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Lerche releases Carnival Phantasm, a comedy OVA created for Type-Moon's tenth anniversary that parodies characters from Fate/stay night, Tsukihime, and Melty Blood in a shared, gag-filled continuity.

Lerche's Assassination Classroom begins broadcast, following the students of class 3-E as they train to assassinate their new teacher, an unstoppable tentacled creature who has destroyed the moon and threatens Earth next, all while he genuinely mentors them.

Assassination Classroom's second season premieres, with Lerche continuing the manga adaptation as Class 3-E resumes its unlikely mission to assassinate their tentacled teacher, Koro-sensei.

Lerche's Given: On the Other Hand OVA is released, a bonus episode bundled with the manga that fills in a quiet moment for the band members of the boys'-love series Given.

Given: Hiiragi Mix Specials is a set of four short bonus stories bundled with the Blu-ray release of Given the Movie 2: Hiiragi Mix, animated by Lerche as an extension of the Given franchise.

Given the Movie: To the Sea, the third feature film in Lerche's Given series, opens in Japanese theaters, picking the story back up as singer Mafuyu Sato begins to doubt his place fronting the band Given.

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.