On this 10/04/2025, as usual, we bring you the latest and greatest in the world of anime. From fresh episode releases to new announcements, to exciting upcoming series, we’ve got you covered with everything happening in the anime world today. Check out today’s updates below!
OUT NOW: “MOONRISE” — all 18 episodes!
– Synopsis –
The fates of the peaceful inhabitants of Earth and the resistance forces on the moon hang in the balance.
The year is 2XXX. Humanity has established a lenient world government, and everything, including people’s lives, is entrusted to the international AI network Sapientia and its logical decisions. However, the Lunar Development Project backed by Sapientia has created a rift between Earth, which continues to send garbage and criminals to the moon to maintain its own peace, and the moon, where people are forced to live in poverty, leading to rumblings of a war of independence. One day, the protagonist, Jack, is caught in a terrorist bombing and loses his family to the moon rebels in one of their plots for independence. Vowing revenge, Jack decides to become an Earth army scout and head to the moon with his comrades.
“Raccoon Team Calcal” theme song video (real version) released! Nippon Animation is animating the series of shorts.
【ＮＥＷ！】Theme Song Video (real ver.):
♪ “CalGaru Everyday!!” by HANABIE.
– Synopsis –
The Calcal-dan Secret Society remains steadfast as the number one organization in the global corporate popularity rankings.
Their objective is world conquest! Each day, the chosen elites carry out the orders of their boss.
This is Tama, Tokyo.
Surrounded by nature yet still within the borders of Tokyo Metropolis, this area is home to the Tama branch of the Calcal-dan Secret Society.
Here, business is sluggish, and wages are stagnant. And yet, today, they devote themselves wholeheartedly to their mission, like they always do!
“The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows” ED released! Makaria is animating the 12-episode series.
【ＮＥＷ！】ED:
♪ “Tsukininegau” by sorato
– Synopsis –
Banished as “useless,” Zenos, a self-taught healer from the slums, turns despair into defiance and opens a secret clinic in the city’s shadows. With unlicensed, unmatched magic, he cures, comforts, and rights wrongs, quietly becoming a legend. But as his power grows, even the royal palace takes notice. Can he buck the odds and heal a world that cast him aside?
“The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl” OP released! Kachigarasu is animating the 12-episode series.
【ＮＥＷ！】OP:
♪ “Illuminate” by Shugo Nakamura
– Synopsis –
Sophia, a timid daughter of a count, just wanted a peaceful life, but the Gorilla God had other plans. Blessed with unmatched strength, she’s thrust into the Royal Knight Order, turning her quiet days into chaos. Now, she must juggle school, the knight life, and her overwhelming power. Who knew gorilla strength could be so complicated?
The previously announced “Hitozuma no Kuchibiru wa Kan Chuuhai no Aji ga Shite” anime project is a TV anime scheduled to begin this July, studio: raiose!
[Cast (TV broadcast version)]
Tsuyoshi (CV: Takahide Ishii)
Yui (CV: Shiho Kawaragi)
The “Date A Live” anime has a new project in the works!
The announcement included a super teaser visual but did not reveal any further details about the new project.
“To Your Eternity” Season 3 teaser visual & October debut revealed!
The staff/studio have not been announced.
“Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring” TV anime adaptation announced, animation production: WIT STUDIO!
【ＮＥＷ！】Announcement PV:
[Staff except]
Director: Ken Yamamoto
Animation Advisor: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Series Composition: Ayumu Hisao
Character Design: Namiko Torii
Art Director: Yusuke Takeda (Bamboo)
– Synopsis –
Winter was once the only season in the world-but such an existence was too lonely to bear, and so it created Spring to love. Before long, the earth wished for more time to rest in the cycle, and Summer and Autumn were born. The ones who carry the cycle are called the Agents of the Four Seasons. Hinagiku, the Agent of Spring, disappeared from this land ten years ago, taking the season of spring with her. Now, after incredible hardship, she has returned to restore the cycle to its proper state-and, as in the myth passed down since the dawn of time, she sends her love to Winter.
OUT NOW: “A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof” episode 1! SHAFT is animating the 12-episode series.
– Synopsis –
On the way home from school one day, Konoha Koga rescues Satoko Kusagakure, a ninja who escaped her village. Soon, pursuers from the village show up in search of Satoko only to be deftly dealt with by Konoha. As it turns out, the unassuming high schooler is actually an assassin. Thus, the potentially cutthroat cohabitation of a ninja and an assassin begins!
“Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty” OP & ED released! BN pictures is animating the series.
【ＮＥＷ！】OP:
♪ “Ready to Rock” by BAND-MAID
【ＮＥＷ！】ED:
♪ “Yumejanainara Nannanosa” by Little Glee Monster
– Synopsis –
At an elite all-girls’ academy where refined young ladies gather, Lilisa Suzunomiya, now the daughter of a real estate tycoon after her mother remarried, is forced to abandon her guitar and rock music to fit in. However, her passion is reignited by sounds from the old school building, where she meets a skilled drummer who shares her love for rock. Together, they embrace their inner rockstars, elegantly clashing and shouting their way through the academy in this captivating tale of grace and rebellion.
“Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199” Chapter 4 releases theatrically in Japan on October 10!
As originally announced, the anime will have a total of 26 episodes split into seven chapters for theatrical screening.
【ＮＥＷ！】Teaser Trailer:
Goro Taniguchi‘s “Bloody Escape: Bats out of Hell” is now streaming on Crunchyroll!
– Synopsis –
After human experimentation turns Kisaragi into a cyborg, he finds himself pursued by multiple organizations: An undying coven of vampires bent on the conquest of Tokyo, and an immortal order of knights, and a group of Yakuza, sworn to avenge the killing of their leader.
“I might not have any reason to live, but that’s no reason to let them kill me.”
Kisaragi will have to use his cyborg-body and his unique “blood,” as well as anything else he can to make his big escape!!!
“GACHIAKUTA” character visual & short PV: Enjin (CV: Katsuyuki Konishi)! bones film is animating the series which begins in July.
【ＮＥＷ！】Character Short PV – Enjin:
– Synopsis –
Crawl back from the abyss of Hell to change this lousy world!
Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he’s falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment—exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash.
Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!
