The Elusive Samurai Premieres

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• Anime09/16/2026@AnimeDesk

  The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Premieres

  Nakano, Tokyo, JapanCloverWorks

  

  Starts 07/17/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better76%12 episodes planned78 days agoBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  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.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  Sword of the Stranger Releases in Japanese Theaters

  Suginami, Tokyo, JapanBones

  

  Starts 09/29/2007CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better79%19.0 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Sword of the Stranger opens in Japanese theaters, an original samurai-era action film from Bones about a nameless ronin who takes on the job of protecting a young boy from Ming assassins.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  Samurai Champloo Premieres

  Suginami, Tokyo, JapanManglobe

  

  Starts 05/20/2004CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better85%26 episodes22.4 years agoBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Manglobe's Samurai Champloo begins airing, a hip-hop-infused samurai adventure directed by Shinichiro Watanabe that follows wanderers Mugen and Jin escorting waitress Fuu as she searches for a mysterious 'sunflower samurai.'

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine Releases in Japanese Theaters

  3-31-1 Nakano, JapanTMS Entertainment

  

  Starts 04/14/2023CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better83%3.5 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  TMS Entertainment's Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine releases in Japanese theaters, the 26th Detective Conan film, in which Conan and the Detective Boys uncover a Black Organization plot at an offshore security facility near Hachijo-jima.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  Josee, the Tiger and the Fish Releases in Japanese Theaters

  Suginami, Tokyo, JapanBones

  

  Starts 12/25/2020CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better83%5.8 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Bones's Josee, the Tiger and the Fish opens in Japanese theaters, adapting Seiko Tanabe's short story about university student Tsuneo and Kusuhara Josee, a wheelchair-using young woman he meets while working as her caretaker.

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• Anime09/19/2026@AnimeDesk

  MAO Premieres

  Suginami, Tokyo, JapanSunrise

  

  Starts 04/04/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins84% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 84%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better67%26 episodes planned182 days agoStart date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Sunrise brings Rumiko Takahashi's Taisho-era yokai mystery MAO to NHK as a two-cour TV anime.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Releases in Japanese Theaters

  Uji, Kyoto, JapanKyoto Animation

  

  Starts 02/06/2010CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better86%16.7 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Kyoto Animation's The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya opens in Japanese theaters, finding Kyon alone remembering the SOS Brigade after Haruhi, Mikuru, and Itsuki vanish from an altered world where none of them ever existed.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 Releases in Japanese Theaters

  Koganei, Tokyo, JapanZEXCS

  

  Starts 10/17/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better79%8 episodes so far351 days agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 releases in Japanese theaters, an eight-part anthology film adapting short stories the Chainsaw Man creator wrote between the ages of 17 and 26, produced across six different animation studios.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 1st Stage Premieres

  Nishitōkyō-shi, Tokyo, Japandavid production

  

  Starts 03/19/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better90%198 days agoRelease date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  The first episode of Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 1st Stage releases, kicking off david production's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's seventh JoJo part as an alternate-history transcontinental horse race across 1890s America.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  Gintama': Futon ni Haitte kara Buki Nokoshi ni Kizuite Neru ni Nerenai Toki mo Aru Premieres

  Suginami, Tokyo, JapanSunrise

  

  Starts 11/09/2014CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better77%11.9 years agoPremiere date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Sunrise previews this Gintama' special at Jump Special Anime Festa 2014, a short bonus episode bringing the Yorozuya crew back together one more time.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  A Silent Voice Releases in Japanese Theaters

  Uji, Kyoto, JapanKyoto Animation

  

  Starts 09/17/2016CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better89%10.0 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  Kyoto Animation's A Silent Voice opens in Japan, adapted from Yoshitoki Oima's manga about a former bully who seeks to make amends with a deaf classmate he once tormented.

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• Anime09/16/2026@AnimeDesk

  One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 Premieres

  5F Nakano Central Park East, 4-10-1, Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, JapanToei Animation

  

  Starts 04/16/2010CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins92% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 92%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better78%16.5 years agoRelease date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.

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