worry his deaths are losing their sting.
GKIDS and Fathom Entertainment have unveiled a seven-film Studio Ghibli Fest 2026 slate for US theatres, running June through October with Ponyo, Princess Mononoke in 4K and a 25th-anniversary Spirited Away.
Tokyo MX has dismissed representative director and chairman Hiroshi Date after an internal investigation concluded he engaged in power harassment, with his director resignation taking effect April 30.
Anime Limited's 4K restoration of Akira opened at number five on the UK-Ireland box office with GBP881,306 from 412 sites, beating all of the film's prior re-releases combined.
Composer Evan Call will join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Voices at OVO Arena Wembley on May 21 for a 90-minute Frieren: Beyond Journey's End concert.
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.