2018 in anime

Events in 2018 in anime. The final full year of the Heisei era.

Years in anime:	2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Centuries:	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s
Years:	2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Releases

Films

A list of anime that debuted in theaters between January 1 and December 31, 2018.

Release date	Title	Studio	Director	Running time (minutes)	Notes	Ref
January 6	Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take on Me	Kyoto Animation	Tatsuya Ishihara	90		[1]
February 9	Macross Delta the Movie: Passionate Walküre	Satelight	Shoji Kawamori	119		[2]
February 10	Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Rebellion Path	Sunrise	Goro Taniguchi	132		[3]
February 24	Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms	P.A.Works	Mari Okada	115		[4]
March 3	Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple	Bones	Takuya Igarashi	120		[5]
March 3	Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island	Shin-Ei Animation	Kazuaki Imai	108		[6]
April 7	Servamp: Alice in the Garden	Platinum Vision	Hideaki Nakano	58		[7]
April 13	Crayon Shin-chan: Burst Serving! Kung Fu Boys ~Ramen Rebellion~	Shin-Ei Animation	Wataru Takahashi	105		[8]
April 13	Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer	TMS Entertainment	Yuzuru Tachikawa	110		[9]
April 21	Liz and the Blue Bird	Kyoto Animation	Naoko Yamada	90		[10]
May 5	Digimon Adventure tri. Future	Toei Animation	Keitaro Motonaga	98		[11]
May 18	Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle	Polygon Pictures	Kobun Shizuno Hiroyuki Seshita	100		[12]
May 26	Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Imperial Path	Sunrise	Goro Taniguchi	120		[13]
June 2	Peacemaker Kurogane Part 1: Belief	White Fox	Shigeru Kimiya			[14]
July 7	K: Seven Stories - R:B Blaze	GoHands	Shingo Suzuki	55		[15]
July 13	Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us	OLM Wit Studio	Tetsuo Yajima	105		[16]
July 20	Mirai	Studio Chizu	Mamoru Hosoda	98		[17]
August 3	My Hero Academia: Two Heroes	Bones	Kenji Nagasaki	97		[18]
August 4	Flavors of Youth	CoMix Wave Films Haoliners Animation League	Li Haoling Jiaoshou Yi Xiaoxing Yoshitaka Takeuchi	74		[19]
August 4	K: Seven Stories - Side: Blue	GoHands	Shingo Suzuki	54		[15]
August 17	Penguin Highway	Studio Colorido	Hiroyasu Ishida	119		[20]
August 18	The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky	A-1 Pictures	Noriyuki Abe Yasuto Nishikata	99		[21]
August 22	Movie Shimajiro Mahō no Shima no Daibōken	Benesse Corporation	Hiroshi Kawamata, Hiro Takashima	52		[22]
August 24	Modest Heroes	Studio Ponoc	Hiromasa Yonebayashi Yoshiyuki Momose Akihiko Yamashita	44		[23]
August 24	Drive Head: Tomica Hyper Rescue Kidō Kyūkyū Keisatsu	OLM Xebec	Takao Kato	57		[24]
August 25	Non Non Biyori Vacation	Silver Link	Shinya Kawatsura	71		[25]
September 1	I Want to Eat Your Pancreas	Studio VOLN	Shinichiro Ushijima	108		[26]
September 1	K: Seven Stories - Side: Green	GoHands	Shingo Suzuki	52		[15]
September 29	Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond	Shuka	Takahiro Omori Hideaki Itō	104		[27]
October 5	Monster Strike the Movie: Sora no Kanata	Orange	Hiroshi Nishikiori	97		[28]
October 6	Garo: The Fleeting Cherry Blossom	Studio VOLN Studio M2	Satoshi Nishimura	82		[29]
October 6	K: Seven Stories - Lost Small World	GoHands	Shingo Suzuki	57		[15]
October 19	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation	Seven Arcs Pictures	Takayuki Hamana	111		[30]
November 3	K: Seven Stories - Memory of Red	GoHands	Shingo Suzuki	55		[15]
November 9	Godzilla: The Planet Eater	Polygon Pictures	Kobun Shizuno Hiroyuki Seshita	91		[31]
November 10	Zoku Owarimonogatari	Shaft	Akiyuki Shinbo	148		[32]
November 17	Peacemaker Kurogane Part 2: Friend	White Fox	Shigeru Kimiya			[33]
November 30	Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative	Sunrise	Toshikazu Yoshizawa	90		[34]
December 1	K: Seven Stories - Nameless Song	GoHands	Shingo Suzuki	58		[15]
December 14	Dragon Ball Super: Broly	Toei Animation	Tatsuya Nagamine	100		[35]

Television series

A list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2018.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director	Original title	Ref
January 2 – March 27	A Place Further than the Universe	13	Madhouse	Atsuko Ishizuka	Sora Yori mo Tōi Basho	[36]
January 4 – March 22	Laid-Back Camp	12	C-Station	Yoshiaki Kyogoku	Yurucamp	[37]
January 4 – March 22	Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles	12	Studio Gokumi AXsiZ	Kenji Seto	Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san	[38]
January 5 – March 23	Junji Ito Collection	12	Studio Deen	Shinobu Tagashira		[39]
January 5 – June 22	Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko	24	Studio Gokumi	Kodai Kakimoto		[40]
January 6 – June 23	Record of Grancrest War	24	A-1 Pictures	Mamoru Hatakeyama	Grancrest Senki	[41]
January 6 – March 24	Sanrio Boys	12	Pierrot	Masashi Kudō		[42]
January 6 – March 24	Citrus	12	Passione	Takeo Takahashi		[43]
January 7 – March 25	Slow Start	12	CloverWorks	Hiroyuki Hashimoto		[44]
January 7 – March 25	Pop Team Epic	12	Kamikaze Douga	Jun Aoki Aoi Umeki	Poptepipic	[45]
January 7 – March 25	Kokkoku: Moment by Moment	12	Geno Studio	Yoshimitsu Ohashi		[46]
January 7 – March 25	Mitsuboshi Colors	12	Silver Link	Tomoyuki Kawamura		[47]
January 7 – June 10	Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card	22	Madhouse	Morio Asaka		[48]
January 7 – March 25	School Babysitters	12	Brain's Base	Shūsei Morishita	Gakuen Babysitters	[49]
January 7 – March 25	Zoku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru	12	Doga Kobo	Tomoaki Koshida		[50]
January 7 – May 19	Idolish7	17	Troyca	Makoto Bessho		[51]
January 7 – March 25	Gintama. Shirogane no Tamashii-hen	12	BN Pictures	Chizuru Miyawaki		[52]
January 8 – March 26	Teasing Master Takagi-san	12	Shin-Ei Animation	Hiroaki Akagi		[53]
January 8 – March 26	The Ryuo's Work Is Never Done!	12	Project No.9	Shinsuke Yanagi	Ryūō no Oshigoto!	[54]
January 8 – June 18	Basilisk: The Ōka Ninja Scrolls	24	Seven Arcs Pictures	Junji Nishimura		[55]
January 8 – June 25	Yowamushi Pedal: Glory Line	25	TMS/8PAN	Osamu Nabeshima		[56]
January 10 – April 4	Overlord (season 2)	12	Madhouse	Naoyuki Ito		[57]
January 10 – March 28	Dame×Prince Anime Caravan	12	Studio Flad	Makoto Hoshino		[58]
January 11 – March 29	Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody	12	Silver Link Connect	Shin Ōnuma	Death March Kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyōsōkyoku	[59]
January 11 – March 29	How to Keep a Mummy	12	Eight Bit	Kaori	Miira no Kaikata	[60]
January 11 – April 25, 2019	Märchen Mädchen	12	Hoods Entertainment	Hisashi Saito Shigeru Ueda		[61]
January 11 – March 29	Takunomi	12	Production IMS	Tomoki Kobayashi		[62]
January 11 – April 5	Violet Evergarden	13	Kyoto Animation	Taichi Ishidate		[63]
January 12 – March 30	After the Rain	12	Wit Studio	Ayumu Watanabe	Koi wa Ameagari no You ni	[64]
January 12 – March 30	Hakumei and Mikochi	12	Lerche	Masaomi Ando	Hakumei to Mikochi	[65]
January 12 – March 30	Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens	12	Satelight	Keiji Yasuda		[66]
January 12 – March 30	Dagashi Kashi (season 2)	12	Tezuka Productions	Satoshi Kuwabara		[67]
January 12 – June 29	Hakyū Hōshin Engi	23	C-Station	Masahiro Aizawa		[68]
January 13 – September 28	Beatless	24	Diomedéa	Seiji Mizushima		[69]
January 13 – July 7	Darling in the Franxx	24	CloverWorks Trigger	Atsushi Nishigori		[70]
January 13 – March 31	Killing Bites	12	Liden Films	Yasuto Nishikata		[71]
January 13 – June 30	The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments	24	A-1 Pictures	Takeshi Furuta	Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu	[72]
January 17 – June 27	The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (season 2)	24	J.C.Staff	Hiroaki Sakurai	Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan	[73]
January 26 – March 30	The Seven Heavenly Virtues	10	Bridge	Shinji Ishihira	Nanatsu no Bitoku	[74]
January 27 – July 29	Fate/Extra Last Encore	13	Shaft	Yukihiro Miyamoto Akiyuki Shinbo		[75]
February 4 – January 27, 2019	Hugtto! PreCure	49	Toei Animation	Junichi Sato Akifumi Zako		[76]
April 1 – March 29, 2020	GeGeGe no Kitarō	97	Toei Animation	Kōji Ogawa		[77]
April 2 – June 18	Uma Musume Pretty Derby	13	P.A.Works	Kei Oikawa		[78]
April 2 – March 25, 2019	Beyblade Burst Turbo	51	OLM	Katsuhito Akiyama	Beyblade Burst Chōzetsu	[79]
April 2 – April 1, 2019	Captain Tsubasa	52	David Production	Toshiyuki Kato		[80]
April 2 –	Pazudora		Pierrot	Hajime Kamegaki		[81]
April 2 – June 18	Magical Girl Ore	12	Pierrot+	Itsuro Kawasaki	Mahō Shōjo Ore	[82]
April 2 – September 24	Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits	26	Gonzo	Yoshiki Okuda	Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi	[83]
April 2 – June 18	Omae wa Mada Gunma o Shiranai	12	Asahi Production CJT	Mankyū		[84]
April 2 – June 18	Souten no Ken Re:Genesis	12	Polygon Pictures	Yoshio Kazumi		[85]
April 3 – September 25	Gundam Build Divers	25	Sunrise	Shinya Watada		[86]
April 3 – June 26	Space Battleship Tiramisu	13	Gonzo	Hiroshi Ikehata	Uchū Senkan Tiramisu	[87]
April 3 – June 20	Tachibanakan To Lie Angle	12	Creators in Pack Studio Lings	Hisayoshi Hirasawa		[88]
April 3 – June 26	The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Kaikō	12	Production I.G	Shunsuke Tada		[89]
April 3 – June 19	Tokyo Ghoul:re	12	Pierrot	Odahiro Watanabe		[90]
April 4 – June 20	Alice or Alice	12	EMT Squared	Kōsuke Kobayashi		[91]
April 4 – September 26	Last Hope	26	Satelight Xiamen Skyloong Media	Shoji Kawamori Hidekazu Sato		[92]
April 4 – September 18	Lupin the Third Part 5	24	Telecom Animation Film	Kazuhide Tomonaga Yūichirō Yano		[93]
April 4 – June 20	Real Girl	12	Hoods Entertainment	Takashi Naoya		[94]
April 5 – September 26, 2019	Aikatsu Friends!	76	BN Pictures	Tatsuya Igarashi		[95]
April 5 – June 21	Comic Girls	12	Nexus	Yoshinobu Tokumoto		[96]
April 5 – June 28	Tada Never Falls in Love	13	Doga Kobo	Mitsue Yamazaki	Tada-kun wa Koi o Shinai	[97]
April 5 – June 21	Dances with the Dragons	12	Seven Arcs Pictures	Hiroshi Nishikori Hirokazu Hanai	Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryū to Odoru: Dances with the Dragons	[98]
April 6 – September 21	Akkun to Kanojo	25	Yumeta Company	Shin Katagai		[99]
April 6 – June 22	Gurazeni	12	Studio Deen	Ayumu Watanabe		[100]
April 6 – June 22	Hinamatsuri	12	Feel	Kei Oikawa		[101]
April 6 – September 28	Inazuma Eleven: Ares	26	OLM	Akihiro Hino Yumi Kamakura		[102]
April 6 – June 22	Lostorage conflated WIXOSS	12	J.C.Staff	Risako Yoshida		[103]
April 6 – June 22	Magical Girl Site	12	production doA	Tadahito Matsubayashi	Mahō Shōjo Site	[104]
April 6 – June 29	Megalo Box	13	TMS/3xCube	You Moriyama		[105]
April 6 – September 28	Nobunaga no Shinobi: Anegawa Ishiyama-hen	26	TMS/V1 Studio	Akitaro Daichi		[106]
April 7 – June 23	Amanchu! Advance	12	J.C.Staff	Junichi Sato Kiyoko Sayama		[107]
April 7 – September 29	My Hero Academia (season 3)	25	Bones	Kenji Nagasaki	Boku no Hero Academia	[108]
April 7 – June 23	Devils' Line	12	Platinum Vision	Yoshinobu Tokumoto		[109]
April 7 – September 22	Major 2nd	25	OLM	Ayumu Watanabe		[110]
April 8 – June 24	Caligula	12	Satelight	Jun'ichi Wada		[111]
April 8 – July 1	Cute High Earth Defence Club HAPPY KISS	12	Studio Comet	Shinji Takamatsu		[112]
April 8 – June 24	Cutie Honey Universe	12	Production Reed	Akitoshi Yokoyama		[113]
April 8 – July 1	Forest of Piano	12	Gaina	Ryūtarō Suzuki Gaku Nakatani	Piano no Mori	[114]
April 8 – July 1	Hozuki's Coolheadedness (season 2, part 2)	13	Studio Deen	Kazuhiro Yoneda	Hōzuki no Reitetsu	[115]
April 8 – May 30, 2021	Kiratto Pri Chan	153	Tatsunoko Production DongWoo A&E	Hiroshi Ikehata		[116]
April 8 – March 31, 2019	Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File	50	Liden Films	Susumu Mitsunaka		[117]
April 8 – June 24	Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Teito Genwaku Kitan	12	Zero-G	Masahiro Takata		[118]
April 8 – September 23	Okko's Inn	24	Madhouse DLE	Mitsuyuki Masuhara	Waka Okami wa Shōgakusei!	[119]
April 8 – September 30	Persona 5: The Animation	26	CloverWorks	Masashi Ishihama		[120]
April 8 – June 30	Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online	12	3Hz	Masayuki Sakoi		[121]
April 9 – June 25	Golden Kamuy	12	Geno Studio	Hitoshi Nanba		[122]
April 9 – June 25	Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Third Plate (season 2)	12	J.C.Staff	Yoshitomo Yonetani	Shokugeki no Sōma: San no Sara	[123]
April 10 – June 26	Crossing Time	12	Ekachi Epilka	Yoshio Suzuki	Fumikiri Jikan	[124]
April 10 – July 3	High School DxD Hero	12	Passione	Yoshifumi Sueda		[125]
April 10 – June 26	Ladyspo	12		Hiroshi Kimura		[126]
April 10 – June 26	Rokuhōdō Yotsuiro Biyori	12	Zexcs	Tomomi Kamiya		[127]
April 11 – September 27	Steins;Gate 0	23	White Fox	Kenichi Kawamura		[128]
April 12 – June 28	Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari	12	Silver Link	Ken Takahashi		[129]
April 12 – June 28	Last Period	12	J.C.Staff	Yoshiaki Iwasaki		[130]
April 13 – June 29	Doreiku	12	Zero-G TNK	Ryōichi Kuraya		[131]
April 13 – July 19	Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory	12	Xebec	Katsuichi Nakayama		[132]
April 13 – June 29	Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan	12	Bones	Shinji Higuchi Hiroshi Kobayashi	Hisone to Masotan	[133]
April 13 – June 22	Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku	11	A-1 Pictures	Yoshimasa Hiraike	Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii	[134]
June 3 – July 7	FLCL Progressive	6	Production I.G Signal.MD (#2) Production GoodBook (#5)	Katsuyuki Motohiro		[135]
July 1 – September 16	Island	12	Feel	Keiichiro Kawaguchi		[136]
July 2 – October 1	Hanebado!	13	Liden Films	Shinpei Ezaki		[137]
July 2 – September 24	Encouragement of Climb (season 3)	13	Eight Bit	Yusuke Yamamoto	Yama no Susume	[138]
July 3 – September 25	One Room (season 2)	13	Zero-G	Hiroshi Gotō Ryōhei Suzuki Shūichi Suzuki		[139]
July 3 – September 25	The Thousand Musketeers	12	TMS/Double Eagle	Ken'ichi Kasai	Senjūshi	[140]
July 4 – September 5	Back Street Girls	10	J.C.Staff	Chiaki Kon		[141]
July 4 – December 26	Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues	24	Madhouse	Keiichiro Kawaguchi	Chūkan Kanriroku Tonegawa	[142]
July 5 – September 20	100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams	12	Project No.9	Yukina Hiiro	Yume Ōkoku to Nemureru 100-Nin no Ōji-sama	[143]
July 5 – December 20	Banana Fish	24	MAPPA	Hiroko Utsumi		[144]
July 5 – September 20	How Not to Summon a Demon Lord	12	Ajia-do Animation Works	Yūta Murano	Isekai Maō to Shōkan Shōjo no Dorei Majutsu	[145]
July 5 – September 20	Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou	12	Silver Link	Shin Ōnuma Mirai Minato	Sunohara-sō no Kanrinin-san	[146]
July 5 – December 27	BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico	26	Sanzigen DMM.futureworks			[147]
July 6 – September 21	Seven Senses of the Re'Union	12	Lerche	Yoshihito Nishōji	Shichisei no Subaru	[148]
July 6 – September 21	Angels of Death	12	J.C.Staff	Kentarō Suzuki	Satsuriku no Tenshi	[149]
July 6 – September 21	Chio's School Road	12	Diomedéa	Takayuki Inagaki	Chio-chan no Tsūgakuro	[150]
July 6 – September 21	Harukana Receive	12	C2C	Toshiyuki Kubooka		[151]
July 6 – September 21	Ongaku Shōjo	12	Studio Deen	Yukio Nishimoto		[152]
July 7 – January 5, 2019	Oshiete Mahō no Pendulum: Rilu Rilu Fairilu	26	Studio Deen	Chisei Maeda		[153]
July 7 – June 29, 2019	Zoids Wild	50	OLM	Norihiko Sudō		[154]
July 8 – September 30	Cells at Work!	13	David Production	Kenichi Suzuki	Hataraku Saibō	[155]
July 8 – September 23	The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar	12	EMT Squared	Kōsuke Kobayashi	Hyakuren no Haō to Seiyaku no Valkyria	[156]
July 8 – September 23	Asobi Asobase	12	Lerche	Seiji Kishi		[157]
July 8 – October 7	Gintama. Shirogane no Tamashii-hen (season 2)	14	BN Pictures	Chizuru Miyawaki		[158]
July 8 – September 23	Planet With	12	J.C.Staff	Yōhei Suzuki		[159]
July 9 – September 17	Dropkick on My Devil!	11	Nomad	Hikaru Sato	Jashin-chan Dropkick	[160]
July 9 – September 24	Holmes of Kyoto	12	Seven	Noriyoshi Sasaki	Kyōto Teramachi Sanjō no Holmes	[161]
July 10 – September 25	Agū: Tensai Ningyō	12	Studio Deen	Bob Shirahata		[162]
July 10 – September 25	Phantom in the Twilight	12	Liden Films	Kunihiro Mori		[163]
July 10 – September 25	Shinya! Tensai Bakabon	12	Pierrot+	Toru Hosokawa		[164]
July 11 – October 2	Overlord (season 3)	13	Madhouse	Naoyuki Ito		[165]
July 11 – September 26	Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion	12	NAZ	Takayuki Kuriyama	Angolmois: Genkō Kassen-ki	[166]
July 11 – September 26	Free! (season 3)	12	Kyoto Animation Animation Do	Eisaku Kawanami		[167]
July 12 – September 27	Revue Starlight	12	Kinema Citrus	Tomohiro Furukawa	Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight	[168]
July 12 – September 27	Sirius the Jaeger	12	P.A.Works	Masahiro Ando		[169]
July 13 – September 28	High Score Girl	12	J.C.Staff	Yoshiki Yamakawa		[170]
July 13 – September 28	Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King	12	Asread Tear Studio	Eiji Suganuma	Lord of Vermilion: Guren no Ō	[171]
July 14 – September 29	Grand Blue	12	Zero-G	Shinji Takamatsu		[172]
July 14 – September 29	Happy Sugar Life	12	Ezo'la	Keizō Kusakawa Nobuyoshi Nagayama		[173]
July 14 – September 29	Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs	12	Xebec	Tsuyoshi Nagasawa	Yuragi-sō no Yūna-san	[174]
July 22 – October 14	Tsukumogami Kashimasu	12	Telecom Animation Film	Masahiko Murata		[175]
July 23 – October 15	Attack on Titan (season 3, part 1)	12	Wit Studio	Tetsurō Araki Masashi Koizuka	Shingeki no Kyojin	[176]
August 3 – October 19	Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation	12	Studio Deen	Nobuhiro Kondo	Muhyo to Roji no Mahōritsu Sōdan Jimusho	[177]
September 8 – October 13	FLCL Alternative	6	Production I.G NUT Revoroot	Katsuyuki Motohiro		[178]
September 30 – December 23	Double Decker! Doug & Kirill	13	Sunrise	Joji Furuta		[179]
October 1 – December 17	Souten no Ken Re:Genesis (season 2)	12	Polygon Pictures	Yoshio Kazumi		[180]
October 1 – December 17	The Girl in Twilight	12	Dandelion Animation Studio Jūmonji	Jin Tamamura Yūichi Abe	Akanesasu Shōjo	[181]
October 1 – December 24	Xuan Yuan Sword Luminary	13	Studio Deen	Hiroshi Watanabe	Ken En Ken: Aoki Kagayaki	[182]
October 2 – March 26, 2019	Bakutsuri Bar Hunter	25	Toei Animation	Kenji Seto		[183]
October 2 – March 26, 2019	Run with the Wind	23	Production I.G	Kazuya Nomura	Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru	[184]
October 2 – December 25	Space Battleship Tiramisu (season 2)	13	Gonzo	Hiroshi Ikehata	Uchū Senkan Tiramisu Zwei	[185]
October 2 – March 19, 2019	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	24	Eight Bit	Yasuhito Kikuchi	Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken	[186]
October 2 – December 18	Jingai-san no Yome	12	Saetta	Hisayoshi Hirasawa Takumi Shibata		[187]
October 3 – December 19	RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time	12	Geek Toys	Takuya Satō	RErideD: Koku Koe no Derrida	[188]
October 4 – December 20	Between the Sky and Sea	12	TMS/Double Eagle	Atsushi Nigorikawa	Sora to Umi no Aida	[189]
October 4 – December 20	Devidol!	12		Souta Suguhara		[190]
October 4 – December 20	Gakuen Basara	12	Brain's Base	Minoru Ohama		[191]
October 4 – December 27	Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai	13	CloverWorks	Sōichi Masui	Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume o Minai	[192]
October 4 – December 20	Zombie Land Saga	12	MAPPA	Munehisa Sakai		[193]
October 5 – April 5, 2019	A Certain Magical Index (season 3)	26	J.C.Staff	Hiroshi Nishikiori	Toaru Majutsu no Index	[194]
October 5 – December 21	Bakumatsu	12	Studio Deen	Masaki Watanabe		[195]
October 5 – December 28	Bloom Into You	13	Troyca	Makoto Katō	Yagate Kimi ni Naru	[196]
October 5 – December 28	Dakaichi	13	CloverWorks	Naoyuki Tatsuwa	Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu.	[197]
October 5 – December 21	Gurazeni (season 2)	12	Studio Deen	Ayumu Watanabe		[198]
October 5 – March 29, 2019	Hinomaru Sumo	24	Gonzo	Kōnosuke Uda Yasutaka Yamamoto	Hinomaru Zumō	[199]
October 5 – September 27, 2019	Inazuma Eleven: Orion no Kokuin	49	OLM	Yumi Kamakura		[200]
October 5 – July 28, 2019	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind	39	David Production	Naokatsu Tsuda	JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Ōgon no Kaze	[201]
October 5 – March 22, 2019	Okoshiyasu, Chitose-chan	24	Gathering	Kyō Yatate		[202]
October 5 – December 21	Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood.	12	Studio Gokumi AXsiZ	Noriyaki Akitaya	Tonari no Kyūketsuki-san	[203]
October 5 – December 21	Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!	12	Doga Kobo	Masahiko Ohta		[204]
October 5 – December 21	Voice of Fox	12	Yumeta Company	Kōjin Ochi	Kitsune no Koe	[205]
October 6 – March 30, 2019	Ace Attorney (season 2)	23	CloverWorks	Ayumu Watanabe	Gyakuten Saiban: Sono "Shinjitsu", Igiari!	[206]
October 6 – December 22	Boarding School Juliet	12	Liden Films	Seiki Takuno	Kishuku Gakkō no Juliet	[207]
October 6 – December 29	Iroduku: The World in Colors	13	P.A.Works	Toshiya Shinohara	Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara	[208]
October 6 – March 30, 2019	Pingu in the City (season 2)	26	Dandelion Animation Studio Polygon Pictures	Naomi Iwata		[209]
October 6 – February 23, 2019	Radiant	21	Lerche	Daisei Fukuoka Seiji Kishi		[210]
October 6 – December 22	Sono Toki, Kanojo wa.	12	Master Lights	Susumu Banba		[211]
October 7 – December 23	Anima Yell!	12	Doga Kobo	Masako Sato		[212]
October 7 – September 29, 2019	Fairy Tail (season 9)	51	A-1 Pictures Bridge CloverWorks	Shinji Ishihira		[213]
October 7 – December 30	Goblin Slayer	12	White Fox	Takaharu Ozaki		[214]
October 7 – December 23	Release the Spyce	12	Lay-duce	Yō Satō		[215]
October 7 – December 23	SSSS.Gridman	12	Trigger	Akira Amemiya		[216]
October 7 – March 31, 2019	Sword Art Online: Alicization	24	A-1 Pictures	Manabu Ono		[217]
October 7 – December 30	Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight	12	AXsiZ	Shin Itagaki	Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc to Renkin no Kishi	[218]
October 8 – December 24	Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san	12	DLE	Owl Todoroki	Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san	[219]
October 8 – December 24	Golden Kamuy (season 2)	12	Geno Studio	Hitoshi Nanba		[220]
October 8 – December 24	Himote House	12	Bouncy	Koutarō Ishidate		[221]
October 9 – October 30	Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokattatte.	4	Signal.MD	Masatsugu Arakawa		[222]
October 9 – December 25	The Idolmaster SideM Wake Atte Mini!	12	Zero-G	Mankyū		[223]
October 9 – December 25	Tokyo Ghoul:re (season 2)	12	Pierrot	Odahiro Watanabe		[224]
October 10 – December 26	Conception	12	Gonzo	Keitaro Motonaga		[225]
October 10 – December 19	My Sister, My Writer	10	NAZ Magia Doraglier	Hiroyuki Furukawa	Ore ga Suki nano wa Imōto dakedo Imōto ja nai	[226]
October 11 – December 27	As Miss Beelzebub Likes	12	Liden Films	Minato Kazuto	Beelzebub-jō no Okinimesu Mama.	[227]
October 11 – June 27, 2019	Karakuri Circus	36	Studio VOLN	Satoshi Nishimura		[228]
October 11 – December 27	Merc Storia: The Apathetic Boy and the Girl in a Bottle	12	Encourage Films	Fumitoshi Oizaki	Merc Storia: Mukiryoku no Shōnen to Bin no Naka no Shōjo	[229]
October 12 – December 28	Senran Kagura (season 2)	12	TNK	Tetsuya Yanagisawa		[230]
October 18 – December 27	Ingress: The Animation	11	Craftar	Yūhei Sakuragi		[231]
October 22 – January 21, 2019	Tsurune	13	Kyoto Animation	Takuya Yamamura		[232]
October 25 – December 27	Million Arthur	10	J.C.Staff	Yōhei Suzuki	Operation Han-Gyaku-Sei Million Arthur	[233]

Original net animations

A list of original net animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2018.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director	Original title	Ref
January 5	Devilman Crybaby	10	Science Saru	Masaaki Yuasa		[234]
January 9 – March 27	Kaiju Girls (season 2)	12	Studio Puyukai	Minoru Ashina Junichi Inaba		[235]
January 20 – August 18	Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head Kidō Kyūkyū Keisatsu	8	OLM Xebec	Takao Kato		[236]
March 2	B: The Beginning	12	Production I.G	Kazuto Nakazawa Yoshinobu Yamakawa		[237]
March 9	A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-	12	Bones	Kazuya Murata		[238]
March 23	Sword Gai: The Animation	12	LandQ Studios	Takahiro Ikezoe Tomohito Naka		[239]
March 31 – June 16	Lost Song	12	Liden Films	Junpei Morita		[240]
April 13 – September 14	Isekai Izakaya "Nobu"	24	Sunrise	Katsumi Ono		[241]
April 20	Aggretsuko	10	Fanworks	Rarecho	Aggressive Retsuko	[242]
June 25 – December 17	Baki	26	TMS/Double Eagle	Toshiki Hirano		[243]
July 1 –	Super Dragon Ball Heroes		Toei Animation		Sūpā Doragon Bōru Hīrōzu	[244]
July 4	Calamity of a Zombie Girl	1	Gonzo Stingray	Hideaki Iwami	Aru Zombie Shōjo no Sainan	[245]
July 30	Sword Gai: The Animation (season 2)	12	LandQ Studios	Takahiro Ikezoe Tomohito Naka		[246]
October 8 – December 24	Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen	12	IMAGICA Image Works	Junichi Yamamoto	Otona no Bōguya-san	[247]
December 3	Hero Mask	15	Pierrot	Hiroyasu Aoki		[248]
December 10 – February 18, 2019	Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō	10	Gonzo	Masato Tamagawa		[249]

Original video animations

A list of original video animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2018.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director	Original title	Ref
March 28	The Testament of Sister New Devil Departures	1	Production IMS	Hisashi Saito	Shinmai Maō no Testament Departures	[250]
June 9	Kase-san and Morning Glories	1	Zexcs	Takuya Satō	Asagao to Kase-san.	[251]
July 13	Queen's Blade: Unlimited (1st OVA)	1	FORTES	Gabi Kisaragi		[252]
October 6	Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World: Memory Snow	1	White Fox	Tatsuya Koyanagi Masaharu Watanabe	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: Memory Snow	[253]
November 9	Love and Lies	2	Liden Films	Seiki Takuno	Koi to Uso	[254]
November 30	Drifters: The Outlandish Knight	1	Hoods Drifters Studio	Kenichi Suzuki		[255]

See also

• 2018 in Japanese television
• 2018 in South Korea
• 2018 in television