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Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia reclaimed first place in Summer 2026 Week 5 fan-voted anime rankings with 6.75 percent of the vote, overtaking Bleach TYBW and marking the show's second weekly win.
Mushoku Tensei Season 3 unveiled a Chaos Breaker arc trailer and new cast including Rikiya Koyama as Perugius Dola, with the arc premiering August 16.
Weekly Shonen Jump averaged 985,000 print copies from April to June 2026, dropping below 1 million for the first time since circulation tracking began in 2008.
Re:ZERO Season 4 released its first trailer for the eight-episode Recapture Arc beginning August 12, revealing new cast members Fairouz Ai and Tomokazu Sugita alongside theme songs by Konomi Suzuki and MYTH&ROID.
Link Click season 3 part 1 premieres on August 14 with 12 episodes, kicking off a planned 24-episode split-cour season produced by Studio LAN.
Assassination Classroom: Our Time, a new film adapting previously unadapted manga chapters and reuniting Class 3-E as adults, is now streaming on Crunchyroll with an English dub.
The fifth live-action Kingdom film opened at number one in Japan, earning approximately 1.58 billion yen in its first three days and selling nearly one million tickets.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 - The Culling Game Part 1 launches on Netflix worldwide on July 22, bringing the MAPPA-produced series to the platform with dubbed versions after its Crunchyroll simulcast.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 4 The Calamity premieres July 25 on Hulu and Disney Plus, bringing the anime to a close with 13 episodes adapting the manga's final chapters.
MAPPA's Banana Fish anime arrives on Netflix on August 12 with new English and French dubs featuring human voice actors, replacing controversial AI dubs that Amazon removed in late 2025.
Director Yuzuru Tachikawa and character designer Yoshimichi Kameda reunited with the original Mob Psycho 100 production team for a new animated short debuted at the anime's 10th anniversary event.
Crunchyroll co-founder Kun Gao has launched AniBiz, the first dedicated B2B marketplace for global anime licensing, backed by over 20 major licensors including Toei Animation, Aniplex, and TOHO.