Seasonal Anime You Want to Watch in 2026

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As it's now January and another new year, are there some seasonal anime that'll be airing this month that you may want to watch? Of course there will be more seasonal anime airing this year, so I'll make some more posts once the Spring, Summer & Fall anime airs later on during this year.

For Winter 2026 seasonal anime that I might watch, these are some that I may watch, though I don't know if it's I'll end up watching all of them when they air:

A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans
Champignon Witch
Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!!
The Daily Life of a Single 29-Year-Old Adventurer
Tune In to the Midnight Heart
Wash It All Away
You and I Are Polar Opposites
You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!
* and maybe some others if there's any others that look interesting to me.

 

[gastd]

Jujutsu Kaisen (Season 3)
Frieren Beyond Journey's End (Season 2)
Oshi no Ko (Season 3)
Hell's Paradise (Season 2)

 

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Winter 2026:

Jujutsu Kaisen s3.
Oshi no Ko s3 (hate watch).
Jigokuraku s2.
Golden Kamuy s5.
Mayonaka Heart Tune.
Medalist s2.
Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka.
Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai.
Jingai Kyoushitsu no Ningengirai Kyoushi.

Spring 2026:
Re:Zero s4.
Classroom of the elite s4.
Otonari no tenshi s2.
Hime Kishi wa Barbaroi no Yome.
MARRIAGETOXIN.
MAO.
Hidarikiki no Eren.


Don't have much info on Summer and no info on Fall, so far, nothing from summer catches my eye. I might drop a few depending on how boring they end up being, which is always a high possibility with new anime.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Watching anime is like gaming for me. I watch whatever it is that tickles my fancy at that moment and I tend to binge watch a whole freaking season on one sitting.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Only anime I'm interested in this year is that new Ghost in The Shell being done by Science Saru. I don't think it's got a confirmed airdate yet, but it's the only thing I'll definitely be watching unless I see something else that catches my eye.

 

[Elwiwi]

Just watch frieren and every frame with maki on jujutsu

 

[afureru]

Mainly Jaduugar (Witch in Mongolia), Monster wants to Eat Me and Magical Sisters Lulutto Lily. These days, the front pages of anime tend to be quite oversaturated, so I usually pick up whatever random things interest me in the moment. At least for the foreseeable future, Precure's always gonna air.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Hell Teacher Nube
Frieren
And old stuff I'm planning to watch
Megaton Musashi
Tales of Phantasia Ova
And whatever piques my interest I guess.

 

[Pearly]

Only anime I'm interested in this year is that new Ghost in The Shell being done by Science Saru. I don't think it's got a confirmed airdate yet, but it's the only thing I'll definitely be watching unless I see something else that catches my eye.

I've been waiting too long to have manga major be adapted, we got her in the ps1 game and that gives it so much charm

It's going to remind me so much of the dominion tank police anime and the Appleseed OVA. It's gonna be perfect.

My anime of this season I am looking forward to is:

Frieren (cannot be understated how brilliant frieren is, watch it if you haven't, it's awesome)

Mato sehei no slave (chained soldier) season 2, seems like a humorous ecchi but but then the awesome lore drops and world building are all established and it gets props for having no business being that good. It's actually become one of shonen jumps bigger series as Kyouka was actually placed alongside all the other big jump characters in a poster last year, it's odd seeing an ecchi character alongside Goku but here we are.

The ghost in the shell from science saru has 2026 as a release date, it could suddenly release at the end of spring, who knows. We needed this as it was never adapted in the same way dominion, black magic and appleseed was adapted. We got stuck with constant variations of the characters as presented in Oshii's 95 movie, while great and very much a masterpiece, is very different from the source material outside of adapting the final story in the original manga(puppet master plotline) but that it altered the characters to have none of the humour or charm that they have in the manga. There was also licensing issues as the fuchikoma was only in the original manga and the ps1 game, being changed to a legally distinct blue tachikoma. This series will cause an uproar in the stand alone complex apologists and I'm here for it