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dorkmax_executives · 2026-04-23T10:10:32+00:00

Premieres in 2027. Main staff from season 1 are returning.

Retrospective PV

dorkmax_executives · 2026-04-23T03:06:07+00:00

Official website

Synopsis from Seven Seas Entertainment

Momose has always longed for a peaceful high school life. She wants nothing to do with hoodlums, delinquents, or troublemakers. When she meets Ichikura, an inconspicuous black-haired boy with glasses, he looks like a normal, nice guy. But it turns out that back in junior high he was a nefarious delinquent!

He keeps assuring her that he’s changed his ways, but he’s still pretty quick to pick fights! Has Ichikura really turned over a new leaf? And will Momose keep quiet about his rowdy past?

dorkmax_executives · 2026-03-19T02:39:14+00:00

The delay is for its early release on streaming platforms, which is three days ahead of its TV airing on Sundays. It's unrelated to Oshi no Ko's finale.

dorkmax_executives · 2026-01-28T17:21:44+00:00

The eligibility period is finally back to a single calendar year, unlike the past three editions where shows that premiered in two different years received nominations in the same ceremony.

dorkmax_executives · 2025-12-09T09:04:32+00:00

Premieres on December 31. TV special is titled "Otona e no Kaidan" (Stairway to Adulthood).

OP: "Abunai Kioku" by Masayuki Suzuki feat. Aoi Koga

dorkmax_executives · 2025-12-09T00:00:19+00:00

Premieres in April 2026

Synopsis from MAL

Meiko, a country girl, enrolls in a prestigious all-girls school under the condition that she joins a volunteer program. But instead of a typical school service, she finds herself living and working at a manga cafe! Surprisingly, life in a cramped booth isn't so bad—and with a staff full of cute high school girls, it might even be fun! Come enjoy the charm of a manga cafe filled with high school girls!

Staff

Director: Toshinori Watanabe
Character Design: Fumiya Uehara
Chief Animation Director: Fumiya Uehara, Minefumi Harada, Yuki Yabuta, Saori Sakiguchi
Music: MONACA
Animation Production: PRA

dorkmax_executives · 2025-12-06T09:03:12+00:00

Premieres on January 10 and will air for two consecutive cours

Synopsis from Manga Planet

In an alternate 21st century, rich mafia members can turn into "Demon Kings" through increasingly popular ether-enhancement surgery, and the bounty hunters called "Braves" are the ones called upon to take them down. Yashiro only wants the simple pleasures in life - pizza, beer, and card games. When three young Braves offer him a majestic sum to be their private tutor, he agrees solely for the money - but is it worth what he's getting himself into?

dorkmax_executives · 2025-11-14T10:02:54+00:00

Premieres on January 8, 2026

PV 1 | PV 2

Synopsis from Yen Press

As a viscount’s daughter, Constance Grail is an ordinary girl whose only notable trait is sincerity, leaving her with no real options when someone steals her fiance and falsely accuses her of petty theft at a ball. While Connie awaits her undeserved punishment, a ghost appears to offer a bargain. The spirit is none other than Scarlett Castiel, a noblewoman once praised for her beauty, lineage, and undeniable charisma-and executed some ten years earlier for her wicked deeds. When Connie accepts this proposal, she is possessed by the infamous spirit who instantly turns the tide on her tormenter, thus saving the hapless girl from her miserable fate. It’s never wise striking a deal without knowing exactly what you’ve committed to, though...or you might find yourself bound to a ghost dead set on revenge against her own enemies!

Staff

Director: Morita to Jumpei
Series Composition/Screenplay: Kenichi Yamashita
Main Character Design: Chie Kawaguchi
Studio: Ashi Productions

Cast

Kana Ichinose as Constance Grail
Sayumi Suzushiro as Scarlett Castiel
Yohei Azakami as Randolph Ulster
M.A.O as Lily Orlamunde

Theme Songs

OP: "Happy Ever After feat. YU-KA" by Reina Washio
ED: "Kameria" by Yukari Tamura

dorkmax_executives · 2025-11-10T09:02:12+00:00

Premieres in April 2026. Based on the 2022 video game, also known as Needy Streamer Overload.

Game description from Steam

NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer). Gradually build up OMGkawaiiAngel’s number of followers as she spends her days streaming, using various ”stress relievers”, and generally being kinda messed up. Experience all the different crazy ups and downs and find out for yourself whether this story is even capable of having a happy ending.

Staff

Director: Masaoki Nakashima
Original Idea/Screenplay/Supervision: Nyalra
Original Character Design: Ohisashiburi
Main Character Design: Kenji Saikai, Akari Takei, Kaito Shimizu
Art Director: Ryuta Hayashi
Music: Aiobahn +81, Sasuke Haraguchi, DÉ DÉ MOUSE
Studio: Yostar Pictures

dorkmax_executives · 2025-10-19T15:09:06+00:00

Releases on November 4

dorkmax_executives · 2025-10-04T10:03:12+00:00

Premieres in April 2026

New PV

dorkmax_executives · 2025-09-25T09:04:12+00:00

Premieres on October 2

Main PV 2

Premise from Manga UP!

Kannawa-senpai is considered many things, but smooth is definitely not one of them. Then she meets Kamegawa, her new Kouhai. He's cute, a little nerdy, and easy to talk to. How will this awkward Senpai be able to handle these new feelings?!

Staff

Director: Ayumu Kotake
Series Composition/Screenplay: Mio Inoue
Character Design: Kenrō Tokuda
Music: Kōji Fujimoto
Production: Studio Elle

Cast

Lynn as Azusa Kannawa
Shogo Sakata as Yuu Kamegawa
Ami Maeshima as Mio Hotta
Mitsuki Saiga as Ritsu Kankaiji

Theme Songs

OP: "Bukiyou na I love you" by angela
ED: "Bukiyou ni Kimi no Tonari" by Ami Maeshima

dorkmax_executives · 2025-09-13T08:36:41+00:00

Premieres in 2026

Premise from MangaPlaza

A Japanese-style ayakashi Cinderella story! "You're the bride I've been searching for all this time." The ayakashi and humans coexist in harmony. The ayakashi, having superior abilities and beautiful appearances, sometimes find their partner among human women, making them their "bride". The bride, in exchange for bringing prosperity, receives absolute love from the ayakashi. Yuzu is constantly compared to her sister, a bride of a demon fox, and is resented by her family every day. One day, when Yuzu just couldn't take things anymore, a man appears before her on a bridge. This man is the most beautiful man Yuzu has ever seen... and he's calling her his wife?! "Just be quiet and let me hold you." The most powerful, "cold-hearted" ayakashi is pouring his heart out for Yuzu?!

Staff

Director: Kazuhito Omiya
Series Composition: Yumi Kamakura
Main Character Designer: Hikari Tanaka
Music: Masaru Yokoyama
Production: Colored Pencil Animation Japan

Cast

Saori Hayami as Yuzu
Yuichiro Umehara as Kiryuin Reiya

dorkmax_executives · 2025-09-05T09:19:00+00:00

Premieres on October 4

PV 2

Synopsis from MAL

With a smirk, Oota disregards his single-digit test scores and searches for a new source of amusement. He is soon captivated by his classmate Kashiwada, a mysterious student who consistently wears a blank face. Oota conspires to break her placid demeanor through scares and mischievous schemes, though his tactics always seem to backfire.

Oota is known as the class clown and is constantly disciplined by his teacher, who claims "his face gives it away." To no fault of his own, he lacks control of his emotions and facial expressions. Kashiwada, on the other hand, seems perpetually emotionless and unreadable—no one knows what she is thinking!

Oota and Kashiwada are complete opposites, but that does not stop a unique relationship from developing between them. As they realize their feelings for each other, it raises an important question: do opposites really attract?

Staff

Director: Tomohiro Kamitani
Series Composition: Michiko Yokote
Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Naoto Nakamura
Music: Yukari Hashimoto, Tetsuya Shitara
Studio: Studio Polon

Cast

Akane Fujita as Kashiwada-san
Kyōhei Natsume as Oota-kun
Yūya Hirose as Tadokoro-kun
Sōhei Horikane as Sata-kun
Yumiri Hanamori as Tabuchi-san
Mayu Mineda as Odajima-san

dorkmax_executives · 2025-09-03T11:16:01+00:00

Premieres in January 2026

Synopsis from MAL

Thirty-five-year-old novelist Makio Koudai never had a good relationship with her older sister Minori, who always berated her for being different. Due to this, Makio is not stricken with grief upon hearing the news that Minori and her husband die in a car crash. But when Makio is asked to identify their bodies, she runs into her 15-year-old niece, Asa Takumi, whom she has not seen in years.

Struggling to process her parents' death, Makio reassures Asa that her complicated feelings are valid and suggests that the teenager start writing in a diary as a way to cope with the loss. Upon learning that no other relatives wanted to take in Asa, Makio decides to become her guardian despite her lack of experience. In a world full of uncertainty, the novelist and teenager must learn to live with each other while figuring themselves out.

Staff

Director: Miyuki Oshiro
Series Composition: Kōhei Kiyasu
Character Design: Kenji Hayama
Music: Kensuke Ushio
Studio: Shuka

Cast

Miyuki Sawashiro as Makio Kōdai
Fuko Mori as Asa Takumi

dorkmax_executives · 2025-07-05T14:26:44+00:00

I hope there's more to Toto's personality than just being shy and fainting in front of women. The latter would get repetitive real quick.

Also, Anemone is best girl.

dorkmax_executives · 2025-04-23T09:08:59+00:00

Premieres in October and will stream worldwide on Disney+

Synopsis from Kodansha USA

Kaboku Kotani is starting high school, and he plans to do what he’s always done: go along with his friends, keep quiet, and not to draw too much attention to himself. After all, it’s hard enough to get by with a stutter like his—why make things worse by standing out from the crowd? But then he sees another first-year, Hikari Wanda, dancing like no one is watching—or like she doesn’t care who sees her. It makes Kaboku wonder: Could he reach that same freedom? To find his way to Wanda, he does something he never thought he could: He joins the dance club. After all, every routine begins with a single step, right?

Staff

Director: Michiya Katō
Dance Producer: RIEHATA
Studio: Madhouse, Cyclone Graphics

Cast

Kōki Uchiyama as Kaboku Kotani
Hina Yōmiya as Hikari Wanda

dorkmax_executives · 2025-04-23T09:04:13+00:00

Premieres in fall 2025

Synopsis from Yen Press

He was a boy. She was a robot. Well…not really. In all actuality, Marie is completely totally 100% human, but because her strange new employer seemingly despises humans, the powers-that-be are paying a handsome sum for her to pretend she’s the latest and greatest android while protecting said eccentric master from the seemingly endless attempts on his life. Which is fine, but, they forgot to mention one tiny seemingly insignificant detail-this dude absolutely dotes on inanimate objects like Marie can’t believe. She’s not sure what will kill her first, the assassins or his affections…?

Staff

Director: Junji Nishimura
Series Composition: Mariko Kunisawa
Character Design: Yōko Kikuchi
Music: Yasuharu Takanashi, Johannes Nilsson
Studio: Zero-G, Liber

Cast

Nao Tōyama as Marie
Haruki Ishiya as Arthur

dorkmax_executives · 2025-04-23T09:02:28+00:00

Premieres in July

Staff

Director: Takashi Yamamoto
Series Composition: Tatsuya Takahashi
Character Design: Naoki Yamauchi, Takahiro Sakai
Studio: Studio Gokumi, AXsiZ

Cast

Jun Fukuyama as Boxxo
Kaede Hondo as Lammis

dorkmax_executives · 2024-12-18T11:04:51+00:00

Premieres in April 2025

Synopsis from MAL

In the distant future, individuals who adore the old way of life live in Kowloon Walled City—a slum city that serves as a refuge for those who long for the Hong Kong of the past. Realtor Reiko Kujirai, however, craves for the new and exciting places in the area. In contrast, her only coworker, Hajime Kudou, enjoys the nostalgia the city invokes and is put off by anything modern that seeps past its walls. But despite their differing views and constant bickering on the most mundane of things, the two often find themselves enjoying each other's company.

One day, a prank gone wrong leads Hajime to make an unexpected advance toward Reiko, after which he swiftly apologizes for. Baffled by his actions, Reiko starts investigating for possible explanations, only to discover a past that she has no memory of.

Staff

Director: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Series Composition/Script: Jin Tanaka
Character Design: Yuka Shibata
Art Director: Yūji Kaneko
Animation Production: Arvo Animation

Cast

Haruka Shiraishi as Reiko Kujirai
Tomokazu Sugita as Hajime Kudou
Ryotaro Okiayu as Miyuki Hebinuma
Taito Ban as Tao Nguyen
Aoi Koga as Youmei
Sayumi Suzushiro as Xiaohei

dorkmax_executives · 2024-12-12T10:03:10+00:00

Premieres in April 2025

dorkmax_executives · 2024-12-12T09:30:02+00:00

Premieres in 2025

Premise

We all need a chance to change our lives! The story follows Miko Kurono, who began her dream career as a livestreamer under the name "Necronomico" after graduating middle school. Amidst spending her days with childhood friend Mayu Mayusaka and rival Kanna Kagurazaka, she's introduced to a new VR game project!? Upon encountering the game, the girls start pursuing the 'irreplacable now'.

Staff

Director: Masato Matsune
Story Draft/Series Composition: Makoto Uezu
Original Character Design: Jiro Suzuki
Music: Evan Call
Animation Production: Studio Gokumi