Biggest AnimeJapan 2024 Announcements: My Hero Academia, Oshi No Ko And More

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We’re recapping the biggest trailers and announcements you might have missed from AnimeJapan 2024.

AnimeJapan 2024 has come and gone, leaving fans with a bevy of exciting announcements and trailers for upcoming anime projects arriving later this year. Among other things, we got new looks at My Hero Academia Season 7 and Oshi no Ko Season 2, along with new anime announcements like a Baki Hanma x Kengan Ashura crossover movie.

Here are the biggest announcements from AnimeJapan 2024:

Baki Hanma x Kengan Ashura

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Netflix announced an all-new crossover movie that brings the worlds of Baki Hanma and Kengan Ashura together. The movie launches on the streaming service on June 7.

My Hero Academia Season 7

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My Hero Academia unveiled a new look at its upcoming seventh season, animated once again by Studio Bones and premiering on May 4. The trailer also gives fans a sneak peek at this season’s opening song, TK by Ling Tosite Sigure, and characters from the manga’s Star and Stripe arc which this season adapts. A fourth movie in the franchise called You’re Next is also in the works, set to hit theaters this summer in Japan.

Oshi no Ko Season 2

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Oshi no Ko Season 2 showed off a new promotional image for Season 2, seen in the video above, and a release window: July 2024.

Blue Box

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We got a new trailer for the sports-romance anime Blue Box, set to premiere this October.

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Cour 2

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The second half of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 premieres on April 8, which sees Rudy grow closer to his childhood friend Sylphie.

Beastars Final Season

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Beastars finally returns for one last season, set in a world where carnivores and herbivores coexist. This season airs in two parts, the first of which debuts later this year.

Grimm Variations

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This anime has a very different take on Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm once collected fairy tales from all around the world and put them in a book, but their much younger sister sees these stories very differently than her brothers. CLAMP provides character concepts while Wit Studio animates.

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian

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Doga Kobo’s latest anime adaptation is a romantic comedy about a girl who masks her feelings in Russian, and a boy who understands Russian unbeknownst to her. The series premieres this July.

Sound! Euphonium

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Kyoto Animation’s anime centered on a concert band will return for a third season on April 7, and we got a new trailer for it during AnimeJapan.

Blue Archive

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The gacha-RPG Blue Archive is getting an anime adaptation on April 7.

Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf

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The classic anime Spice and Wolf is getting a two-cour remake, once again following the travelling merchant Lawrence and his companion Holo, a wolf-deity. The series premieres on April 2.

Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World Season 3

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The isekai anime Re:Zero finally returns after a long three years this October, with White Fox returning to animate Season 3.

365 Days to the Wedding

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We’re getting another rom-com anime this year, this time centered on two introverted co-workers who make a desperate attempt to avoid a workplace transfer… by marrying each other. It’s all pretend, of course – until it isn’t.