Catch-up guides

Premieres October 1, 2026 · Fall season

Catch up on The Apothecary Diaries before Season 3

Two seasons of poison tastings and palace politics, and an apothecary who keeps solving things she was told to leave alone. October 1 is the deadline.

46 days to go

Premieres October 2026 · Fall season

Black Clover Season 2, and the 170 episodes behind it

The show stopped in March 2021 on episode 170 and stayed stopped for five years. October restarts it at 171, and this is the road back.

Premieres October 2026 · Fall season

Twelve episodes to Reincarnated as a Sword Season 2

Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger in December 2022 and then the franchise went quiet for four years. The catch-up is small: one season, twelve episodes, nothing else in the way.

Premieres October 2026 · Fall season

The Detective Is Already Dead Season 2 ends a five-year silence

Season 1 aired in summer 2021 and then the trail went cold for five years. October ends the wait, and the prep list is twelve episodes. You can be current by Sunday night.

Premieres October 2, 2026 · Fall season

Three finished runs before Tokyo Revengers: War of the Three Titans

Fifty episodes, three finished runs, one delinquent who keeps going back to fix what he broke. October 2 is when the fourth begins.

48 days to go

Premieres October 4, 2026 · Fall season

Blue Box Season 2: the twenty-five episodes to watch first

One season stands between you and October 4. Twenty-five episodes of early practice, and one boy who cannot say the thing he wants to say.

49 days to go

Premieres January 2027 · Winter season

MASHLE Season 3 is the final exam. This is the homework.

A boy with no magic keeps punching his way through a magic school, and the last exam is the big one. Two seasons, 24 episodes, then January.

Premieres January 2027 · Winter season

Fifty episodes to Shangri-La Frontier 3rd Season

Two seasons, fifty episodes, and a player who picks the hardest possible way to play everything. That is all that stands between you and the new season.

Premieres January 2027 · Winter season

IruMafia Edition is a different Iruma. Here's where the school run stands.

Same Iruma, no school. A mafia boss adopts him, and the sweetest kid in anime has to run a crime family. It is an alternate take, not a season five, so none of this is homework: the demon school run just makes every familiar face hit harder when it walks in wearing a suit.

Premieres in 2027 · no month announced yet

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Season 2: a one-season catch-up

One 12-episode season stands between you and the sequel. That's the whole catch-up: no movies, no OVAs, nothing to skip.

Premieres in 2027 · no date announced yet

Two seasons of aliens and ghosts before DAN DA DAN Season 3

Two seasons, 24 episodes, one bet about aliens and ghosts that nobody wins. That is everything before Season 3.

Premieres in 2027 · exact window not announced

Back through the gate: what to watch before GATE 2: Tides of Conflict

Eleven years after a gate opened in the middle of Ginza, the story goes back through it and out to sea. Twenty-four episodes stand between you and the premiere.

Premieres sometime in 2027 · exact season not announced

The Laid-Back Camp watch order before Season 4

Three TV seasons, some shorts you can take or leave, and one movie that sits off to the side. Here is the order, and what you can skip without missing a thing.

Premieres in 2027 · exact window not announced yet

Lord of Mysteries Season 2: Faceless, and the specials before it

Thirteen episodes, three specials, and one comedy detour you can skip. That is the whole catch-up, and Faceless starts the moment it ends.

Airs sometime in 2027 · Second cour of Season 3

One-Punch Man Season 3 Part 2 restarts a raid. Start here.

Three seasons and a decade of buildup sit behind Part 2. This is the shortest honest path through them, and the parts worth slowing down for.

Premieres in 2027 · exact window not announced

The Dangers in My Heart Season 3: what to watch, what to skip

Twenty-five episodes, one bonus short you can skip, and a movie you can take or leave. The awkward opening turns a corner around episode four.

Premieres in 2027 · Season window not announced yet

The World's Finest Assassin Season 2 asks for twelve episodes

Twelve episodes, one long silence, and now a year on the calendar. Season 1 stopped right as the story named its real target, and the sequel brings back the same studio, director, and cast. The homework is short.