Winter 2022 anime season is upon us, and as always Crunchyroll revealed its anime lineup. This season is looking pretty stacked and with decent availability. The lineup includes both sequels (new and those carrying over from the previous season) and new titles.
Let’s take a look at all of them, starting with the new.
Release date: January 8
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, MENA, and India
Studio: CloverWorks
At a prestigious girls school, one new student aims to make as many friends as she can!
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Release date: January 7
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: Yumeta Company
16 aspiring voice actors aim to achieve their anime dreams to become seiyuu stars!
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Release date: January 5
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: Maho Film
Finding themselves trapped in an MMORPG, one woman finds a new life in the land of Leadale!
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Release date: January 11
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: OLM
Hyuga Tachibana and Tsukasa Jinguji are 32-year old salarymen, who are also childhood friends. On their way home from a party, they are suddenly teleported to another world. As it turns out, a goddess summoned them and somehow Hyuga became a beautiful blonde woman. Tsukasa soon realizes that he has feelings for Hyuga’s new form. This isn’t a problem, since Huyga also finds him attractive. However, they can’t pursue a romantic relationship because they are best friends!
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The duo must defeat the Demon Lord and return to their real forms before they fall in love with each other. This is a story about a dull old man and a beautiful ex-man.
Release date: January 12
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: Platinum Vision
She’s a professional hitman. And he…is also a professional hitman. And she’s his target. Caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, will she fall first…or will he?
Yen Press
Release date: January 6 (the first episode was pre-screened at Anime NYC 2021)
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: A.C.G.T
At age 10, best friends Musashi and Kojiro sat in excited silence as Kojiro’s father spun tales of evil demons who preyed on the innocent, and the warriors who defeated them. Practicing swordplay, the two swear an oath to become the strongest in the world. But as they grow up, Kojiro turns cynical, and Musashi comes to realize that he can’t turn back 150 years of demon rule on his own. He’s being called a prodigy with a pickaxe, and he’s almost ready to settle for a life of labor. Yet he can’t shake the feeling that he still has a responsibility to act…and, soon, the injustices of his world will force his hand…
Kodansha
Release date: January 8
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: QUAD
Follow Miss Kuroitsu as she creates creatures for a villainess organization to fight against superheroes!
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Release date: January 8
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, MENA, and India
Studio: CloverWorks
Two opposite worlds collide as one shy boy and a popular girl find a connection via cosplay!
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Release date: January 10
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: OZ
In the far future, a disaster known as the “Rusty Wind” has transformed the majority of Japan into a barren desert and left civilization in tatters. After his teacher falls prey to the rust, the roguish Bisco Akahoshi embarks on journey through the sandy wastes to obtain a mushroom known only as the Rust Eater, rumored to cure the ailment. Together with the dashing young doctor Milo, the pair will have to contend with the unforgiving environment and their fellow wanderers in order to make it back alive.
Yen Press
Release date: January 10
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: J.C. Staff
His strength limited by the magical crest with which he was born. Mathias, the world’s most powerful sage, decides reincarnation is necessary to become the strongest of all. Upon his rebirth as a young boy, Mathias is thrilled to discover he’s been born with the optimal crest for magical combat on his first try! Unfortunately, the world he’s been born into has abysmally poor standards when it comes to magic. And everyone thinks he’s still marked for failure! Now it’s up to Mathias to prove everyone wrong…world’s strongest sage-style!
Square Enix
Release date: January 5
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, MENA, and India
Studio: CloverWorks
Enter the 24th Ward, a man-made island inside Tokyo Bay. Three of its inhabitants: Shuta, Ran, and Koki, have been best friends since childhood, but after a deadly incident, everything changed. A year later, reunited for the first time, they receive a mysterious phone call. On the other line is a familiar voice—from a friend who’s supposed to be dead. Together, they’ll have to save their home.
Funimation
Release date: January 7 (postponed from October)
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: AXsiZ
The time is near future-Tokyo, Japan in 2040. Reito, a young man suffering from an intractable disease, vows to reunite with his childhood friend Erisa and decides to “cold sleep” to cure her illness. When he wakes up five years later, the world was undergoing a major transformation. The MK (Male Killer) virus kills 99.9% of men on the planet. The ground was a super harem with 5 billion women for every 5 men. Only five men, “Numbers,” are resistant to the MK virus. One of them, Reito, is required to “mate” for the survival of the remaining women and humankind. Harem life waiting for the world after the pandemic. At the same time, Reito is involved in a global conspiracy over Numbers. Can he overcome the temptation and save the world?
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Release date: January 9
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: Kigumi
Samurai warriors fight in with a steampunk spin in an alternate Warring States period!
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Release date: January 22
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: LIDEN FILMS
They may be salarymen by day, but they also play badminton on the side!
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Release date: January 9
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: MAPPA
Eren Yeager and the Scout Regiment members head to their final showdown as Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2 begins!
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Release date: January 10
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: CygamesPictures
In the beautiful land of Astraea where a gentle breeze blows, a young man named Yuuki awakens with no memory of his past.
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There he encounters a guide who has sworn to care for him – Kokkoro, a lovely swordswoman who’s always feeling peckish – Pecorine, and a cat-eared sorceress with a prickly attitude – Karyl. Led by fate, these four come together to form the “Gourmet Guild.”
And so their adventure begins…
Release date: January 14
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, MENA and India
Studio: BONES
Vanitas and Noe continue their investigation into the secrets of the Curse of the Blue Moon!
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Release date: TBA
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: ILCA
Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.
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Airs on Sundays at 5 PM CEST
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: ufotable
Tanjiro and his friends accompany the Hashira Tengen Uzui to an entertainment district where Tengen’s female ninja agents were gathering information on a demon before they suddenly disappeared. In order to investigate, Tanjiro and the others disguise themselves as women to sneak in! As they close in on their target, the demon reaches out for the courtesans of the district!
Volume 9 Synopsis, Viz Media
Airs on Thursdays at 10 PM CEST
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
Studio: Signal.MD
As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.
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Airs on Saturdays at 11 AM CEST
Availability: United States, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Studio: Sunrise
The sequel to the world-famous feudal fairy tale continues in Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon – The Second Act!
Next episode: January 6 (first 10 episodes coming soon)
Availability: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, MENA, and India
Studio: WIT Studio
Unable to hear or speak, Prince Bojji sets off on an adventure to prove that he’s a worthy heir…with the help of a shadow named Kage.
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One Piece, BORUTO: Naruto Next Generations, Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House, Digimon Ghost Game, Dragon Quest the Adventure of Dai, and Black Runner: Black Lotus are also continuing, along with Case Closed (Detective Conan anime) and Tropical-Rogue! Precure.
The Crunchyroll Winter 2022 lineup still isn’t complete, so we’ll be keeping an eye out for more information. All these series are available to stream on their website.
Source: Crunchyroll