Pins matching tag:"Manga Adaptation"

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.

Kaiju Girl Caramelise begins broadcast, a Liden Films adaptation of Spica Aoki's manga about high schooler Kuroe Akaishi, who transforms into a giant kaiju whenever her emotions run too high, just as she starts falling for her crush.

Chainsmoker Cat is a slice-of-life comedy animated by Bibury Animation Studios about Yani, a catgirl whose life revolves around cigarettes she can't put down — her apartment ankle-deep in butts and ash despite repeated, short-lived attempts to quit. The humor leans on her self-aware but powerless slide into bad habits rather than any larger plot, adapted from the manga published in English by Seven Seas.

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.

Draw This, Then Die! (Kore Kaite Shine) follows first-year high schooler Ai Yasumi on Izu Oshima island as she discovers a love of manga-making and pushes to turn her stories into a career, animated by Shin-Ei Animation.

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.

Animated by Lay-duce, this 24-episode family comedy-drama follows high schooler Ito Hazui as her mother's sudden remarriage hands her four step-brothers to adjust to overnight. Most of the show's tension comes from her relationship with the eldest, Gen, whose standoffish manner keeps cracking to reveal quieter moments of care.

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

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.

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.

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 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 3 premieres, continuing Bibury Animation Studios' manga adaptation of Rikito Nakamura's harem-romance comedy.

The second season of Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc., animated by J.C.Staff, continues its corporate-workplace spin on the mahou shoujo genre: magical girls here are salaried employees, and protagonists Kana Sakuragi and Hitomi Koshigaya spend as much time on internal politics and product rollout for the company's Alice System as they do fighting. This season pits them against industry factions pushing to deregulate magic use for profit, raising the stakes beyond the first season's day-to-day office drama.

Zero-G and Saber Works begin broadcasting Grand Blue Dreaming Season 3, sending college diver Iori Kitahara and his boozy diving-club friends overseas to help run a new dive shop in Palau.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day begins airing, a dark fantasy TV anime adapting a Kodansha manga about Sheena, a girl raised in a wartime orphanage that trains its residents as killers, and her uneasy bond with Mimi, an immortal new arrival who cannot die.

Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games begins broadcast, a diomedéa adaptation about Aya Mitsuki, a student at the elite Kuromi Girls' Academy who discovers that her idol of refined poise is secretly a hardcore fighting-game player.

Clevatess Season 2 begins airing, continuing the fantasy TV anime's manga adaptation as the postwar search for General Drel's hidden secrets draws in Klen and the students of Boelate's divine academy.

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.

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.

Asahi Production's Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You begins airing, adapting the manga about overworked salaryman Sasaki's chance smoke-break encounters with the women working at his local supermarket.

Based on the manga of the same name and animated by LidenFilms, the series reimagines a defeated Demon King, Ryuūsei Narukami, living out a second life as a reclusive shut-in — until Meteor Hanaori, the hero who once struck him down, resurfaces reincarnated as an ordinary high schooler. Trying to turn his life around, Ryuūsei takes a teaching job that happens to land him at her school, and old rivalry curdles into an unlikely spark between former enemies.

The Elusive Samurai returns for a second season, continuing CloverWorks' TV adaptation of Yusuke Suzuki's manga about the young shogun's heir Hojo Tokiyuki, who survives the fall of the Kamakura shogunate by mastering the art of running away.

The fourth and final cour of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, subtitled The Calamity, begins airing, bringing Tite Kubo's shinigami saga to its climactic battle between Ichigo Kurosaki's allies and Yhwach's Wandenreich.

The boys' love ONA One-Room TA begins release, following college student U-Yun's relationship with his quiet teaching assistant Jin-Hyeong after Jin-Hyeong moves in with him.

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.

Studio Pierrot's Black Clover returns for a second season, continuing Asta and Yuno's story in the Clover Kingdom after the original run ended its manga catch-up in 2021.

LIDENFILMS' next Tokyo Revengers arc follows Takemichi Hanagaki as he keeps time-leaping to save his friends from the Tokyo Manji Gang's violent future.

Electric Circus's second season of Blue Box continues Taiki and Chinatsu's sports romance as they navigate badminton, basketball, and their feelings for each other.

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.

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.

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.

Kinema Citrus's Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery, the first film in a new trilogy continuing the story past Retsujitsu no Ougonkyou, opens in Japanese theaters.

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.

A-1 Pictures' third season of Mashle adapts the manga's final exam arc, as Mash Burnedead keeps faking magic with raw muscle in a world that worships it.

TMS Entertainment's second season of Sakamoto Days continues former legendary hitman Taro Sakamoto's quiet life as a shopkeeper, constantly interrupted by his past.

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.

C2C's third season of Shangri-La Frontier continues Sunraku's exploits as a self-styled 'kusoge hunter' taking on the acclaimed VRMMO Shangri-La Frontier.

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.

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.

Bones Film brings back its assassin-meets-marriage-swindler action comedy Marriagetoxin for a second season in January 2027 on Fuji TV's Karnival!! block.

SynergySP's rom-com Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms returns for a second season in January 2027, with Mona still failing to fluster her stoic classmate.

Wit Studio's The One Piece, a full-CG remake of Eiichiro Oda's manga produced with Toei Animation, Fuji TV, and Shueisha, is set to release as a short ONA season.

P.A. Works' second season of Skip and Loafer continues Mitsumi Iwakura's earnest, small-scale high-school life in Tokyo alongside classmate Sousuke Shima.

Cypic is adapting Takeru Hokazono's breakout Weekly Shōnen Jump revenge saga Kagurabachi, about a swordsmith's son hunting the sorcerers who stole his father's enchanted blades, for a Spring 2027 TV debut.