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Fall 2026 anime preview: 15 series and films to watch

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The Fall 2026 anime season begins in the first days of October, and it is a crowded one. Maomao returns in The Apothecary Diaries, Blue Box and Aoashi come back for second seasons, TRIGGER goes back to Night City with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, and several anime films open in Japanese cinemas before the end of the year.

Below are fifteen titles we think are worth your time, in three groups: returning favourites, new stories and films. Dates are the Japanese premiere dates as AniList lists them. For airing times in your own time zone, live countdowns and a calendar you can subscribe to, use the Fall 2026 schedule. Each title’s page also shows where it streams legally in Bulgaria.

Returning favourites

Six sequels lead the season. If you are behind, open the title’s page: where a franchise has earlier seasons or films, it links to the full watch order.

  1. The Apothecary Diaries Season 3

    TV series · OLM · from 2 October · based on the light novel

    With the Shi clan’s rebellion behind her, Maomao is back to mixing medicine in the pleasure district, until a breakfast at the Verdigris House sets her investigating again. Jinshi, now openly the emperor’s brother, carries Loulan’s warning of a disaster that will strike the country, while rumours spread of a shrine maiden who deceives the people.

  2. STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 2nd - 3rd STAGE

    Streaming series · david production · from 25 September · based on the manga

    Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli’s race across America continues with its second and third stages, starting with a desert crossing of about 750 miles (1,200 km) known as the Devil’s Palm. Eleven episodes are listed.

  3. Black Clover Season 2

    TV series · Studio Pierrot · from 3 October · based on the manga

    Asta’s story returns to TV. With tyranny spreading through the Clover Kingdom, he and the Magic Knights raid the Spade Kingdom to free their captains from the Dark Triad.

  4. Blue Box Season 2

    TV series · Electric Circus · from 4 October · based on the manga

    Taiki, a badminton player, and Chinatsu, the basketball star he admires, return for a second season of this quiet sports romance, where training and matches go hand in hand with a slow-burning love story.

  5. Tokyo Revengers: Santen Sensou-hen

    TV series · LIDENFILMS · from 3 October · based on the manga

    The time-leaping gang drama continues after the Tenjiku arc with the War of the Three Titans, as Takemichi keeps travelling back to change a future that refuses to stay fixed.

  6. Aoashi Season 2

    TV series · TMS Entertainment · from 4 October · based on the manga

    Ashito Aoi has made the A team of his club’s youth academy, and the step up hits hard. Twenty-four new episodes, on NHK in Japan, of one of the smartest football series in anime.

New stories

Four series you can start without any homework: a dark period romance, a cult Shonen Jump manga, a classic role-playing game and TRIGGER’s return to Night City.

  1. Firefly Wedding

    TV series · david production · from 9 October · based on the manga

    Satoko, a nobleman’s daughter with little time left to live, becomes the target of the assassin Shinpei, and saves her own life by proposing to him. A dark historical romance from david production, the studio also animating JoJo this season.

  2. PSYREN

    TV series · Satelight · from 5 October · based on the manga

    Ageha Yoshina picks up a red phone card from a public phone box. Days later his childhood friend Sakurako, who had the same card, disappears, and the search pulls him into a deadly game run by something called Psyren. Toshiaki Iwashiro’s Shonen Jump manga, adapted by Satelight.

  3. Gensou Suikoden

    TV series · KONAMI animation · from 3 October · based on the game

    Konami’s classic role-playing game becomes a series, following the story of Suikoden II: two best friends from the Highland Kingdom’s youth brigade are swept into a war as the 108 Stars of Destiny begin to shine.

  4. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2

    Streaming series · TRIGGER · from 20 October · based on the game

    TRIGGER, the studio behind the first Edgerunners, returns to Night City with a new, standalone story in ten episodes: Weak, a washed-up legend forced to live without his chrome, and D, a nomad whose revenge leads him towards corporate secrets. A Netflix series.

In Japanese cinemas

Five films to watch for, all opening in Japanese cinemas this autumn. Release dates elsewhere, in cinemas or on streaming, are usually announced later.

  1. To You in the Beyond

    Film · TMS Entertainment · in Japanese cinemas from 9 October · based on the light novel

    Kazuki moves to a school on a remote island to get away from everyone who knows him. In an inlet where people are said to vanish, he finds an unconscious girl who knows only her name, Nao, her age, sixteen, and one year: 1974.

  2. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend

    Film · CloverWorks · in Japanese cinemas from 16 October · based on the light novel

    The story continues from Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus. On 1 April Mai Sakurajima reveals that she is Touko Kirishima, the internet’s mystery singer, exactly as Sakuta dreamed on Christmas Eve, and a message from another version of himself tells him to stop Touko before reality is rewritten.

  3. Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi

    Film · Kinema Citrus · in Japanese cinemas from 23 October · based on the manga

    The next descent into the Abyss comes as a film, following on from the second season, The Golden City of the Scorching Sun. Kinema Citrus, the studio of the series, animates it again.

  4. Witch on the Holy Night

    Film · ufotable · in Japanese cinemas from 20 November · based on the visual novel

    ufotable, the studio behind Demon Slayer and the Fate/stay night films, adapts TYPE-MOON’s visual novel: Aoko Aozaki, a high school girl who is secretly an apprentice magician, lives with her housemate Alice Kuonji until she meets a boy.

  5. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto: Bouhi no Hihou

    Film · TOHO animation STUDIO · in Japanese cinemas from 11 December · original story

    An Apothecary Diaries story written for the cinema rather than adapted from the novels, to close the year for Maomao’s fans.

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