Labor Day is over, and fall anime is flooding in. Skip the algorithm and watch what costs something. FX Fighter Kurumi-chan premieres October 1 on Crunchyroll as financial panic and the Lost Decade gambling. Spice and Wolf Season 2 waits until 2027 because patience matters. Crunchyroll Anime Nights teases Black Clover, Firefly Wedding, Overgeared, and PSYREN. Buy the discs. Your backlog is a library, not a bill.
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NieA Under 7 blends deadpan comedy with working-class melancholy in post-bubble Japan. In the quiet town of Enohana, impoverished cram school student Mayuko shares a bathhouse closet with NieA, an antenna-less alien pariah. Created by Yoshitoshi ABe, this slow-paced slice-of-life transforms frugal production into an empathetic examination of poverty, social alienation, and unexpected kinship between societal castaways surviving together on the fringes of an indifferent world.
Blue Exorcist follows Rin Okumura, Satan’s son, training at True Cross Academy to kill his father. Kazue Kato’s Jump Square manga has run since 2009. A-1 Pictures’ 2011 anime hits until it writes its own ending. Kyoto Saga returned to the manga, and Studio VOLN carried later arcs through 2025. This review tracks the blue flames, the brother bond, and why the page outruns season one.
Zhuge Liang, the legendary Three Kingdoms strategist, dies at Wuzhang Plains and awakens in modern Shibuya during a Halloween party. Renaming himself Kongming, he pledges his tactical genius to Eiko, a struggling singer chasing stardom. Blending military stratagems with music-industry schemes, this P.A. Works comedy pairs laugh-out-loud humor, an unstoppable soundtrack, and surprising heart into one of 2022’s most charming and bingeable anime of its season.
Episode two opens the revenge tour as a storefront. Elizabeth takes asylum in the Yutear Empire, borrows one hundred gold coins against her body, and founds Traitre Commercial Firm as Ellie Leis. Soap samples, church donations, and a formula split between a safe and a necklace bait Gazaru’s Jackman into stealing poison. The guild arrives. Father Luis arrives. Jackman liquidates everything. She was never the mark.
Episodes 3 and 4 form a continuous arc: a cemetery raid quest that collapses when the Ghoul Head devours the undead and evolves into a level 40 Mad Headder through Existence Evolution. With D-rank overseer Gowtan poisoned, Elymas commands the panicked examinees, solos the Wights, and unlocks Vital Slice. Promoted to E-class with 930,000 gold and the Daemonsrage Shield, this isekai clearly passes the four-episode rule.
Episode 4 of Yowayowa Sensei sends Hiyori and Class 2 on a two-night school camp, where Abikura’s reputation-repair schemes keep collapsing. Bus nausea, hiking fan service, an uncensored bath mix-up, and a rain-canceled test of courage pile on until students restage her haunted rooms indoors. Spooky Scary Sensei earns credit, Abikura steps up as class president, and the “I like you” confession gets recast as respect.
Nine students and their teacher perform the Sachiko Ever After charm and wake inside Heavenly Host Elementary, a cursed school sustained by murdered children. Corpse Party: Tortured Souls adapts the cult horror game in four OVAs of relentless gore, grief, and Buddhist-flavored repentance. The animation is rough and characterization thin, but the clue-laden mystery rewards attention, and the finale lands hard—a mean, honest B-grade splatterfest.
Takuya Seo hides his love for the niche anime Glittermon after years of bullying, until gyaru classmates Kei Amane and Kotoko Ijichi turn out to be closet otaku themselves. Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? follows this unlikely trio through karaoke, festivals, and beach-episode antics. The chemistry charms, the early visuals shine, but a thin plot and weak romance keep this 2026 TMS Entertainment comedy decent.