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Rurouni Kenshin OVA: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) premieres, director Kazuhiro Furuhashi's darker, more graphic prequel OVA telling the origin of Himura Kenshin as the assassin Hitokiri Battousai.

The second and concluding half of the Meiji Kenkaku Romantan OVA duology, following 1999's Trust & Betrayal, catches up with Kenshin Himura years after the main TV series as he wanders alone, still trying to atone for his past as an assassin, while his wife Kaoru waits for a return that keeps not coming. Studio DEEN trades the TV series' more forgiving tone for a somber, elegiac coda that closes out the couple's story.

Maria Watches Over Us 3rd Season OVA continues the Lillian Girls' Academy drama with a summer arc in which old acquaintances of Sachiko's threaten to spoil her and Yumi's holiday.

A brief bonus scene tucked into Japan's 2007 tenth-anniversary Rurouni Kenshin DVD-BOX, animated by Studio Deen — the same studio behind the original 1996 TV series. Rather than expanding the story, it restages the manga's own ending beat as a short coda for the boxed-set release.

Studio DEEN releases two bonus Sekaiichi Hatsukoi OVA episodes, filling in the backstory of editors Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano's high-school breakup and a later, awkward family visit for fellow couple Hatori and Chiaki.

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju begins its TV run, a period drama in which a newly released convict apprentices himself to a rakugo storytelling master, unfolding the master's own tangled past across postwar Japan.

Studio DEEN's KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! begins broadcast, a comic isekai following hapless gamer Kazuma Satou, who dies absurdly and is reincarnated into a fantasy world with the inept goddess Aqua to fight the Demon King.

KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!: God's Blessings On This Wonderful Choker! is a bonus OVA bundled with the light novel's ninth volume, in which a magical choker forces Kazuma to fulfil his own wish or be strangled.

Studio Deen's second season of Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju begins broadcast, continuing the adaptation of Haruko Kumota's manga about rival rakugo storytellers across the Showa era.

KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! 2 continues Kazuma Satou's misadventures in a fantasy world with his dysfunctional party: the useless goddess Aqua, obsessive mage Megumin, and masochistic crusader Darkness.

The bonus OVA KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! 2: God's Blessings on These Wonderful Works of Art! releases, an unaired episode bundled with the light novel's twelfth volume and following Kazuma and party on a golem-hunting quest.

Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation, the theatrical follow-up to the Sasaki to Miyano TV series, opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the manga's "Graduation Arc" as the two leads face the end of high school.