Sentenced to Be a Hero, JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 3, Hana-Kimi, TRIGUN STARGAZE, Hell’s Paradise, and more streaming on Crunchyroll from January.
With nearly fifty titles, from dark fantasy to romantic comedy, the new season has something for everyone. If you haven’t found your new favourite show, here’s a recap of this winter’s most popular anime.
TRIGUN STARGAZE
- Action, Adventure, Science fiction
- Adapted from a manga
- Produced by Studio Orange (Beastars, Land of the Lustrous)
- 2 episodes already available with English Subtitles, soon with Dub
- Sequel of TRIGUN STAMPEDE
- Synopsis: It’s been two and a half years since the Lost JuLai tragedy laid waste to an entire city and engulfed the whole planet in chaos. Meryl continues her search for Vash with her new younger sidekick, Milly, and runs into Wolfwood along the way. Meanwhile, Vash has taken the new name Eriks and is living in hiding in a backwater town. When he receives an abrupt visit and SOS from the third ship they call home, he acts swiftly in order to protect those dear to him. However, as soon as the planet receives good news from the far reaches of outer space, the one-winged angel returns to wreak havoc and despair. Fates collide to forge a final conclusion for the panicked planet.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2
- Action, Fantasy, Science fiction
- Adapted from a manga. A prequel of My Hero Academia saga.
- Produced by BONES FILM (Gachiakuta, Mob Psycho 100)
- 3 episodes already available with English Subtitles & Dub
- Synopsis: Koichi Haimawari is a dull college student who aspires to be a hero but has given up on his dream. Although 80% of the world’s population has superhuman powers called Quirks, few are chosen to become heroes and protect people. Everything changes for Koichi when he and Pop☆Step are saved by the vigilante Knuckleduster and get recruited to become vigilantes themselves!
JUJUTSU KAISEN The Culling Game Part.1 (Season 3)
- Action, Drama, Fantasy
- Adapted from a manga
- Produced by MAPPA (Attack on Titan: Final Season, Hell’s Paradise)
- 3 episodes already available with English Subtitles, soon with Dub
- The first two episodes were previewed in theaters last November.
- Synopsis: Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses… and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
Sentenced to Be a Hero
- Dark Fantasy
- Adapted from a light novel
- Produced by Studio KAI (Captain Tsubasa : Junior Youth Arc)
- 2 episodes already available with English Subtitles & Dub
- 1st episode is 58 min length
- Synopsis: In a world where heroism is a punishment, Xylo Forbartz, a condemned goddess killer, battles endless hordes of monstrous abominations as part of Penal Hero Unit 9004. Death is no escape, only a cycle of resurrection and relentless combat. But when Xylo encounters a mysterious new goddess, their unlikely alliance sparks a rebellion that could shatter the chains of eternal punishment.
Hana-Kimi
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Adapted from a classic shoujo manga published in the 1990s-2000s
- Produced by Signal.MD (Platinum End, Nina the Starry Bride)
- 4 episodes already available with English Subtitles & Dub
- Synopsis: Mizuki Ashiya is on a mission: disguise herself as a boy and enroll in a male boarding school to meet her idol, high jump star Izumi Sano. But after successfully infiltrating the school, she discovers he’s suddenly quit the sport! Now Mizuki must dodge suspicion, protect her cover, and somehow reach the boy she came all this way for—all while surviving the chaos of an all-boys dorm!
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2
- Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
- Adapted from a manga
- Produced by MADHOUSE (Overlord, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth)
- 1 episode already available with English Subtitles, soon with Dub
- A critically acclaimed series that has already won numerous awards, both in manga and anime.
- Synopsis: After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
Hell’s Paradise SEASON 2
- Action, Fantasy, Thriller
- Adapted from a manga
- Produced by MAPPA (Attack on Titan: Final Season, JUJUTSU KAISEN)
- 2 episodes already available with English Subtitles, soon with Dub
- Synopsis: In search of clues to the elixir, Gabimaru and his group arrive at the castle of Tensen, the monsters who rule the island. Meanwhile, the shogunate sends additional expeditions to Shinsenkyo led by Yamada Asaemon Shugen, which are joined by the Iwagakure. Gabimaru must try to find the elixir and escape from the island as an all-out showdown between humans and celestial immortals looms near.
[OSHI NO KO] Season 3
- Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Adapted from a manga
- Produced by Doga Kobo (Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian)
- 1 episode already available with English Subtitles, soon with Dub
- Synopsis: It’s been six months since “POP IN 2” was released. Thanks to MEMcho’s hard work, B-Komachi is about to get their big break. Aqua is a multi-talented entertainer, and Akane’s career as a talented actress is going well. Meanwhile, Kana lost the cheerfulness she once had. To track down the truth behind Ai and Goro’s deaths, Ruby keeps rising in the entertainment world, using lies as a weapon.
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