Last Update: 3/29/26 at 1:03 p.m. EDT
Welcome to my seasonal Guide! The debut schedule can be found here.
I expect to cover every full-episode series that will be debuting this season and is available in streaming form, including many of the sequels/returning series. Sequels that I will NOT be covering (because I’m not caught up on the franchise) include Classroom of the Elite; Dr. Stone; Welcome to Demon School, Iruma -kun; Ace of Diamond Act II, One Piece; and Rent-A-Girlfriend.,
Also, five series – Daemons of the Shadow Realm; Go For It, Nakamura-kun!!; Re:Zero s4; The Drops of God; and Witch Hat Atelier – are not being covered here because they were covered in the Crunchyroll Sneak Peek March ’26 feature a couple of weeks back. Please consult that article for coverage of those titles.
The initial post will covered titles which have debuted as of 3/28. Additional entries will be added onto the top of the list at they debut, beginning on 3/31. This Guide should conclude with I Want to End This Love Game on 4/14.
Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring
Streams: Crunchyroll on Saturdays
Rating: 3.5 (of 5)
In this version of the modern world, the four seasons don’t happen naturally; they are brought about by Agents, humans imbued with the power of a god to ritually initiate the changing of the seasons. But something calamitous happened ten years ago to Hinagiku, the Agent of Spring, and so spring has now been absent for a full decade. Now, a timid Hinagiku, accompanied only by her protector Sakura, travels to once again start conducting the rites to bring about spring with as little fanfare as possible. Along the way to their first destination, they encounter a 12-year-old girl who doesn’t remember spring, and that encounter helps bolster Hinagiku’s resolve.
This series is based on light novels from the creator of Violet Evergarden, so you know it’s going to be pitching for emotional appeal, and its first episode is somewhat effective at that. A major mystery lingers about what, exactly, the opening scenes are showing (which are strongly implied to be responsible for Hinagiku not performing her duties for a decade) and what traumatized her so badly that she felt she could only endure until things got better and now speaks in a halting cadence that some viewers may find intolerably annoying. There are also heavy mythical underpinnings in play, including an implied romance between Spring and Winter that no doubt has some impact here, and eventual appearances by the Agents of Summer and Fall are teased, too. The emotional core of the episode, though, comes from Nazuna, the girl whom Sakura and Hinagiku encounter as she ventures up the same hill with the intent of shoveling snow from a grave. Hinagiku’s ceremony does not quite capture the visual and audio majesty that it was aiming for, but it’s still good enough to convey the power that is in play here and the importance of Hinagiku’s role. Enough is going on here to warrant watching at least a bit more.
Rooster Fighter
Streams: Adult Swim, Hulu+ on Saturdays
Rating: 3.5 (of 5)
Keiji is a wanderer, an individual who can’t put down roots anywhere for long as he quests to find and defeat a particular demon, though he won’t hesitate to put down other demons who cross his path, too. He’s also a rooster, albeit one with super-chicken physical capabilities and and super-powered resonance attack which can blow demons apart. And he’s apparently not the only sentient, combat-aligned chicken out there, either.
This manga adaptation is a clear spiritual successor to titles like Fist of the North Star and Dragon Ball, but it’s also plenty well cognizant of how silly some of the genre tropes are. It has more than a bit of a subversive touch to it, including chicken poop and graphic chicken sex; the humor comes from how completely straight it plays everything. The first episode also delivers surprisingly well on the action front, too, including some robust action animation to go along with all the dramatically-featured stills. The oversized heads in human character designs is a little weird, but the giant demons don’t lack for being repulsive twists on humanity (there’s a strong implication that the demons actually are warped humans). A second sentient chicken is briefly introduced at the end of episode 1 and a little chick looks like it’ll become a regular character starting with episode 2, so the cast will soon expand, but this episode does its job in establishing the premise’s foundation.
Do You Like Big Girls?
Streams: OceanVeil
Rating: Hentai
Sota’s a short guy who finds himself as the dorm manager for a dorm of tall, sexy, and apparently sexually frustrated female volleyball players, thanks to his sister (who’s one of the team members). Brief dating and fully-uncensored sex with the resident brunette ensues. In other words, this is a Tall Girl rather than BBW fetish. Its 6½ minute length forces it to move along quickly, so much so that it has no room for character or story development and thus little draw beyond its fetish and nicely-depicted nudity.
Marika’s Love Meter Malfunction
Streams: OceanVeil
Rating: 2.5 (of 5)
A young man is too timid to confess to childhood friend Marika, so he prays for the ability to see girls’ love meters. Shockingly, his wish is granted, but it comes with a problem: Marika’s seems to be broken. What he doesn’t correctly understand is that she’s so in love with him that she’s overloaded her meter.
This one clocks in at six minutes and, at least so far, is only at an ecchi rather than hentai level (i.e., some nudity but no sex). It does actually have a bit of story to it, and Marika is actually trying to flirt, so this looks like just a condensed version of a standard ecchi romcom. Unclear yet whether classmates shown earlier in the episode will join busty Marika in the ecchi content, but even if they don’t, you could probably do worse for ecchi content.
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