Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comics confirmed that Satoshi Kisaichi's demon-YouTuber comedy manga Black Channel is jumping from YouTube shorts to a full-length television anime.
Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comics confirmed on Wednesday, April 16 that Satoshi Kisaichi's long-running children's comedy manga Black Channel is getting its first full-length television anime adaptation. The announcement went out through the magazine's official X account alongside commemorative artwork, graduating the series from its earlier short-form YouTube outings into a proper TV production.
Black Channel is not new to animation, but it is new to television. A short-form YouTube anime debuted in September 2020, the same year the manga launched in Coro Coro Comics. A spinoff titled Black Channel: Breaking The Wall followed on YouTube in August 2022. Both prior adaptations stuck to the bite-sized format that suits a gag manga aimed at elementary-school readers.
The newly greenlit project is a distinct step up in scope. Shogakukan framed the announcement specifically as a television anime, separating it from the web-video efforts that came before. Production staff, studio, cast, and a release window have not yet been revealed.
Kisaichi's manga follows Black, a demon who crosses over from the demon world to the human one with a single mission: make video content that rips the lid off the hidden sides of human nature, games, and hobbies. He is joined by Camera-chan, a camera-shaped demon who serves as his filming partner and foil. The premise is essentially a satire of streaming and YouTuber culture refracted through a children's gag-manga lens, with Black's demonic perspective letting the series poke fun at the genre's obsessions and performative habits.
The series launched in Coro Coro Comics in 2020 and is still ongoing. Shogakukan released the 13th collected volume on December 26, 2025, putting the manga in solidly long-running territory for the magazine — a track record that likely helped justify the jump to TV.
Coro Coro Comics has been a reliable feeder for kid-skewing anime franchises for decades, with properties like Doraemon, Pokemon, and Duel Masters sitting at the top of its historical catalogue. Black Channel slots into that pipeline as a more recent original, and its move to television mirrors the magazine's usual pattern of testing a property in shorter formats before committing to a full series order.
For now, the April 16 reveal is essentially a greenlight announcement. The production team, animation studio, voice cast, broadcaster, and premiere window are all still blank on the official materials, which suggests the project is early enough in development that a staff reveal and key visual are likely to be the next beats rather than an immediate premiere date.
The obvious next milestones are a studio credit and a lead cast reveal, both of which Coro Coro-linked adaptations typically hand out in follow-up magazine issues or through the official X account. International availability — including whether an Indian streaming partner like Crunchyroll or Netflix picks up the title for simulcast — will depend entirely on who Shogakukan lines up as the production committee's distribution partners once that staff is in place.
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