Last Update: 3:14 a.m. EDT 9/27/26
Welcome to my preview guide for the Fall 2026 anime season! For a list of what is debuting when, check out the Seasonal Schedule, which should be fully ready by the evening of 9/27 EDT.
Per usual, I will be covering nearly every debuting/returning series that isn’t a short or a sequel to/continuation of a franchise that I am not current on. This time around, the latter case will include the new Ace of Diamond, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Duel Masters, and Prince of Tennis series and sequels to Aoashi, Blue Box, Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Hotel Inhumans, Mission: Yozakura Family, Ramparts of Ice, Sasaki and Peeps, and Tokyo Revengers. Additionally, The Apothecary Diaries s3 will be taken straight to episode reviews and so won’t appear in this Guide.
Titles which were part of the Crunchyroll Sneak Peek – Fall 2026 had their debuts covered there and so also won’t appear here. Those include Black Clover s2, Firefly Wedding, Overgeared, Psyren, and The Vermilion Mask.
Currently I am expecting this guide to conclude with the debut of Dark Machine the Animation on 10/13. Devils’ Crest, which is set to debut on 11/6, will either be covered separately or as part the Fall Mid-Season Report in mid-November.
A Wild Last Boss Appeared! s2
Streams: Crunchyroll on Saturdays
Rating: 3 (of 5)
Despite some generally weak character writing, the first season of this “trapped in a game” isekai succeeded partly because of solid visuals and world-building elements and partly because of the intriguing mysteries at its core which give it a more distinct plot than most OP protagonist isekai stories get. Yes, this isn’t the only game series where the protagonist appears in a world paralleling their game a couple of centuries after its peak (see also The New Gate and In the Land of Leadale, the latter of which probably originated this gimmick), and it’s not the only such series to have some mystery surrounding that point, but here it’s a more existential issue, and the much more original gimmick where the game character the protagonist is inhabiting may have been an independent individual the protagonist is merely possessing (or perhaps blending into?), and that this occurrence may be part of a plot by the game’s creation goddess, holds a lot of promise that will hopefully be explored more this season.
You won’t see much of that promise in the first episode back, though. It does get credit for opening with a brief summary of the first season (welcome, since the last episode aired nine months ago), but it mostly consists of Virgo joining Lufas’s party as the replacement Maiden and the group then traveling to a mobile dwarven city (yes, it looks like a space battleship, but it flies just above the surface) to try to pick up two more of the Twelve Heavenly Stars. But while one of them is an easy acquisition, the other may prove to be much harder to corral since she’s actively trying to attack the mobile city. Naturally some stupid antics perpetrated by the supporting cast ensue, and it certainly looks like Karkinos the Crab is firmly going to be part of those antics; his particular gimmick seems like it will be adoration taken to a romantic, flirtatious degree. That doesn’t seem likely to fix the ongoing problem of a poorly-developed supporting cast, but it should keep things lively. That’s enough for now, I guess. I am still invested enough here that I will almost certainly continue to follow this one.
Now That I Can Control Reality With A Mouse Cursor
Streams: OceanVeil on Sundays starting 10/4 (early preview 9/11)
Rating: 2.5 for ecchi content, 1.5 (of 5) overall
Ecchi/porn computer games where a player can click a mouse on various parts of a female character’s body in order to stimulate her (often to the point of orgasm and/or being willing to engage in sex) have been around for decades, but this adaptation of the ComicFesta manga Click Me All Over is taking this concept to the next level by making a 6½ minute anime series about it. In this case, nerdy Takumi has discovered that his computer mouse’s cursor can manifest outside of the computer in a way only he can see, so he decides to test it out on Mone, a childhood friend whom he’s grown apart from over time but still holds unrequited romantic/sexual interest in. (She’s grown into quite the sexy young woman.) Indeed, it does prove to do what he wants, and he’s able to use it to prod her into extreme arousal. But now he’s getting a game screen saying sex is an option?
Yeah, this is all as dumb and unsavory as it sounds, but it is at least a little titillating and does keep things simple. We may not see until episode 2 if this will go full hentai or just remain in the ecchi realm, but the ED (OP?) suggests that at least two more buxom girls will eventually be involved, too. Definitely think this one might be better experienced in marathon rather than weekly viewing, though.
The Lonely Snow Widow and the Cursed Ring
Streams: OceanVeil on Sundays starting 10/4 (early preview 9/11)
Rating: 3 (of 5)
In a modern world where various yokai races live alongside humans, Subaru has inherited management of a yokai-focused apartment building from his father. When he finds a ring which purports to help in communicating with yokai, he uses it on Mifuyu, a widowed yuki-onna whom he has something of a crush on but fears he’s made her angry. While he didn’t intend more than an apology, the ring’s effect on Mifuyu was much stronger than that, to the point that Subaru winds up having sex with her.
Yeah, unlike its other OceanVeil peer this season, this roughly 8 minute short is full-blown hentai and makes that abundantly clear before the first episode is out. The indication that the ring is merely enhancing a reaction rather than controlling the target makes this a bit less damning on the consent front but it’s still an edgy situation. The animation and visuals actually aren’t bad (though the protagonist’s eyes are conspicuously never shown), so this should serve as worthwhile hentai content for a viewer who prefers their women full-figured.
