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On this 17/06/2026, 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!
“Just Like Mona Lisa” TV anime adaptation officially announced with a teaser visual!
Animation Production: SHAFT
This is the “Project M” announced by CyberAgent last summer.
© Tsumuji Yoshimura/SQUARE ENIX, Just Like Mona Lisa Partners
“Hana-Kimi” Season 2 key visual unveiled!
Season 2 begins on July 1 [Wed] with a two-episode streaming premiere.
Crunchyroll will stream the season.
© Hisaya Nakajo, Hakusensha / “Hana-Kimi” Production Committee
“Magic Repo Man: Dumped by My Party, I’ll Cash In With a Cute Support Fairy to Become the Strongest!” begins broadcasting this October!
New PV:
Takahiro Tamano is directing the series at SynergySP.
[Main cast]
Lent (CV: Reiji Kawashima)
Empee (CV: Emiri Kato)
Guy (CV: Daiki Hamano)
Misa (CV: Akira Sekine)
Elle (CV: Yu Kobayashi)
© まさキチ・飯島しんごう・フレックスコミックス／「貸した魔力は【リボ払い】で強制徴収」製作委員会
Original anime film “The Last Blossom” releases on Blu-ray & DVD in Japan on August 26!
Also unveiled: original illustrations by director Baku Kinoshita and illustrator kigimura, set to be used in the packaging of the releases.
© Kazuya Konomoto / The Last Blossom Production Committee
To commemorate SUNRISE‘s 50th Anniversary, Bandai Namco Filmworks has launched a project to produce six 3DCG short films, each by a different studio.
Information on the first two short films has been revealed:
▼ DICE WITH DEMON
・Director: Hidekazu O’Hara
・Animation Production: SUNRISE Studios
・Teaser PV:
▼ Metafear
・Director: Shuhei Morita
・Character Designer / Visual Designer: Tatsuyuki Tanaka
・Animation Production: YAMATOWORKS
・Teaser PV:
© SUNRISE
“ZAN” will have its pilot film world premiere as part of the “Yoshitaka Amano: Art & Entertainment—A New Creative Challenge” panel at Anime Expo 2026 on July 3!
Based on both original and newly created artwork by Yoshitaka Amano, “ZAN” will be a hand-drawn limited anime series described as a “thrilling sci-fi action fantasy that crosses time and space, woven with stylish heroes and an exhilarating storyline.”
[Staff]
・Original: Yoshitaka Amano
・Director of Animation: Masashi Ikeda, Toru Yoshida
・Principal Animator: Moriyasu Taniguchi
・Series Composition: Ryosuke Takahashi
・Writer: Yuya Takashima
・Art Director: Kunio Ogawara, Minoru Nishida
© Yoshitaka Amano / Yoshitaka Amano Inc.
“Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs” Season 2 new PV revealed!
[Theme song artists]
OP: Ando
ED: MEISHOHIKOKAI
Kazuya Miura is continuing to direct the series at ENGI for a July 8 [Wed] Season 2 debut.
© Yomu Mishima/MICRO MAGAZINE/Trapped in a Dating Sim
“The Insipid Prince’s Furtive Grab for The Throne” begins broadcasting on July 6 [Mon]!
Key visual & new PV:
Yuuji Yanase is directing the 12-episode series at MAHO FILM.
[Theme song artists]
OP: BUDDiiS
ED: Class in Wonderland
© タンバ・夕薙/KADOKAWA/出涸らし製作委員会
Music artist lineup for Atsushi Nishigori and CloverWorks‘ original film project “GROTESQQQUE” which is scheduled for this year in Japan:
ASCA
Akki
Mika Ichinose
VaVa
eba
otoha
Ken Kamikita
Sato Kotoko (yutori)
sabio/Futa Takamura
SEE
Kanon Shizaki
Ayato Shinozaki
Junna
suisoh
THREEE
TAKU INOUE
Ryosuke Tachibana
tsumiki
Yushi Nakajima (Gusokumuzu)
Nakano +
Shiina Natsukawa
Nanahira
Iori Noguchi (=LOVE)
Hanonchan
Hashimero
Shota Horie
Myuk
MIRI
METALVERSE
momosumomosu
Kairi Yagi
Rei Yasuda
Yuyoyuppe
Runaar
Reol
[Stories in the anthology]
・Q1 – ÆLIENS
・Q2 – 4649GIRL
・Q3 – NOCTURN: EN CETTE NUIT GROTESQUE
© ATSUSHI NISHIGORI, CloverWorks/Project GTQ
“PSYREN” TV anime new teaser PV revealed!
Katsumi Ono is directing the anime at SATELIGHT for an October 2026 debut.
© Toshiaki Iwashiro,Shueisha/PSYREN Secret Society
MAPPA 15th Anniversary key visual project vol.2:
Attack on Titan Final Season
・Layout: Yuichiro Hayashi
・Illustration: Tomohiro Kishi
・Digital Paint: Iku Onishi
・Background Art: Yumena Ohama
・Composite: Yusuke Tannawa
There will be one more installment in this key visual project.
© Hajime Isayama, KODANSHA/“ATTACK ON TITAN” The Final Season Production Committee.
“Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-” Season 4 Recapture arc visual unveiled!
Today’s broadcast concluded the 11-episode Loss arc. The next two weeks will be special programs.
Season 4 returns on August 12 [Wed] with the 8-episode Recapture arc releasing weekly.
© Tappei Nagatsuki,KADOKAWA/Re:ZERO4 PARTNERS
Crunchyroll‘s Summer 2026 lineup so far (excluding continuing):
[Subbed & Dubbed (English) × 15]
・BLACK TORCH
・Bungo Stray Dogs WAN! 2
・Clevatess Season 2
・Hana-Kimi Season 2
・Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life
・Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia
・KAIJU GIRL CARAMELISE
・Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3
・Saga of Tanya the Evil Season 2
・Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2
・The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
・Though I Am an Inept Villainess
・Tomb Raider King
・Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs Season 2
・You and I Are Polar Opposites Season 2
[Subbed × 26]
・Anime AzurLane: Slow Ahead! Season 2
・Dara-san of Reiwa
・From Overshadowed to Overpowered: Second Reincarnation of a Talentless Sage
・Goodbye, Lara
・GROW UP SHOW -Sunflower Circus-
・Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!
・I Became a Legend after My 10 Year-Long Last Stand
・I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
・Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky
・Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance
・Mebius Dust
・Oh Boy, Was I Wrong About Her
・Rich Girl Caretaker: I’m Secretly the Caregiver of the Most Popular Girl in This Rich Kid School
・Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
・Sorry About My Little Brothers
・The Cat and the Dragon
・The Duke’s Son Claims He Won’t Love Me Yet Showers Me with Adoration
・The Elusive Samurai Season 2
・The Insipid Prince’s Furtive Grab for the Throne
・The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power
・The Ogre’s Bride
・The Villager of Level 999
・The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker
・Victoria of Many Faces
・Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers Cour 2
・Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games
“The Beginning After the End” did not air today due to a scheduling conflict related to coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026.
Season 2 episode 12 releases next Wednesday, June 24.
© TBATE Anime Production Committee
The new “Sgt. Frog” movie is listed with a length of 1 hour and 49 minutes.
Directed by Fumitoshi Oizaki at BN Pictures and produced to commemorate the anime’s 20th Anniversary, the new movie releases theatrically in Japan next Friday, June 26.
ICYMI: “Sgt. Frog” is also receiving a new TV anime this fall with an all-new Japanese voice cast.
© Mine Yoshizaki/KADOKAWA, KERORO THE MOVIE Committee
“Babies of Bread” stop-motion TV anime new PV revealed!
Haruka Ichikawa is writing and directing the series for a July 4 [Sat] debut.
[Voice cast (※character names omitted)]
Yura Ruka (Nankyoku)
Riko Takayama
Nagiko Tsuji
SANTENA (SUSHIBOYS)
Chika Tanabe (Borujuku)
Takuya Koyama (Yabai T-Shirts Yasan)
Takayuki Yamada
Shiori Doi
Maki Takahashi
Yusuke Iwasaki
KOPERU (UMEDA CYPHER)
© CHOCOLATE/PAN AKA COMMITTEE
