The best new anime coming this fall, when they premiere, and when to watch them on Crunchyroll and Netflix, with shows including Chainsaw Man, Mob Psycho 100 season 3, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, My Hero Academia, Spy x Family, and more.
After eight months, it’s finally here: the biggest anime season of the year! Between the return of beloved series like My Hero Academia, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Mob Psycho 100, and Spy x Family and the highly anticipated premiere of Chainsaw Man, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Urusei Yatsura, and more, the fall 2022 anime season boasts a veritable smorgasbord of fantastic new anime to watch.
And even with all that said, that still isn’t the sum of everything this season has to offer, as we’re still waiting on confirmed premiere dates and streaming platforms for several of the season’s most anticipated premieres, on top of trailers for shows like Golden Kamuy season 4, Pop Team Epic season 2, and others.
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We’ll update this list later once we have a clearer picture of everything the upcoming season has to offer, but in the meantime, here are 15 anime airing this fall that you should look forward to.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean returns with 12 new episodes, continuing the saga of Jolyne Cujoh and her perilous fight to escape from Green Dolphin Street Prison. The latest trailer for the series suggests that, along with saving her father Jotaro’s life, Jolyne will also be forced to stop the nefarious Stand user Father Enrico Pucci from resurrecting the Joestar family’s longtime nemesis, Dio. Fans of the anime can expect eccentric new enemies, flamboyant allies, and even more outrageous supernatural fights.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean part 2 premieres on Sept. 1 and will stream on Netflix.
First announced in 2020, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a 10-episode sci-fi action anime set in the universe of CD Projekt Red’s action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077. The series follows David, a street kid trying to eke out a living in the technology- and body modification-obsessed metropolis of Night City. After crossing paths with Lucy, an elusive hacker, David chooses to pursue a life as an “edgerunner” — an outlaw mercenary-for-hire willing to go toe-to-toe with the city’s most notorious cyber-psychos and criminals if the pay is right.
The trailer is impressive, featuring the sort of highly stylized visuals and explosive action one would naturally expect from the likes of director Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill) and Studio Trigger. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will feature character designs by Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal), as well as a score composed by Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners premieres on Sept. 13 and will stream on Netflix.
Based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s critically acclaimed action-horror manga, Chainsaw Man follows Denji, an impoverished teenager who is forced to hunt Devils, powerful supernatural monsters manifested from humanity’s collective fears and traumas, in order to pay back his father’s debt to the yakuza. After being betrayed and left for dead, Denji fuses with his pet Chainsaw Devil Pochita to become Chainsaw Man, a powerful Devil-human hybrid with the ability to summon chainsaws from his body.
Chainsaw Man is without a doubt one of the most anticipated anime premieres of 2022, if not the most anticipated, full stop. MAPPA’s anime adaptation boasts a murderers’ row of talented young animators behind its production, including director Ryu Nakayama (Jujutsu Kaisen), character designer Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation), action animation director Tatsuya Yoshihara (Black Clover), as well as Devil designs by Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Devilman Crybaby, Deca-Dence) and a score by Kensuke Ushio (A Silent Voice, Devilman Crybaby). With a team like that, Chainsaw Man is easily shaping up to be the belle of the ball this fall anime season.
Chainsaw Man premieres in October and will stream on Crunchyroll.
More than a decade since the end of Bleach’s original anime adaptation, studio Pierrot has returned to produce a new anime based on the previously unadapted final arc of Tite Kubo’s supernatural action manga. Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi (Akudama Drive, Persona 4: The Golden Animation), Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War will see Ichigo Kurosaki and his Soul Reaper allies fight against the Quincy empire of Wandenreich in all-out battle to decide the fate of all existence. Several members of the original production team have returned for this new season, including character designer Masashi Kudo and composer Shiro Sagisu.
