This calendar lists confirmed anime premieres and releases month by month, 27 releases from October 2026 – December 2026, with the platform, genres and a short introduction for each one, so you know what is coming and what it is about. We only list a date once it is officially announced.
Dates are first official release dates (Japanese broadcast premieres for TV anime). The source for each date is shown on its card. Use the filters on the left and the month arrows to explore.
Fri, 2 October 2026
Maomao returns for a third season of palace mysteries, stepping beyond the inner court as new cases pull her into secrets the court would rather keep buried. It is one of the biggest sequels of the season.
Premiere date source: Anime News Network, reporting the official announcement.
Fri, 2 October 2026
Shiki's story continues in Nikko, where the war between the Oni and the Momotaro Agency turns bloodier. A dark, action-heavy arc of the Tougen Anki saga, with the Kegon Falls battle at its centre.
Premiere date source: Anime Trending, from the official press release.
Fri, 2 October 2026
Three gangs, one city, and Takemichi's last chance to save everyone. The final saga of Tokyo Revengers begins, as the Three Titans war pulls every gang in Tokyo into one last fight.
Premiere date source: Official anime website announcement.
Sat, 3 October 2026
Asta and the Black Bulls return at last. The boy with no magic still refuses to give up on becoming Wizard King, and this season pushes the fight against the Spade Kingdom's devils to its climax.
Premiere date source: Anime News Network, from the official anime website announcement.
Sat, 3 October 2026
The remake of Rumiko Takahashi's classic comedy continues: cold water turns Ranma into a girl, hot water turns him back, and the chaos at the Tendo dojo never stops for long.
Premiere date source: The Fandom Post, reporting the official premiere date reveal.
Sun, 4 October 2026
Taiki and Chinatsu are back for more of this gentle sports romance, he chasing badminton glory, she starring in basketball, and the two of them still living under the same roof.
Premiere date source: Anime Corner, reporting TMS Entertainment's official announcement.
Sun, 4 October 2026
Ashito's education at the Tokyo City Esperion academy continues, as the small-town talent learns that brains and teamwork matter as much on the pitch as raw skill.
Premiere date source: ORICON NEWS, from the official anime website announcement.
Wed, 7 October 2026
The legendary detective Siesta is gone, but her former assistant Kimihiko keeps taking cases, and her secrets keep finding him. A mystery sequel five years in the making.
Premiere date source: Anime Trending, from the official announcement.
Wed, 7 October 2026
A tired office worker and the magical Java sparrow he bought at a pet shop keep juggling two worlds at once, a slow, charming isekai with sudden bursts of chaos.
Premiere date source: The Fandom Post, reporting the official premiere date reveal.
Wed, 7 October 2026
Sent back to his academy days after failing to save the world, Desir Herrman plans to do it right the second time. The time-loop magic academy sequel returns.
Premiere date source: Anime News Network, from the official anime website announcement.
Fri, 9 October 2026
A dying noblewoman proposes marriage to the assassin sent to kill her, and he says yes. A tense historical romance that became one of the surprise hits of the season.
Premiere date source: Anime News Network, reporting the official Fuji TV announcement.
Sun, 11 October 2026
Goku's first clash with the God of Destruction, rebuilt as a tight, beautifully redrawn retelling of Dragon Ball Super's opening arcs, new animation, same legendary rivalry.
Premiere date source: Official Dragon Ball announcement, reported by anime news outlets.
Tue, 20 October 2026
A brand-new crew chases survival and glory in the neon streets of Night City, four years after David Martinez became a legend. A standalone sequel season from the Edgerunners team.
Premiere date source: CD PROJEKT RED, official announcement.
Sun, 1 November 2026
Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba's story continues on the big screen: Miyuki is summoned to the Yotsuba clan's New Year gathering, where the powerful family's succession is decided. The film opened in Japan in May and reaches US and Canadian theatres for three days only.
Premiere date source: Crunchyroll announcement via Anime News Network; Anime News Network encyclopedia.
Tue, 3 November 2026
A heightened take on real-life deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, reimagined in a lawless steampunk West of outlaws, machines and supernatural terrors. A six-episode Netflix original from LeSean Thomas and Studio Mir.
Premiere date source: Netflix's official anime slate announcement; Den of Geek and Collider release coverage.
Fri, 6 November 2026
From Sword Art Online creator Reki Kawahara: sixth-grader Yuuma and his classmates are sealed inside the full-dive game Actual Magic when it fuses with reality and turns deadly. Production I.G animates, with an opening theme by Ado.
Premiere date source: Official website announcement via Anime News Network; Yen Press Anime Expo 2026 recap.
Fri, 6 November 2026
Director Atsushi Nishigori's original anthology film from CloverWorks weaves three very different stories (an alien girl in Shibuya, an all-girls urban battle royale, and a gothic vampire tale) into one omnibus feature.
Premiere date source: Tokyo International Film Festival coverage (Cartoon Brew); Anime Trending.
Sat, 7 November 2026
The concluding three-episode arc of the long-running Divinez saga: Akina Myodo and the Fated Ones play their final cardfights, with every wish on the line. Airs on the TV Tokyo network in Japan on 7, 14 and 21 November.
Premiere date source: Official promotional video announcement via Anime News Network; Anime Trending.
Fri, 13 November 2026
Angela's story continues in this all-new sequel to the 2014 film Expelled from Paradise, reuniting director Seiji Mizushima and writer Gen Urobuchi at Toei Animation, twelve years after the original.
Premiere date source: Official teaser announcement via Anime News Network; ORICON News.
Fri, 20 November 2026
ufotable brings TYPE-MOON's visual novel to the screen: in the late 1980s, apprentice mage Aoko Aozaki trains under the witch Alice Kuonji while a quiet transfer student enters their lives. One of the most anticipated anime films of the year in Japan.
Premiere date source: Official trailer coverage via Anime News Network; MANTAN WEB.
Fri, 20 November 2026
Mamoru Oshii directs Sunrise's 50th-anniversary Votoms film: near the end of the Hundred Years' War, an officer is sent to investigate the penal-unit pilot who survives every hopeless mission, the so-called Grey Witch. Part 1 of two.
Premiere date source: Official announcements via Anime Trending; Anime News Network encyclopedia.
Thu, 26 November 2026
In a future where thick clouds block the sun and oxygen is scarce, desperate people are turned into oxygen-producing plants for money, and broke Kamiya is considering it, to pay for his sick mother's medicine. A Sunrise × Shaft collaboration, all episodes at once.
Premiere date source: Netflix's official teaser announcement; Anime News Network upcoming releases.
Fri, 27 November 2026
The devastating 2025 series returns to theatres as a compilation film with newly animated scenes: cheerful alien Takopi tries to make the miserable schoolgirl Shizuka happy, with heartbreaking results.
Premiere date source: Official trailer announcement via Anime Corner; ComicBook.com.
Fri, 11 December 2026
The franchise's first film, in an original story by creator Natsu Hyuga: Maomao and Jinshi travel to a southern water city to return a deceased consort's remains to her homeland, and uncover the treasure she left behind. It lands between the two cours of Season 3.
Premiere date source: Official website announcement via Anime News Network; Anime Corner.
Fri, 11 December 2026
A special television re-edit of Season 2's second cour, broadcast on Nippon TV's Friday Road Show in Japan on the same evening the film opens, with about four minutes of newly produced animation leading into the season's final scene.
Premiere date source: Anime News Network; MANTAN WEB.
Wed, 23 December 2026
Season 2 of the Disney villains-inspired school anime adapts the Savanaclaw manga arc: new protagonist Yuuka Hirasaka arrives at Night Raven College as the interdormitory Spelldrive tournament approaches. Eight episodes, weekly on Disney+.
Premiere date source: Disney+ announcement via Anime News Network; ORICON News.
Sat, 26 December 2026
Book-hating high-schooler Mifuyu, heir to the famous Mikura Hall library, must step into the worlds of stolen books herself after a thief triggers an ancient curse. A fantasy adventure film from Kadokawa, based on Nowaki Fukamidori's novel.
Premiere date source: Kadokawa announcement via Anime News Network; Anime Corner (no delay reported as of November 2026).
Every date here comes from an official announcement (a studio, broadcaster or streaming platform) and is cross-checked before it is listed. If a release has only been rumoured, it does not appear on this calendar.
Dates are the first official release dates, which for TV anime are the Japanese broadcast premieres. Where a series streams internationally on the same day (as most simulcasts do), the platform is listed on its card.
Studios usually confirm exact premiere dates only a few weeks or months ahead. We would rather show a shorter calendar of confirmed dates than a long one full of guesses, and we extend it as new dates are announced.