The Demon Slayer date everyone is quoting is an untitled slot on Sony's calendar
A September 2027 date for the second Infinity Castle film is circulating everywhere. It comes from an untitled slot on Sony's release calendar, and the chief executive of the company that would distribute the film says no date has been decided.
September 30, 2026 11:24 am
Chainsaw Man's season two is the third instalment and still has no release window
Chainsaw Man's Assassins arc is being called season two. It is the third instalment of the anime, it has a different director from the one most people credit, and nine months after the announcement there is still no release window.
September 28, 2026 11:18 am
We Are Aliens opens today with a Cannes laurel that contradicts its own brackets
The first anime feature of the autumn opens in Japan today carrying a laurel that reads OFFICIAL SELECTION - CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, with Directors' Fortnight in brackets underneath. Those two things cancel each other out.
September 25, 2026 9:12 am
Chainsaw Man’s Reze Arc Has Made 29.7 Billion Yen, and One Headline Rounded It Down to 20
The Reze Arc film reached Prime Video on 19 September carrying a worldwide gross of ¥297億. That is ¥29.7 billion, not ¥297 billion — and one outlet's headline undersells its own body by about ten billion yen.
September 22, 2026 2:21 pm
The Dangers in My Heart Ran Eight and a Half Years and Only Four Issues of It Were in a Magazine
The Dangers in My Heart ended on 15 September after eight and a half years. Four of those issues were in Weekly Shonen Champion. The rest were on a website that changed its name twice while the series was running.
September 18, 2026 3:26 pm
Steel Ball Run’s First Season Was One Episode Long
Steel Ball Run returns on 25 September for its second stage. Season one was not twelve episodes. It was one episode, forty-seven minutes long, in March.
September 15, 2026 3:41 pm
The Live-Action Akira Ended Without Anyone Cancelling It
Warner Bros. spent 23 years and eight figures on a live-action Akira and never exposed a frame. Last week the 1988 original out-earned its entire American history in one weekend.
September 13, 2026 11:30 am
Black Clover Just Turned 170 Episodes Into Season One
Black Clover returns on 3 October as its 2nd Season, which quietly reclassifies 170 previous episodes as the first one. There are four official ways to count them and they all disagree.
September 10, 2026 11:45 am
Demon Slayer broke every anime box office record. Chapter two still has no date.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is the highest-grossing anime film ever made and the highest-grossing Japanese film ever made. It has been streaming since July and it won Film of the Year in May. Fourteen months after release, nobody — ufotable, Aniplex, Sony or Crunchyroll — can tell you when chapter two opens.
September 8, 2026 5:10 pm
The two biggest anime polls disagree about who won Summer 2026
The Summer 2026 season has three weeks left, and the two biggest fan polls cannot agree on what won it. Anime Trending says Goodbye, Lara. Anime Corner says Bleach. Both are defensible, and the disagreement is the most interesting thing about the season.
September 5, 2026 5:10 pm