Fall Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2026, Week 39]
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Fall season is rapidly approaching! It’s time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn’t. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social.
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Alright, going over the list for next season, here are my takes:
Definitely try to watch
Watch if time allows
Other notes
I’ll definitely be watching Apothecary Diaries season 3, The Ramparts of Ice, and Blue Box season 2. I might give Rayearth a try as well, since I’ll likely have the time. Nothing else has caught my eye, but we’ll see if I think any different once these shows actually release and I’ve watched a review or two.
Definitely watching
Probably watching
Will try, but they start in the drop zone (I don’t request threads for these)
There’s also a bunch of movies, but I won’t be able to see them this season, so I guess I can skip that here
For what it’s worth, here is what I wrote about the first LN volume. TL;DR: don’t put too much hope into it.
LN impressions
One of those “somehow our entire fantasy society is based on skill ranks using earth terminology, but everyone thinks ‘S Rank’ is the worst because it’s so far down the alphabet, so I get left to die by my parents because that’s totally normal parenting behaviour, but it turns out S-Rank actually means it’s good!” type of stories. I’m groaning so much reading this; my neighbors started cheering for my stamina. There is a certain charm to it, though. It reminds me of the good old days before I stopped reading web novels for the lack of quality. This book here is riddled with so many logical and temporal errors that it should never have reached the point where it got picked up for publication and stayed in WN territory. It’s ridiculous, really. Like the editor just threw in the towel and said, “Yeah, whatever…just release it”.
The better Bocchi. There, I said it!.
I’ve got way too many different anime that I started watching but just didn’t bother keeping up with every week over the past few seasons, so I’m trying to be a bit more selective and not pick as much this season. Don’t really see too much new stuff that stands out though, maybe one or two, so I might end up only finishing the sequels that are airing. The main sequels being:
Aoashi S2 - Ended up liking the first season a lot more than expected, recently read the manga, and while there were later parts that felt like they dragged on a bit too much, I very much liked this one, S1 was definitely my pick for football anime of the year over Blue Lock, which really didn’t work for me when I first went into that.
Ao no Hako S2 - I’ve been keeping up with the manga since before S1 of the anime, so this one instantly went on my list as soon as it was announced. Bit curious about the studio that’s listed on it though, I’ve never been one to really pay attention to the studio that worked on an anime (though I’ve learned with GoHands), but I’m not sure what expectations to have for “Electric Circus” who doesn’t have any other anime listed on Anilist.
Koori no Jouheki S2 - Went into the first season blind, having considered reading the manga after I finished reading Seihantai na Kimi to Boku by the same author a few years ago, though I never got to it as it doesn’t have an official English release. Very different from Polar Opposites, but they’re both good in their own way.
Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita S2 - This is one of those “I guess I’ll give this a shot” ones that turned out to be much better that expected, even ended up buying some of the novels after finishing the first season, so looking forward to seeing more of Sword Dad and Fran.
There are a few more sequels I’m watching as well, but not anything that really stands out that I’m guaranteed not to drop.
Apothecary Diaries S3 is the only upcoming series I know I will watch – though I expect that, as usual, I’ll wait until the season is done before starting and then binge it.
GuP: Das Finale Part 5 also jumped out at me from the movies section of the link. I’ll probably watch that eventually – I liked the series and Der Film – but I still need to watch Parts 1~4.
For shows that aren’t current, I recently started watching season 1 of Ranma 1/2 – as in, the one from 1989. I saw a few bits and pieces of the show as a kid, but never saw it from the beginning.
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus for me, yep gotta watch this story again before they give us the new stuff lol
Planning to watch Steel Ball Run and FX Fighter Kurumi-chan
Nia Liston is fun. I hope the adaptation will be good.