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Project No.9 adapts Yu Hibari's romantic comedy about a boy whose rough-and-tumble childhood pal turns out to be a demure beauty at his new school.

Studio Comet adapts Metabo Hagure's revenge fantasy about a disgraced prime minister's daughter who answers a broken engagement by taking up grimoires and tearing down her own kingdom.

Studio CANDY BOX brings back the chibi Azur Lane shipgirls for a second season of eight-minute comedy shorts adapted from the official 4-koma manga.

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.

ENGI returns with the same staff and cast for the long-awaited second season of Yomu Mishima's isekai, as Leon's meddling in the otome game's plot drags him into a kingdom-shaking conspiracy.

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.

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.

Doga Kobo begins broadcasting Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Suuguu Chouso Torikae Den, a light-novel adaptation in which rival noblewomen Keigetsu and Reirin swap bodies through forbidden magic and must survive the political fallout together.

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.

Flagship noise-canceling headphones with improved sound and a more foldable design, now in Olive Gray.

Rotel's first loudspeakers in decades, with a silk dome tweeter and composite-cone woofer.

Gaming headset with a cardioid condenser boom microphone and detachable cable.

First Roland digital piano with built-in Wi-Fi and the Piano Sphere learning app.

Production I.G spins Kaiju No. 8's eccentric Division 1 captain Gen Narumi off into a short original anime about his days off the battlefield.

Square Enix surprise-released Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion on Nintendo Switch 2, bringing the remastered FFVII prequel's enhanced graphics, remastered soundtrack, and updated combat to the new console.

Wireless open-back headphones with 53mm drivers and LDAC hi-res audio support.

Xbox has taken over publishing duties for Physint, Kojima Productions' stealth-action project previously tied to Sony, deepening the studio's relationship with Xbox following their earlier collaboration on OD.

At Tokyo's Physical AI Summit the AI Robot Association showed the first prototypes from its NEDO-backed contest to build a domestic general-purpose robot. ugo's entry, the wheeled dual-arm Nova, was developed in about six months and goes into mass production in 2027.

Closing Xbox's Tokyo Game Show 2026 Broadcast, Hideo Kojima revealed that Bill Skarsgård will play the lead in Physint, showed a new poster of him with Charlee Fraser, and shared behind-the-scenes capture footage from OD – KNOCK.

Midrange noise-canceling headphones with a 10-band equalizer.

Flagship stereo power amplifier rated at 390 watts per channel into 4 ohms.

Three party speakers with LED lighting and Bluetooth Auracast Party Chain support.

High-end turntable using a patented magnetic non-contact drive system for vibration isolation.

Budget wireless headphones with active noise cancellation and a 50-hour battery.

High-end stereo preamplifier with an ESS Sabre DAC, Roon support, and DSD256.

Limited-edition direct-drive turntable in seven colors with gold details, limited to 12,000 units.

Entry-level 4K OLED TV with Sony's Triluminos Pro engine, available in five sizes.

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.

The third season of The Apothecary Diaries begins airing, continuing Maomao's palace intrigue in the wake of the Shi clan's fall as Jinshi confronts his new role and a warning of coming disaster.

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.

ENGI's second season of The Detective Is Already Dead continues Kimihiko Kimizuka's story after the death of the detective who once relied on him.

Silver Link returns with a second season of Sasaki and Peeps, the comedy about a weary salaryman whose pet sparrow turns out to be a reincarnated sage from another world.

C2C's second season of Reincarnated as a Sword continues the story of the sentient sword Teacher and the catgirl Fran as they journey together.

Arvo Animation's second season continues Desir Arman's return to his youth, armed with the memory of a magic-ravaged future he means to prevent.

The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World II premieres, Zero-G's second season of the magic-academy fantasy that pits Ray White and his classmates against rival schools and a darker hidden threat.

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.

Toei Animation's Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an enhanced re-edit of Dragon Ball Super with redrawn scenes and new cuts, retelling the story from the God of Destruction's awakening onward.