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Crunchyroll Summer 2026 Lineup: Every Anime Coming This Season

With the Summer 2026 season in full swing, Crunchyroll has announced its lineup of what will be premiering. The Summer 2026 lineup consists of new shows, OVAs, special episodes, along with returning favorites and more. Here is what is coming to the streaming platform this summer.

The lineup includes the premiere of new shows along with the return of familiar works. Also included during the premiere will be both the subbed and dubbed versions of most series.

Here is a quick breakdown of the Summer 2026 lineup from Crunchyroll:

Late June

Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!: Melody may be the saint destined to save the world, but all she wants is to become the perfect maid.

From Overshadowed to Overpowered: Second Reincarnation of a Talentless Sage – The great sage Ephtal dies in despair after failing to reach the peak of magic. 400 years later, he’s reborn with all his memories and power intact in a world where magic has decayed, and ancient spells are treated as miracles.

The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power: Plain Carolina is married off to a “cruel” prince and learns neither of them is quite as rumored.

July 1st

​Hana-Kimi (Season 2) Two-episode premiere: Mizuki Ashiya is back for another year of posing as a boy at a male boarding school for one noble reason: to meet her idol, Sano. Only now, Sano’s in on her secret, and keeping it to himself, which makes matters more complicated when Nakatsu develops a crush on Mizuki.

The Villager of Level 999: In Earthclear, everyone is born into a fixed role, and villagers are the weakest of all. Most never rise above Level 5, except Koji Kagami, who is Level…999?!

July 2nd

Dara-san of Reiwa: After venturing into a treacherous mountain forest, siblings Hinata and Kaoru meet a terrifying serpent god and become besties. Despite her initially scary appearance, the self-named “god of misfortune” is awkward, lonely, and surprisingly easy to talk to.

KAIJU GIRL CARAMELISE: Kuroe Akaishi just wants a normal high school life, but that’s impossible with a rare condition that turns her into a giant kaiju whenever her emotions spike. Things get even worse when she falls for Arata Minami, the most popular boy in class.

Bungo Stray Dogs WAN! 2: The Bungo Stray Dogs are back in adorable chibi form as the Armed Detective Agency and Port Mafia go into absurd, deadly battle.

The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System: Born into a prestigious family of master swordsmen, Elymas Edvaughn’s future shatters when he awakens the “defective” Heavy Knight class. Disowned and cast out, he regains memories of another life and realizes this world mirrors a VR game he once mastered.

July 3rd

Sorry About My Little Brothers: Ito Narita is a high school sophomore who must live with a new family after her mother remarries. After moving in, Ito learns her stepfather has four sons and she struggles to get along with them.

I Became a Legend after My 10 Year-Long Last Stand: An S-rank mage in the hero’s party makes a last stand against the Demon King to save his companions. When he finally returns victorious, ten years have passed, and the world praises him as a legendary hero who died in battle. Unable to reclaim his former life, begins again as an F-rank adventurer.

July 4th

BLACK TORCH: When Jiro meets the mononoke cat Rago, the worlds of humans and spectral beings collide.

Jaadugar A Witch in Mongolia: After losing her mother and her homeland, Sitara’s despair transforms into determination with the power of knowledge. New possibilities unfold when a family of scholars takes her in, deepening her education.

Skeleton Knight in Another World (Season 2): After waking to find he’s become a Skeleton Knight in his favorite fantasy video game, Arc, Ariane, Chiyome, and Ponta band together to take on evil. Before Arc’s search for a cure to his skeletal condition continues, he must face a dogmatic leader to free oppressed elves and beasts.

The Cat and the Dragon: An orphaned dragon is unexpectedly taken in by a family of magic wielding cats and becomes their protector.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance: 30 years after an alien invasion, Shiina Kuze joins the fight to protect her sister and save humanity.

The Ogre’s Bride: Neglected her whole life, an ordinary girl’s fate changes when a handsome monster claims her as his bride.

GROW UP SHOW -Sunflower Circus-: Mizuka joins a struggling circus troupe and helps chase glory beneath the big top.

The Duke’s Son Claims He Won’t Love Me Yet Showers Me with Adoration: Elsa, the daughter of a fallen aristocrat, receives news of a marriage proposal from Julius, an elite nobleman. After the wedding, he goes from kind and gentle to cold.

Rich Girl Caretaker: I’m Secretly the Caregiver of the Most Popular Girl in This Rich Kid School: Hinako Konohana is the perfect young lady… or so everyone thinks. Behind closed doors, she’s a total disaster who can’t handle basic chores.

July 5th

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Season 3): When a 34 year-old underachiever gets run over by a truck, his story doesn’t end there. Reincarnated in a new world as an infant, Rudy will seize every opportunity to live the life he’s always wanted.

You and I Are Polar Opposites (Season 2): Suzuki’s a high school girl in love, but the guy she’s fallen for is nothing like her. She’s cheerful, outgoing, and always trying to fit in. Her crush, Yusuke Tani, is stoic, quiet, and doesn’t seem to care what people think of him.

Goodbye, Lara: Once upon a time, a mermaid princess named Lara fell in love with a human prince. To be with him, she used a witch’s potion to become human, but the magic came at a cost. If she failed to find true love, she would vanish into sea foam forever.

AzurLane: Slow Ahead! (Season 2): A lively and enjoyable school life for girls from different factions will begin at the naval port of Azur Lane.

The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Corporate slave Arihito Atobe’s death in a freak bus accident marks the beginning of his new life as a kind of adventurer called a Seeker. Reborn into a fantasy world, he settles into a previously unknown job class called rearguard, capable of providing critical support.

July 6th

Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky: Kakeru Sorano, a quiet university freshman who avoids others, meets Koharu Fuyutsuki, a blind girl who faces the world with quiet brightness. As they grow closer through small moments and shared loneliness, he searches for a way to make her wish come true.

The Insipid Prince’s Furtive Grab for the Throne: Arnold is a lethargic prince who is ridiculed by the entire empire as an “insipid” runner. But in fact, he is the most powerful prince with a secret identity as Silver, an SS-grade adventurer who manipulates forbidden ancient magic.

July 7th

Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers: When the seal of the Demon Realm shatters, demon soldiers surge into the Human World, tearing through everything in their path. Five young warriors rise to meet the invasion, summoning their legendary armor and charging headfirst into battle.

Victoria of Many Faces: Betrayed by her own organization, Chloe flees her life as a spy and starts over under the new identity of Victoria in the Kingdom of Ashberry. Victoria wants a simple civilian life, but the locals have other plans, becoming enmeshed with an abandoned girl and a knight.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day: At a secret academy where orphaned girls are raised as weapons, death is routine and grief is forbidden. Sheena, a 14 year old who questions this brutal life, meets Mimi, a mysterious, blood-soaked girl who refuses to break.

Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games: Mitsuki Aya has one goal at the elite Kuromi Girls’ Academy, to become a refined young lady like the school’s flawless “White Lily,” Yorue Mio. But her image of Mio shatters when Aya accidentally catches her…playing fighting games. Turns out, the Mio is actually a hardcore gamer.

July 8th

Clevatess (Season 2): One of the Lords of Dark Beasts, Clevatess’s reign shatters when he revives a hero he personally slayed and adopts as an orphaned humanoid baby.

Tomb Raider King: Chaos ensues when mysterious tombs suddenly surface, filled with divine relics granting overwhelming power. This triggers a global power struggle to claim them for dominion. Among the havoc, a raider, Goriki Ryoga, is betrayed and left for dead until a second chance brings him back years before the relics appeared.

Saga of Tanya the Evil (Season 2): Tanya Degurechaff heads back to the battlefield in the latest season of Saga of Tanya the Evil.

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Season 2): Selfish office worker Leon has a problem. He’s just been thrust into an otome world, where men are treated as little more than animals. Competing for the attention of women against other handsome suitors is not his idea of fun, especially when all he wants is to relax.

July 9th

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You: Sasaki is an overworked salaryman drifting through the corporate grind, sustained by cigarettes and the cheerful service and smile of Yamada, the clerk at his favorite supermarket.

MEBIUS DUST: Araki, Stella, and Olga are ordinary high schoolers living in a city shaped by the mysterious Mebius Dust. Their days pass peacefully, yet strange technology and rising unrest begin to quietly distort their everyday lives.

July 11th

Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life: A Demon King reduced to a shut-in NEET, Ryusei Narukami’s second life is anything but peaceful. When Meteor Hanaori, the Hero who once defeated him, suddenly returns as a normal high school girl, his world is thrown into chaos.

July 12th

Though I Am an Inept Villainess: After a body swap, Reirin must survive court intrigue and clear a villainess’s name.

August 12th

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 4, Part 2): In the deadly battle at Priestella, Subaru and his allies emerged victorious, but at great cost. As Subaru searches for a way to save Rem, Crusch, and Julius, he learns of the “wise woman” who possesses every form of knowledge.

TBD

The Elusive Samurai (Season 2): In the year 1333, the Kamakura shogunate government came crumbling down when Ashikaga Takauji organized a rebellion. Hojo Tokiyuki, the rightful heir, escapes the massacre with a Shinto priest named Suwa Yorisige to Kamakura while setting in motion his plan to reclaim his birthright.

Oh Boy, Was I Wrong About Her: Seven years after making a childhood promise to always be friends, Hayato is reunited with his formerly tomboyish pal Haruki at a city high school. However, Haruki has transformed into the girl every guy dreams about.

More to Come in 2026

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