Crunchyroll Packs NYCC with Big Reveals Including OSHI NO KO Season 3, First Look at Daemons of the Shadow Realm, and More
Crunchyroll lit up New York Comic Con with a brisk parade of announcements, trailers, and surprise guests—headlined by three tentpoles: 【OSHI NO KO】 Season 3 joining the platform this winter, the first full trailer for Daemons of the Shadow Realm, and global theatrical plans (outside most Asian territories) for the new feature That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea.
On the film side, Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will bring Tears of the Azure Sea to theaters worldwide at a later date. The standalone story—animated by studio 8-Bit—reunites Rimuru and friends for an ocean-set adventure that introduces a mysterious visitor and a fresh crisis on a private resort island.
For TV, 【OSHI NO KO】’s third season is arriving on Crunchyroll this winter, giving one of the year’s most talked-about series a clear streaming home for its next chapter. Fans at the Showcase also got a world-premiere look at Daemons of the Shadow Realm, adapted from Hiromu Arakawa’s manga; Aniplex producer Sota Furuhashi presented the first full trailer on stage. The series will stream first on Crunchyroll starting April 2026.
That being said, the Showcase wasn’t just premieres and pickups. Crunchyroll rolled out a new teaser visual spotlighting Qifrey for the Witch Hat Atelier anime adaptation and formally launched the Crunchyroll Manga app in the U.S. and Canada. The service offers hundreds of titles from publishers including Square Enix, VIZ Media, Yen Press, Alphapolis, and COMPASS, with offline reading on mobile/tablet and a web version set for October 15. And yes, it’s included with the Ultimate Fan membership, with add-on options for other plans.
Rounding out the slate, Crunchyroll flagged a raft of upcoming series: A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation (first-time localization), Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, Kunon the Sorcerer Can See, The Daily Life of a Single 29-Year-Old Adventurer, A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special Season 2, and The Beginning After the End Season 2—set to stream exclusively on Crunchyroll in Spring 2026 following a world-premiere trailer and a message from creator TurtleMe.
Elsewhere at the con, programming highlights included a Fire Force Season 3 Part 2 world-premiere screening, a Dan Da Dan English-dub panel on the Empire Stage, and TRIGUN STARGAZE’s two-episode world premiere with a creator talk—capstones to a weekend where Crunchyroll made your future watch-list clear.
