Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

GoHands adapts Nekoko's isekai light novel as a two-cour series about a disowned heir who uses his past life's VR-game expertise to turn the derided Heavy Knight class into a powerhouse.

Yokohama Animation Lab's Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing Season 2 premieres, continuing the isekai comedy about a min-maxing gamer whose hardcore-mode habits make him overpowered in a poorly balanced fantasy world.

Lapin Track's You and I Are Polar Opposites Season 2 begins airing, continuing the slice-of-life romance following classmates Miyu Suzuki and Yuusuke Tani as their relationship, and their friends' own budding romances, continue through winter.

Colored Pencil Animation Japan animates Kureha's ayakashi Cinderella romance The Ogre's Bride, following its live-action film earlier in 2026.

Set during Japan's postwar economic boom, Grow Up Show follows the struggling Sunflower Circus troupe as ringmaster Maria and her performers try to keep the show running on a shoestring budget. Everything changes when they take in Mizuka Tsurumaki, a natural-born circus prodigy, and set their sights on a spot at the prestigious nationwide Circus Collection festival. Animated by A-1 Pictures, it is an original coming-of-age story built around the discipline and spectacle of circus performance.

Zero-G and Grass's TV adaptation of the romance web manga premieres, following a noblewoman whose icy new husband vows never to love her and then can't stop doting on her.

The cooking-competition TV anime Iron Wok Jan! begins broadcast, following arrogant young chef Jan Akiyama's rivalry with fellow prodigy Kiriko Gobancho as he chases his grandfather's old nemesis.

EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance is Seven Arcs’ newest entry in the long-running Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, but it's a fresh original story rather than a continuation of Nanoha's own arc: thirty years after mysterious "invasive alien species" nearly destroyed the world, a UN agency called EXCEEDS fights to contain the ongoing fallout. It centers on Shina Hisase, a young extermination hunter on the remote island nation of Mizuho, trying to protect her younger sister Setsuna as the agency pulls her deeper into its operations.

Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky premieres, a light-novel adaptation from studio Makaria about a withdrawn university freshman who befriends a blind classmate determined to see fireworks.

Project No.9 adapts Yu Hibari's romantic comedy about a boy whose rough-and-tumble childhood pal turns out to be a demure beauty at his new school.

Queensland abandoned its plan for a new downstream dam in July 2026 and committed instead to rebuilding Paradise Dam's existing wall back to its original height.

ENGI returns with the same staff and cast for the long-awaited second season of Yomu Mishima's isekai, as Leon's meddling in the otome game's plot drags him into a kingdom-shaking conspiracy.