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A rival to surpass. A promise to keep. A reason to try again. Discover the top shounen anime of 2026 and follow characters who grow through challenges, friendships, and setbacks. Find the next story that makes every breakthrough feel earned.
#10Ponkotsu Fuuki Iin to Skirt-take ga Futekisetsu na JK no Hanashi
The Story of the Clumsy Discipline Committee Member and the High School Girl with an Inappropriately Short Skirt
Sakuradaimon takes his role on the school's discipline committee far too seriously, checking students at the gate every morning and correcting anything he considers improper. His most frequent target is Kohinata, whose bright appearance and short skirt make her almost immune to his endless lectures.When the two end up in remedial classes together, Kohinata discovers that the strict boy who acts like a model student is hopeless at studying. The balance between them shifts, and their daily arguments gradually turn into an unexpected friendship with warmer feelings hiding underneath.
#9Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Movie: Minna no Jikan
Assassination Classroom: Everyone's Time
Class 3-E still has stories that were never told. Overlooked moments from their year with Koro-sensei return, giving the students more time for schemes, lessons, and missions where assassination training collides with the strange school life that turned their classroom into an unlikely family.
#8Kore Kaite Shine
Draw This, Then Die!
Ai Yasumi is a first-year high school student on Izu Oshima who loves reading manga more than anything. When she learns that her favorite long-inactive artist, Rei Hoshino, will appear at COMITIA, she travels to Tokyo simply to be near the creator who helped make comics so important to her.An unexpected encounter there leaves Ai with a question she has never seriously tried to answer herself: how does someone become a manga artist? She begins creating her own work and discovers that loving manga is very different from knowing how to make it. Between the joy of shaping a page, the pain of redrawing it, and the fear of showing it to others, Ai takes her first steps from consuming the stories she loves to creating something that might reach someone else.
#7Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu Movie
The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie
Kyoutarou Ichikawa once watched Anna Yamada from a distance as the most incomprehensible girl in his class, until their repeated encounters in the library revealed someone completely different from the image he had created. Awkward curiosity slowly became friendship and then mutual affection, drawing Kyoutarou out of his isolation while giving Yamada someone around whom she could simply be herself.Confessing their feelings does not erase the difficulties that brought them there. Beginning a real relationship means learning how to express jealousy, fear, and the desire for closeness without hiding behind misunderstandings. Between school, work, friends, and family, the two enter a new stage where knowing they love each other is only the beginning; they now have to learn how to live that love from one ordinary day to the next.
#6Yomi no Tsugai
The Pair of the Underworld
Yuru lives in an isolated mountain village believing that his twin sister Asa is kept apart from everyone because of a mysterious sacred duty. Everything he knows collapses when armed outsiders descend on the village, the girl he thought was Asa is found dead, and one of the attackers claims to be his real twin sister.Rescued by the outsider Dera, Yuru is cornered into summoning a paired set of supernatural beings known as Tsugai. From that moment, he is pulled into a conflict far larger than his village. The truth about his birth, his sister, and the secret the adults around him worked so hard to hide begins to surface one dangerous piece at a time.
#5Akane-banashi
Akane's Tales
Since childhood, Akane Osaki has watched her father Shinta turn one voice and one body into an entire world through rakugo. At his crucial promotion test for the master rank of shin’uchi, he gives the performance of his life—only for head judge Issho Arakawa to fail him and effectively drive him away from the art he loved.Six years later, Akane is a high-school student secretly training under Shiguma, her father’s former teacher. When she earns a chance to perform before an audience, she is not simply trying to prove her talent. She intends to reach shin’uchi herself, understand why her father was denied it, and force the rakugo world to hear her story in her own voice.
#4Seihantai na Kimi to Boku
You and I Are Polar Opposites
Suzuki is cheerful and outgoing, but she is constantly aware of how other people see her and often changes herself to fit the mood around her. Tani, the quiet boy who sits beside her, seems completely unconcerned with anyone’s expectations. That difference is exactly why Suzuki cannot stop thinking about him.As the two grow closer, Suzuki discovers that being opposites does not push them apart; it gives each of them something the other lacks. Through awkward confessions, worries about friends, and relationships developing around them, they learn that understanding someone completely different can also be a way of understanding themselves.
#3Jujutsu Kaisen: Shimetsu Kaiyuu - Zenpen
Sorcery Battle: Culling Game - Part 1
After the Shibuya catastrophe, the jujutsu world is shattered. Countless curses and newly awakened sorcerers are released across Japan, and the Culling Game begins, a deadly ritual divided among colonies where participants fight for points under rules created by Kenjaku.At the same time, Yuji Itadori's suspended execution is reinstated, with Yuta Okkotsu appointed as his executioner. Yet saving Megumi, Tsumiki, and the country from Kenjaku's plan requires entering the game itself. Yuji and his allies face modern sorcerers and fighters resurrected from ancient eras, each colony carrying new rules and enemies. To end the ritual, they may first have to learn how to rewrite it from within.
#2Steel Ball Run: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken
Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
In 1890, America turns its attention to the Steel Ball Run, a race spanning thousands of kilometers from San Diego to the East Coast for an enormous prize. Johnny Joestar, a former genius jockey who can no longer walk, watches the start without much purpose until he witnesses the mysterious technique used by Gyro Zeppeli.A brief encounter with Gyro's Spin lets Johnny feel movement in his legs for the first time since his injury, convincing him to enter the race and uncover the secret behind that power. The journey soon becomes far more than a contest for money, as killers, conspiracies, and sacred relics with strange abilities pull Johnny and Gyro into a struggle capable of reshaping the nation.
#1Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen - Kashin-tan
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity
Yhwach reaches the Royal Palace after breaking Squad Zero's defenses and manipulates Ichigo Kurosaki into delivering the blow that brings down the Soul King. With the king's death, the Three Worlds begin collapsing, distortions spreading through the Soul Society, the human world, and Hueco Mundo as the Wandenreich transforms the palace into Wahr Welt.The Thirteen Court Guard Squads gather what strength remains and advance on the palace beside allies who would once have been unthinkable. The Quincy elite wait inside Wahr Welt, turning every encounter into a battle for survival. Ichigo, meanwhile, learns the truth behind Uryu's intentions and finds a renewed reason to fight beside him rather than against him. With Yhwach surpassing even the limits of The Almighty, the final struggle becomes a race to save the worlds before the boundaries holding existence together disappear.
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