Anime Week brings you a roundup of the week's anime news. From August 31st to September 6th, the news that "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinity Castle Arc Chapter 1 - Akaza Returns" has surpassed 29.9 billion yen in box office revenue, and the release of the "RE/100 1/100 Denan Ge" Gunpla model based on "Mobile Suit Gundam F91" attracted attention.
On August 31st, it was announced that the third season of the Gege Akutami Jujutsu Kaisen TV anime, based on the popular manga by Gege Akutami, titled "Culling Game Part 1," will be broadcast in January 2026. It was also revealed that the " Jujutsu Kaisen: Shibuya Incident Special Edition" and "Culling Game Advance Screening" will be screened from November 7th. In addition to the special edition of the second season, "Shibuya Incident," the first and second episodes of the third season, "Culling Game," will be screened in advance.
On September 1st, it was announced that to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the popular anime series "Evangelion," six films, including "Neon Genesis Evangelion Evangelion: 1.0 You Can (Not) Redo," will be shown for a limited time starting in October. Titled "Monthly Eva EVANGELION 30th MOVIE Fest. 2025-2026," one film will be screened for one week each month between October and February 2026. Two films will be screened in October.
On the 1st, it was announced that the new movie version of the anime " Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Yaiba" based on the popular manga by Koyoharu Gotouge, " Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinity Castle Arc Chapter 1: Akaza Returns," has grossed over 29,983,480,000 yen in the 45 days since its release on July 18th. The movie's momentum is unstoppable, with audience numbers exceeding 21.1 million.
On the 1st, it was announced that a new TV anime series, "Magical Girl Raising Project Restart," based on the light novel "Magical Girl Raising Project" from the "This Light Novel is Amazing!" Bunko (Takarajimasha) series, will be broadcast in 2026. This will be the first new TV anime in about 10 years since the TV anime aired from October to December 2016.
On the 1st, it was announced that "Killua," the latest work by Tadatoshi Fujimaki, known for the popular manga "Kuroko's Basketball," will be made into a TV anime and will be broadcast in 2026.
The fifth key visual for "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Yaiba the Movie: Infinity Castle Arc Chapter 1 - Akaza Returns" was released on the 3rd. It depicts Zenitsu Agatsuma and Upper Rank Six Kaigaku fighting, accompanied by the tagline "Our paths are divided."
On the 3rd, it was revealed that the box office revenue for the animated film "Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle-," based on the character rap project "Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle-," has surpassed 2 billion yen. The film, Japan's first interactive film in which the outcome of the rap battle is decided by audience votes via a smartphone app, was released in 85 theaters on February 21st. Due to the interactive equipment required, it has been shown in a limited number of theaters, between 60 and 80. While there have been previous films that started their release in around 10 theaters, then gained traction and expanded to over 150 theaters, becoming huge hits, this is the first time in Japan that a film has surpassed 2 billion yen in its opening day with fewer than 100 theaters.
On the 3rd, it was revealed that singer Shigeru Matsuzaki will be singing the opening theme "Wanna be" for the TV anime "Tojima Tanzaburo wa Kamen Rider ni Naritai ," which is based on the manga by Yokusaru Shibata, who is known for works such as "Hachi-One Diver." Matsuzaki will sing the chorus of the opening under the name "TeddyLoid feat. Shigeru Matsuzaki & TOPHAMHAT-KYO."
On the 3rd, it was announced that the popular picture book series "Mouse's Vest" will be adapted into a TV anime for the first time. Creadom8 will be producing the anime.
On the 3rd, it was announced that a 4K remaster of the 1995 animated film "Ghost in the Shell" (directed by Mamoru Oshii) will be shown again for a limited two-week revival starting October 31st. It will be screened at 84 cinemas nationwide.
On the 3rd, it was announced that eight short stories by manga artist Tatsuki Fujimoto, known for works such as " Chainsaw Man" and "Lookback, " will be adapted into anime all at once. All eight stories from " Tatsuki Fujimoto Short Stories Collection 17-21" and "Tatsuki Fujimoto Short Stories Collection 22-26," which contain one-off stories drawn by Fujimoto between the ages of 17 and 26, will be made into anime and will be available worldwide exclusively on Prime Video on November 8th.
On the 4th, it was announced that a Gunpla model of the Denan-Ge, which appears in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam F91, called "RE/100 1/100 Denan-Ge" (Bandai Spirits) will be released. The Denan-Ge, Crossbone Vanguard's main mass-produced machine, has been made into a three-dimensional model in the "RE100" series. This is the first time a Gunpla model of this machine has been released, and pre-orders began on the same day on Bandai Namco Group's shopping site, Premium Bandai, where it quickly sold out, proving to be extremely popular.
On the 4th, it was announced that the popular Korean manga "One Day I Became a Princess" will be adapted into a TV anime, with the Japanese dubbed version set to air from October 1st. It will be released in advance on September 28th. The original is a popular work with a total of 200 million page views in the streaming version and over 2.2 million copies of the comics in print, and the anime will be produced by China's iQiyi.
On the 4th, a trailer for the 4K remastered version of "Angel's Egg," the legendary OVA (original video animation) directed by Mamoru Oshii and released in 1985, was released on YouTube. The 4K remastered version will be released exclusively in Dolby Cinemas from November 14th, and will be released nationwide from November 21st.
On the 5th, it was announced that the anime "Baki-Dou," based on the fourth part of Keisuke Itagaki's fighting manga series "Baki-Dou ," will be exclusively distributed worldwide on Netflix in 2026.
On the 6th, it was revealed that the title of the 45th film in the Doraemon the Movie series, based on the popular anime Doraemon created by Fujiko F. Fujio , will be " Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Castle of Nobita's Rock Under the Sea," and that it will be released in 2026. It is a remake of "Doraemon the Movie: Doraemon and the Castle of Nobita Rock," which was released in 1983 and has long been a beloved part of the Doraemon the Movie series, and this classic will be reborn after 43 years.
