Every Returning Anime Affected by COVID-19 - and When They Come Back

The entertainment industry has been heavily affected by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, and anime is no exception. A state of emergency was declared in Japan on April 16, which was lifted on May 25 after the number of cases in the country fell. Most studios suffered delays in production before and during that time, including TV Tokyo, MediaNet and Toei Animation. Meanwhile, international streaming services and distributors like Crunchyroll, FUNimation and Sentai Filmworks announced delays in the simulcasting and dubbing of licensed anime.

Some adjusted to a work-from-home strategy to ensure production continued and broadcasters resorted to replaying older episodes in their stead. Now, more and more series are steadily resuming from where they left off or announcing rescheduled air dates.

Here’s a list of every returning anime series and film affected by COVID-19 and the date of their return.

• A Certain Scientific Railgun T (earlier episodes rescheduled with Episode 16 airing July 29)
• A3! Season Autumn & Winter (resumes in October)
• A3! Season Spring & Summer (resumed April 6)
• Akudama Drive (resumes in October)
• Appare-Ranman! (restarts July 3)
• Assault Lily Bouquet (returns in October)
• Black Clover (re-runs will start June 9)
• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (Episode 155 speculated to air at the end of June)
• Cardfight!! Vanguard Gaiden if (rescheduled for May 30)
• Chibi Maruko-chan (returns June 21)
• Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (restarts July 7)
• Digimon Adventure (restarted June 7)
• Dropout Idol Fruit Tart (returns in October)
• Duel Masters King (resumed from Episode 5, May 31)
• EX-ARM (likely returns Fall or later)
• Extra Olympia Kyklos (returns June 22)
• Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Fifth Plate (returns July 3)
• Gal & Dino (five-episode rerun to replace new episodes from May 23)
• Gundam Build Drivers Re: RISE Season 2 (reruns of selected episodes aired on June 2)
• Haikyu!! To The Top’s Second Half (returns in winter)
• Hakushon Daimao 2020 (Episode 8 will air June 20)
• Healin’Good Precure (selected episodes aired from April 26)
• Hypnosis Mic – Division Rap Battle (returns in October)
• Infinite Dendrogram (will return on an unannounced date)
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III (delayed until summer)
• Kiratto Pri Chan (set to return on July 5)
• Kyoshin to Hyoka no Shiro (will return on an unannounced date)
• Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table (set to return in January 2021)
• Mashin Eiyuden Wataru Shichi Tamashii no Ryujinmaru (Episode 3 will air June 19)
• Maesetsu! (returns in October)
• Major 2nd Season 2 (returned May 30)
• Mewkledreamy (returned on May 31)
• My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax (returns July 9)
• No Guns Life (second half to return in July)
• One Piece (preparations are in progress to continue)
• ORESUKI: Are you the only one who loves me? (Finale OVA returns September 2)
• Pokémon Journeys: The Series (returned June 7)
• Pokémon: Twilight Wings (returned June 5)
• Re: ZERO – Starting Life in Another World Season 2 (returns July 8)
• Skate-Leading Stars (to be released on July)
• Strike the Blood IV Volume 2 (returns July 29)
• Sword Art Online: Alicization War of Underworld Part 2 (returns July 11)
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 (returns January 2021)
• The Irregular at Magic High School Season 2 (Raihōsha-hen) (to be released in October)
• The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED (returns July 16)
• The Misfit of Demon Academy (returns July 4)
• The Promised Neverland Season 2 (returns in October)
• The Quintessential Quintuplets ∫∫ (returns January 2021)
• The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 (returns April 2021)
• The ANIMATION 2 (returns October)
• VladLove (delayed until Fall)
• Warlords of Sigrdrifa (returns October)
• Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens (resumed April 4)
• Zoids Wild Zero (returns June 19
• A Whisker Away (Nakitai Watashi wa Neko o Kaburu) (streams globally on Netflix, June 18)
• Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet (rescheduled to April 2021)
• Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (delayed from July 7; new release date to be announced)
• Doraemon Nobita's New Dinosaur (release date to be announced)
• Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Gekitotsu! Rakuga Kingdom to Hobo Yonin no Yūsha (postponed from April 24 to an unknown date)
• Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Shin Kyoryū (returns August 7)
• Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0: Thrice Upon A Time (delayed from June 27; release date to be announced)
• Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendō: Tsuritai Yaki (postponed from April 24 to an unknown date)
• Gekijōban Pocket Monster Koko (Set to return to Japan late 2020)
• Gekijōban Seitokai Yakuindomo 2 (postponed to an unknown date)
• Happy-Go-Lucky Days (postponed from May 8 to an unknown date)
• Jewelpet: Attack Travel (release date to be announced)
• Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (postponed to an unknown date)
• Looking for Magical DoReMi (returns in Fall)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (debuts on July 23)
• Monster Strike The Movie: Lucifer Zetsubō no Yoake (rescheduled to November with online previews released June 13-14)
• Sayonara, Tyranno (new opening date to be announced)
• Shimajirō to Sora Tubu Fune (release date to be announced)
• Violet Evergarden (postponed from April 24; new release date to be announced)