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Crunchyroll Winter 2026 anime season lineup and schedule
Full schedule of anime releases for this season
Crunchyroll has added nine exclusive titles for its Winter 2025 anime season lineup for Philippine viewers.
Step into the worlds of these titles as part of the lineup:
- Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3
- Trigun Stargaze
- Sentenced to be a Hero
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2
- Oshi no Ko Season
The streaming platform is also offering a limited-time year-end sale. Fans can avail of the annual Fan and Mega Fan Premium Memberships for PhP 560 and PhP 710, respectively until December 30.
For its winter calendar, Crunchyroll will simulcast several titles weekly throughout the season. Below is the official schedule.
31 December
- Tamon’s B-Side
- Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None
2 January
- The Outcast 6
3 January
- Sentenced to Be a Hero
- Fate/strange Fake
4 January
- Hana-Kimi
- MF GHOST Season 3
- The Daily Life of a Part-time Torturer
- Journal with Witch
- Kunon the Sorcerer Can See
5 January
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2
- Wash It All Away
6 January
- Tune In to the Midnight Heart
- The Demon King’s Daughter is Too Kind!!
- There was a Cute Girl in the Hero’s Party, so I Tried Confessing to Her
- Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter
7 January
- SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
- Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord
- An Adventurer’s Daily Grind at Age 29
8 January
- JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 3
- The Holy Grail of Eris
- Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You Season 2
- The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife
- ROLL OVER AND DIE
9 January
- Fire Force Season 3 Part 2
- DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR
10 January
- TRIGUN STARGAZE
- Dead Account
- A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans
11 January
- You and I Are Polar Opposites
- Kaya-chan isn’t Scary
- The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom
- In the Clear Moonlit Dusk
12 January
- ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess Season 2
14 January
- 【OSHI NO KO】Season 3
16 January
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2
Entertainment
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 premieres in April
The animated series is set between seasons two and three.
Stranger Things is over. After years of success, the long-running series finally reached its definitive conclusion. But if you thought Netflix would easily let its biggest cash cow go, then you’d be mistaken. Barely a month after the final episode, the franchise is back with an animated spinoff called Stranger Things: Tales from ’85.
The animated series, which oddly features a new cast to voice the characters, is not a continuation of the concluded story. Rather, it’s a midquel set during the winter between the second and third seasons. Despite closing off a gate to the Upside Down, Eleven and the gang discover that some monsters are still lurking around in their world.
Because we already know what happens up until the very end, there’s hardly any tension. That said, and based on the show’s subtitle, the animated series might be a creature-of-the-week adventure. However, Eric Robles, who will run the series, says that saving Hawkins is still a major plot point.
The Duffer Brothers, who will be executive producers, says that it was a challenge to feature monsters after the events of the main show’s second season. The show will still have a substantial story, though.
For now, we’ll have a bit of a reprieve from everything Stranger Things (or time to catch up with everything, if you prefer). Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 will premiere on April 23.
SEE ALSO: BTS returns with global live comeback event on Netflix this March
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BTS returns with global live comeback event on Netflix this March
BTS reunites live worldwide
Netflix has officially announced BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG, a global livestream event set for March 21, 2026. This marks the group’s first full reunion performance since completing South Korea’s mandatory military service.
Streaming live exclusively on Netflix, the event will air at 8 PM KST (or 4 AM PST and 7 AM EST). It will broadcast worldwide from the historic Gwanghwamun in Seoul. The performance celebrates the release of BTS’ fifth studio album, ARIRANG.
Netflix partnered with HYBE to bring the seven-member group back to the stage. This is being positioned as a landmark global comeback. RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook will reunite onstage for the first time as a complete group since their hiatus.
The live special will be directed by Hamish Hamilton and produced by Done + Dusted, with executive producers including HYBE, BIGHIT MUSIC, Guy Carrington, Garrett English, and Kevin Hermanson. Netflix confirmed that the event will be ticketed, with further details to be announced at a later date.
A symbolic return in Seoul
The choice of Gwanghwamun as the livestream location adds symbolic weight to the comeback. One of Seoul’s most historic public spaces, the setting reflects the themes explored in ARIRANG. It is an album described as deeply reflective and rooted in identity, heritage, and renewal.
The album announcement arrives alongside confirmation of the ARIRANG World Tour, scheduled to run from 2026 to 2027. The tour will span 34 regions and include 82 shows. This will happen across Asia, North and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and additional territories.
Together, the album and live event mark the start of a new chapter for BTS. This follows years of solo activities and military enlistment. The comeback positions the group not just as returning idols, but as artists re-entering the global stage with a renewed sense of perspective.
Netflix expands its live ambitions
BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG also represents a milestone for Netflix. It will be the platform’s first-ever live global broadcast originating from South Korea, further expanding its growing slate of live programming.
The event joins a lineup that already includes live specials. These are Skyscraper Live, Star Search, Jake vs Joshua, WWE Raw, NFL Christmas Gameday, and major boxing and sports events. Netflix has also confirmed upcoming live coverage of MLB games, the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and The Actor Awards.
With BTS leading the charge, Netflix continues to test the limits of live global entertainment beyond traditional sports and reality formats.
A documentary follows days later
Just days after the livestream, Netflix will release BTS: THE RETURN, a feature-length documentary premiering on March 27, 2026.
Directed by Bao Nguyen, the film chronicles the group’s long-awaited reunion and the making of ARIRANG. The documentary follows BTS as they reunite in Los Angeles. Watch as they create new music, navigating personal change, shared history, and the challenge of beginning again after time apart.
Produced by This Machine, HYBE, and EAST Films, the documentary promises unprecedented access to the group’s creative process. It explores moments of doubt, reflection, and rediscovery as BTS shape what is positioned as a defining album of their career.
Intimate and emotional in tone, BTS: THE RETURN frames the comeback not just as a pop culture moment, but as a story of resilience, brotherhood, and reinvention—one shaped by time, growth, and the weight of global expectation.
For millions of fans worldwide, March 2026 marks not just a return, but the beginning of BTS’ next era.
Entertainment
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord to premiere on April 6
New animated series on Disney Plus
One of the most iconic franchise villains is making a major comeback as Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is premiering on April 6 on Disney+.
Two episodes from the all-new Lucasfilm animated series will premiere each week. The final two will air right in time for the ultimate Star Wars holiday, May the 4th.
Set after the events of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the adventure finds Maul plotting to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.
There, he crosses paths with a disillusioned young Jedi Padawan who could be the apprentice he is seeking to aid him in his relentless pursuit for revenge.
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is created by Dave Filoni, based on Star Wars and characters created by George Lucas.
The series is developed by Dave Filoni and Matt Michnovetz, with Brad Rau as supervising director. The three are also joined by Athena Yvette Portillo, Carrie Beck, and Josh Rimes as executive producers, with Alex Spotswood as co-executive producer.
The voice cast includes:
- Sam Witwer as Maul
- Gideon Adlon as Devon Izara
- Wagner Moura as Brander Lawson
- Richard Ayoade as Two-Boots
- Dennis Haysbert as Master Eeko-Dio-Daki
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Looti Vario
- Charlie Bushnell as Rylee Lawson
- Vanessa Marshall as Rook Kast
- David C. Collins as Spybot
- A.J. LoCascio as Marrok
- Steve Blum as Icarus
For now, here’s a quick trailer:
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