Classroom of the Elite Season 4 anime is officially coming to Crunchyroll, as announced at the ongoing Anime Expo 2025 event in Los Angeles. The first trailer for the sequel covering the 2nd year was previously revealed during the AnimeJapan 2025 event in Mach.
No new visuals or trailers were revealed during the panel. You can see the first teaser visual from September 2024 below.
This will be the final year for Ayanokoji and his classmates, with some major changes in each of the classes. A special trailer narrated by Akari Kito was recently revealed for the Year 3 novel series, which began on March 24.
The anime is an adaptation of Shogo Kinugasa’s Classroom of the Elite light novels. The first season premiered in 2017 and had 12 episodes. Season 2 was announced in March 2022, and it ran for 13 episodes in the Summer 2022 anime season. Season 3 was delayed from its original schedule and ended up premiering in January 2024, also getting a total of 13 episodes.
Crunchyroll is streaming the anime, and they describe the story:
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it’s said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school’s problem children.
What’s more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class.
One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school…
Source: Anime Expo 2025
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