Your Summer 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It's Streaming

Studio: Staple Entertainment

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A shut-in is reincarnated into a fantasy world with overwhelming magical powers.

Studio: Lidenfilms

Genre: Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A hyperactive farmer’s daughter named Ryza goes on adventures with her friends and becomes an alchemist.

Studio: Studio Blanc.

Genre: Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: An orphan named Yukito Yanagi meets a mysterious man who invites him to a fantastical land on the brink of extinction.

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Genre: Action

Premiere Date: July 26

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: Netflix’s Baki Hanma anime returns with a new season of muscle-bound fighters competing for the chance to become the greatest martial artist in the world.

Studio: Lidenfilms

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Ecchi

Premiere Date: July 31

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: After its explosive season finale, Yoko Tia Noto hopes to reunite with the all-powerful wizard Dark Schneider who is rumored to have reincarnated.

Studio: Pierrot

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 8

Where to Watch: Disney+, Hulu

What It’s About in One Sentence: Here is part two of the anime adaptation of Bleach’s final manga arc.

Studio: Bone

Genre: Action, Mystery, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 12

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A murder investigation quickly turns into a trap that threatens to destroy the supernatural detectives, known as the Armed Detective Agency, from the inside.

Studio: Actas

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Ecchi

Premiere Date: July 9

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A boy named Blade enters an academy where students train to become superheroes.

Studio: OLM

Genre: Horror, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 10

Where to Watch: Hidive

What It’s About in One Sentence: A former shut-in named Keitaro reintegrates into society as a tutor to a child who’s a psychic medium.

Studio: Studio 3Hz

Genre: Comedy Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 13

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: An all-powerful devil and his underlings get reverse isekai’d into the world of humans and must now take on grueling service jobs to make ends meet.

Studio: Studio Gokumi, AXsiZ

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Premiere Date: July 4

Where to Watch: TBD

What It’s About in One Sentence: Two high school kids misinterpret the growing distance between each other as evidence that they don’t have feelings for each other.

Studio: J.C. Staff

Genre: Comedy, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 9

Where to Watch: TBD

What It’s About in One Sentence: A cursed boy with the ability to kill anything he touches develops feelings for his maid who doesn’t mind getting dangerously close to flirt with him.

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 2

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of mages and their heroic counterparts enter a tournament (that might be fake) for the chance to win the holy grail and have their wishes granted.

Studio: Madhouse

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Premiere Date: July 7

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A doctor named Hikaru treats an array of robotic patients and has thoughtful conversations about love, war, and everything in between.

Studio: GoHands

Genre: Comedy

Premiere Date: July 4

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A middle schooler falls for a girl named Mei who often forgets to wear her thick-ass glasses so she can see (hopefully him) during class.

Studio: Yokohama Animation Laboratory, Cloud Hearts

Genre: Fantasy

Premiere Date: TBD

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: After being shot to death the day before his big promotion, a salaryman named Luciel is reincarnated into a fantasy world as a healer.

Studio: Satelight

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 12

Where to Watch: Hidive

What It’s About in One Sentence: A hero named Helck enters a dark tournament to become the next demon king.

Studio: CloverWorks

Genre: Romance

Premiere Date: July 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: This new Horimiya anime series features stories from the manga that weren’t adapted in the original anime.

Studio: Mappa

Genre: Action, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 6

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of Jujutsu Kaisen shows what life used to be like when Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were friends.

Studio: Silver Link, Blade

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 1

Where to Watch: Hidive

What It’s About in One Sentence: A demon lord awakens from deep sleep to discover he’s a super-tiny girl and his foe has become a lazy bum living in a dirty apartment.

Studio: Geek Toys

Genre: Ecchi

Premiere Date: July 8

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: Students compete in a series of mind games to earn enough points to become the top scholar at the academy.

Studio: Studio LAN

Genre: Drama, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 14

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A supernatural anime about a team of sci-fi private investigators who solve mysteries thanks to their ability to enter photos and see into the past.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures

Genre: Action, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 3

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A boy named Kunato is sent to live with a fellow spirit medium named Nagatsuki so he can learn to get over his festering animosity toward phantoms.

Studio: Silver Link

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Premiere Date: July 3

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A formerly plump dude named Masamune slims down and attempts to get the girl who once rejected him to fall in love with him just so he can reject her back.

Studio: GoHands

Genre: Comedy, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 7

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Saku takes in a giant black stray cat named Yukichi who’s a pretty great roommate.

Studio: Silver Link

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Premiere Date: TBD

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: It’s basically in the subtitle: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants.

Studio: OLM, Team Yoshioka

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Premiere Date: July 2

Where to Watch: TBD

What It’s About in One Sentence: A high school student reincarnates into an otome game villain named Pride Royal Ivy and tries to live to see another day.

Studio: Studio Bind

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Ecchi

Premiere Date: July 2

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: An isekai about a 34-year-old man’s second chance at life as a kid named Rudeus as he navigates the brutal and beautiful fantasy world with his newfound magic powers.

Studio: Project No.9

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Premiere Date: July 1

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: An office worker named Shinozaki catches feelings for his supportive (and diminutive) co-worker Katase.

Studio: Maho Film

Genre: Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 8

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A man named Sato finds himself in a magical world where, despite having the worst stats, he discovers he has an infinite drop exploit.

Studio: AXsiZ, Studio Gokumi

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 5

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A dude named Hakkon is unfortunately reincarnated into a fantasy world as a sentient vending machine that can’t move by his own volition or say anything outside of programmed voice lines.

Studio: Graphinica, Yumeta Company

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 12

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: A fantasy anime in which Earth’s mightiest warriors battle gods for the fate of the human race.

Studio: J.C. Staff

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Premiere Date: July 7

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of young magicians attending their first year at Kimberly Magic Academy bond while trying avoid becoming more casualties at the prestigious wizard school.

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Premiere Date: July 7

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: After a comedy of errors, a rental girlfriend named Chizuru winds up having to pretend to be a real couple with a Scott Pilgrim-esque loser named Kazuya. 

Studio: Doga Kobo

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Premiere Date: July 12

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A lazy churchgoer named Cecilia falls in love with her town’s pastor.

Studio: feel

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Mystery

Premiere Date: TBD

Where to Watch: TBD

What It’s About in One Sentence: Lily, a white-haired girl who barely passed her written exams, enrolls in a prestigious all-girls school that trains its students to become lethal spies.

Studio: J.C. Staff

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

Premiere Date: July 7

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Anne befriends and falls in love with her fairy bodyguard while they travel across a fantasy world where fairies are treated like slaves.

Studio: SynergySP

Genre: Cooking, Fantasy, Slice of Life

Premiere Date: July 3

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A chef literally named Pastry Mill Morteln continues his dream to put smiles on people’s faces after getting reincarnated into a new world.

Studio: Gekkou

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Ecchi

Premiere Date: July 8

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A man named Akemitsu joins a temple so he can live a life without impure desires, only to discover the temple is filled with beautiful ladies.

Studio: Lapin Track

Genre: Mystery, Supernatural

Premiere Date: July 5

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What It’s About in One Sentence: A detective troupe consisting of a beautiful dullahan named Aya, a half-demon named Tsugaru, and a maid named Shizuku wander the supernatural world solving mysteries.

Studio: Bug Films

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror

Premiere Date: July 9

Where to Watch: Netflix

What It’s About in One Sentence: A former “wage slave” named Akira finds a new lease on life in a world in the throes of a zombie apocalypse.