The spring anime season is jammed packed with 50 more shows for your to watch and backlog.
While my poor yaoi hands have been reduced to mush typing out a brief synopsis for every new movie, show, and returning anime this season I’m happy to report that fans of romance and fantasy are gonna have their plates full with this season’s bloated helping of anime. Without further ado, here’s your spring anime guide.
Studio: Asahi Production
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Premiere Date: April 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A manga creator named Ichiro Kuga discovers that his beautiful assistant, Shiori Goshiki, is actually a princess from another planet that is betrothed to him.
Studio: Nomad
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: April 4
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of women clad in mechanical suits battle hordes of aliens that drove humanity from Earth.
Studio: Sentai Filmworks
Genre: Horror
Premiere Date: TBD
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A college student named Rin is plagued by the unexplainable horrors that haunt her apartment complex.
Studio: Kafka
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 6
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Chise enrolls in a college for mages after coming to grips with her betrothal to a gentle fae magician.
Studio: EMT Squared / Magic Bus
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 2
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After getting reincarnated into another world, a boy named Kazuya Shiina is granted magical powers from the gods to help him find love, win battles, and study at his otherworldly school.
Studio: Yostar Pictures
Genre: Sci-Fi, Slice-Of-Life
Premiere Date: May 10
Where to Watch: TBD
What It’s About in One Sentence: Queen Elizabeth (no relation?) secretly fills in as the commander of a military operation after its previous commander falls into a coma.
Studio: OLM
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sports
Premiere Date: April 1
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: A child hacks into the World Beyblade Battle Association and challenges every fighter to a battle.
Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures
Genre: Sports
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A golfing prodigy named Eve sets her sights on a rematch with her gal-pal Aoi and enters a Yu-Gi-Oh!-esque golf tournament.
Studio: Toei Animation, Studio Deen
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Premiere Date: June
Where to Watch: TBD
What It’s About in One Sentence: The Sailor Scouts team up with the Sailor Starlights to prevent Sailor Galaxia from conquering the galaxy.
Studio: Pierrot
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: June 16 (was delayed last season)
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: The popular shonen anime, Black Clover, gets its first feature film.
Studio: Nippon Animation
Genre: Drama, Music
Premiere Date: April 9
Where to Watch: TBD
What It’s About in One Sentence: A violin prodigy named Hajime Aono begins tutoring a lonesome amateur and reignites his passion for music.
Studio: Tezuka Productions
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Ecchi
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A dude named Hayato inherits his late grandmother’s seaside cafe and has to figure out how to work with the cafe’s five gorgeous and disorderly women.
Studio: Deen
Genre: Mystery, Romance
Premiere Date: May 26
Where to Watch: TBD
What It’s About in One Sentence: A police officer named Ichika Hoshino and five strangers must stop a mysterious organization’s violent takeover of Shinjuku.
Studio: Shin-Ei Animation
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 1
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A reclusive middle school student named Kyoutaro Ichikawa starts to catch feelings for his ditzy classmate, Anna Yamada.
Studio: Geek Toys
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Supernatural
Premiere Date: April 10
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A battle between a legendary hero and a necromancer ends in a draw after the necromancer uses reincarnation magic to turn the hero into a little boy.
Studio: ufotable
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The mega-popular historical shonen anime, Demon Slayer, enters its fourth season.
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: April 6
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of scientists and their former adversaries join forces and set sail across the ocean in search of answers behind the petrification of the people around the world.
Studio: Brain’s Base
Genre: Action, Adventure, Historical
Premiere Date: TBD
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Lieutenant Tsurumi attempts to put a stop to Sugimoto and Asirpa’s journey to find hidden treasure by issuing an ultimatum to split the pair apart.
Studio: Production I.G
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: April 1
Where to Watch: Disney+, Hulu
What It’s About in One Sentence: A guy named Maru, with the help of his friend Kiruko, explores the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Tokyo for a heaven that might not exist.
Studio: Mappa
Genre: Action, Fantasy, LGBTQ+🏳️🌈
Premiere Date: April 1
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of prisoners and the executioners tasked with overseeing them explore a mysterious island named Kotaku for the elixir of life in exchange for a pardon from the Shogun.
Studio: Millepensee
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 3
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A bullied boy named Yuuya Tenjou gets a new lease on life after discovering a magic door that allows him to travel between his world and a fantasy world where he has magical cheat skills.
Studio: J.C. Staff
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 3
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A guy named Touya is teleported into a fantasy world and uses his cellphone on adventures.
Studio: Lidenfilms
Genre: Romance
Premiere Date: April 11
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: Two astronomy club members grow closer to one another as they commemorate the stress of school life and cope with their insomnia.
Studio: Palette
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Premiere Date:
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After being reincarnated into a fantasy world where there is no concept of god, Yukito, the heir to a cult leader, attempts to institute a new deity to stop the government’s arbitrary death sentences.
Studio: Drive
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 5
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A Konosuba spin-off that centers around how a feisty wizard named Megumin got her powerful explosion magic.
Studio: EMT Squared
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 3
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Yuna is gifted an “overpowered” bear suit from a VRMMO video game developer that she uses to cheat in the virtual world he’s teleported to.
Studio: Liden Films
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Ecchi
Premiere Date: April 6
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A perverted farmer named Touka attempts to replace the village hero after accidentally killing him with a booby trap.
Studio: Madhouse
Genre: Romance
Premiere Date: April 1
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Akan Kinoshita falls for a gamer named Yamada after her last boyfriend cheated on her with another girl he met in-game.
Studio: Bibury Animation
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A madcap anime about an otaku and three magical girls’ rebellious fight against a mysterious group that destroyed Japan’s otaku culture.
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A magic-less boy named Mash enrolls into a magic academy and uses the power of his muscles to become the most powerful (and jacked) student in school.
Studio: OLM
Genre: Sports
Premiere Date: April 1
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Two stepbrothers named Touma and Suichirou attempt to get their high school baseball team to nationals.
Studio: Sunrise
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: April 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A Gundam pilot named Suletta Mercury deals with the aftermath of her catastrophic decision to use her contraband mecha to protect her bride, Miorine Rembran.
Studio: Signpost
Genre: Comedy, Slice-Of-Life
Premiere Date: April 2
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The new kid at school is blissfully ignorant of the fact that his classmates bully his new best friend by calling her the “grim reaper” because he thinks the moniker is cool.
Studio: Tezuka Productions
Genre: Drama
Premiere Date: April 2
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A father descends into the criminal underworld after taking the life of his daughter’s abusive yakuza boyfriend.
Studio: Gekko
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A high schooler named Asahi and his older sister with a brother complex are teleported into another world where his sister has overpowered stats.
Studio: Doga Kobo
Genre: Drama, Supernatural
Premiere Date: April 12
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A doctor is reincarnated as the child of a young pop idol he admired in the past life.
Studio: C2C
Genre: Comedy, Supernatural
Premiere Date: April 8
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: An elf named Elda procrastinates her shrine duty chores to play video games and eat junk food.
Studio: Production I.G
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: May 12
Where to Watch: TBD
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of cops use their cyberpunk guns to determine whether its citizens are likely to commit crimes à la Minority Report.
Studio: Wit
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: April 13
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A Ranking of Kings spin-off series about Bojji and Kage’s noble escapades across the world.
Studio: Typhoon Graphics
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 10
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A woman named Park Eunha devises a plan to write herself a happy ending in the world of a novel she’s been reading by making a deal with the protagonist she’s meant to motivate after her untimely death.
Studio: Satelight
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After getting relentlessly bullied at school, a student named Tousuke Rokudou receives a magical scroll from his grandfather that makes “bad girls” fall in love with him.
Studio: J.C. Staff
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 19
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Instead of becoming the demon king’s 99th sacrifice, a girl named Sariphi ends up becoming his bride.
Studio: P.A. Works
Genre: Drama
Premiere Date: April 4
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A genius high schooler named Iwakura Mitsumi struggles to bridge the gap between her and her classmates by becoming more sociable.
Studio: Elle
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 9
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: A dude gets teleported back into the real world after being teleported into a fantasy world, saving it from doom, and becoming a normie.
Studio: Graphinica / Yumeta Company
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: April 5
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of scientists alter the DNA of a group of women and transforming them into cat-powered superheroes.
Studio: Seven Arcs
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The love story between a space-loving guy named nasa and his star crossed lover Tsukasa heats up as the pair enter their marriage arc.
Studio: SynergySP
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: April 7
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A space alien named Liza postpones Earth’s apocalypse after wandering into a cat cafe.
Studio: Pencil Lead Animate
Genre: Supernatural
Premiere Date: April 12
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A man named Yaa Yeunchu experiences strange occurrences in the escape room of his new crush that he frequents leading to memory loss and hallucinations.
Studio: Passione / Lings
Genre: Comedy, Girls Love
Premiere Date: April 6
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After accidentally injuring a cafe manager, a high school girl named Hime covers shifts at an all-girls cafe and catches feelings for a coworker.
