Crunchyroll revealed several acquisitions at its New York Comic Con 2025 industry panel alongside Oshi no Ko Season 3. These new acquisitions by Crunchyroll include Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, A Returner’s Magic Should be Special Season 2, A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, Kunon the Sorcerer Can See, and The Daily Life of a Single 29-Year-Old Adventurer, alongside the previously announced The Beginning After the End Season 2.
Get the full details below, via Crunchyroll:
Crunchyroll New York Comic Con 2025 Acquisitions
A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation
Release Date: January 2026
Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and Indian Subcontinent
Synopsis:
A brilliant noble travels from one isekai to another?! A heartwarming isekai adventure fantasy is finally getting a TV adaptation!
Lizel, a brilliant young chancellor of a great nation in a fantasy world, found himself transported to another world when he blinked while talking to his subordinate. Despite the sudden turn of events, he remains composed using his keen intellect to win people over. And with no certainty of even returning to his own world, he casually says:
“I suppose I’ll think of this as a vacation and enjoy myself.”
Lizel decides to become an adventurer himself and fully enjoy life in this other world with Gil, a top-ranked adventurer who doesn’t follow or bow to anyone as his partner. The laid-back isekai adventure fantasy of Lizel, the carefree noble, and Gil, the lone wolf, is about to begin!
A Returner’s Magic Should be Special Season 2
Release Date: 2026
Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and Indian Subcontinent
Season 1 synopsis:
In a land dominated by the formidable Shadow Worlds, most of humanity has been destroyed. To rescue their planet from impending doom, six brave heroes fight a perilous battle…and fail. But there’s a glimpse of hope when Desir, one of the last mages, is suddenly sent back in time 13 years! Now armed with knowledge of the grim future, can he alter the course of history and save the world?
Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter
Release Date: January 2026
Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and Indian Subcontinent
Synopsis:
Seiichirou Kondou, a salaryman approaching his 30s, gets caught up in a holy maiden summoning ritual and is transported to a parallel world called Romany Kingdom. Having worked day and night, he developed the mindset of a corporate slave and even demanded work in this new world, which landed him an accounting job at the Royal Accounting Department.
During his hectic days rebuilding the accounting department, Seiichirou came across a nutritional tonic that wiped away any fatigue. Thanks to the tonic, Seiichirou’s chronic ailments and exhaustion completely disappeared, leaving him overjoyed. But because he had no resistance to the world’s magic, the side effects put his life in danger!
The only way to survive was to have someone with magic help accustom his body to magical energy, so with no other choice Seiichirou entrusts himself to Aresh, captain of the Third Royal Order, known as the Ice Prince.
The bestselling isekai BL series with over 1.4 million copies sold is finally getting a TV anime adaptation!
Kunon the Sorcerer Can See
Release Date: Coming Soon to Crunchyroll
Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and India
Synopsis:
Kunon, a young man who cannot see, has the goal of creating new eyes with water magic. After just five months of learning sorcery, Kunon surpassed his own mentor and honed his talent as he tried to do a feat that’s never been done before. A fantasy about a young man, a blind genius, who opens up the world through curiosity in the pursuit for magic is about to begin.
The Daily Life of a Single 29-Year-Old Adventurer
Release Date: January 2026
Territories: Worldwide, excluding Japan and China
Synopsis:
Having spent his childhood in the slums, Hajime Shinonome desperately sought strength to survive.
Now, he enjoys a peaceful and carefree life as a resident adventurer of the Komai Village.
One day, during a quest, he ventured into a dungeon and finds a young girl being partially eaten by a weakest kind of monster, a slime!
The girl’s name was Lirui. Having been abandoned by her parents, she had no place to go and entered the dungeon alone in order to stay alive. Hajime couldn’t just leave her there, so he took her back to the village to live with him!
The Beginning After the End Season 2
Release Date: April 2026
Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia
Synopsis:
After a mysterious death, King Grey is reborn as Arthur Leywin on the magical continent of Dicathen. Although he enters his second life as a baby, his previous wisdom remains. He begins to master magic and forge his own path as the years go by, seeking to correct the mistakes of his past life.
