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The final episode of Classroom of the Elite's fourth season closed with the news that a fifth season of the Lerche-animated school thriller is on the way.

The second-season finale of Wistoria: Wand and Sword ended by announcing a third season of the fantasy action anime, along with a promo and celebratory visual.

Bug Films' adaptation of Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier was renewed for a second season right after its first season finished, with Crunchyroll again streaming.

Asahi Production adapts Haruomi Tomotsuka's comedy about a fearsome serpent-like god of misfortune who is far more doting than frightening once two children stumble into her shrine.

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.

Crunchyroll used its Anime Expo panel to unveil Solo Leveling: Beyond the System, an A-1 Pictures film continuing Sung Jinwoo's story past the second season.

100studio adapts Tsuyoshi Takaki's cult shonen manga BLACK TORCH, nearly a decade after its Jump Square run ended.

Publisher Overlap announced a second season of Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers, the laid-back isekai romance about a stranded would-be hero.

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

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.

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.

Studio Comet adapts Metabo Hagure's revenge fantasy about a disgraced prime minister's daughter who answers a broken engagement by taking up grimoires and tearing down her own kingdom.

Studio CANDY BOX brings back the chibi Azur Lane shipgirls for a second season of eight-minute comedy shorts adapted from the official 4-koma manga.

Newon's TV adaptation of Otsuji's manga flips the Cinderella setup: an illegitimate daughter braces for cruelty from her new family, only to find her stepmother and stepsisters dote on her.

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.

Studio Eek's animated adaptation of the Korean hit Tomb Raider King premieres on Japanese TV, following a betrayed raider who returns to the past to loot every relic tomb first.

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model for complex work across coding, research, science, cybersecurity, computer use and design.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, a step-change improvement for the Opus tier for long-running agents, with gains in coding and professional work.

GARDEN Culture's Chinese fantasy donghua Raised by Demons: Panda Li follows a human boy raised among demons on a mission of revenge.

On its August earnings call Nvidia gave its first-ever year-ahead forecast: about 70% revenue growth in the fiscal year ending January 2028, roughly $673 billion, limited by supply rather than demand.

Production I.G spins Kaiju No. 8's eccentric Division 1 captain Gen Narumi off into a short original anime about his days off the battlefield.

OpenAI stopped new sign-ups and upgrades to its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro 20X plan, where its new Astra model is available, while it adds compute. Existing Pro accounts are unaffected.

Jensen Huang told reporters at a summit with King Charles III in Scotland that he expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips next year as this year, citing AI demand in almost every country. Nvidia does not disclose total chip counts.

Prediction-market traders expected Anthropic to ship the successor to Claude Opus 5 (released July 24, 2026) within days. On 19 September 2026 Polymarket's per-day market made September 21 the single likeliest day at 31%, ahead of September 22 at 25%, and its deadline market gave a release by September 30 an 83% chance and by October 31 98%. Anthropic had not announced the model; the “Opus 5.1” name comes from leaked early-access identifiers and early tester reports.

The third season of the reincarnation fantasy moves to GeyeG Pictures, and its first episode airs at midnight on September 28, 2026 in the CBC/TBS Agaru Anime block.

Studio KAI's adaptation of Kōcha Agasawa's The Ramparts of Ice returns for a second season on TBS just three months after the first, continuing its four-way high school romance.

Studio Hibari's Tougen Anki returns for its Nikko Kegon Falls Arc sequel in October 2026 on Nippon TV's Friday Anime Night block.

MAPPA's remake of Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½ returns for a third season on Nippon TV, bringing in new faces such as the Furinkan headmaster voiced by Masako Nozawa.

Passione adapts Maro Muchi's 4-koma gag manga There Is Also a Hole in the Student Organization!, a 12-episode school comedy premiering October 4, 2026.

Aoashi returns after four years with TMS Entertainment taking over from Production I.G, as Ashito Aoi steps up to Tokyo City Esperion's elite A team.

Silver Link returns with a second season of Sasaki and Peeps, the comedy about a weary salaryman whose pet sparrow turns out to be a reincarnated sage from another world.

The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World II premieres, Zero-G's second season of the magic-academy fantasy that pits Ray White and his classmates against rival schools and a darker hidden threat.

david production adapts Oreco Tachibana's Meiji-era romance Firefly Wedding, in which a dying noblewoman proposes to the assassin sent to kill her, for Fuji TV this fall.

Toei Animation's Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an enhanced re-edit of Dragon Ball Super with redrawn scenes and new cuts, retelling the story from the God of Destruction's awakening onward.

feel.'s adaptation of the Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle light novels returns for its second cour on October 13, 2026, picking up the popular Chitose's high-school drama.

My Happy Marriage returns with a three-episode special from Kinema Citrus, following Miyo and Kiyoka in the run-up to their wedding, streaming worldwide on Netflix.

The Federal Open Market Committee announces its October 2026 rate decision at 2:00 p.m. ET on October 28, six weeks after raising the federal funds target range a quarter point to 3.75%-4.00% on September 16, its first hike since 2023. On 19 September 2026 Kalshi traders were split between holding the rate and a second 25bp hike, with cuts priced near zero.

Sunrise and Shaft's adaptation of Kasumi Yasuda's dystopian manga Fool Night debuts all at once on Netflix worldwide, set in a sunless future where people are turned into oxygen-giving plants.

Shaft continues Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season with a new episode, Wazamonogatari: Karen Ogre, adapting a story from NisiOisin's Off Season novels.

Lord of Mysteries Season 2, the "Faceless" arc, brings B.CMAY PICTURES' hit donghua back as Klein, now working as detective Sherlock Moriarty, runs into spies and ancient ruins.

CloverWorks adapts Sumiko Arai's music-loving girls' love manga Kinioto, in which a trendy high schooler falls for a record-shop clerk without realising the 'guy' is her quiet classmate, with Nirvana's "Breed" as the opening theme.

Science SARU's third season of Dan Da Dan, adapting Yukinobu Tatsu's occult-meets-alien action comedy manga, is set to premiere in 2027.

Doga Kobo's second season of Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, the romantic comedy about a classmate who flirts in a language she thinks he can't understand, is set to premiere in 2027.

Production I.G's second and final Haikyu!! Final film sends Karasuno's Shoyo Hinata past the player who inspired him, closing the volleyball saga in Japanese theaters in 2027.

Production I.G's short Haikyu!! TV special covers the Spring High quarterfinal between Bokuto's Fukurodani Academy and Kiryu's Mujinazaka High, the match playing out at the same time as Karasuno's game against Kamomedai.

Laid-Back Camp returns for a fourth season in 2027 with a new studio, FuRyu Pictures, as newcomer Mei joins the Outdoor Exploration Club on a trip to Karisaka while Rin heads off solo to Saitama.

Nexus's The Eminence in Shadow: Lost Echoes, a theatrical sequel to the anime's second season based on Daisuke Aizawa's light novels, is set to open in Japan in 2027.

ENGI's fourth season of the fantasy-parody KonoSuba brings Kazuma's disaster party back for another run, slated for 2027 after being confirmed at the franchise's tenth-anniversary livestream.