Oh, you thought you were free of Kotaku-themed anime slideshows? Nah, fam, you’re still trapped in the weeb mines with me. But hark, there be light at the end of this dakimakura-infested tunnel. Winter is coming, and with it are even more anime for your viewing pleasure.
Here are all the new and returning anime shows coming to your streaming services this winter. For both of our sakes, I’m omitting any ongoing series from the fall season from this guide. You’re welcome.
Studio: Fanworks
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: February 2023
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: A red panda named Retsuko overcomes the sexism and frustrations from her office job with screamo karaoke sessions.
Studio: Project No.9
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: Jan 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: When a boy named Amane Fujimiya gifts his umbrella to the most popular girl in his school, Mahiru Shiina, she returns the favor by becoming the housekeeper for his dumpster fire of an apartment.
Studio: Geek Toys
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 3
Where to Watch: TBD
What It’s About in One Sentence: An adventurer named Nick is unfairly kicked out of his party for embezzling funds and forms a new partnership with similarly disgraced adventurers after a night of drinking.
Studio: Connect
Genre: Action, Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The relationship between two former-childhood friends with the ability to see yokai gets complicated after one of them is transformed into a girl by a talking cat and the other has to protect them while sorting out their romantic feelings.
Studio: Pierrot
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: March 31
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: The popular shonen anime, Black Clover, gets its first feature film.
Studio: Silver Link
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Comedy
Premiere Date: Jan 11
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A noob named Kaede Honjo maxes out her dexterity stats in a popular VRMMO called New World Online and makes new friends while trouncing her enemies.
Studio: P.A. Works
Genre: Comedy
Premiere Date: January 6
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Two hitmen must balance their life of contract killings with being the guardians of a five-year-old girl.
Studio: Bones
Genre: Action, Mystery, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 4
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: Maho Film
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After dying in his sleep, Ryoma Takebayashi is isekai’d into a fantasy world where he adventures with his new friends and takes care of slime creatures.
Studio: Mappa
Genre: Action, Comedy, Cooking, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 11
Where to Watch: TBD
What It’s About in One Sentence: A 27-year-old named Mukouda is mistakenly isekai’d into a fantasy world with the ability to concoct an array of delicious meals from modern-day Japan.
Studio: Encourage Films
Genre: Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A no-magic-having dark general named Dariel is fired from his job after his bosses are replaced and enters into the wondrous world of adventuring for money.
Studio: OLM
Genre: Romance
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A short-stack gyaru bullies her nerdy senpai that she very openly has a crush on.
Studio: Tezuka Productions
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of high school students’ color commentary for a popular romance otome game they’re playing changes the storyline and motivations of its characters.
Studio: Zero-G
Genre: Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 6
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A dude gets into that farmer’s life after getting isekai’d into a fantasy world.
Studio: Signal.MD
Genre: Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 14
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After humanity’s last war, people called fire hunters are charged with eliminating human beings infected by a disease that transforms them into fire beings that the hunters use as a fuel source.
Studio: Hotline
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 14
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After his entire class gets isekai’d into a fantasy video game, a bullied high schooler named Seiichi Hiiragi goes from zero to hero after eating a strange fruit that gives him incredible luck.
Studio: Asahi Production
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: The giant mythical beasts who created the land humanity’s heroes conquered for themselves engage in an all-out war.
Studio: C2C
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: An average Joe gets isekai’d into a fantasy world where his rudimentary handyman skills are super effective.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 4
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: An office worker and descendent of a supernatural race of beings with mystical powers subconsciously transforms his workplace into a blizzard whenever his heart flutters at the hyper competence of a co-worker he’s in love with.
Studio: Cloud Hearts
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A powerful sorcerer goes radio silent after a huge war and later comes back into society as a student at one of the most prestigious magical schools in the realm.
Studio: Brain’s Base
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Iwanaga Kotoko, the god of wisdom among demons, falls head over heels in love with a boy that all supernatural beings fear.
Studio: Studio Deen
Genre: Horror
Premiere Date: January 19
Where to Watch: Netflix
What’s It’s About in One Sentence: An anime adaptation of 20 short stories from famous horror mangaka Junji Ito.
Studio: Polygon Pictures
Genre: Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 12
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After a chance encounter in a snow-infested world, a young man and a woman from the surface world embark on a life-changing adventure.
Studio: Pine Jam
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A meek highschooler named Junta Shiraishi is befriended by a girl in his class who, despite teasing him, wants him to be acknowledged by the rest of his classmates.
Studio: Gravity Well
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Premiere Date: December 23
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Four li’l anthropomorphic animal dudes start up a detective agency and solve a bunch of mysteries.
Studio: Studio Mir
Genre: Action, Drama, Supernatural
Premiere Date: December 8
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: A heavyset high schooler named Park Hyung Suk gains the ability to transfer his mind into a conventionally attractive body whenever he goes to sleep.
Studio: Diomedéa
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Yuri
Premiere Date: December 10
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A princess with no magical abilities concocts a plan to get a noblewoman named Euphyllia her inheritance as the next monarch back by becoming her roommate and helping her research magic.
Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures
Genre: Action, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A young spirit medium named Hyouma Kunato is sent to live with another family in hopes of curing him of his prejudice against tsukumogami: spirits with the ability to possess others.
Studio: Quad
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A dude gets transformed into Pochita (not that one), the dog of the most popular girl in school.
Studio: Tatsunoko Production
Genre: Action
Premiere Date: January 6
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl named Lavie enlists in the military to distance herself from her grandfather’s political bullshit.
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Studio: Silver Link
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A reincarnated demon king awakens two millennia after his death with weakened powers and a world that propagates fake news about his character and accomplishments.
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: January 2023
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The anime adaptation of the award-winning Square Enix video game about depressed robots, Nier: Automata.
Studio: Studio Bind
Genre: Comedy
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A NEET otaku gets transformed into a girl by his mad scientist little sister.
Studio: OLM
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Premiere Date: Early 2023
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: Ash Ketchum competes in the Pokémon World Coronation Series.
Studio: Studio Comet
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A knight gets his monkey’s paw of a wish to live free from his responsibilities to the empire he helped build and is reborn as a girl in a distant land.
Studio: Studio Blanc
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After dying by the hands of his closest compatriots, a powerful sorcerer is, you guessed it, reincarnated as a magician in another world.
Studio: Ajia-do Animation Works
Genre: Mystery
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: An assassin named Usui Yuen investigates a slew of assassinations perpetrated against a powerful samurai clan.
Studio: Felix Film
Genre: Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After the death of her nuclear family, a girl named Mitsuha uses her newfound isekai-hopping ability to save up enough money in the real world and the fantasy world to live comfortably.
Studio: feel
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Hidive
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: Action, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 6
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: In a fantasy world where fairies are bought and sold, a girl named Anne Halford hopes to befriend her fairy bodyguard.
Studio: Lidenfilms
Genre: Action, Drama, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Hulu
What It’s About in One Sentence: A Christmas special centered around Tokyo Revengers, an anime about a middle schooler attempting to prevent the death of his first girlfriend by messing with the flow of time.
Studio: Orange
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A CG remake of the classic ‘90s anime, Trigun, animated by the studio behind Beastars and Land of the Lustrous.
Studio: Sentai Filmworks
Genre: Sports
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A boy named Minato Narumiya rekindles his love for archery by joining his school’s archery club.
Studio: Production I.G
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: Early 2023
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: The final season of Netflix’s Ultraman series.
Studio: Madhouse
Genre: Comedy, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A vampire hunter and the world’s weakest vampire become best friends.
Studio: Ashi Productions
Genre: Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A beggar girl named Wisteria with the ability to see demons befriends a beast-like demon named Marbas who’s being hunted by the British Empire.
Studio: Lay-duce
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 4
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Local tomboy Tomo Aizawa attempts to get her crush and childhood friend, Jun Kubota, to stop seeing her as one his bois and start seeing her as girlfriend material.
Studio: Mappa
Genre: Action, Drama
Premiere Date: Jan 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: Local Viking runt reaps what he sows and enters a farming arc filled with self-reflection and crimes against humanity.
Studio: J.C. Staff
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: February 2023
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: A former Yakuza named Tatsu lives it up as the diligent househusband to his wife, Miku.
