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Bocchi the Rock! announces a 2027 prequel film about Nijika and her sister

A new film adapts the manga’s prequel about Nijika and Seika Ijichi, with a different director and character designer at CloverWorks.

Death Stranding: Isolations reveals its teaser and writer Tow Ubukata

Kojima Productions releases the teaser and names Tow Ubukata for series composition and screenplay.

Memories: the unsettling routine of Cannon Fodder

After two extraordinary emergencies, Cannon Fodder follows a family’s ordinary military day.

Mushishi: the lives Ginko walks into

A girl, a craftsman and a traveller bring different needs to Ginko’s early encounters.

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10 anime to watch after Solo Leveling

Dungeon survivors, rare skills and underestimated fighters: ten picks matched to what you enjoyed about Jinwoo’s rise.

10 racing anime to watch

From Capeta's home-built kart to Redline's interplanetary spectacle, find a racing story for the team, the technique or the sheer invention.

A Condition Called Love

Hotaru has family and friends she values, but little interest in romance. Offering her umbrella to Hananoi after he is rejected leads to an unexpected confession from him. A small act of kindness leaves her facing a relationship whose meaning she has not yet worked out.

A Few Moments of Cheers

A schoolboy devoted to making music videos hears a street singer he wants to collaborate with, then discovers that she is his new teacher and has stepped away from a musical career.

A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai

Salaryman Takeru Kamishiro is offered a new life on Madeus, a world of swords and magic. Along with an unusually strong body, he receives Search, an ability that locates valuable materials. Collecting those resources gives him a way to earn a living while exploring his new surroundings.

A Letter to Momo

After her father’s death, Momo moves with her mother to an island in the Seto Inland Sea. She carries an unfinished letter he left behind, containing only its opening. Three unruly spirits in the attic disrupt her new life and complicate an already difficult attempt to settle in.

A Place Further Than the Universe

Mari Tamaki wants to do something with her school years but keeps hesitating. She joins Shirase Kobuchizawa’s plan to reach Antarctica, where Shirase’s mother disappeared during an expedition. Two more girls join a journey that turns an unlikely ambition into a shared practical undertaking.

A Sign of Affection

University student Yuki, who is deaf, meets fellow student Itsuomi when she needs help. He takes her hearing difference in his stride, and his experience of travelling catches her interest. Their growing attraction also requires finding ways to communicate that work for both of them.

A Silent Voice

A Silent Voice's bullying, communication and uneasy reconciliation: the 2016 film's appeal, viewpoint, content guidance and viewing commitment.

A Tree of Palme

A wooden puppet carrying a mysterious egg sets out for an underground world, where he hopes to become human after meeting a girl who recalls someone he has lost.

A Whisker Away

A schoolgirl turns into a cat to approach the boy she likes, but time spent in that form begins to threaten the boundary of her human life.

A Wind Named Amnesia

After a mysterious wind erases humanity’s memories, a young man who has learned to speak and think again travels across America with a stranger.

A.D. Police Files

Police investigating violent incidents involving artificial workers encounter cases that make the boundary between a human body and a manufactured one increasingly difficult to hold.

A.I.C.O. Incarnation

After surviving the disaster known as the Burst, Aiko joins a team heading into its source region, hoping to save her family as new information unsettles what she knows about herself.

ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.

Jean Otus travels between thirteen autonomous districts to inspect the organisation that keeps their kingdom running. His unhurried manner makes him difficult to read. ACCA turns the duties of an auditor into a way of approaching a state whose political relationships are less settled than they first appear.

Ace Attorney

Rookie defence attorney Phoenix Wright begins his career by representing his best friend in a murder case. Believing his client is only the beginning: Phoenix has to expose contradictions in testimony and connect them to evidence the court will accept.

Action Heroine Cheer Fruits

A group of schoolgirls develops a local heroine stage show, turning town promotion into the practical challenge of rehearsing and performing together.

After the Rain

Seventeen-year-old Akira Tachibana has stopped running after an injury and works part time at a family restaurant. She develops feelings for its manager, Masami Kondo, a divorced father of forty-five who has put aside his own hope of becoming a writer. Their meeting brings two interrupted ambitions into the same small workplace.

Aharen-san wa Hakarenai

A student trying to make friends reaches out to his quiet desk neighbour, whose sense of personal distance is difficult for either of them to interpret.

Aho-Girl

A banana-obsessed schoolgirl pursues food, play and her childhood friend with an enthusiasm untouched by her disastrous test results.

Ajin

A student survives an accident that should have killed him, revealing him as an immortal Ajin and turning him into a target for authorities and people seeking a reward.

Akame ga Kill!

A young swordsman seeking work in the imperial capital discovers its corruption and comes into contact with Night Raid, the assassins targeting its powerful inhabitants.

Akebi's Sailor Uniform

A country girl arrives at a new school in the sailor uniform she has dreamed of wearing, then discovers that making friends is the more interesting beginning.

Akiba Maid War

An eager new maid arrives at an Akihabara café whose competition runs on the violent loyalties and reprisals of a gangland drama.

Akudama Drive

An ordinary working woman is arrested after a misunderstanding in the neon city of Kansai. A group of notorious criminals attacks the police station for a rescue job, pulling her into their plans. Surviving among specialists is difficult when everyone assumes she is another criminal.

Allison and Lillia

Two childhood friends search for a treasure said to be valuable enough to end a long war, beginning an adventure that later passes to the next generation.

Am I Actually the Strongest?

Reincarnated as a royal baby, Haruto is abandoned after a test mistakes his extraordinary magic for weakness. He finds a new home with the nobleman Gold Zenfis and the flame demon Flay. His hope is a quiet life, though his abilities make staying out of trouble difficult.

Amagi Brilliant Park

A confident schoolboy takes charge of a failing amusement park whose magical employees need its visitors for more than their wages.

And Yet the Town Moves

A would-be teenage detective works at a neighbourhood maid cafe where staff, customers and school friends keep turning small problems into new complications.

Angel’s Egg

A girl carries an egg through a city partly submerged in water, believing that an angel waits inside. A boy searching for a bird from his dreams joins her. As they explore the ruins, his curiosity about the egg puts their fragile new friendship under pressure.

Anime That Trust You to Figure Things Out

A household, a network and a taxi ride: three ways anime let you understand a scene before you understand its mystery.

Anne-Happy

Five students marked by different kinds of misfortune enter a class whose unusual curriculum is supposed to help them become happy.

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Jinta and his childhood friends have drifted apart after Menma’s death. Years later, Menma appears to Jinta and asks for a wish to be fulfilled, although she cannot remember what it is. Bringing the old group together means facing feelings they have kept apart as well as a ghost only he can see.

Another

A new pupil approaches the girl his classmates will not discuss. Meet Kouichi, Mei and Class 3-3 in Another’s 2012 school mystery and violent suspense.

Another: when a school mystery turns violent

Mei’s mystery draws Kouichi in. Sudden accidents turn that curiosity into a different kind of suspense.

Ao Haru Ride

Futaba meets her first crush again three years after he disappeared from her school life. Kou now uses a different surname and seems colder than the boy she remembers. Their reunion asks whether affection for someone in the past can survive discovering the person he has become.

Aoashi

Ashito's temper and rough technique sit beside an unusual ability to read the football pitch. A youth-team coach notices him in Ehime and offers a chance to try for a place in Tokyo. Following it means moving from a familiar local side into an environment designed to produce professional players.

Appare-Ranman!

An engineer and a samurai are stranded in America at the end of the nineteenth century. With no money for the journey home, Appare and Kosame enter a transcontinental race from Los Angeles to New York, using a steam-powered vehicle they build themselves.

Arakawa Under the Bridge

After Nino rescues him from the Arakawa River, a young businessman who cannot bear owing anyone a debt agrees to become her boyfriend and live beneath a bridge.

ARIA The ANIMATION

Akari Mizunashi comes from Earth to the water-covered planet Aqua to train as an Undine, a gondolier and guide in Neo-Venezia. Her working days combine boat practice, new friendships and encounters around a city modelled on Venice. Small changes in its weather and routines become occasions to explore.

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

Hajime and his classmates are summoned to another world, but his crafting role leaves him dismissed beside their more powerful abilities. After falling into a dungeon’s depths, he must find his own way to survive. His escape develops through improvised power and an alliance with the imprisoned vampire Yue.

Arte

A noble-born girl in Renaissance Florence seeks a painter's apprenticeship in a trade that does not welcome women into its workshops.

Ashita no Joe

Joe Yabuki arrives in a poor Tokyo district and catches the attention of Danpei, a former boxer who sees promise in his movements. Joe initially resists the older man’s plans. Trouble with the law eventually brings him into contact with a formidable boxer, Toru Rikiishi.

Asobi Asobase

Three schoolgirls form a club for pastimes, turning casual games and insecure attempts to fit in into increasingly unreasonable competitions.

Asteroid in Love

A childhood promise to discover an asteroid brings a girl into a school club where stargazing and geology have been merged under one roof.

Astra Lost in Space

A school trip to an uninhabited planet becomes a survival journey when a mysterious sphere throws nine young travellers thousands of light years away. A spacecraft offers a way to stay alive, but not a direct route home. Kanata, Aries and their companions have to turn a camp group into a crew capable of crossing unfamiliar space.

Asura

An abandoned child survives through violence in famine-stricken medieval Kyoto, then encounters kindness that makes living among other people both possible and painful.

Attack on Titan

Humanity shelters behind enormous walls from Titans that eat people. Eren wants to explore outside, but a giant taller than the defences destroys that fragile safety. He joins Mikasa and Armin in military training, where learning to fight the creatures begins with meeting the demands of their instructors.

Aura: Koga Maryuin’s Last War

A boy hiding his former fantasy persona meets a classmate who openly calls herself a witch.

Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales

Three ghostly tales bring betrayal, forbidden attachment and a monstrous mystery into different historical worlds.

Azumanga Daioh

Ten-year-old Chiyo Mihama enters high school among classmates five years older than her. She joins a group whose very different habits make lessons, school events and ordinary conversations unpredictable. Their teacher Yukari is often as much a source of disorder as the pupils she is meant to manage.

Baby Steps

Eiichiro tries a tennis school because he needs exercise and discovers how much there is to learn. Lacking the physical advantages of more experienced juniors, he relies on observation, analysis and ball control. His organised approach to study becomes a way into a demanding new sport.

Baccano!

An alchemist’s immortality elixir becomes entangled with the lives of criminals in 1930s New York. Baccano! follows the people caught in that collision rather than giving a single hero control of the story. Its underworld stakes include an unusual danger: immortals can consume one another.

Backflip!!

Shotaro discovers boys' rhythmic gymnastics near the end of junior high and enters Aoshukan High determined to try it. The club includes experienced older pupils and a young star he has already admired. Becoming part of their performance asks him to learn how individual movement belongs to a group.

Baka and Test

At a school where grades determine comfort and status, a student from the lowest class enters battles fought by summoned avatars to win his classmates better conditions.

Banished from the Hero’s Party

After being dismissed from the Hero’s party, Gideon adopts the name Red and moves to Zoltan, hoping to open a herb shop. The change of livelihood gives him another way to use what he knows. Rit, a princess and former companion, arrives with a proposal to work and live alongside him.

Barakamon

Calligrapher Seishu Handa is sent to a remote island after punching an influential figure in his profession. He expects space to work, but the local children and their neighbours keep entering his life. His unfamiliar home becomes a place to reconsider both his writing and the way he treats people.

Battery

Gifted pitcher Takumi moves to a rural town before starting junior high school and meets Go, a catcher who wants to form a battery with him. In baseball, that means the pitcher-and-catcher partnership. Trusting another player is less straightforward for Takumi than demonstrating the force of his pitches.

Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation

A bone-obsessed forensic consultant and a younger assistant investigate the stories behind human and animal remains, with discoveries that keep drawing them toward crime.

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad

Koyuki’s uneventful school life changes after he helps a strange-looking dog and meets its owner, the guitarist Ryusuke. He is drawn into a band and begins learning what it takes to make music with other people. School, work and relationships continue around that new pursuit.

Beelzebub

A feared school delinquent becomes the unwilling guardian of a demon lord’s baby, turning his daily fights into a very unusual childcare problem.

Berserk of Gluttony

Fate works as a gatekeeper in a world where the quality of a person’s skill determines their status. His Gluttony appears to do nothing except leave him hungry. Killing an intruder reveals a different function: he can take the abilities of those he kills.

Big Windup!

Pitcher Ren Mihashi reaches high school convinced that he held his old team back. Family influence put him on the mound, and the resentment that followed destroyed his confidence. A new baseball club gives him a catcher and teammates who can assess his pitching for themselves.

Black Butler

Young aristocrat Ciel Phantomhive makes a bargain with the demon Sebastian Michaelis after the murder of his parents. Sebastian serves as his seemingly flawless butler while Ciel pursues revenge. The household’s elegant routines sit beside a contract whose price is Ciel’s soul.

Black Cat

A feared assassin leaves his controlling organisation and begins a different life among bounty hunters, but his former world keeps pursuing him.

Black Clover

An introduction to Black Clover’s magic, social divisions and team battles, with its appeal, limitations and a practical starting point.

Black Clover 2nd Season: Japan’s October 2026 TV and streaming schedule

The continuation began on TV Tokyo on 3 October. BS TV Tokyo and Japanese streaming services follow separate timetables.

Black Clover watch order: episodes, skips and the film

Optional episodes, what you miss, where to resume and when to watch the film.

Black Lagoon

Abandoned by his employer after a kidnapping, a Japanese office worker joins the armed delivery crew that captured him and enters a criminal port city’s economy.

Black Summoner

Kelvin wakes in another world having traded his memories for exceptional summoning and magical skills. The goddess who arranged his reincarnation accompanies him as a guide and subordinate. He begins life as an adventurer, but his appetite for strong opponents soon makes remaining an ordinary newcomer difficult.

Blast of Tempest

A boy seeking his sister's killer makes a bargain with a stranded magician, pulling his friend into a conflict whose magical rules may decide the world's fate.

Bleach

Meet Bleach’s world of ghosts and Soul Reapers, understand Ichigo and Rukia’s predicament, and find the route from the original anime to Thousand-Year Blood War.

Bleach releases its finale ending and THE STORIES VISUAL MOVIE

Two official videos mark the end of Thousand-Year Blood War, while Japan’s Part IV Blu-ray and DVD are listed for 24 March 2027.

Bleach watch order: the main story, filler and where to resume

A shorter route through the original anime, with mixed episodes to keep and exact points to resume.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War releases THE LAST PV ahead of its final two episodes

The 16 October trailer looks towards the conclusion of Thousand-Year Blood War. TV Tokyo’s final two episodes are scheduled for 00:00 JST on 20 and 27 October 2026.

Blend S

A polite young woman gets a café job where her intimidating expression becomes the basis of the deliberately harsh character she is hired to perform.

Blood Blockade Battlefront

In a New York transformed by contact with another world, a newcomer encounters Libra, a secret organisation managing dangers amid an extraordinary mixed population.

Blood-C

A schoolgirl living with her father protects a quiet town at night, using a sacred sword against creatures that devour people.

BLOOD+

A girl living with a family in Okinawa is drawn into a war against blood-feeding creatures while searching for the past she cannot remember.

Blue Exorcist

On discovering that his blue flames come from a demonic parentage, Rin enters exorcist training and tries to choose a place for himself among those who fight demons.

Blue Giant

A saxophonist leaves Sendai for Tokyo and starts a jazz trio with a gifted pianist and a friend who is only beginning to learn the drums.

Blue Orchestra

Former violin prodigy Hajime has stopped playing when he meets Ritsuko, a classmate who draws him towards music again. They enter a school with a strong orchestra club. The challenge becomes making one sound with players whose abilities, motives and worries differ.

Blue Period

A high-achieving schoolboy discovers that painting can express feelings his polished social performance has kept at a distance, then commits himself to the demands of art-school entry.

BNA: Brand New Animal

Michiru Kagemori was human until she suddenly became a tanuki beastwoman. Fleeing persecution, she reaches Anima-City, a place founded so beastmen can live as themselves. The wolf beastman Shirou Ogami knows the city’s dangers far better than she does and has little patience for her claim that she used to be human.

Bocchi the Rock!

Hitori practises guitar alone and longs to play in a band, but finds talking to other people painfully difficult. An encounter with drummer Nijika brings her into Kessoku Band. The skills she has developed in isolation now have to work in rehearsals and performances with strangers.

Bocchi the Rock! announces a 2027 prequel film about Nijika and her sister

Hoshi no Ashiato tells the story of Nijika and Seika Ijichi before Kessoku Band existed. It is a new story from the manga, not another compilation.

Bogus Skill «Fruitmaster»

Light wants to become an adventurer, but the skill fruit he eats gives him Fruitmaster, an ability suited to growing fruit. His childhood friend Lena receives Sword Saint and moves into a very different career. Then Light accidentally eats a second fruit, something that should be fatal, and discovers that his supposed failure can let him acquire more skills.

Bokurano

Fifteen children at a summer nature camp encounter a man who invites them to try a game involving a giant robot. Fourteen enter a contract whose stakes they do not understand. The machine is real, Earth is at risk, and piloting it demands a price that victory cannot cancel.

Boogiepop Phantom

Girls trade stories about Boogiepop, a mysterious figure said to kill people before their beauty fades. Around that urban legend, an ordinary-looking school world becomes a place where a familiar face may be connected to a danger nobody fully understands.

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

Naruto’s son Boruto enters a changed Hidden Leaf Village, where being the Hokage’s child brings expectations he would rather escape.

Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki

A competitive gamer accepts a classmate's lessons in ordinary social life, then has to decide whether becoming effective also means becoming someone else.

Brigadoon: Marin and Melan

In an alternate Tokyo of 1969, thirteen-year-old Marin suddenly becomes the target of mechanical assassins. The armoured Melan Blue appears to protect her, without providing an easy explanation for what is happening. Their connection brings an ordinary neighbourhood into contact with an unfamiliar world above it.

Btooom!

An accomplished online-game player wakes on an isolated island with explosives, missing memories and strangers trying to kill him under rules resembling his game.

Bubble

In a Tokyo where falling bubbles have broken gravity, a daring parkour athlete meets a girl whose abilities connect him to the city's mystery.

Buso Renkin

Kazuki dies trying to protect a stranger, then wakes with an alchemical heart that can become a weapon against the human-eating creatures now pursuing him.

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Campfire Cooking in Another World turns a magical grocery order into dinner, companionship and a wandering fantasy adventure.

Canaan

Photographer Maria Osawa arrives in Shanghai with journalist Minoru Minorikawa and finds an old friend in the middle of the city’s violence. Canaan is a young fighter whose heightened, interconnected senses give her an unusual way of reading danger. Their reunion draws Maria toward a conflict involving the criminal organisation Snake and the threat of a virus.

Capeta

Fourth-grader Capeta longs to drive. His father builds him a racing kart from discarded parts, but its bent frame will not run straight. Learning to control an imperfect machine gives Capeta a way into a sport whose equipment is far beyond his family’s means.

Cardcaptor Sakura

Sakura Kinomoto accidentally releases magical cards from a book and becomes responsible for collecting them. Her school and family life continue alongside that task. The original television adaptation follows her learning to recognise the cards’ effects and handle the responsibilities of being their captor.

Carole & Tuesday

On a colonised Mars where artificial intelligence produces much of the culture, Carole and Tuesday want to make music themselves. Carole works to get by in the capital; Tuesday comes from a wealthy home where her ambition is not understood. Their chance meeting brings those different lives together.

Casshern Sins

An amnesiac cyborg crosses a dying world where robots fear their own decay—and blame him for bringing it upon them.

Castle in the Sky

A young miner, Pazu, meets Sheeta after she falls from the sky carrying a mysterious crystal. Pursued by pirates and the military, they search for Laputa, a floating city. Their escape becomes an adventure in which an old legend attracts people with very different intentions.

Cat Soup

A young cat follows the figure taking away his ill sister, beginning a strange journey to recover what has been lost from her soul.

Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious

The novice goddess Ristarte summons Seiya Ryuuguuin to save the extremely dangerous world of Gaeabrande. His exceptional abilities look like the answer she needs, but he refuses to begin until he considers the preparations sufficient. Training, extra equipment and more spares keep taking the place of departure.

Cerberus

An attempt to seal the destructive dragon Dagan Zot fails after outside interference. Years later, Hiiro sets out to avenge the parents he lost in that disaster. Carrying a large sword gives his ambition a clear direction without guaranteeing that he understands the forces around it.

Chainsaw Man

A debt-ridden devil hunter makes a contract with his chainsaw devil companion and returns from death with a transformed body and a precarious chance at ordinary comforts.

Children of the Sea

A girl drawn to the aquarium where her father works meets two boys raised by dugongs, as strange calls from the sea connect them to a worldwide marine mystery.

Children Who Chase Lost Voices

Asuna listens to a radio left by her late father and hears a song that leads her towards a mysterious boy. Her search takes her into Agartha, a hidden world associated with bringing back the dead. Hostile people and creatures stand between the visitors and the knowledge they seek.

Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army

Dariel has spent his working life in the Demon King’s army, but his lack of magic gets him dismissed. After helping a young woman named Marika, he finds shelter in Lux Village and a chance to earn a living among humans. Starting again means finding uses for skills his former employers failed to value.

Chio's School Road

A schoolgirl who wants to avoid attention keeps finding that the walk to class demands absurd detours, improvisation and social bravery.

Choosing between Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl

Compare three standalone Ghibli films by story, pace, intensity and time, from the sisters’ country home to the bathhouse and castle.

Chrono Crusade

In 1920s America, an impulsive young nun and her partner work as professional exorcists while she searches for her kidnapped brother.

Claymore

Women carrying both human and monster flesh wield immense swords against creatures that prey on people, placing their own bodies on the same boundary they defend.

Clockwork Planet

A legendary clockmaker rebuilt the dead Earth as a world of gears. A thousand years later, mechanically obsessed schoolboy Naoto receives a mysterious box containing the automaton RyuZU. Meeting her and the brilliant young clockmaker Marie draws him into problems affecting far more than a single machine.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Japan has become Area 11 under Britannian occupation. Lelouch obtains Geass, a mysterious power he intends to turn against the empire. His childhood friend Suzaku serves in its military and pilots the Lancelot combat machine, placing the two boys on different sides of a struggle over how the country should change.

Colorful (2010)

A nameless soul is offered another chance at life in the body of Makoto, a schoolboy who has died by suicide. Guided by Purapura, it must live among people who knew the boy. Returning to earth means entering a family and school history it does not understand.

Comic Girls

A discouraged young manga artist moves into a dormitory for other creators, where shared living brings deadlines, different genres and creative anxieties together.

Coppelion

Tokyo has become an abandoned, contaminated capital after a nuclear catastrophe. Ibara, Aoi and Taeko enter its ruins wearing ordinary school uniforms, an impossible sight for anyone who needs protective equipment to survive there. Artificially created with resistance to the contamination, they have been sent to find and rescue the people who remain.

Cowboy Bebop

In a solar system linked by warp gates, bounty hunters Spike and Jet travel aboard the Bebop looking for paying work. Faye, young hacker Ed and an unusually intelligent dog join their unsettled household. The crew’s jobs take them between planets while their own histories remain difficult to leave behind.

Coyote Ragtime Show

Space outlaws race to retrieve a dead pirate’s fortune from a planet scheduled for destruction.

Crest of the Stars

Jinto becomes an aristocrat of the spacefaring Abh because of his father's political bargain. Travelling towards the imperial capital, he meets Lafiel, an Abh princess serving as a military trainee. An enemy attack turns their journey into an escape through wartime danger.

Cromartie High School

A relatively ordinary student enters a notorious school whose delinquents share classrooms with a robot, a gorilla and other inexplicable classmates.

Cross Game

Ko grows up close to the four Tsukishima sisters and becomes drawn into their family’s connection with baseball. A childhood dream of reaching Koshien stays with him as he enters high school. On the field, he has to turn ability into something a team can use.

Crusher Joe

A space crew’s transport job collapses when its patient, employer and payment disappear, leaving the team accused of piracy and searching for the people who framed them.

Cyber City Oedo 808

Three convicted criminals are sent to solve violent cases in a future city, earning reductions to immense sentences while explosive collars enforce their cooperation.

Cyberpunk 2077 adds an Edgerunners 2 prequel quest in Update 2.5

The free update adds Clampdown, a King gear set and an Edgerunners radio station. Nintendo Switch 2 follows later.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Understand Night City, David and Lucy, the appeal of Edgerunners' action and its compressed storytelling, plus where to start and how long it takes.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners review: the cost of being needed

A thrilling, uneven tragedy about borrowed dreams: why David and Lucy's romance gives the original ten episodes their force.

Cygames prepares travel reimbursements after cancelling Umamusume’s LA concerts

Attendees are asked to keep payment records while the process is finalised. Santa Anita lists a separate cosplay event for 24–25 October.

D-Frag!

A would-be school delinquent is pulled into a game-creation club whose members make his plans for dominance look tame.

D.Gray-man

A young exorcist with an unusual left arm joins an order fighting Akuma, weapons made from machinery, trapped souls and human tragedy.

D.N.Angel

When romantic feelings turn schoolboy Daisuke into the confident phantom thief Dark, a family legacy becomes an awkward double life.

DAN DA DAN

Momo believes in ghosts but rejects aliens; her schoolmate Okarun believes in aliens but rejects ghosts. Each challenges the other to visit a place associated with the thing they refuse to accept. The argument becomes a shared emergency when both encounters prove more dangerous than either expected.

Danganronpa: The Animation

Makoto Naegi wins a place at Hope’s Peak Academy by lottery, joining classmates selected for exceptional talents. Instead of beginning an elite education, he wakes inside a sealed school. The bear-like headmaster Monokuma announces a way to graduate: kill another student and avoid being identified as the culprit.

Daphne in the Brilliant Blue

After her hoped-for government career collapses, Maia takes work with an all-purpose service company in a future city surrounded by rising seas.

Darker than Black

Behind an apparently ordinary Tokyo, intelligence agencies deploy people with extraordinary abilities, including an operative whose harmless student identity conceals a lethal second life.

Darling in the Franxx

In a future where children are raised to pilot war machines, a boy who can no longer fulfil that role meets a horned girl whose arrival offers a dangerous new partnership.

Days

Tsukushi has little experience of football when a meeting with talented Jin brings him into a game. Joining Seiseki's team places him among players whose skill is already far ahead of his. His willingness to work has to become something useful to the people sharing the pitch.

Dead Mount Death Play

A soul from a world of magic is reborn as a recently murdered Tokyo teenager, only to discover that a hoped-for peaceful life begins with an assassin returning to finish the job.

Deadman Wonderland

Wrongfully sentenced to death, a schoolboy enters a privately run prison where prisoners’ dangerous contests become entertainment for paying visitors.

Deaimon

A musician returns to his family's Kyoto sweet shop and discovers that the child living there already has a stronger claim to its future than he expected.

Death Note

Understand Death Note's notebook rules, Light and L's contest, and the starting point and commitment for the complete 37-episode TV anime.

Death Note review: the thrill of a plan, and the people it leaves out

Why ingenious plans stay compelling even when their author is repellent, and where the supporting cast gets less room to matter.

Death Stranding: Isolations reveals its teaser and writer Tow Ubukata

The original animated series will tell an ensemble story in the games’ world, with Takayuki Sano directing at E&H production.

Deca-Dence

Human survivors live inside Deca-Dence, a moving fortress that protects them from creatures called Gadoll. Its warriors, the Gears, fight outside while the Tankers keep life running within it. Natsume is a Tanker who wants to join the fighting, but her first job places her under the unsentimental armour repairman Kaburagi.

Delicious in Dungeon

Laios returns to a dungeon to rescue his sister Falin after a dragon swallows her. With his party’s money and supplies lost, he proposes eating the monsters they encounter. The expedition turns survival into a question of what can be caught, prepared and shared on the way down.

Demon Lord 2099

A resurrected demon lord returns after five centuries to find his former world transformed into a technological metropolis that has outgrown his authority.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro returns from selling charcoal to find his family killed and his surviving sister Nezuko transformed into a demon. He becomes a demon slayer to seek a way to restore her humanity. His duty to fight demons begins with the need to protect one.

Den-noh Coil

Den-noh Coil turns augmented-reality glasses into a children's playground, where finding a lost pet opens onto a deeper mystery.

Denkigai

New employee Umio joins a manga-focused bookshop staffed by avid fans, where the routines of retail work overlap with eccentric customer service and growing affection among coworkers.

Detroit Metal City

A gentle aspiring pop musician becomes a successful death-metal frontman whose stage persona is everything he hoped not to be.

Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater

An indoor-minded new student is drawn into a seaside fishing club, where catching dinner is only the beginning of learning what to do with it.

Dirty Pair (1985 television series)

Kei and Yuri are the Lovely Angels, trouble consultants employed by the WWWA to solve problems across the galaxy. Their assignments turn difficult disputes into spacefaring action. The 1985 television anime follows their professional partnership, separate from later Dirty Pair adaptations and films.

Do It Yourself!!

A clumsy girl joins a struggling DIY club, discovering that making things with other people can change the distance between friends.

Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro

A shy student’s private manga drawings attract a younger girl’s attention, beginning a relationship whose teasing can be both compelling and humiliating.

Dorohedoro

Enter Dorohedoro's divided world of sorcerers, grotesque violence and stubborn friendships, with the current two-season route and separate bonus shorts.

Dororo (2019)

Young thief Dororo travels through war-torn Japan with Hyakkimaru, a swordsman whose missing body parts were traded to demons by his father. Hyakkimaru fights those demons to recover what was taken. Their journey links violent supernatural encounters with the immediate problem of surviving as outsiders.

Dr. STONE

Thousands of years after a mysterious light turns humanity to stone, Senku wakes in a world without modern industry. The teenage science enthusiast joins forces with his tireless friend Taiju to experiment, build tools and find a way to revive other people.

Dragon Ball

A boy living alone in the mountains meets Bulma, who is searching for seven balls said to summon a wish-granting dragon. One of them is a keepsake from Goku's grandfather. Joining her search takes him away from his isolated home and into encounters with people whose ambitions are very different from his own.

Dragon Ball DAIMA

After the defeat of Majin Buu, a conspiracy turns Goku and his companions small. The answer lies in the Demon Realm, where the Majin Glorio appears as a guide. The series begins a new journey with experienced characters in altered bodies, rather than retelling Goku’s original childhood adventures.

Dragon Ball GT

A wish made with a different set of Dragon Balls turns Goku back into a child. Those balls then scatter across the universe, and Earth faces destruction unless they are recovered within a year. Goku sets out with Trunks and his granddaughter Pan on a search that takes them from one unfamiliar planet to another.

Dragon Ball Super

Peace after the battle with Majin Buu leaves Goku and Vegeta with family lives as well as their continuing desire to train. Beerus, the god of destruction, brings a new kind of threat to that world. The search for greater strength now involves powers and responsibilities beyond the fighters' earlier understanding.

Dragon Ball Z

Goku has a young son, Gohan, when an armoured visitor from space disrupts his family's quiet life. Raditz claims a connection to Goku's origins and takes Gohan hostage. Rescuing the child forces Goku to work with Piccolo, a rival who has his own reason to fear the newcomer.

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

A camping trip is interrupted by Cooler, Frieza's brother, who has come to Earth to avenge his family. Goku and his companions face an opponent supported by his own armoured squadron. The attack turns a break from fighting into a struggle to keep an enemy's personal vendetta from destroying the planet.

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

Garlic Jr.'s men take Gohan because of the Dragon Ball he carries. Goku pursues them to rescue his son, while the search for the remaining balls gives the kidnappers a chance to demand immortality. A family rescue becomes entangled with an enemy whose grievance reaches back to Gohan's elders.

Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug

A strange object approaches Earth, followed by an invader who claims the planet for himself. Lord Slug seeks the Dragon Balls to recover his youth and power, while his forces prepare to make Earth suit their own needs. Goku and his friends face a takeover that threatens the environment as well as its defenders.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

Dr. Gero’s death has not ended the machinery working against Goku. Androids 14 and 15 appear with orders to kill him, and Android 13 joins the attack. Goku, Trunks and Vegeta face the new androids in a battle that moves to an icy northern landscape.

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

An enormous machine called the Big Gete Star threatens New Namek. Goku and his companions travel there to help, only to encounter Cooler again, now in a metal body. Their return to the Namekians’ world becomes a fight against an enemy who has also acquired a new means of survival.

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might

Turles brings a seed to Earth that can drain the planet's life into a vast tree. Goku and his allies must confront the invader before that growth leaves nothing else able to survive. Turles' resemblance to Goku makes the threat especially unsettling: a familiar face accompanies a purpose aimed at consuming the world.

Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest

A scientist frees Dr. Wheelo from the ice that has held him for decades. Wheelo survives as a brain and wants a powerful body in which to house it. The search for that body draws Master Roshi, Piccolo and Goku into a plan that treats martial artists as potential raw material.

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil’s Castle

Goku and Krillin want Master Roshi to train them, but he sets them a test first: bring back the sleeping princess from a distant castle. They set off toward the castle, with Bulma and the others following. The trial takes them into a place inhabited by monsters rather than an ordinary royal household.

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power

Young Goku joins Bulma’s search for the Dragon Balls and comes into conflict with the Red Ribbon Army.

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (2020)

Dai is the only human living among monsters on Dermline Island. He dreams of becoming a hero, but the return of the Dark Lord Hadlar ends the island’s peaceful life. Training, new companions and a world in danger turn that childhood ambition into a journey.

Drifting Home

Two estranged childhood friends and their classmates become stranded when the apartment building they grew up in drifts into an unexplained sea.

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

Teiichi Niiya gets lost in Seikyou Academy’s old buildings and meets Yuko Kanoe, a girl who says she is their resident ghost. She cannot remember how she died. Together they investigate the school’s strange stories through a club whose ghostly founder is visible to only some of its members.

ef - a tale of memories.

A young manga artist's Christmas encounter and a would-be writer's fragile memory connect several romances in the town of Otowa.

El Cazador de la Bruja

Ellis is wanted for a physicist’s murder and cannot account for the past that has placed a large bounty on her head. The bounty hunter Nadie finds her in a small Mexican town, then ends up protecting her from other hunters. They travel south together toward a place Ellis believes may explain who she is.

Elemental Gelade

A young sky pirate finds Ren among stolen treasure and joins her journey to Edel Garden, pursued by people who want the power she carries.

Ergo Proxy

Re-l Mayer investigates a murder in Romd, a domed city where humans live alongside robots under close government control. An encounter with a strange being unsettles that managed world. Her search for an explanation leads toward the unknown beyond the city’s boundaries.

Eureka Seven

Renton longs for a life beyond his provincial home. When Eureka arrives with the machine Nirvash needing repairs from his grandfather, a distant ideal becomes someone standing in front of him. The military pursuit following her draws his household into a much larger conflict.

Even Given the Worthless ‘Appraiser’ Class, I’m Actually the Strongest

Ein’s Appraiser class leaves him treated as expendable by the adventurers who employ him. When a dungeon trip turns dangerous, his companions abandon him as bait. Survival brings him to Yuri, a spirit of the World Tree, and her protector Ursula, who offer him a way to develop abilities his old party never recognised.

Excel Saga

Two impoverished agents try to conquer a city for a tiny secret organisation while taking ordinary jobs to pay for their own survival.

Expelled from Paradise

An investigator from a digital human society takes a physical body to trace an intrusion originating on the Earth its residents left behind.

Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells

Touka is summoned to another world with his classmates, then discarded when a goddess grades his abilities as the lowest rank. Left in ruins where survival is considered impossible, he tries to escape using the status-effect skills she rejected. Surviving gives his journey a target: revenge against the goddess.

Fairy Tail

Lucy wants to join a famous wizard guild, and meeting the fire-wielding Natsu draws her into a noisy working community where magical jobs readily become adventures.

Fire Force

A recruit who can produce flames from his feet joins a special fire brigade fighting people transformed by spontaneous combustion and investigating why it happens.

Five uneasy minutes with Yamishibai

Yamishibai turns a new home, a hospital farewell and a family gathering into ghost stories whose signs are hard to read.

Flip Flappers

Cocona is a cautious schoolgirl who finds new experiences difficult until the energetic Papika pulls her into Pure Illusion. This other realm can change its surroundings from one visit to the next. The two search for fragments said to grant a wish, and find that facing its dangers together can transform them as well as their surroundings.

Flying Witch

A trainee witch moves to relatives in rural Aomori, where supernatural visitors share space with gardening, school and the household cat.

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

An outgoing mother and her reserved daughter make a life aboard a boat in a fishing town, bringing very different temperaments into the same small home.

Fractale

A boy living under a system that provides for everyone helps a pursued girl, then follows a lifelike data avatar toward the secrets of the failing technology sustaining his society.

Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club

Haruka’s quiet high-school life changes when Rin, a childhood swimming teammate, returns and challenges him to a race. Haruka reunites with Makoto and Nagisa, and they recruit Rei to form Iwatobi High’s swimming club. Old friendships become entangled with the wish to compete again.

Frieren begins a season 3 illustration countdown for October 2027

Keisuke Kojima’s illustration of Frieren, Fern and Stark opens a staff-art campaign ahead of the previously announced Japanese broadcast month.

Frieren review: companionship, magic and the limits of looking back

What the quiet journeys accomplish, why the mage exam matters, and when looking back begins to crowd the present.

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Meet Frieren's travelling party, understand its post-victory world, and find the order and time commitment for the first two seasons.

From the New World

In a future society where humans possess telekinetic powers called Cantus, Saki and her friends enter the school that teaches them to use those abilities. Their education opens onto a hidden history, other intelligent beings and dangers that unsettle their understanding of the world.

From Up on Poppy Hill

In Yokohama in 1963, high-school students Umi and Shun develop a friendship against the backdrop of a changing Japan. A secret connected to their families threatens to pull them apart. Their personal uncertainty sits within a city preparing for a very public future.

Fruits Basket (2019 adaptation)

After her mother’s death, Tohru Honda lives in a tent until the Sohma family takes her in. Her new household has a secret: members of the family carry an animal transformation curse. Tohru becomes involved in relationships governed by rules that reach well beyond an unusual living arrangement.

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

Edward and Alphonse Elric attempt forbidden alchemy to restore their dead mother and lose parts of their own bodies instead. Alphonse's soul is bound to armour; Edward uses mechanical limbs. They travel in search of the Philosopher's Stone and a way to recover what was lost.

Fullmetal Alchemist and Daemons of the Shadow Realm head to USJ in spring 2027

Universal Studios Japan announces two Hiromu Arakawa collaborations, with their attraction formats and exact dates still to come.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Edward and Alphonse Elric try to revive their mother through alchemy and lose parts of their own bodies instead. Edward uses mechanical limbs; Alphonse's soul inhabits armour. The brothers search for the Philosopher's Stone to restore themselves, while Edward's military work brings them into dangerous conflicts with other alchemists.

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

Young aristocrat Albert travels with his friend Franz to escape a dull life in Paris. On the Moon he meets the wealthy, charismatic Count of Monte Cristo and invites him into Parisian society. Albert's admiration gives a dangerous stranger access to the world of his family.

Ghibli food: who gets fed, and who does the work?

Breakfast, a packed lunch and an offered rice ball: three Ghibli films make care visible through the people preparing and sharing food.

Ghost Hound

Boys in a small Japanese town discover that they can enter Kakuriyo, another world overlapping their own. Exploring it reveals connections with everyday reality and with their brains, bringing a story of adolescence into contact with supernatural experience and scientific questions.

Goku Is Suspiciously Superman-Shaped

Alien children, Earth families and dangerous survivors: how Superman's comics and Dragon Ball's manga developed an uncanny resemblance.

Goku vs Luffy: who wins under the same rules?

Goku and Luffy compared under the same conditions, with a verdict and a case for each fighter.

Gurren Lagann

Simon and Kamina live beneath the surface, where digging is part of daily survival. A small machine and an unexpected attack open a route into the world above. Their journey brings them into conflict with giant machines and the powers that keep humanity underground.

Haibane Renmei

A girl with no remembered past learns the work and customs of a walled town in Haibane Renmei, a quiet fantasy about belonging and accepting care.

Hajime no Ippo

Ippo helps his mother run a fishing-boat business and is bullied at school. A professional boxer, Takamura, intervenes one day and introduces him to boxing. Ippo’s wish to become stronger gives him a reason to attempt the demanding training that follows.

Hellsing (2001 television series)

The Hellsing Organisation protects Britain from supernatural threats under Integra Hellsing's command. Its most formidable hunter, Alucard, is himself a vampire. The 2001 television adaptation places a monster in the service of an institution determined to destroy his kind.

HIGHSPEED Étoile

Rin Rindo enters NEX Race, a competition whose machines can exceed 500 kilometres per hour. Established teams are trying to defeat its dominant champion when the new Buzen Racing entrant arrives. Rin has to find her place in a sport already organised around experienced rivals.

Higurashi: When They Cry (original television anime)

Keiichi moves to rural Hinamizawa in the summer of 1983 and quickly finds friends at school. Their games and everyday company give the village an inviting surface. The annual Watanagashi festival brings a different discovery: a recurring pattern of deaths and disappearances.

Horimiya

Popular Kyoko Hori and unobtrusive Izumi Miyamura discover that their classmates’ impressions do not describe their whole lives. An accidental meeting makes them keepers of each other’s secrets. Their growing closeness draws Miyamura into a circle of friends whose own feelings are rarely straightforward.

House of Five Leaves

Masanosuke Akitsu is a skilled swordsman whose shyness keeps costing him work. In Edo, a relaxed stranger named Yaichi hires him as a bodyguard. The job draws him into Five Leaves, a group that earns its money through kidnapping.

How to start One Piece: your first route through the original anime

A manageable first stretch, optional detours and exact resume points, with the original anime kept separate from the remake.

Howl’s Moving Castle

Meet Sophie, Howl and their unusual household: the romance, war and tangled magic of Howl's Moving Castle, with runtime and family guidance.

Infinite Ryvius

After a disaster at the Liebe Delta training station, 487 young people escape aboard the mysterious spacecraft Ryvius. With the adults gone, they wait for rescue. Attacks keep following the ship, forcing a stranded student population to fight for survival.

Insomniacs After School

Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami discovers that the school observatory offers a place to rest. Isaki Magari has found the same refuge for the same reason. The two start sharing the abandoned room and a problem they cannot easily explain to their classmates.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

Orario is built above a vast dungeon where adventurers face monsters and seek rewards. Bell Cranel wants to join them, but every Familia has turned him away. Hestia, a goddess with no followers, offers him a place in hers: two outsiders begin a household and a small adventuring enterprise together.

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

After a deadly police operation, Kazuki Fuse is sent for re-evaluation in an alternate postwar Tokyo. He meets Kei Amemiya while struggling with what happened. Their growing connection unfolds amid rival police interests and a government crackdown, making personal loyalty difficult to separate from the demands of his armed unit.

Jujutsu Kaisen

Yuji Itadori swallows a cursed finger to save fellow students and becomes the vessel of Ryomen Sukuna. Sent to Tokyo Jujutsu High, he learns to fight curses born from human emotions. The dangerous force he has taken into himself is also why the jujutsu world considers him a threat.

Jujutsu Kaisen promises season 4 updates at December’s Jump Festa

Four cast members will appear on 19 December for a look back at season 3 and new information about the next part of the Culling Game.

Junji Ito Collection

Meet the people and grotesque ideas of the 2018 Junji Ito Collection, from Souichi’s curse ritual to Fuchi’s application for a student film.

Junji Ito Collection: a nightmare gets the part

Iwasaki wants the model kept out of their film. His director sees a chance to get it noticed.

Just Like Mona Lisa reveals its first main trailer and a 2027 broadcast

SHAFT’s coming-of-age anime adds seven cast members and previews imase’s ending theme, “Mayoi wa Hikari”.

Kaiba

In a world where memories can be stored, traded and moved between bodies, Kaiba wakes without any memory of his own. A pendant containing a woman's photograph is his only personal clue. Forced to flee, he travels between planets while trying to discover who he is.

Kaiju No. 8

Discover Kaiju No. 8: a monster-cleanup worker's second chance, unlikely friendships and the comedy of hiding tremendous power.

Kids on the Slope

In 1966, reserved student Kaoru moves alone to relatives in Kyushu. His meeting with Sentaro, a classmate feared as a delinquent, introduces him to jazz and an unfamiliar kind of friendship. Music connects him with a group whose affections are not as straightforward as playing the same tune.

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Kiki leaves home with her cat Jiji to train as a witch in a seaside town. She turns her ability to fly into a delivery business, but earning a living brings demands she has never faced. When self-doubt threatens her flying, she must find her footing in this unfamiliar place.

Laid-Back Camp

After moving to Yamanashi, Nadeshiko cycles out to see Mount Fuji and gets stranded when darkness and bad weather spoil the trip. Rin, who is camping by herself, helps her. Their meeting introduces different ways of enjoying the outdoors, alone and with other people.

Last Exile

Claus and Lavie work as aerial couriers aboard a small flying craft inherited from Claus's father. They dream of crossing the vast storm known as the Grand Stream. A delivery involving a mysterious girl and the battleship Silvana pulls them into the struggle between their world's powers.

Log Horizon

Log Horizon follows players trapped in an online fantasy world as Shiroe turns party tactics, trade and trust into the foundations of a society.

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Maquia belongs to a people who live for centuries while retaining a youthful appearance. When an invasion destroys her home, she escapes and finds a human baby whose mother has died. Raising Ariel gives her a family whose relationship with time is very different from her own.

March Comes in Like a Lion

Rei Kiriyama is a teenage professional shogi player living alone after losing his family. The Kawamoto sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, draw him into a household very different from his solitary flat. Competition at the board sits alongside the slower task of accepting company and care.

Memories

Explore Memories’ three animated worlds through its explorers, unwitting disaster carrier and military household, with distinct directing credits and a compact viewing route.

Memories: the unsettling routine of Cannon Fodder

After two extraordinary emergencies, Cannon Fodder follows a family’s ordinary military day.

MF Ghost

Kanata Rivington arrives in Japan from Britain to race in MFG and search for his father. In a near future dominated by self-driving electric cars, the competition brings petrol-powered machines onto public roads. Kanata chooses a Toyota 86GT, relying on his driving skills against more powerful cars.

Millennium Actress

A retired actress recounts her life as memories and movie roles flow together. Explore Satoshi Kon's film through pursuit, performance and the people listening.

Mob Psycho 100

Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, has psychic powers but struggles to express himself. He works part-time for Reigen, a supposed psychic who relies on Mob to handle real spirits. Mob wants an ordinary teenage life, including getting fitter and closer to his crush, while powerful emotions threaten his self-control.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979 television series)

During the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, an attack on Side 7 turns civilian Amuro Ray into the pilot of the Gundam. The original television series begins its military conflict through a young person caught in a colony raid.

Mononoke (2007 television series)

Meet the Medicine Seller in Mononoke’s original 2007 series: five supernatural cases, richly patterned places and people with stories to uncover.

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Balsa protects a hunted prince in Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, a fantasy about skilled work, competing histories and learning to care.

MURCIÉLAGO reveals a new teaser and main cast ahead of January 2027

Hitomi Ueda, Minori Suzuki and Sumire Uesaka will voice Kuroko, Hinako and Chiyo in the action manga’s television adaptation.

Mushishi

Meet Ginko and the people of the original Mushishi series: a boy whose drawings live, a girl in darkness and a traveller pursuing a mysterious rainbow.

Mushishi: the lives Ginko walks into

A girl, a craftsman and a traveller bring different needs to Ginko’s early encounters.

My Neighbor Totoro

Meet Satsuki and Mei in My Neighbor Totoro: a quiet 86-minute film about childhood discoveries, with family guidance and what to expect.

Naruto

Meet the original Naruto: a rejected child's bid for recognition, a rivalry that becomes a bond, and ninja battles built around trust and deception.

Naruto watch order: the original series, optional skips and what comes next

A 131-episode route through original Naruto, with the mixed episodes to keep and clear next steps for Shippuden and the films.

Natsume’s Book of Friends

Takashi Natsume can see spirits, an ability that has made ordinary friendships difficult. He inherits his grandmother Reiko’s Book of Friends, which binds the spirits whose names she collected. With Nyanko-sensei beside him, Natsume begins returning those names and meeting the people and spirits connected to them.

Netflix announces Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 premiere for 20 October 2026

Netflix’s August announcement gives the standalone ten-episode series an October launch, with new characters in Night City.

Night City's real trap: the price of becoming useful

School, cyberware and mercenary work: three offers that make David valuable while leaving him to carry the risk.

Nodame Cantabile

Chiaki studies piano at a music university but wants to conduct. A fear of flying keeps him from pursuing the overseas training he imagines. Meeting Nodame, an unconventional pianist whose playing catches his ear, disrupts both his frustration with music and his orderly habits.

Now and Then, Here and There

Shu meets a quiet girl named Lala-Ru during an otherwise ordinary day. A strange machine interrupts their encounter and carries them into a distant future where war has become everyday life. Helping a stranger places him inside a world organised around violence.

Occult Academy

Maya hates the occult, yet her father’s death brings her back to his paranormal academy, where a stranger claims to have arrived from the future.

Ocean Waves

Taku and his friend Yutaka expect another ordinary school year until Rikako transfers from Tokyo. Her arrival changes their friendship, and a trip involving Taku and Rikako feeds rumours at school. The television film follows young people trying to understand relationships that have stopped feeling simple.

Only Yesterday

Taeko’s farming holiday brings childhood memories into her adult life. Explore Only Yesterday’s family comedy, rural work and changing visual textures.

Overgeared

An introduction to the ongoing Overgeared anime through episodes 1–2: Satisfy's money problem, Grid's crafting class and a short opening sample.

Overlord

Momonga stays inside his favourite online game as its service ends, only to find that he cannot log out. Still wearing his skeletal avatar, he now commands a fortress whose non-player characters have acquired lives of their own. The former player must work out what his authority means in an unfamiliar world.

Overtake!

A small F4 team connects a teenage driver’s ambition with a photographer’s recovery. Discover Overtake!'s people, racing and craft.

Paprika

Enter Paprika through Chiba’s dream persona, Konakawa’s nightmares, Tokita’s invention and an animated city where advertising images become places to travel.

Paprika: a detective lost in his own movies

Konakawa needs a guide through dream scenes that his skills as a detective cannot make safe.

Paranoia Agent

An assault in Tokyo's Musashino district is initially suspected to be an invention by its victim, Tsukiko. When similar attacks follow, the unidentified assailant becomes known as Shonen Bat. Finding him means confronting the pressures surrounding the people he attacks.

Patema Inverted

A girl who can fall into the sky meets a boy taught to fear her. Patema Inverted turns opposite gravities into a physical adventure about trust and perspective.

Patlabor: The TV Series

Industrial robots called Labors have become part of ordinary work, bringing a new category of crime with them. Tokyo's police establish a special vehicle division to respond. Young officer Noa Izumi enters this world alongside the new Ingram police machine.

Perfect Blue

Meet Mima, CHAM! and the unsettling world of Perfect Blue, where a new acting career, an impersonating website and Kon’s editing unsettle a familiar life.

Perfect Blue: the price of Mima’s new career

A disturbing acting assignment puts Mima’s ambition under pressure before the mystery is solved.

Phantom Busters names its four leads and TOHO animation STUDIO

Nobuhiko Okamoto, Natsuki Hanae, Koki Uchiyama and Ryota Suzuki lead the ghost-hunting comedy, with Chika Nagaoka directing.

Ping Pong the Animation

Peco and Smile are friends in the same high-school table-tennis club, but they approach the game differently. Peco advertises his confidence; Smile rarely smiles. A Chinese exchange player and a coach determined to develop Smile’s ability disturb the balance between their friendship and their competitive ambitions.

Planetes

By 2075, passenger spacecraft regularly connect Earth, space stations and the Moon. Hachimaki collects orbital debris for a living while dreaming of owning a spacecraft. New recruit Tanabe joins his poorly regarded department, where everyday work brings her into conflict with colleagues whose attitudes differ sharply from hers.

Pom Poko

Magical tanuki live in wooded hills until the construction of a Tokyo suburb threatens their home. They turn their ability to transform into a defence against development. Their campaign brings Japanese folklore into direct conflict with the expansion of a human city.

Ponyo

A young boy named Sosuke befriends Ponyo, a small fish who wants to become human. Her determination carries a magical disturbance from the sea into his coastal home. A child's friendship becomes inseparable from the changing waters around the town.

Porco Rosso

In the Adriatic, a flying ace turned bounty hunter makes his living with the face of a pig. Porco Rosso's clashes with sky pirates bring him a rival in the American pilot Curtis. Aircraft, coastal towns and an unwanted reputation surround his uneasy independence.

Princess Mononoke

Enter Princess Mononoke’s forest and ironworks, where San, Ashitaka and Lady Eboshi defend lives that cannot easily coexist.

Princess Tutu

Ahiru is a struggling ballet student who wants to dance with Mytho, a boy whose heart has been lost. Transforming into Princess Tutu lets her search for its missing pieces. Ballet and fairy-tale magic become ways of approaching emotions that the prince can no longer feel.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Madoka Kaname is an ordinary middle-school student whose life changes when she encounters the world of magical girls. Kyubey offers the possibility of a wish, while an experienced magical girl introduces Madoka and her friend Sayaka to the work that accompanies that offer.

RahXephon

Ayato Kamina is on his way to an exam when an attack transforms his familiar Tokyo. A girl resembling someone in his drawings leads him towards the enormous RahXephon. Escaping the city means discovering that the place he called home has been sealed away from the outside world.

Re:ZERO

Subaru arrives in a fantasy world and tries to help the silver-haired girl who first helps him. His unusual ability returns him to an earlier point after death. Repeating events gives him another chance to intervene, but leaves him carrying experiences that the people around him do not share.

Redline

JP drives a customised Trans-Am into an interplanetary race where rivals carry weapons and the host planet threatens military intervention. Distorted machinery, extreme angles and saturated colour make speed the main attraction in Takeshi Koike's standalone film, with a romance between races.

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Utena Tenjou becomes involved in a duel with student-council member Saionji and enters an extraordinary arena. There she meets Anthy Himemiya, the girl called the Rose Bride. School authority, ritual combat and the promise of revolution become entangled around their encounter.

Rintaro urges anime to make room for creative risk

In a newly published Cartoon Brew interview, the director argues for a balance between familiar successes and new work.

Run with the Wind

Kakeru is running through the city when Haiji approaches him on a bicycle and asks whether he likes to run. Haiji brings him to an old apartment building with nine residents. The apparently simple offer of a spare room carries an unexpected sporting plan.

Samurai Champloo

Fuu persuades two very different swordsmen to help her find a samurai who smells of sunflowers. Mugen’s unruly fighting and Jin’s formal training make them difficult travelling companions. Their journey takes a samurai road story into an explicitly hip-hop-inflected version of Edo-period Japan.

Sankarea

A boy's attempt to revive his dead cat draws a sheltered girl into a second life that turns his zombie fantasies into a responsibility.

School-Live!

Four girls live at their school, maintaining club routines in a story whose cheerful surface conceals a threatening situation.

Serial Experiments Lain

An email from a dead schoolmate draws the reserved Lain Iwakura towards NAVI computers and the networked world beyond them. As strange incidents accumulate around her, the boundary between an ordinary school life and a digital existence becomes increasingly difficult to locate.

Shangri-La Frontier

Rakuro loves finishing badly designed games. For a change, he enters Shangri-La Frontier, a polished virtual-reality game with a huge player base. Using the bird-headed avatar Sunraku, he brings habits learned from unreliable games into a world whose monsters and rules reward a different kind of attention.

Shiki

Shiki follows a remote village’s doctor, priest and restless teenagers as unexplained deaths unsettle their homes, friendships and plans to leave.

Shiki and the horror of staying alive

As a village fights to survive, Shiki asks where self-defence ends and cruelty begins.

Shingo Natsume’s ghost adds Kenjiro Tsuda, Hiroki Yasumoto and Hiroshi Kamiya

Three new roles join the Madhouse film, with November festival screenings listed for Glasgow, London and Edinburgh.

Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū

Fresh out of prison, Yotaro seeks an apprenticeship with Yakumo, the rakugo storyteller whose performance he heard while incarcerated. Rakugo is solo storytelling, with a seated performer voicing the characters. The apprenticeship opens a history of artistic rivalry, loyalty and unfinished relationships around Yakumo.

Six horror anime for Halloween

From a five-minute ghost story to a village in crisis, choose the kind of horror you want for Halloween.

SK8 the Infinity

Reki’s favourite place to skate is S, a secret race down an abandoned mine in Okinawa. Its dangerous head-to-head contests draw skaters with very different styles. His enthusiasm pulls newcomer Langa towards a world that operates well outside ordinary school sport.

Skip and Loafer

Mitsumi Iwakura moves from a small rural school to a demanding Tokyo high school with her future carefully planned. Studying comes more easily than navigating the city or reading her classmates. Her friendship with the easygoing Shima begins when the first day goes badly off schedule.

Slam Dunk

Hanamichi Sakuragi takes an interest in basketball after Haruko asks whether he likes it. Wanting to impress her, he answers yes despite his unhappy association with the sport. His attempt to enter the club quickly brings him into conflict with its captain, Haruko’s brother Akagi.

So I'm a Spider, So What?

A schoolgirl is reborn as a small spider monster in a dungeon full of creatures stronger than she is. Human ingenuity has to work with an unfamiliar body: webs, traps and acquired skills become tools for staying alive. Her first problem is surviving long enough to understand her surroundings.

Solo Leveling

Start Solo Leveling with its premise, two-season viewing order, time commitment and content guidance. Understand where ReAwakening fits.

Solo Leveling review: the pleasure and cost of pulling ahead

A review of both seasons: why the growing power gap is exciting, and when it starts to narrow the drama.

Spirited Away

Explore Spirited Away's spirit bathhouse, Chihiro's rescue mission and frightening moments, with a 125-minute commitment and a clear starting point.

Steins;Gate

Rintaro Okabe runs a makeshift invention laboratory in Akihabara. An accidental device lets the group send messages into the past. Their experiments begin as curiosity, then force them to confront what changes when a message can alter the circumstances in which it was sent.

Sword Art Online

Kirito enters a virtual-reality online game whose players discover that they cannot log out. Clearing the game is their route to escape, and dying inside it means dying outside it. The fantasy setting therefore becomes a place where ordinary play decisions carry physical consequences.

Texhnolyze

Ichise survives through prizefighting in a city governed by violence and competing forms of power. His encounter with a girl named Ran becomes a turning point for a place in which force seems to decide who gets to keep living.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

A man is reborn in a fantasy world as a slime, a creature usually treated as weak. His new form brings unusual abilities and encounters with other inhabitants. As Rimuru, he begins building relationships that turn an individual second chance into a community’s story.

The Apothecary Diaries

Meet Maomao and the court that needs her medical knowledge: the appeal of The Apothecary Diaries, its adult themes and a clear season-by-season starting route.

The Apothecary Diaries announces a film reveal programme for 22 October 2026

Maomao and Jinshi’s voice actors will join the anniversary special, which promises the main trailer, key visual and theme-song artist for December’s Japanese film release.

The Apothecary Diaries film reveals a new trailer and Kenshi Yonezu’s theme song

Kenshi Yonezu’s “Haru ga Tomori” is the film’s theme song. A new key visual brings Maomao, Jinshi and the treasure mystery into focus.

The Apothecary Diaries season 3: October 2026 and April 2027 in Japan

Maomao’s television story continues from episode 49. The first Japanese broadcast block began on 2 October; the second is scheduled for April 2027.

The beautiful horror of Mononoke

Mononoke’s dazzling rooms and voyages hold frightened people and hidden histories. Its beauty offers an invitation, not safety.

The Boy and the Heron

After his mother dies during the war, Mahito moves to the countryside and is drawn towards an old tower and a troublesome grey heron. When his stepmother disappears, he follows the bird into a world shared by the living and the dead. The search confronts him with unfamiliar rules and his own longing.

The Cat Returns

Haru rescues a cat and receives an unwanted royal marriage proposal. Meet the eccentric allies and everyday magic of Hiroyuki Morita’s comic fantasy.

The Greatest Magicmaster’s Retirement Plan casts Eri Yukimura as Tesfia

A new character visual introduces the ice-magic student ahead of the fantasy anime’s planned 2027 Japanese broadcast.

The Rising of the Shield Hero

University student Naofumi is summoned to another world as its Shield Hero. His equipment is built around defence, and an early betrayal leaves him short of money, support and reputation. Protecting the world becomes entangled with finding a way to function in a society that rejects him.

The Secret World of Arrietty

Tiny Borrowers live beneath human floorboards, gathering the supplies they need without being seen. When Arrietty is discovered by a human boy, a friendship crosses the boundary on which her hidden life depends. Familiar domestic space becomes an environment scaled to very different inhabitants.

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

A refurbished alien battleship becomes the centre of humanity's fight against the giant Zentradi. Young pilot Hikaru Ichijo joins its forces, while singer Lynn Minmay and officer Misa Hayase become central to his life. Military survival and civilian life occupy the same enormous ship.

The Tatami Galaxy

An unnamed university student imagines that choosing a different club would have given him a better campus life. Parallel versions of his student years return him to the same troublesome acquaintances and elusive romance. His search for the right choice becomes a story about the opportunities he keeps overlooking.

The Twelve Kingdoms

Yoko Nakajima is carried into another world by a stranger who calls her his ruler. Separated from him and pursued by creatures she does not understand, she must first survive. The world she has entered is divided into twelve kingdoms, each ruled through a relationship between a monarch and a kirin.

The Vampire Dies in No Time

A vampire hunter expecting a dangerous opponent meets a vampire who crumbles to dust at the slightest shock, then finds himself sharing everyday troubles with him.

The Vision of Escaflowne

Hitomi Kanzaki's school-day plans are interrupted when a boy and a dragon appear in a column of light. Caught in their battle, she is transported to another world. Her personal concerns about a departing school crush give way to a fantasy conflict she could not have anticipated.

The Wind Rises

Jiro dreams of flight but cannot become a pilot because of his eyesight. Inspired by aircraft designer Caproni, he turns towards designing aeroplanes. Hayao Miyazaki's film follows creative ambition through a turbulent historical world in which technical achievement cannot be separated from consequential choices.

Tokyo Ghoul

After receiving a ghoul’s organs, an ordinary student must live between the human world he knew and a hidden population that survives by eating people.

Toradora!

Ryuuji Takasu’s intimidating appearance makes people assume he is a delinquent. Small, fierce Taiga Aisaka has a reputation of her own. A confession gone wrong draws them into an awkward alliance, with Ryuuji helping Taiga approach the friend she likes.

Trigun (1998 television series)

On a desert planet settled by people from Earth, the red-coated gunman Vash the Stampede carries an enormous bounty and a reputation for catastrophe. Outlaws and bounty hunters roam settlements dependent on artificial life forms called Plants for their energy.

Violet Evergarden

After a war, Violet Evergarden takes a job turning other people’s feelings into letters. She is also searching for the meaning of words spoken to her by someone important during the fighting. Each assignment asks her to understand an experience she cannot simply reproduce as an instruction.

Wangan Midnight

Akio becomes attached to a heavily tuned Nissan Z with a dangerous reputation. On Tokyo’s expressways, the car draws him towards drivers who are equally absorbed by their machines, including a surgeon whose Porsche is known as the Blackbird.

What is isekai? Transported, reborn or trapped

Transported, reincarnated or trapped: four anime premises explain what counts as another world.

What Overtake! understands about the cost of racing

Sponsorship, workshop bills and the chance to practise: how Overtake!'s small-team story compares with real Japanese Formula 4.

When Marnie Was There

Shy, artistic Anna arrives by the sea and discovers an old mansion across the marshes. Its mysterious resident, Marnie, becomes an unusually close friend. Their connection draws Anna back to the house while the boundary between the familiar and the inexplicable grows uncertain.

Where to watch anime in India

Compare free anime, subscriptions and add-on channels in India, with clear checks for languages, episodes and extra charges.

Whisper of the Heart

Shizuku follows a mysterious cat and begins searching for a talent of her own. Seiji, a boy with a clear ambition, becomes part of that search. An antique cat figurine called the Baron opens a space where her everyday uncertainties and imagination can meet.

Why a Virtual World Feels Real: Den-noh Coil and Log Horizon

A display at arm’s reach, a dungeon under your feet and a dog worth finding: what makes an anime's digital world feel inhabited?

Why Frieren starts after the victory

Why defeating the Demon King leaves Frieren with more to learn about her companions, through the opening four episodes.

Wistoria: Wand and Sword

Will studies at a magic academy despite being unable to cast magic. In a society that treats magical ability as a measure of worth, he relies on his sword and physical skill. He wants to keep a promise to someone important to him, even when teachers and classmates dismiss his route.

Witch on the Holy Night adds IMAX to its Japanese opening

The ufotable film will open in IMAX in Japan on 20 November, alongside its general theatrical release.

Wolf Children

After their father dies, Hana raises two children who can turn into wolves. She moves from the city to a rural house, learning to farm while keeping their secret. As Yuki and Ame grow, each must find a way to live between the human and animal worlds.

Wolf’s Rain

Wolves are believed extinct, but some survive by deceiving human eyes and appearing as people. Kiba searches for a place called Paradise. His encounter with the isolated Tsume and the adaptable Hige brings different ways of surviving into a shared journey.

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

A summer romance about a shy poet, a self-conscious video maker and a missing record. Explore how poetry, colour and music bring their small town together.

Yona of the Dawn sequel names PIERROT FILMS for animation production

Hakusensha has confirmed Pierrot’s animation-production brand for Yona’s return, following the sequel announcement in December 2025.

Your Name

Your Name's two places, borrowed routines and growing romance, with spoiler-light guidance to the complete 2016 film and its 106-minute commitment.