10 best upcoming anime in 2024

2023 was an incredible year for anime fans, but 2024 offers even more great series. Here’s a list of the top 10 upcoming anime shows you need to watch in 2024.

Whether new episodes from franchises such as Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen or new series such as Hell’s Paradise and Zom 100, 2023 brought us a plethora of great anime shows. Likewise, this year has a lot to offer to anime enthusiasts across all genres.

Winter 2024 kicked off with a bang, with Solo Leveling proving to be a gigantic hit. Can anything match it?

From highly anticipated sequels to new additions to the anime world, we bring you a list of the top 10 upcoming anime series to watch in 2024. We will keep updating this space every season whenever a new series gets confirmed, so stay tuned!

10. Sound! Euphonium 3

Scheduled for April 7, this upcoming anime series is based on a light novel by Takeda Ayano. The story centers around Oumane Kumiko, who abandoned music after a bad experience during the National Music Band Competition.

However, after starting high school and meeting new people, she finds herself pulling towards music once again. Season 3 will adapt Kumiko’s third year in high school, where her band will again focus on the nationals.

9. Tower of God Season 2

After almost four years, we return to The Tower and Twenty-Fifth Bam for Tower of God Season 2. These episodes introduce new characters and some of the biggest twists in the manga.

The Return of the Prince Arc opens with a time skip, six years into the future, and Ja Wangnan re-entering the Tower. You can find out what that means come July 2024!

8. Kimi ni Todoke Season 3

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After more than a decade of no news, fans had lost all hope of getting a new season of this Shojo classic. However, Netflix recently confirmed a sequel with the original cast’s return. Season 3 doesn’t have a release date yet, but this upcoming anime will likely air in late 2024.

The story follows Kuronuma Sawako, feared in her school for her jet-black hair that covers her entire face, ultimately gaining the nickname “Sadako,” a character from a horror movie. Being an introvert, Sawako slowly begins to come out of her shell with the help of Kazehaya Shouta and her new friends.

7. Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! 3

Konosuba is returning with a third season in April 2024. The series made a massive anime comeback in the last year, releasing a full anime adaptation of the Megumin spin-off novel series, An Explosion on This Wonderful World.

It also confirmed that the main TV anime series would return for its highly anticipated third season. The first trailer teases all kinds of new chaos coming for Kazuma and his party.

6. Dandadan

The anime series will debut in October 2024, but the premiere date itself has yet to be revealed. The story follows Momo Ayase and her classmate Okarun. While Momo believes in ghosts, Okarun thinks aliens are real.

In order to prove themselves right, they make a bet, which soon creates a series of hilarious events. This story of young love centers around the chaotic events with ghosts, monsters, aliens, battles, and so on.

5. Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf

The Spice and the Wolf anime is getting a reboot in Spring 2024. Based on Isuna Hasekura’s Spice & Wolf, the new anime will tell the same story of Kraft Lawrence and his meeting with the wolf-diety Holo. Lawrence, a traveling merchant, finds Holo sleeping in his cart.

She bargains with the merchant to take her along on his travels in exchange for sharing her wisdom of “Holo the Wisewolf” and increasing his profits. Thus, Lawrence’s life turns upside down after taking along an ancient wolf.

4. Blue Lock: Episode Nagi

Blue Lock is one of the most popular Shonen series ever. Blue Lock: Episode Nagi is an upcoming anime movie based on the sports anime that is all set to hit the Japanese theatres on April 19, 2024. The movie is based on the spin-off series following Seishirou Nagi and Reo Mikage exploring their games during the Blue Lock dispute.

The teaser depicts Nagi’s transformation from a lazy high school student to a promising football prodigy, ultimately leading to him enrolling in Ego’s Blue Lock program, a facility created to produce the best striker in the world.

3. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict

The final arc is being adapted in four parts. As the second part was concluded, the series announced part 3. Bleach TYBW Part 3 is titled “The Conflict” and is scheduled for 2024.

The sequel was announced with a minute-long teaser featuring the highly-anticipated fight between the main villain, Yhwach, and Squad Zero’s captain, Ichibe. The preview also shows Ichigo and his friends storming the Soul King’s palace, which promptly collapses.

2. My Hero Academia Season 7

My Hero Academia Season 7 is due to arrive this year, and we can’t wait. The new season will continue the next phase of the Final Act will follow Izuku Midoriya, the young heroes of Class 1-A, and the surviving heroes in a final battle against the villains to end the struggle once and for all.

Since the Paramount War began, Japan has been facing one tragedy after another with the fall of the safe society. This part of the story is still ongoing in the manga, so it’s uncertain where the anime will complete its run when it concludes next year.

1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc

Finally, we have Demon Slayer Season 4. It’s adapting the Hashira Training Arc, which is the last part of the story before the Final Arc begins. Since the arc is only a few chapters long, the season will adapt scenes from the light novel as well.

Season 4 will be the final season of Demon Slayer, after which the franchise will release trilogy movies for the Final Arc. The Hashira Training Arc will follow Tanjiro and the others as they undergo hellish training to become stronger before the final battle with Muzan and the Upper Moons begins.

For more of the finest anime on offer, check out our lists of the best short anime and best anime like Solo Leveling.