Épingles correspondant à posted:2026-09-16

Cypic's The World Is Dancing begins streaming, a coming-of-age drama fictionalizing the early life of Zeami Motokiyo, the boy who would grow up to found Noh theater in 14th-century Japan.

The comedy short Bungo Stray Dogs WAN! 2 begins broadcast, the second season of the chibi spin-off gag series set alongside the main Bungo Stray Dogs anime.

Hana-Kimi Season 2 begins release, continuing the romantic comedy about Mizuki Ashiya, who disguises herself as a boy to attend an all-boys high school and room with the athlete she admires.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sparks of Tomorrow begins broadcast, a Kyoto Animation period drama set in 1907 Kyoto about a sake brewer's daughter drawn into a search for a lost book of electrical predictions.

Adapted from the light novel series by Brain's Base, this romantic comedy follows Itsuki Tomonari, an ordinary student secretly recruited to look after Hinako Konohana — the most admired girl at a prestigious academy, whose flawless public image hides a near-total inability to handle basic chores. The show plays the gap between Hinako's polished reputation and her private disasters for laughs while nudging the pair toward an unlikely romance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kinema Citrus's Goodbye, Lara premieres, a TV anime in which a mermaid princess who traded her voice for a chance at human love wakes at Lake Biwa two centuries later for one final chance to break the witch's curse.

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.

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.

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.

The second season of From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman follows Beryl Gardenant settling into his new roles as a special instructor for the Royal Order of Knights and guardian to an orphaned child. That relative calm does not last: the season sends him back to the magic institute, his hometown, the kingdom’s border and a foreign land as new threats surface. Produced by Passione, it continues the light novel adaptation's blend of understated swordplay and fantasy world-building.

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.

Yi Nian Yongheng 4 begins streaming, B.CMAY PICTURES' fourth and final season of its A Will Eternal (Yi Nian Yong Heng) donghua adaptation, continuing Bai Xiaochun's long climb through the cultivation world.

Shenman Entertainment’s Yi Zhan Cangqiong begins streaming, a Chinese donghua following Gu An, a crippled young man who seizes the power of an ancient god at his lowest moment and turns it against the enemies who wronged him. The 26-episode ONA leans into a familiar but reliably popular power-fantasy setup — a written-off protagonist ascending to godlike strength to settle old scores.

L'ONA boys' love One-Room TA débute sa diffusion et suit la relation entre l'étudiant U-Yun et son discret assistant d'enseignement Jin-Hyeong, après que ce dernier a emménagé chez lui.

Voters nationwide decide control of the U.S. House and Senate in the first midterm election of Donald Trump's second term. Prediction markets on Polymarket and Kalshi, along with the generic congressional ballot, have swung toward Democrats over the course of 2026, a reversal from the start of the cycle, as Trump's approval rating slid and voters cited cost-of-living pressures as a top concern.