Crunchyroll Anime Acquisitions at Anime Expo 2024

Crunchyroll is one of the largest anime streaming platforms in the world. Anime Expo is one of the largest anime conventions in the world. Combine those two things and you have a recipe for the company to announce a lot of its future anime on AX. How many of those future anime, you might ask? Well, let’s find out together, shall we?

Anime Expo 2024: Crunchyroll Anime Acquisition Details

At Anime Expo 2024: Crunchyroll officially announced details of its latest anime acquisitions. They include a huge number of upcoming titles, from the latest season Dr. Stone for the long awaited next season TRIGUN STAMPEDE. All with a wide selection of release dates.

Ah, but you’re probably tired of me talking about it now, right? So here are all the Crunchyroll anime announced for Anime Expo 2024, along with their release date/window (if any), key visuals, trailers, and synopses below:

The Omniscient Reader ~ Coming soon

Webtoon Description: Dokja was an average office worker whose only interest was reading his favorite web novel, “Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse.” But when the novel suddenly becomes reality, he is the only one who knows how the world will end. Armed with this knowledge, Dokja uses his knowledge to change the course of history and the world as he knows it.

Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE ~ Coming soon

Summary: Several thousand years after a mysterious phenomenon that turns all of humanity into stone, an incredibly intelligent, science-driven boy, Senku Ishigami, awakens. Faced with a world made of stone and the total collapse of civilization, Senku decides to use science to rebuild the world. Starting with his super-strong childhood friend Taiju Oki, who awakened at the same time, they will begin rebuilding civilization from scratch… Representing two million years of scientific history from the Stone Age to the present day, an unprecedented story of craft adventure is about to begin!

Firepower Season 3 ~ April 2025 and January 2026

Season 1 Summary: Tokyo is burning, and its citizens are mysteriously suffering from spontaneous combustion throughout the city! The Fire Force is responsible for putting out this inferno, and Shinra is ready to join their fight. Now, as part of Company 8, he will use his devilish footprints to help the city from turning to ash! But his past and a burning secret behind the scenes could set everything on fire.

Yakuza’s Fiancé ~ October 2024

Summary: Somei Renji is the grandfather of Somei Yoshino and the leader of the “Somei Group”, the largest yakuza group in the Kansai region. When he arranges her wedding to Miyama Kirishima, Yoshino has to move to the estate of the “Miyama Clan”, the largest yakuza group in the Kanto region. Kirishima warmly welcomes Yoshino and is such a pleasant, sociable and kind young man that no one would suspect that he comes from a yakuza family. This calms Yoshino down, even though she initially felt uneasy in this unfamiliar place. But then an event leads Yoshino to witness the real Kirishima.

The Pharmacist’s Diaries Season 2 ~ 2025

Season 1 Summary: Maomao lived a quiet life with her apothecary father. Until one day she was sold as a lowly servant to the emperor’s palace. But she was not cut out for the dutiful life of royalty. So when the imperial heirs fell ill, she decided to step in and find a cure! This caught the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promoted her. Now she is making a name for herself by solving medical mysteries!

BLUE BLOCK Season 2 ~ October 2024

Season 1 Summary: Japan’s desire for World Cup glory prompts the Japan Football Association to launch a rigorous new training program to find the next national team striker. Three hundred high school players compete for the position, but only one will emerge victorious. Who will be the striker who ushers in a new era of Japanese football?

Either way, I’m falling in love with you ~ January 2025

Ssummary: It’s July 1, 2020. Mizuha, a second-year high school student, is celebrating the worst seventeenth birthday of her life. She loses the chance to get closer to an older student she admires, and her parents didn’t even remember it was her birthday. Worst of all, a new, unknown infectious disease is going around, so all of her club tournaments and school trips have been canceled. She’s convinced she’ll never have the dazzling youth she’s always dreamed of… but then her childhood friend, Kizuki, suddenly announces himself as her boyfriend. This is a school story about four childhood friends who grew up as a family, one of them being the protagonist, Nishino Mizuha, and the four boys she grew up with and considers family.

Click on the link: Bridon Arc ~ Winter 2024

Summary: In order to save the deceased Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang returns to the beginning, retracing the path of fate. However, a photo containing clues about Cheng Xiaoshi’s parents appears in the “Time Photo Studio”. To discover the truth, Lu Guang nervously travels to Bridon with Cheng Xiaoshi. Friendly top model Xia Fei, eccentric Chinatown leader Vein, and the mysteriously appearing Liu Xiao… Will Lu Guang be able to break the inevitable deadlock, facing people with different motives?

Natsume’s Book of Friends Season 7 ~ Fall 2024

Series Summary: Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept a secret. However, when he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.

Demon Lord, Retry! R ~ Fall 2024

Summary: Akira Oono enters the world of Infinity Game as the final boss and his favorite character, Demon Lord Hakuto Kunai. After meeting Aku, Luna and other friends along the way, Demon Lord begins a new journey to find a spell that can take him back to the real world. The story of Demon Lord continues in this next chapter!

TRIGUN STARGAZE ~ Coming soon

TRIGUN STAMPEDE Summary: Vash the Stampede is a gleeful pacifist gunslinger, so why is there a $6 million bounty on his head? That’s what puzzles rookie reporter Meryl Stryfe and her jaded veteran partner as they investigate the vigilante for someone who hates blood. But their investigation reveals something repulsive—his evil twin brother, Millions Knives.

Witches’ Hat Workshop ~2025

Official description of the Witch Hat Atelier manga: In a world where everyone takes miracles like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everyone knows that magicians are made, not made, and Coco wasn’t born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her non-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream of becoming a witch… until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns that what everyone “knows” may not be true, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far-fetched as it seems…

summary: They say that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not true for the world’s weakest hunter, Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo returned with the System, a program only he could see that would level him up in every way. Now, he was inspired to uncover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that birthed them.

Blue Exorcist – Beyond the Snow Saga – ~ October 2024

summary: Assiah, the realm of humans, and Gehenna, the realm of demons. Normally, these two dimensions would never intersect, but now the demons are invading the material world.

Arifureta: From Common to World’s Strongest Season 3 ~ October 2024

Summary: Hajime Nagumo and his high school class are suddenly summoned to a fantasy land as heroes. But while most of his classmates have powerful stats and abilities, Hajime does not. Underestimated and unprepared, he falls into the depths of a monster-infested dungeon, where gluttony and sacrifice are his only options. To succeed in this savage world, he will have no choice but to welcome the abyss.

Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- ~2025

Summary: Ciel Phantomhive is the most powerful boy in all of England, but he bears the scars of unspeakable suffering. Forced to watch his beloved parents brutally murdered, Ciel was then kidnapped and brutally tortured. Desperate to end his suffering, the boy traded his own soul for a chance at vengeance, tying his fate to the only person he could rely on: Sebastian, a Butler demon summoned from the depths of Hell. Together, they will traverse the darkest alleys of London on a mission to extinguish those who would do evil.

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