newsApril 9, 2026
Snowball Earth Brings Post-Apocalyptic Mecha Action to Crunchyroll
Snowball Earth, a new anime about a pilot awakening to a frozen world after eight years of cryosleep, has premiered on Crunchyroll with a 13-episode first season.
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newsApril 9, 2026
Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 Begins Streaming With New Arc on Crunchyroll
Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 has started streaming on Crunchyroll, continuing the long-running romantic comedy with TMS Entertainment returning to animate the latest arc.
newsApril 9, 2026
Detective Conan Film Opens in Record 526 Theaters and Shatters Screening Record
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway opens in a franchise-record 526 theaters across Japan, with T-Joy Yokohama scheduling 59 screenings on opening day to break the previous record.
trendingApril 9, 2026
WIT Studio Faces AI Art Backlash Over Bookworm Season 4 Opening
Fans have accused WIT Studio of using AI-generated background art in the Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4 opening, with the studio's producer stopping short of a direct denial.
trendingApril 9, 2026
Netflix Confirms JoJo's Steel Ball Run 2nd Stage for Fall 2026 With Weekly Episodes
Netflix has confirmed that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run will return with its 2nd Stage in fall 2026, airing one new episode per week after weeks of fan anxiety over the release schedule.
listsApril 9, 2026
Every Anime Coming to Netflix in April 2026 From Elbaf to Dandelion
Netflix is adding over a dozen anime titles in April 2026 including One Piece's Elbaf arc, Dorohedoro Season 2, Wind Breaker Season 2, and the original Dandelion series.
trendingApril 9, 2026
Genshin Impact Anime Shows New Character Designs in Ufotable Teaser
Ufotable's 30th anniversary promotional reel included new footage of the Genshin Impact anime with redesigned characters, though the project remains categorized as a future title beyond 2026.
newsApril 9, 2026
Mission: Yozakura Family Season 2 Premieres April 12 With New Cast
Mission: Yozakura Family Season 2 debuts on April 12 on MBS and TBS with SILVER LINK returning to animate the spy family's Silver Rank Exam arc and Kaito Ishikawa joining the voice cast.
newsApril 9, 2026
Blue Lock Gets Season 3 Anime and Live-Action Film Releasing August 7
Blue Lock Season 3 will adapt the Neo Egoist League arc while a live-action film produced by Credeus hits Japanese theaters on August 7, timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup summer.
newsApril 9, 2026
Kadokawa Unites Six Anime Studios in New Ikebukuro Production Hub
Kadokawa will open Studio One Base inside Ikebukuro's Sunshine City complex this fall, consolidating five animation studios and internal departments into a single production facility housing 400 creators.
trendingApril 9, 2026
Dragon Ball Super Returns After Eight Years With Galactic Patrol Prisoner Anime
Dragon Ball Super is officially coming back to television with a new anime adapting the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc, featuring the villain Moro, alongside a remastered edition titled Dragon Ball Super: Beerus.
newsApril 9, 2026
One Punch Man Season 3 Gets Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu Dub on Sony YAY
One Punch Man Season 3 premieres on Sony YAY starting April 11 with daily episodes at 9 PM in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, marking the season's first Indian television broadcast.
newsApril 9, 2026
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Arrives on Netflix May 1 Across US and UK
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2, covering the Hidden Inventory and Shibuya Incident arcs, will launch on Netflix on May 1 in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Latin America.
newsApril 9, 2026
Demon Slayer Infinity Castle Part 2 Will Not Release Until 2027 at Earliest
Ufotable's promotional slate confirms Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Part 2 is categorized under future projects beyond 2026, pushing its earliest possible release window to 2027.
newsApril 9, 2026
Gintama Creator Hideaki Sorachi's Dandelion Anime Hits Netflix on April 16
Dandelion, the anime adaptation of Gintama creator Hideaki Sorachi's debut manga about guiding restless spirits to the afterlife, premieres globally on Netflix on April 16 with seven episodes.
newsApril 9, 2026
Ghost in the Shell Gets Fresh Anime From Science SARU on Prime Video This July
Science SARU's new Ghost in the Shell anime adaptation will stream on Amazon Prime Video starting July 2026 with a vibrant 90s-inspired visual style and an entirely original take on the source manga.
newsApril 9, 2026
Mushoku Tensei Season 3 Reveals New Trailer and July 5 Premiere Date
Studio Bind's Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 will premiere on July 5 with a new opening theme by Yuiko Ohara and the long-awaited return of Eris Boreas Greyrat.
newsApril 7, 2026
Parasite Director Bong Joon-ho Reveals First Animated Feature Ally
The Academy Award-winning director of Parasite has unveiled Ally, an animated film about a deep-sea piglet squid, with talent from 12 countries and a 2027 release window.
newsApril 7, 2026
Hiromu Arakawa's Daemons of the Shadow Realm Debuts on Crunchyroll
The creator of Fullmetal Alchemist returns to anime with a two-cour dark fantasy series produced by Bones Film, now streaming with same-day English dubs.
trendingApril 7, 2026
DanDaDan Dominates Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2026 Nominations
DanDaDan Season 2 leads all series in nominations at the 10th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, earning entries across more than a dozen categories including Anime of the Year.
newsApril 7, 2026
Demon Slayer Infinity Castle Crosses 40 Billion Yen in Japan
The first Infinity Castle film has earned over 40 billion yen in Japan alone, making it only the second film in the country's history to reach that milestone.
newsApril 7, 2026
Crunchyroll and Aniplex's Hayate Acquires Anime Studio Lay-duce
HAYATE Inc., the Aniplex-Crunchyroll joint venture, has acquired all shares of anime studio Lay-duce in its first capital participation in a production studio.
newsApril 7, 2026
My Hero Academia Epilogue Episode More Set for May 2 on Crunchyroll
My Hero Academia's true finale episode adapts the manga's bonus chapter, jumping eight years past graduation to show the characters' adult lives.
newsApril 7, 2026
Re:Zero Season 4 Premieres With 19 Episodes Across Two Arcs
Re:Zero Season 4 debuts on Crunchyroll on April 8 with a 19-episode run split between the Loss Arc and the Recapture Arc.