Anime Movies & Series Released in July 2026

Animation · Japanese

A hand-drawn pilot movie that promises a return to the powerful linework traditional to Japanese animation.

Animation · Comedy · Action · Japanese

After failing to stop the thieves due to ill-fitting shoes, Nami storms into the shop where she bought them for a refund. However, the head designer offers to make her a new pair from scratch on one condition: she must walk in their upcoming fashion show.

Animation · Japanese

Ame loves sweets and lives with Caries, a lively cavity in her mouth. Despite the chaos Caries causes, they enjoy a wild life together, embarking on crazy adventures like fighting evil dentists to save the town.

Animation · Fantasy · Family · Japanese

This film is set in the Valley of the Witches area within Ghibli Park and is the first original animated short film created by Studio Ghibli specifically for the park.

Animation · Action · Japanese

Overcoming the jinx known as the "Thirty Game Wall," which drastically reduces the survival rate of players, Yuuki continues her journey. A game where death is always close at hand. Next, she takes on a remote island in the middle of the ocean. Eight players have gathered there. Among them are seasoned veterans whom Yuuki knows. The game is "Cloudy Beach." Beyond the wall, only those who have crossed the wall remain. Today, once again, she makes a living playing deadly games.

Action · Adventure · Animation · Japanese

Ronin faces off against Red King's army in the animated finale of The Tale of Ronin.

Animation · Drama · Romance · Japanese

The coming-of-age romance is set during the Nagaoka Festival Grand Fireworks Show, one of Japan's three major fireworks shows that draws several hundred thousand visitors to Niigata Prefecture every year. What connects Makoto (a Tokyo high school boy without social skills or self-confidence) and Aki (a popular high school girl and class president with beauty and talent) is a drawing of a fireworks display. At the mercy of the drawing's mystery and fate itself, the two have to make a choice in a limited amount of time.

Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi · Japanese

In the year 20001, three aliens arrive on the ruins of Earth to investigate the extinct human race. Revering humanity as a highly intelligent civilization, they wildly misinterpret the artifacts left behind: mistaking playgrounds for sacred places, umbrellas for communication devices, and graveyards for farmland. The team consists of a warm-hearted yet misguided captain, a highly logical but often inaccurate analyst, and their innocent, instinctive young member. While the two adults obsessively analyze human civilization through logic and theory, the youngest slowly begins to understand humanity through emotion, contradiction, and empathy, discovering that what science cannot decode, the heart just might.

Animation · Comedy · Drama · Japanese

Erotic manga artist Ryo knows a lot about drawing sex, but when it comes to real life, he hasn't had much luck. Ami, a talented commercial illustrator who draws "boys' love" manga on the side, is in much the same predicament. The two cynical, 30-ish virgins have all but given up on romance, until they connect through a dating app and share a tentatively promising first date.

Animation · Fantasy · Japanese

Shinano is a character designer drifting through a monotonous routine. Her work is absorbed into a commercially driven system, and on social media, she feels no sense of belonging, deepening her loneliness. One day, Koyami—a fox-masked character from her old doodles—appears, followed by other discarded creations, blurring reality and imagination. As she wanders through her own mind, Shinano realizes they are fragments of herself—the shape of her loneliness—and chooses to keep creating while living with it.

Sci-Fi · Action · Animation · Japanese

In a forgotten virtual world, those who have discovered that they were created as mere programs live in constant fear of the "Bugs" consuming their world. Wandering through this fading realm, a nameless girl encounters a traveler who carries the only gun capable of resisting the Bugs. As they fight against the relentless corruption, they continue searching for meaning in a world they know to be artificial. And as the end of their world draws near, the girl comes upon a single "prayer". This is the story of beings born as fiction who, despite knowing their fate, never stopped searching for a reason to live.

Animation · Fantasy · Japanese

Two young souls, each other’s mirrored reflection and also polar opposite, are born from matching lotus flowers into an idyllic grove, where a gaunt figure greets them with an offering of a freshly plucked fruit. Partaking of its sweetness is not without consequences.

Comedy · Adventure · Animation · Japanese

When Sanji storms out of a bathroom over its lack of toilet paper, his annoyance and refusal to elaborate causes a game of broken telephone, culminating in the Straw Hats searching for the culprit of a supposedly unflushed toilet.

Animation · Family · Adventure · Japanese

Chiikawa and friends set off on a whimsical summer adventure to a mysterious island said to hide a long-lost mermaid secret. What starts as a fun getaway quickly turns into a heartwarming journey filled with surprises, gentle thrills, and adorable chaos. With sparkling seas, strange legends, and unforgettable encounters, the trio learns about courage, friendship, and the magic hidden in small moments.

Animation · Action · Japanese

Mumei gets dressed up and puts on makeup so Ikoma will notice her, but their train is suddenly surrounded by Kabane.

Documentary · Animation · Japanese

A partially-animated documentary about the preservation and restoration of the canal system in Yanagawa, Fukuoka

Adventure · Animation · Comedy · Japanese

Shin-chan and his family visit his father's home town of Akita in order to view the Omagari Fireworks Festival. When a strange incident to causes the residents of “Yokai Land” to begin running wild throughout Akita and the rest of Japan, Shin-chan and company are lured to “Yokai Land” for an unusual adventure.