Anime
One Piece opens its first U.S. store in Los Angeles on November 6, with the anime off the air until 2027
ONE PIECE MUGIWARA STORE Los Angeles, the first official One Piece store in the U.S., opens November 6 at Westfield Century City, with reservations required for opening week. It arrives while the TV anime is off the air until 2027, two years after a pop-up at Anime Expo in the same city.
October 22, 2026 11:28 am
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
JoJolion gets an English release in 2027, six years after the longest JoJo part ended in Japan
Viz's deluxe hardcover arrives a year after Netflix's Steel Ball Run anime, the part that ended in Japan one month before JoJolion began.
October 20, 2026 2:55 pm
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War's final two episodes arrive weeks late, ending a four-year adaptation
Episodes 49 and 50 were delayed to improve quality. ANN and Wikipedia disagree on the broadcast dates by a day.
October 19, 2026 3:07 pm
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
Kagurabachi will premiere its first two episodes in Japan last, after a world tour
The tour has shown the opening 20 minutes from Los Angeles to Melbourne. The full episodes debut at Tokyo's Kabukiza on March 25, ahead of an April 2027 broadcast.
October 17, 2026 4:12 pm
One-Punch Man season 3 part 2 is set for January after part 1 hit IMDb's lowest anime score
J.C. Staff returns for the second cour in January 2027. The first gave the franchise the worst-rated anime episode in IMDb's history.
October 16, 2026 3:31 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
