Eleceed's anime slips to April 2027, and its hero is Jiwoo in English and Yu in Japanese
The Eleceed TV anime, announced in 2025 as a 2026 show, will premiere in April 2027. The English post published the same day calls its hero Jiwoo. The Japanese side of the site calls him Yu Kazahaya, and Japanese print volumes of the webtoon will be out months before episode one.
October 21, 2026 8:50 am
Star Detective Precure will cross over with Magical DoReMi, and both credit a creator who does not exist
Episode 39 dresses the Star Detectives as witch apprentices on October 25. Both series are credited to Izumi Todo, a pen name that began with Doremi.
October 18, 2026 4:51 pm
Naruto's 20th anniversary anime is revealed as a Ninku crossover, four years after the anniversary
The four episodes were due on TV Tokyo in September 2023 and were postponed. They now have a story, a director from Ninku's 1995 anime and no air date.
October 15, 2026 4:51 pm
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premieres as the third animated telling of the same story
Toei's remake of the Battle of Gods saga premiered with a worldwide Crunchyroll simulcast, next to the original version already streaming there. Netflix US gets weekly episodes from October 17.
October 12, 2026 3:52 pm
Ghost of Tsushima: Legends anime slips from 2027 to 2028
Crunchyroll's New York Comic Con trailer for the Ghost of Tsushima: Legends anime came with a 2028 window and no explanation. In July, the same partners were still promising 2027.
October 9, 2026 12:09 pm
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