Fate/strange Fake Anime Reveals Tsubaki Kuruoka Visual and Cast

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During the Fate/strange Fake KPF2025 Stage event, Aniplex and Type-Moon revealed a new key visual for character Tsubaki Kuruoka. In the upcoming Fate/strange Fake episode, Tsubaki Kuruoka will be voiced by Aoi Koga in Japanese and Kimberley Anne Campbell in English.

Fate/strange Fake
©Ryohgo Narita・TYPE-MOON/KADOKAWA/FSFPC

The Fate/strange Fake anime continues on January 3, 2026 with episode 2, which was delayed from its original 2025 release and run. The anime’s new opening theme song is “Provant” by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk], Jean-Ken Johnny (MAN WITH A MISSION), and TAKUMA (10-FEET).

The anime’s Japanese cast includes:

Cast
  • Ayaka Sajyou: Kana Hanazawa
  • Saber: Yuki Ono
  • Tiné Chelc: Sumire Morohoshi
  • Archer: Tomokazu Seki
  • Lancer: Yu Kobayashi
  • Tsubaki Kuruoka: Aoi Koga
  • Orlando Reeve: Wataru Hatano
  • Caster: Showtaro Morikubo
  • Flat Escardos: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
  • Berserker: Kenyu Horiuchi
  • Jester Karture: Tatsumaru Tachibana
  • Assassin: Lynn
  • Francesca Prelati: Maaya Uchida
  • Faldeus Dioland: Junya Enoki
  • Lord El-Melloi II: Daisuke Namikawa
  • Langal: Shunsuke Sakuya
  • Hansa Cervantes: Katsuyuki Konishi
  • Flat: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
  • Sigma: Gakuto Kajiwara
  • Francesca Prelati: Maaya Uchida

The anime’s staff includes:

Staff
  • Original Story: Ryohgo Narita, TYPE-MOON “Fate/strange Fake” (Dengeki Bunko)
  • Original Character Design: Shizuki Morii
  • Directors: Shun Enokido, Takahito Sakazume
  • Screenplay: Daisuke Ohigashi
  • Character Design & Chief Animation Director: Yukei Yamada
  • Art Director: Ayu Seiki
  • Color Setting: Takahiro Mogi
  • CG Director: Shinichi Miyakaze (GRAPHINICA)
  • Director of Photography: Yohei Miyawaki
  • Editing: Yuji Kondo (REAL-T)
  • Sound Director: Masaki Tsuchiya
  • Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
  • Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
  • Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

Crunchyroll will continue to stream the Fate/strange Fake anime with episode 2 “Ensemble VS Pretense” with English subs and dubs. Currently, the Fate/strange Fake Whispers of Dawn special and the first episode are streaming on the platform.  

What’s more, Fate/EXTRA Record, a remake of the original Fate/EXTRA, will launch in spring 2026 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam. One of the key characters in this remake is Arcueid Brunestud, the main heroine of Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-.

Killed Again, Mr. Detective? is Getting a New Anime Series

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During MF Bunko J’s Fall School Festival 2025 livestream, Kadokawa announced a TV anime adaptation of Teniwoha and Riichu’s Killed Again, Mr. Detective? (Mata Korosarete Shimatta no desu ne, Tantei-sama) light novel series will premiere in April 2026. The TV anime series will air on the TBS channel in Japan.

The cast of Killed Again, Mr. Detective? includes Rikuya Yasuda as Sakuya Outsuki and Shion Wakayama as Lilithea.

Kadokawa launched the novel series with the first volume in August 2021, and the sixth volume will release on November 25. Inaba launched a manga adaptation of Killed Again, Mr. Detective? on Kadokawa’s Dra Dra Flat website in July 2022, and the manga ran until the second compiled book volume in March 2024. Yen Press published the manga’s first volume in English on August 26, and the second volume follows up on January 20, 2026.

Lastly, here’s a story synopsis of the manga adaptation, via Yen Press:

Sakuya Otsuki is the son of a legendary detective, working to follow in his father’s footsteps with his assistant, Lilithea. However, something’s different about this high-school sleuth. Wherever he goes, he always manages to get himself entangled in his cases—as a murder victim! When Sakuya is tasked to infiltrate a luxury cruise ship, he finds himself killed once again. But every time he reopens his eyes, Lilithea is there by his side, ready to help him get to the bottom of the mystery…

Re:ZERO Starting Life in Another World Season 4 Premieres in April 2026

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Re:ZERO Starting Life in Another World Season 4

Kadokawa has announced that Re:ZERO Starting Life in Another World Season 4 will premiere in April 2026. A new key visual, cast member, and promotional video for Re:ZERO Starting Life in Another World Season 4 were also revealed.

Re:ZERO Starting Life in Another World Season 4
©長月達平・株式会社KADOKAWA刊／Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活4製作委員会

Tomokazu Sugita joins the cast of the fourth season as Reid Astrea. The cast also includes Kengo Kawanishi as Roy Alphard, Konomi Kohara as Rui Arneb, and Fairouz Ai as Shaula.

The Re:ZERO Starting Life in Another World Season 4 staff includes:

  • Director: Masahiro Shinohara
  • Series Script Supervisor: Masahiro Yokotani
  • Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Haruka Sagawa
  • Monster Design: Keitaro Chiba
  • Prop Design: Goichi Iwahata and Noritaka Suzuki
  • Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki (BIHO)
  • Art Director: Ryōka Kinoshita (BIHO)
  • Color Key Artist: Izumi Sakamoto
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Miori Miyagi (T2 Studio)
  • 3D Director: Kentarō Ijima (Felix Film)
  • Editing: Hitomi Sudō (REAL-T)
  • Music: Kenichiro Suehiro
  • Music Production: Kadokawa
  • Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
  • Sound Production: Magic Capsule
  • Animation Production: WHITE FOX

Re:ZERO Season 3 was split into two cours, with the first airing in October 2024 and the second in February 2025. A total of 16 episodes were included as part of Season 3. What’s more, all three seasons of Re:ZERO are available to stream on Crunchyroll. Re:ZERO Season 4 will stream on Crunchyroll when it premieres in April 2026.

Lastly, Crunchyroll describes the anime series as follows:

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he’s lost and confused in a new world where he doesn’t even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she’s looking for…

A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans Anime Reveals Cast Members and Theme Songs

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A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans anime series

Kadokawa has announced new cast members and the theme song artists for the TV anime adaptation of VTuber Kurusu Natsume’s A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans (Jingai Kyōshitsu no Ningen-girai Kyōshi: Hitoma-sensei, Watashi-tachi ni Ningen o Oshiete Kuremasu ka……?) light novel series, which will premiere in January 2026.

New cast members for the A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans anime include:

  • Manami Numakura as Karin Ryuzaki
  • Misato Fukuen as Machi Nezu
  • Reina Ueda as Neneko Kurosawa
  • Yui Ishikawa as Aoi Wakaba
  • Yui Horie as Maki Okonogi

Masayoshi Ōishi performs the opening theme song “Ningen (Human).” Kyōka Minazuki (voiced by Sora Amamiya), Isaki Ōgami (voiced by Saori Ōnishi), Sui Usami (voiced by Maria Naganawa), and Tobari Haneda (voiced by Rui Tanabe) perform the ending theme song “Ningen Come True.”

©来栖夏芽/KADOKAWA/不知火高校製作委員会

The anime’s cast includes:

  • Toshiki Masuda as Rei Hitoma
  • Sora Amamiya as Kyōka Minazuki
  • Saori Ōnishi as Isaki Ōgami
  • Maria Naganawa as Sui Usami
  • Rui Tanabe as Tobari Haneda

Akira Iwanaga directs the anime at studio asread. Katsuhiko Takayama is in charge of series scripts, and Maiko Okada is designing the characters.

Additional staff members include:

  • Sub-Character Designers: Hidetsugu Hirayama, Kanako Watanabe, Chika Kojima
  • Art Director: Yoh Fujisawa
  • Color Key Artist: Chisato Shioda
  • Prop Design: Hara Yoshikazu
  • Art Setting: Junko Nagasawa
  • 3D Director: Yūta Nagaoka
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Kenji Takehara
  • Editing: Junichi Itou
  • Sound Director: Tomohiko Yaginuma
  • Sound Production: Zack Promotion
  • Music: Makoto Miyazaki
  • Music Production: Pony Canyon

Here’s a synopsis of the light novel series, via Yen Press:

I’m Rei Hitoma, a self-professed misanthrope, thanks to some past trauma. Just when I thought my new teaching job in the mountains would provide a chill, rejuvenating environment, it turns out that this school is actually for demi-humans who want to become full-fledged human beings! There’s a mermaid, a werewolf, a rabbit, and a bird…all of whom are now my charges. It’s my duty to teach them about humankind—and maybe in the process, I’ll learn a few things myself. This isn’t an alternate world or a case of reincarnation. It’s just the story of a teacher at a somewhat peculiar school, and his students who are striving to become human.

Sasaki and Peeps Season 2 Premieres in 2026, New Key Visual Revealed

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Sasaki and Peeps Season 2

Kadokawa has announced that Sasaki and Peeps Season 2 will premiere in 2026, and a new key visual for the anime was unveiled during the MF Bunko J’s Fall School Festival 2025 livestream. More details about Sasaki and Peeps Season 2 will be revealed at a later date.

Sasaki and Peeps Season 2 key visual
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Mirai Minato directed the anime’s first season at SILVER LINK. Deko Akao wrote and oversaw the series scripts, and Saori Nakashiki was the character designer.

The anime’s cast includes:

  • Tomokazu Sugita as Sasaki
  • Aoi Yūki as Pii-chan/Peeps
  • Rie Takahashi as Hoshizaki
  • Akari Kitō as Otonari-san
  • Miyu Tomita as Elsa
  • Inori Minase as Magical Pink
  • Ryōtarō Okiayu as as Akutsu
  • Naomi Ōzora as Shizuka Futari
  • Hiroki Yasumoto as Viscount Mueller
  • Jun Fukuyama as Prince Adonis
  • Daisuke Namikawa as French
  • Mitsuo Iwata as Marc
  • Tesshō Genda as Sebastian
  • Mutsumi Tamura as Abaddon

Sasaki and Peeps is a light novel series initially written in 2018 by Buncololi with illustrations by Kantoku. The first season of Sasaki and Peeps is currently streaming on Crunchyroll with English subtitles and an English dub.

Lastly, Yen Press currently publishes the novel series and describes it as follows:

SWORDS AND SORCERY! PSYCHIC BATTLES?! MAGICAL GIRLS?!?! Tired and unfulfilled by his dead-end job, Sasaki decides to adopt Peeps, an adorable pet Java sparrow. Peeps, however, is really Piercarlo, a powerful sage from another world! After Peeps bestows Sasaki with magic and the ability to cross worlds, the two decide to export household items for profit in pursuit of a leisurely lifestyle. But when Sasaki’s new magic gets him mixed up in a whole other kind of supernatural struggle back in Japan, will it destroy his chances at realizing the relaxing life of his dreams?

SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Anime Premieres on January 7, 2026

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SHIBOYUGI Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table anime

During the MF Bunko J’s Fall School Festival 2025 livestream, Kadokawa announced the TV anime adaptation of Yūshi Ukai and Nekometal’s Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (Shibō Yūgi de Meshi o Kuu) light novel series will premiere on January 7, 2026 with the title SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table. A new promotional video, the opening theme song artist, and a new visual were also revealed.

SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table key visual
©鵜飼有志・ねこめたる/KADOKAWA/「死亡遊戯で飯を食う。」製作委員会

The first episode of SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table will premiere on January 7, 2026 at 11:00 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX, and it will be 60 minutes long. The second episode will premiere at 11:30 p.m. JST. What’s more, the anime will stream on Netflix and other streaming services in Japan.

The anime’s cast includes:

  • Chiyuki Miura as Yuuki
  • Rena Motomura as Aoi
  • Inori Minase as Kinko
  • Haruka Satō as Kokutō
  • Mutsumi Tamura as Beniya
  • Rina Kawaguchi as Momono

LIN from MADKID performs the opening theme song “¬Ersterbend” (Not Ersterbend).”

Sōta Ueno directs the anime at Studio DEEN. Rintarou Ikeda is in charge of series composition. Eri Osada is designing the characters, and Noriyoshi Konuma is the sound director.

Additional staff members include:

  • Concept Art: hewa
  • Color Design: Imari Katsuragi
  • Art Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
  • Director of Photography: Shinyo Kondō
  • Editing: Haruko Kikuchi
  • Sound Effects: Kaori Yamada
  • Music: Junichi Matsumoto
  • Music Production: Nippon Columbia

Yen Press publishes the light novel series in English and describes the story:

Yuuki wakes up to find herself wearing a maid’s uniform in a strange manor. After wandering into the dining room, she comes across five other girls, each in the exact same outfit. Soon, the girls learn that the manor is brimming with lethal weapons and an array of deadly traps…and that they can only escape by playing the most gruesome of games. As the terrifying truth sets in, each girl’s face goes pale—except Yuuki’s. Why? Because this isn’t her first go-round. That’s right—Yuuki is a professional death game player who lives off the prize money she collects from winning brutal killing competitions, and she’s not about to let this chance pass her by.

The Detective is Already Dead Season 2 Premieres in July 2026

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The Detective is Already Dead Season 2

During the MF Bunko J’s Fall School Festival 2025 event, Kadokawa announced that The Detective is Already Dead Season 2 will premiere in July 2026. A new trailer for the anime was released.

The cast of The Detective is Already Dead Season 2 includes:

  • Arata Nagai as Kimihiko Kimizuka
  • Saki Miyashita as Siesta
  • Ayana Taketatsu as Nagisa Natsunagi
  • Kanon Takao as Yui Saikawa
  • Saho Shirasu as Charlotte Arisaka Anderson

Manabu Kurihara will also return to direct the second season at ENGI. Deko Akao is again in charge of series scripts, and Yōsuke Itō is once again handling the character design.

©二語十・うみぼうず/KADOKAWA/たんもし2製作委員会

In November 2019, Nigojū and Umibōzu released The Detective is Already Dead under Kadokawa’s MF Bunko J imprint. The novel achieved massive success, winning the 15th MF Bunko J newcomer award in 2019.

The first season of The Detective is Already Dead premiered in 2021 and consisted of 12 episodes in total. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime series with English subtitles and an English dub. 

Lastly, here’s a description of The Detective is Already Dead series via Crunchyroll:

After thwarting a hijacking with beautiful, silver-haired detective Siesta, Kimihiko leads a life of globe-trotting and crime-solving—until Siesta dies. A year later, a new case will open old wounds as it threads murder, conspiracy, and his dead partner!

Classroom of the Elite Season 4 Premieres in April 2026

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Kadokawa has announced that Classroom of the Elite Season 4 will premiere in April 2026, and the anime’s cast and key visual were revealed.

Classroom of the Elite Season 4
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The cast of Classroom of the Elite Season 4 includes:

  • Shōya Chiba as Kiyotaka Ayanokōji
  • Akari Kitō as Suzune Horikita
  • Ayana Taketatsu as Kei Karuizawa
  • Yurika Kubo as Kikyō Kushida
  • Masaaki Mizunaka as Kakeru Ryūen
  • Nao Tōyama as Honami Ichinose
  • Rina Hidaka as Arisu Sakayanagi
  • Minako Satō as Tsubasa Nanase (new)
  • Hiroya Egashira as Kazuomi Hōsen (new)
  • Momoko Seto as Ichika Amasawa (new)
  • Shinnosuke Tokudome as Takuya Yagami (new)
  • Iori Saeki as Sakurako Tsubaki (new)
  • Shōgo Sakata as Riku Utsunomiya (new)

Noriyuki Nomata directs the fourth season at Larche, and Yasushi Shigenobu oversees and writes the series scripts with Kyōko Katsuya. Maki Kōno is the character designer, Satoki Iida is the sound director, and Masaru Yokoyama and Kana Hashiguchi are composing the music at Lantis.

Other staff members include:

  • Art Setting: Satoru Hirayanagi
  • Art Director: Hirofune Hane
  • Color Design: Mio Takekawa
  • CG Director: Tomohiro Hirayama
  • Director of Photography: Misato Sekiya
  • Editing: Yukie Oikawa
  • Sound Effects: Ijo Okuda

The anime will cover the first semester of the Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 light novels.

Crunchyroll describes the series as follows:

Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it’s said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school’s problem children.

What’s more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class.

One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school…

Girls und Panzer das Finale 5th Movie Premieres in 2026

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Girls und Panzer das Finale

Bandai Namco Filmworks has announced the fifth movie in the six-part Girls und Panzer das Finale film series will open in 2026 in Japan. A new teaser visual for the upcoming Girls und Panzer das Finale movie was revealed as well. 

Girls und Panzer das Finale 5th movie key visual
© GIRLS und PANZER Finale Projekt

Maruko Nii launched the Girls und Panzer manga in 2013 in Monthly Comic Alive. The manga’s 23rd volume will ship on March 22. The anime series began in October 2012 and aired for 12 episodes. The anime film adaptation, Girls und Panzer der Film, opened in November 2015 in Japan.

Fans can also look forward to the four Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! films, which open on December 26, January 30, March 6, and April 10, respectively, in theaters in Japan. ChouCho and Sayaka Sasaki perform the opening theme song “Nonstop Daydream,” while Mai Fuchigami as Miho Nishizumi perform the ending theme song “Oyasuminasai no Tsuzuki Desu! (The Continuation of Good Night!).”

Masami Shimoda directs the new Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! anime at P.A. Works and Actas. Takahiko Usui is the series director, and Noboru Kimura writes and oversees the series scripts. Humikane Shimada and Isao Sugimoto are the original character designers with help from Takeshi Nogami. Additionally, Sugimoto is the character designer for animation.

Other staff members include:

  • Chief Animation Directors: Kōsuke Kawazura, Yuki Akiyama, and Sayo Mizuno
  • Composer: Shirō Hamaguchi
  • Sound Director: Takayuki Yamaguchi
  • Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
  • Distribution: Showgate

The cast of Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! includes: 

  • Mai Fuchigami as Miho Nishizumi
  • Ai Kayano as Saori Takebe
  • Mami Ozaki as Hana Isuzu
  • Ikumi Nakagami as Yukari Akiyam
  • Yuka Iguchi as Mako Reizei

Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! Trailer Reveals Theme Songs for 1st Film

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Bandai Namco Filmworks has released a new trailer for the first movie in the four-part anime film adaptation of Maruko Nii’s Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! spinoff manga, revealing its theme songs. ChouCho and Sayaka Sasaki perform the opening theme song “Nonstop Daydream,” while Mai Fuchigami as Miho Nishizumi perform the ending theme song “Oyasuminasai no Tsuzuki Desu! (The Continuation of Good Night!).”

Girls und Panzer Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! key visual
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The four Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! films will open on December 26, January 30, March 6, and April 10, respectively, in theaters in Japan.

Masami Shimoda directs the new Girls und Panzer anime at P.A. Works and Actas. Takahiko Usui is the series director, and Noboru Kimura writes and oversees the series scripts. Humikane Shimada and Isao Sugimoto are the original character designers with help from Takeshi Nogami. Additionally, Sugimoto is the character designer for animation.

Other staff members include:

  • Chief Animation Directors: Kōsuke Kawazura, Yuki Akiyama, and Sayo Mizuno
  • Composer: Shirō Hamaguchi
  • Sound Director: Takayuki Yamaguchi
  • Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
  • Distribution: Showgate

The cast of Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! includes: 

  • Mai Fuchigami as Miho Nishizumi
  • Ai Kayano as Saori Takebe
  • Mami Ozaki as Hana Isuzu
  • Ikumi Nakagami as Yukari Akiyam
  • Yuka Iguchi as Mako Reizei

Maruko Nii launched the Girls und Panzer manga in 2013 in Monthly Comic Alive. The manga’s 23rd volume will ship on March 22. The anime series began in October 2012 and aired for 12 episodes. The anime film adaptation, Girls und Panzer der Film, opened in November 2015 in Japan.

World of Tanks previously collaborated with the Girls und Panzer anime series in a limited-time event. The event brought new content, including tanks, elite crews, and themed customizations. The event highlighted one of the largest and most prestigious schools of Sensha-Dō, St. Gloriana Girls’ College.

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