10 Anime Releases To Look Out for in Fall 2026

10 Anime Releases To Look Out for in Fall 2026 From the next stage of ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: STEEL BALL RUN’ and the long-awaited return of ‘Tokyo Revengers’ to Studio TRIGGER’s ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2,’ here are 10 anime releases arriving this fall. 10 Anime Releases To Look Out for in Fall 2026 From the next stage of ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: STEEL BALL RUN’ and the long-awaited return of ‘Tokyo Revengers’ to Studio TRIGGER’s ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2,’ here are 10 anime releases arriving this fall. Fall 2026 is shaping up to be particularly heavy on returning favorites, with several major franchises picking up long-running stories after years away from television. Black Clover is finally resuming its anime adaptation more than five years after its original 170-episode run concluded, while Tokyo Revengers, The Apothecary Diaries and Blue Box are all moving directly into consequential new chapters of their respective stories. But this season is not solely built around conventional sequels. Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is extensively rebuilding familiar material rather than simply revisiting it; Studio TRIGGER is returning to Night City with an entirely new cast for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 and CloverWorks’ GROTESQQQUE is approaching the anthology format through three sharply different original stories. Rounding out the slate is Fool Night, an adaptation pairing SUNRISE and SHAFT for the first time. Below are 10 anime releases to keep an eye on throughout Fall 2026. STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 2nd Stage Release Date: September, 25, 2026 Following the feature-length 47-minute opening chapter released in March, STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure shifts into its weekly run with 2nd STAGE. The adaptation follows former jockey Johnny Joestar and the mysterious Gyro Zeppeli as they compete in an approximately 750-mile horse race across the American frontier, with the journey increasingly revealing the supernatural forces and political interests surrounding the competition. New characters will be introduced for the 2nd STAGE, including Mountain Tim, Hot Pants and United States President Funny Valentine. Longtime JoJo studio David Production remains behind the anime, with Yasuhiro Kimura and Hideya Takahashi directing alongside series director Toshiyuki Kato and series composition by Yasuko Kobayashi. Yugo Kanno also returns to score the series, having composed its main theme “Dance with STEEL BALL RUN.” The 11-episode 2nd STAGE will stream weekly on Fridays via Netflix, giving Part 7 considerably more room to unfold after its cinematic opening installment. The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 Release Date: October, 2, 2026 The Apothecary Diaries returns for a third season with Maomao once again finding herself caught between medical mysteries and the increasingly complicated politics of the imperial court. Adapted from Natsu Hyuuga’s light novel series, Season 3 expands the story beyond the palace as problems involving poor harvests, locusts and unrest in the western territories begin to intersect with Maomao and Jinshi’s world. A mysterious shrine and the appearance of a supposed immortal maiden add another layer to a series that has steadily broadened its scale without abandoning the observational mystery-solving that defined its earliest episodes. OLM remains on animation duties, while Akinori Fudesaka takes the director’s chair and Norihiro Naganuma continues to oversee series composition. Music again comes from Satoru Kosaki, Kevin Penkin and Arisa Okehazama, with Yorushika performing the new opening theme. The season also begins an unusually busy period for the franchise: its first cour arrives in October, an original theatrical film conceived by Hyuuga is scheduled for December, and Season 3 will resume with its second cour in April 2027. Tougen Anki Season 2 Release Date: October, 2, 2026 The anime adaptation of Yura Urushibara’s Tougen Anki continues with the Nikko Kegon Falls Arc, pushing its modern reinterpretation of the Momotaro folktale into more sinister territory. After the conflicts in Kyoto and Nerima, Shiki Ichinose and the students of Rasetsu Academy head toward Nikko following a disturbance at Kegon Falls, where the water has inexplicably stopped flowing. Their investigation eventually points toward a research facility and experiments involving Oni, further complicating the series’ central war between the descendants of Momotaro and those carrying Oni blood. Urushibara’s original manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion, has surpassed three million copies in circulation. Studio Hibari continues to handle production, with Ato Nonaka directing and Yukie Sugawara overseeing series composition and scripts. Kohta Yamamoto remains responsible for the score, while the new arc introduces “BACKLASH” by Hiromitsu Kitayama as its opening theme and TRACK15’s “Hand in Hand” as its ending. Crunchyroll will stream the arc internationally outside Japan and China. Tokyo Revengers Season 4 Release Date: October, 3, 2026 Tokyo Revengers enters another pivotal phase with the War of the Three Titans Arc, bringing Takemichi Hanagaki back to 2008 in an attempt to prevent the bleak future dominated by the criminal organization Bonten. The new storyline turns its attention toward a three-way struggle involving the Kanto Manji Gang, Brahman and Rokuhara Tandai, placing Mikey once again at the center of Takemichi’s increasingly desperate efforts to alter the future. Adapted from Ken Wakui’s completed manga, the arc brings the anime closer to the endgame of a story that has grown from delinquent drama into an increasingly high-stakes cycle of loyalty, loss and time travel. LIDENFILMS continues to produce the series, with Maki Kodaira directing and longtime series composer Yasuyuki Muto returning to oversee the story. JO1 performs the new opening theme “IGNITE,” while go!go!vanillas provides the ending theme “TRICK STAR.” The anime premieres October 2 on MBS, TBS and other Japanese networks, with Disney+ carrying it internationally outside mainland China; AT-X begins its broadcast on October 3. Black Clover Season 2 Release Date: October, 3, 2026 More than five years after its original television run concluded at 170 episodes, Black Clover finally returns to continue Asta’s journey. Season 2 picks the adaptation back up around the growing conflict with the Spade Kingdom, as Asta and the Magic Knights prepare to confront the Dark Triad and rescue the captured Clover Kingdom captains. Yuki Tabata’s manga began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2015 before moving to Jump GIGA in 2023, while the anime’s lengthy 2017-to-2021 run helped establish Asta, Yuno and the Black Bulls as fixtures of contemporary shonen anime. Studio Pierrot returns for the new season, as does director Ayataka Tanemura, who previously directed the latter portion of the television anime and the 2023 Netflix film Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King. Keiichiro Ochi handles series composition, Itsuko Takeda returns as character designer and Minako Seki provides the music. Unlike the film’s standalone original story, Season 2 resumes the main manga adaptation, making October’s premiere the first real continuation of the TV narrative since March 2021. Blue Box Season 2 Release Date: October, 3, 2026 Blue Box returns at an especially timely moment, following the conclusion of Kouji Miura’s original manga in July 2026. The second season continues the intertwined athletic and romantic lives of badminton player Taiki Inomata and basketball star Chinatsu Kano, while the return of Chinatsu’s former basketball teammate Yumeka introduces another complication to both sides of the story. Having spent its first season gradually developing Taiki and Chinatsu’s relationship alongside their respective sporting ambitions, the new installment looks set to further test the balance between competition, friendship and romance that helped distinguish the series from more conventional high-school love stories. Season 2 also arrives with a notable production change. Daisuke Sakō takes over as director and Electric Circus replaces Telecom Animation Film as the animation studio, though series composer Yuko Kakihara, character designer Miho Tanino and composer Takashi Ohmama remain involved. aiko performs the opening theme “Anata no Hana no Iro,” while elsewhere kikou handles the ending song “blue in.” New episodes will begin streaming weekly on Netflix from October 4. Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Release Date: October, 11, 2026 The legendary Dragon Ball IP expands once again with Dragon Ball Super: Beerus. The new series aims to take viewers back into familiar territory through an extensively rebuilt version of the opening Dragon Ball Super storyline. The project revisits material surrounding Goku’s encounter with Beerus, which was first introduced theatrically in 2013’s Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods before being adapted for television, with Frieza and the events surrounding Resurrection ‘F’ also forming part of the reconstructed narrative. For those who are already familiar with the story, the appeal lies less in discovering what happens than in seeing how Toei Animation has reconsidered one of Dragon Ball Super’s earliest chapters. Toei describes the project as an “enhanced” edition featuring extensive new and revised animation, re-rendered footage, newly recorded dialogue, additional music and sound effects, complete with a reconstructed story intended to more closely reflect Akira Toriyama’s original ideas and worldbuilding. Matsuto Seya oversees the composition and direction arrangement, with Tadayoshi Yamamuro serving as animation character designer and chief animation director and Norihito Sumitomo returning on music. MEGATERA ZERO performs the opening theme “ONOGAMI,” while Vickeblanka provides the ending track “Kan Peki No Peki.” Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Release Date: October, 20, 2026 Night City gets another self-contained tragedy with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, a new 10-episode story from CD PROJEKT RED and Studio TRIGGER. This follow-up introduces an entirely new cast led by characters including Roman, Talia, D and Weak, with its story framed around family, obsession, revenge and the legacy people leave behind in Night City. Early teasers leaned into a rougher found-footage sensibility, including sequences viewed through Roman’s camcorder, while a teaser set to Rico Nasty’s “You Can’t Run From Me” suggests the sequel will preserve the first anime’s combination of frenetic violence and emotional collapse without attempting to recreate its characters. The project also marks a creative handoff at Studio TRIGGER. Kai Ikarashi makes his series directorial debut after working on the original Edgerunners, taking over from Hiroyuki Imaishi, while Kanno Ichigo serves as lead character designer. Bartosz Sztybor returns as showrunner, writer and producer alongside screenplay adapter Masahiko Otsuka, with Trigun composer Tsuneo Imahori handling the music. The original anime went on to win Anime of the Year at the 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, leaving its successor with considerable expectations despite its deliberately standalone approach. Just like its predecessor, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will be exclusively available on streaming at Netflix. GROTESQQQUE Release Date: November, 11, 2026 CloverWorks moves into original anthology territory with GROTESQQQUE, an anime film built from three independent stories developed under DARLING in the FRANXX director Atsushi Nishigori. The project boasts an anthology structure to shift genres, characters and aesthetics across “Aliens,” “Yoroshiku★Shoujo” and “Nocturne: On This Grotesque Night,” with an overarching opening sequence linking the three. Nishigori conceived and produced the project in addition to directing portions of the film, giving it a markedly different foundation from the manga, light novel and game adaptations surrounding it on the fall calendar. Nishigori directs “Aliens,” while Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works director Takahiro Miura takes charge of “Yoroshiku★Shoujo.” Nishigori returns to direct and handle character designs for the concluding “Nocturne: On This Grotesque Night.” The voice cast stretches from Kana Ichinose and Gen Hoshino to Sara Minami and several members of Nogizaka46, while METALVERSE performs the film’s opening theme “Shoot Shoot Shoot.” GROTESQQQUE opens theatrically in Japan on November 6, with international release plans yet to be detailed. Fool Night Release Date: November, 26, 2026 Kasumi Yasuda’s bleak science-fiction manga Fool Night receives its first anime adaptation this November, bringing its combination of ecological collapse, body horror and social inequality to Netflix. Set in a future where sunlight has been blocked for generations and oxygen is increasingly scarce, society has developed “transfloration,” a procedure that converts humans into plant life capable of producing oxygen. Those who undergo it are compensated financially — an offer that becomes particularly consequential for impoverished young man Toshiro Kamiya, who is forced to weigh his remaining life as a human against the possibility of escaping poverty. The adaptation is also noteworthy for becoming the first anime co-produced by SUNRISE and SHAFT, two studios with notably different visual legacies. Atsushi Yukawa, who served as a unit director on Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume, directs, with Oshi no Ko’s Jin Tanaka handling series composition, Robert Sato on character design, Yota Tsuruoka as sound director and Tatsuya Kato composing the music. Yasuda’s original manga has previously received recognition from Kono Manga ga Sugoi! and France’s Japan Expo Awards, while its premise gradually widens from a speculative survival story into a mystery surrounding transflorated humans. Netflix will release Fool Night globally on November 26.