Crunchyroll recently announced its lineup at Anime Expo 2026, featuring seven confirmed titles that will get special first looks.
Anime Expo is one of the biggest anime events in the US. Thus, Crunchyroll has been a constant presence at the show over the years, with big booths, special preview screenings, and stage events.
For this year’s event, Crunchyroll revealed its new lineup of shows. Currently, these seven shows are confirmed to get the spotlight:
Goodbye, Lara
Long, long ago, there lived a mermaid princess named Lara. She was raised with love by her father, the king of sea and her sisters.One day, Lara fell in love with a human prince who lived on land. It was a forbidden love—one that was not allowed in the world of mermaids. Still, Lara journeyed to the surface. With a potion, given to her from the witch Grace, she became human.But the potion came at a cost—fail to find true love, and she would turn into foam and vanish into the ocean. Though she was a princess of the sea, Lara chose love. Yet, her wish went unfulfilled and she vanished into the sea.
Two hundred years later, Lara awakens once more, in Lake Biwa to finally search for her true love.
This show will be streamed on Crunchyroll worldwide, except in Mainland China and Japan.
I Became a Legend after My 10 Year-Long Last Stand
Luck, an S-rank mage in the hero’s party, makes a last stand against the Demon King to save his companions. When he finally returns victorious, ten years have passed, and the world praises him as a legendary hero who died in battle. Unable to reclaim his former life, Luck conceals his identity and begins again as “Lock,” an F-rank adventurer forging a future in a world that moved on without him.
This series will be streamed on Crunchyroll worldwide, except in Mainland China, South Korea and Japan.
Overgeared
Shin Youngwoo (a.k.a. Grid), an unlucky man in life and a low-level player in the popular VR game “Satisfy,” finds a powerful item that earns him a rare legendary class title: “Pagma’s Successor.” He’s now a skilled blacksmith who can forge unique weapons and equip the game’s most powerful gear. Grid resolves to use his new abilities to achieve fame and fortune, but as his very existence begins to stir up trouble in Satisfy, he realizes that life as a legend may be more than he bargained for….
Crunchyroll will stream this show worldwide excluding Japan and Korea.
Sasaki and Peeps Season 2
Sasaki is a middle-aged office worker living in Japan. Feeling drained by the vapid corporate world, he heads to the pet shop in search of a new companion. There he finds an adorable bird named Peeps and takes him home. But Sasaki quickly learns that Peeps isn’t your average bird…he’s a powerful mage from another world! Together, they embark on a magical adventure filled with swords and sorcery.
Crunchyroll will stream this show in most of the world, except in certain parts of Asia, though it will be streamed in India and Southeast Asia.
The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power
Lady Carolina, the overlooked daughter of a powerful duke, has always believed herself to be the black sheep amid her illustrious kin. Her father is the distinguished prime minister; her elder sister, a prodigious mage destined to become their nation’s next Saint. In comparison, Carolina resigns herself to a quiet existence in their shadows until a sudden and unexpected royal decree alters her destiny, thrusting her into a political marriage with the formidable “Bloodthirsty Prince” of the neighboring Empire of Malcosias. Determined to prove her worth, Carolina takes a bold step into a world fraught with both political and mortal peril. As royal obligations intertwine with hints of true love and the stirrings of her own latent power, Carolina moves ever closer to understanding what it truly means to be exceptional.
The show will be streamed on Crunchyroll worldwide except in Japan.
The Ogre’s Bride
A Japanese-style ayakashi Cinderella story! “You’re the bride I’ve been searching for all this time.” The ayakashi and humans coexist in harmony. The ayakashi, having superior abilities and beautiful appearances, sometimes find their partner among human women, making them their “bride”. The bride, in exchange for bringing prosperity, receives absolute love from the ayakashi. Yuzu is constantly compared to her sister, a bride of a demon fox, and is resented by her family every day. One day, when Yuzu just couldn’t take things anymore, a man appeared before her on a bridge. This man is the most beautiful man Yuzu has ever seen… and he’s calling her his wife?! “Just be quiet and let me hold you.” The most powerful, “cold-hearted” ayakashi is pouring his heart out for Yuzu?!
Crunchyroll will stream the show worldwide, except in Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia
The Villager of Level 999
Monsters did not always exist in the island country of Hexaldoria, once known as Japan.
But, once monsters appeared, their numbers grew in an instant. Eighty percent of the world is now too dangerous for people to live in. With the monsters’ arrival, the world bestowed “Classes” upon its people. Classes are assigned at birth, and most people live according to them. There are eight COMPETENT classes: FIGHTER, HUNTER, CLERIC, WARRIOR, MAGE, MERCHANT, THEIF. And three special ORACLE classes: KING, SAGE, HERO. The weakest Class of all is VILLAGER. However, Kouji Kagami became “LEVEL 999”–the highest level that no one had reached before. When he met the daughter of the Demon King, the world started to change!
The show will be streamed on Crunchyroll in most of the world, except East Asia, though it will be available in the Indian sub continent and Southeast Asia.
Anime Expo 2026 is happening from July 2-5, 2026, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.