Fall 2026's Second Wave: Five More Anime Premiere October 5-7, and Four Are New

Fall 2026's first big weekend was about sequels catching up with the backlog, Apothecary Diaries, Tokyo Revengers, Black Clover, Ranma 1/2, Blue Box, Aoashi, six returning titles crammed into three days. This second wave, October 5 through 7, is a different kind of crowded. Four of the five shows landing this week are brand new, which means this is actually the window where the season's new blood gets introduced, not just its franchises.

October 5: a reincarnation comedy with a lower bar to clear

So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? opens the week, animated at BAKKKA under director Ryūta Kawahara and airing on Tokyo MX before streaming on ABEMA and Prime Video in Japan. The premise is right there in the title, a reincarnation comedy that swaps the usual "strongest isekai protagonist" fantasy for something smaller and scrappier: you're not the hero, you're a goblin, and the joke is in figuring out what that actually means day to day. It is a lower-stakes pitch than most of the season's other new shows, which might be exactly the point after a summer of increasingly self-serious power fantasies.

October 6: a procedural trying something structurally different

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo follows a day later, produced by Arvo Animation under director Junichi Yamamoto. The hook is right there in the name: a police procedural built around psychic abilities instead of forensics, which gives it room to do something most crime shows can't, let the audience see exactly how a case gets solved instead of reconstructing it after the fact. Whether that stays fresh past the premiere depends on how disciplined the show is about using its powers as a storytelling constraint rather than just a way to skip past the legwork, but it is a clear enough angle that it is worth checking the pilot before writing it off.

October 7: the day the season actually gets crowded

Three shows land on the same day here, which makes October 7 the real test of how much attention this season can absorb at once.

The World's Strongest Witch debuts with Jōji Furuta directing at Bridge and Aisle, airing across Tokyo MX, BS11, and TV Aichi. It's a magical-academy premise with a title that is doing a lot of confident lifting before anyone's seen a fight scene, so the pilot has to actually back that claim up fast.

The Detective Is Already Dead Season 2 returns at ENGI with director Manabu Kurihara back in the chair, after the season was delayed out of its original July slot. That delay is worth remembering going in: a mystery series built on a tight central hook can lose momentum when the gap between seasons runs long, and this premiere has to re-earn the audience's patience before it can lean on goodwill from Season 1.

Sasaki and Peeps Season 2 is the one with the clearest statement of confidence attached. SILVER LINK is bringing it back with new director Yushi Ibe and character designer Saori Nakashiki, and the season opens with a full one-hour special instead of a standard episode. Giving a returning show double the runtime on day one is a studio telling you exactly which premiere it thinks deserves the extra real estate this week.

How to actually triage this

If you only have room for one new show this week, the honest read is Sasaki and Peeps, purely because SILVER LINK is the only one treating its premiere as an event rather than a standard episode. But the goblin comedy is the better bet if you're tired of the genre taking itself seriously, and the Chojo premiere is worth ten minutes just to see whether its procedural hook actually holds up in motion. The Detective sequel and World's Strongest Witch are the two to watch with your expectations calibrated, one coming off a delay it needs to shake, the other carrying a title it still has to prove.