Your Fall 2022 Anime Guide: What To Watch, Binge, And Obsess Over

Studio: EMT Squared

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Premiere Date: October 2

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: After getting booted from the hero’s party for being useless, a beast tamer named Rain sets out on an adventure with an all-powerful cat-girl. 

Studio: Studio 4°C

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Premiere Date: October 2

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: The TV broadcast cut of the Berserk: The Golden Age Arc film trilogy with new scenes, music, and remastered cuts of the original films in honor of its late creator, Kentaro Miura.

Studio: Pierrot

Genre: Action, Supernatural

Premiere Date: October 10

Where to Watch: Hulu in the U.S., Disney+ internationally

What It’s About in One Sentence: Ichigo Kurosaki must save the Soul Society from a legion of Quincy.

Studio: 8bit

Genre: Sports

Premiere Date: October 8

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: The Japan Football Union seeks out an ace striker to turn their luck around after suffering a crushing defeat at the 2018 World Cup.

Studio: CloverWorks

Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life

Premiere Date: October 8

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A loner high school girl named Hitori Goto has her life turned upside down after she becomes the guitarist for a band called Kessoku.

Studio: Mappa

Genre: Action, Adventure

Premiere Date: October 11

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: After living a down bad, terrible, no good, very rotten impoverished life, a teenage boy named Denji makes a contract with his pet Pochita and becomes the fearsome devil, Chainsaw Man. 

Studio: Trigger

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi

Premiere Date: September 13

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: Following the death of his mother from a drive-by incident, a street kid named David Martinez fuses a dangerous military-grade tech to his spine and joins a ragtag group of cyberpunks, known as edgerunners.

Studio: Pine Jam

Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life

Premiere Date: October 5

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of girls from a prestigious high school form a DIY club where they struggle, fail, and succeed in constructing various gizmos.

Studio: Nexus

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of Life

Premiere Date: October 2

Where to Watch: Hidive

What It’s About in One Sentence: A guy named Cid gets into hot water for playing both fields as a hero and a villain after getting isekai’d into a fantasy world.

Studio: Bakken Record, 5 Inc.

Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror

Premiere Date: October 13

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: A space horror series set in the distant future where humanity has been forced to migrate from Earth and terraform a new planet. The series features character designs by Final Fantasy’s Yoshitaka Amano.

Studio: Production I.G

Genre: Horror

Premiere Date: October 1

Where to Watch: Toonami, HBO Max

What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Kimi encounters horrific happenings from what she believes is an ancient evil haunting the residents of her low-cost housing complex.

Studio: DLE

Genre: Comedy

Premiere Date: October 5

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: Satake Hirofumi becomes a research subject and divulges his life as an immortal being after being put on death row for murdering his fiancée.

Studio: TROYCA

Genre: Music 

Premiere Date: October 2

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: Seven men with varying personalities form an idol group and aim to become the most popular musicians in the world.

Studio: Maho Film

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Premiere Date: September 24

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: After her fiancé unceremoniously cancels her wedding, Aileen Lauren D’Autriche is reincarnated into an otome game as a doomed villainess and schemes to seduce the world’s Demon King to avoid her fate.  

Studio: Production I.G

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Premiere Date: September 29

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: Following the social and political upheaval of the Galactic Empire and the decline of the Free Planets Alliance due to its corrupt government, Adrian Rubinsky seeks to seize power.

Studio: Passione

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Premiere Date: Oct 12

Where to Watch: Hidive

What It’s About in One Sentence: A high school student named Asahi Kashiwagi is on the receiving end of multiple love confessions from five beautiful girls.

Studio: Bones

Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural

Premiere Date: October 5

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: After transferring harmful psychic energy into giant broccoli, Mob must find a way to cut down the dangerous sprout that townsfolk are worshipping.

Studio: Sunrise

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi

Premiere Date: October 2

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Suletta Mercury, from the planet of the same name, transfers into a prestigious school run by the Beneritt Group, which leads the arms race in the mobile suit industry.

Studio: Yumeta Company, Graphinica

Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Premiere Date: October 5

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: Humanity is on the losing side of a decades-long war against alien invaders who use humanoid machines called Tactical Surface Fighters.

Studio: Bones

Genre: Action

Premiere Date: October 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: Under the tutelage of Endeavor, Deku perfects his new quirk from One For All while Tomura Shigaraki plans on destroying the world using the Metahuman Liberation Army.

Studio: Space Neko Company

Genre: Comedy

Premiere Date: October 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: Two friends named Pipimi and Popuko wreak havoc on humanity with their crass humor and wacky antics.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures

Genre: Fantasy

Premiere Date: October 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A mysterious consort named Shouxue, who utilizes dark arts to fulfill a myriad of tasks asked of her, has her life uprooted after accepting a favor from emperor GaoJun.

Studio: domerica

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Premiere Date: October 27

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: A gamer girl named Anzu gets isekai’d into a world filled with hot dudes.

Studio: Graphinica, Yokohama Animation Laboratory

Genre: Adventure

Premiere Date: October 7

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A boy named Shiloh sets out on an adventure to save the Jumi race from having the gemstones in their chests poached from them by thieves.

Studio: TROYCA

Genre: Action

Premiere Date: October 4

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: After discovering he’s the next in line to become the leader of his family’s ninja clan, a high school student named Ittoki Sakuraba must learn the ways of a modern-day ninja.

Studio: CloverWorks, Wit Studio

Genre: Action

Premiere Date: October 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: In order to usher in world peace, super spy Loid Forger, his assassin wife, Yor, and his adoptive telepathic daughter, Anya, must befriend the family of a powerful politician.

Studio: Sunrise

Genre: Action

Premiere Date: October 7

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: After an 11-year absence, here’s the second cour of the second season of the mismatched superhero team-up between Wild Tiger and rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr.

Studio: Seven Arcs

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Slice of Life

Premiere Date: November 22

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A space enthusiast named Nasa Yuzaki enters a new chapter in his life as a newlywed husband after confessing his feelings to a mysterious girl named Tsukasa.

Studio: Drive

Genre: Action, Drama, Supernatural

Premiere Date: October 23

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: The immortal being, Fushi, ends his 40 years in solitude, to save his friends from the bloodshed of an upcoming war.

Studio: LIDENFILMS

Genre: Supernatural

Premiere Date: September 30

Where to Watch: Hidive

What It’s About in One Sentence: A mischievous shapeshifting tanuki named Mameda becomes the apprentice of a rakugo performer in order to perform hijinks in today’s cynical times.

Studio: David Production

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Premiere Date: October 14

Where to Watch: Hidive

What It’s About in One Sentence: A 2022 remake of Rumiko Takahashi’s classic anime series Urusei Yatsura, which will adapt select stories from the manga. It follows a boy named Ataru Moroboshi who is mistakenly betrothed to an alien princess named Lum.

Studio: ENGI

Genre: Comedy, Ecchi

Premiere Date: October 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A junior college student named Shinichi Sakurai has his summer vacation uprooted by Hana Uzaki, a bothersome classmate who invites herself to hang out with him.

Studio: PRA

Genre: Music

Premiere Date: October 4

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A new music anime that follows the debut and careers of two male idol groups called Vazzy and Rock Down.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural

Premiere Date: October 8

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A human kid named Suzuki Riuma enrolls in a demon school where his grandfather, the great demon Sullivan, serves as chairman.

Congrats, you made it to the end of this very long list of anime. Hope you found a couple that caught your eye. I’m gonna give my fingers a break in the hyperbolic time chamber until the next season of anime rolls around. Goodbye, now.