Pins matching date:2026-07-05

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.

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.

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

Erling Haaland headed in on 79 minutes and added a second at 90 after Brazil missed an early penalty, sending Norway to their first World Cup quarter-final despite a late Neymar penalty.

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 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.

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.