Crunchyroll picks up more seasons of all your anime faves like Fire Force, Dr Stone, Apothecary Diaries and more
You’ll have plenty to add to your watchlist.
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If you’ve been wondering where you’ll be able to stream some of the most popular upcoming anime, Crunchyroll has acquired a bevy of series just for you.
It was Anime Expo over the weekend, which featured plenty of big announcements like the US release date for My Hero Academia: You’re Next , as well as a brand new Bleach game . Crunchyroll too had plenty of announcements to share, specifically about a whole bunch of sequel seasons of your favourite anime, as well as some new ones. For starters, this October will see the return of the intense football anime Blue Lock with its second season - it even has a trailer to go along with the announcement. Demon Lord, Retry! R will also be arriving the same month, a continuation of the isekai MMO anime.
Following that, in January 2025, Crunchyroll will be streaming Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You, a series that follows “Mizuha, a high school second-year [who] is having the worst seventeenth birthday ever. She’s missing her chance to get close to the older student she admires, and her parents didn’t even remember that it’s her birthday. Worst of all, there’s a new and unknown infectious disease making the rounds, so all her club tournaments and school trips have been canceled.”
Later that year, in April 2025, Fire Force will be wrapping with its third and final season as a split-cour, so you’ll have to wait a little while longer for this one. A trailer was released for the new season , which doesn’t show all that much, but hopefully it will get you excited for the last season. 2025 will continue to be quite a big one, as The Apothecary Diaries season 2 will also stream on Crunchyroll - you can watch the trailer for this one here . Lastly, this one doesn’t have a release date just yet, but Dr. Stone Science Future will also be coming to the anime streaming service, though details are slimmer on this one. Safe to say, Crunchyroll will continue to have plenty on offer over the next year.
As the manga approaches its end, My Hero Academia: You’re Next finally locks in a US release date
No word on a release date for Europe though.
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My Hero Academia : You’re Next is out next month in Japan, and those of you in the US will only have to wait a couple of months to check it out.
It’s a bit of a big year for My Hero Academia. Season 7 continues to bring the series towards its dramatic end, though it’s still got a little while left to go, and creator Kohei Horikoshi even confirmed that the manga will finally be coming to an end this coming August . It’s quite good timing too, as there’s also a new film on the way, My Hero Academia: You’re Next, which is set to arrive in Japanese theatres August 2. News of a US release has been a bit quiet though, as is typical of most anime movies, but over the weekend during its panel at Anime Expo, Toho Animation confirmed that the upcoming film will be coming to the US just a couple of months after its Japanese release on October 11, later this year.
Traditionally a lot of film adaptations of popular manga aren’t canon to the main story, and while there’s been a growing trend to release films as stop gaps between seasons like with Demon Slayer: Mugen Train and the upcoming Chainsaw Man movie, You’re Next won’t be required viewing for whenever season 8 eventually rolls around. It is set roughly around where the anime is currently, at a time where villains are running wild, where a giant fortress turns up that starts kidnapping people. Things are complicated further by the presence of an evil All Might imitator, but what his whole deal is is yet to be revealed.
My Hero Academia isn’t the only manga set to end this year, as Jujutsu Kaisen is (probably) going to wrap things up too - though, its creator Gege Akutami did recently have to take some time off due to illness, so maybe Shonen Jump will be hanging on to one of its biggest titles a bit longer.
