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.
Gals Cant Be Kind to Otaku premiered April 8 at 11:45 p.m. on TV Asahi, with TMS Entertainment animating and Crunchyroll streaming globally including India.
Veteran voice actors Kappei Yamaguchi and Junko Takeuchi joined Go for It Nakamura as in story manga characters, with the anime now streaming on Crunchyroll worldwide.
A new Rilakkuma short anime debuted April 4 on TBS, animated by Production I.G with YOASOBI vocalist Lilas Ikuta narrating and performing the theme song stay with me.
Weekly Shonen Jump is launching three new manga series across April 2026, including a horror comedy from Agravity Boys creator Atsushi Nakamura and a fantasy comedy from Gintama creator Hideaki Sorachi.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 premiered April 3 on Crunchyroll with a five cour, 60 episode order, the longest single season run in the franchise's history.
Grammy winning artist The Weeknd will present the Anime of the Year award at the 2026 Crunchyroll Anime Awards in Tokyo on May 23, with voting open through April 15.
Wind Breaker Season 2 launched on Netflix worldwide on April 2, 2026, with CloverWorks animation and director Toshifumi Akai returning for a 13 episode run.
Mai Nakahara joins Wistoria Wand and Sword Season 2 as high mage Clairie Serah, with the season set to debut April 12 on TBS and Crunchyroll worldwide.
Even a Replica Can Fall in Love, a sci-fi romance about an artificial being who develops real human emotions, has premiered on Crunchyroll from studio Voil.
The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch, a fantasy anime about a girl learning magic from a cursed talking cat, debuts on Crunchyroll on April 12 for a continuous two-cour run.
Doraemon: Nobita and the New Castle of the Undersea Devil has held the number one spot at the Japan box office for six consecutive weekends since its late February release.
Solo Leveling Vol. 24 topped Japan's weekly Oricon manga chart with over 50,000 copies sold, while One Piece Vol. 114 and The JOJOLands Vol. 8 also placed in the top 10.
The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King, a romance between a captured knight and a surprisingly refined barbarian king, premieres today on Crunchyroll from studio Jumondo.
Eren the Southpaw, a drama about a struggling artist and a gifted painter whose paths intertwine, has premiered on Crunchyroll from studios Signal.MD and Production I.G.
Nippon Sangoku brings a post-nuclear Japan divided into three warring kingdoms to Prime Video, streaming exclusively in over 240 countries with new weekly episodes.