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Classroom of the Elite Anime Gets 4th Season Covering 1st Semester of 2nd Year
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The "MF Bunko J Natsu no Gakuensai 2024" (MF Bunko J Summer School Festival 2024) livestream event on Sunday revealed the Classroom of the Elite anime will get a fourth season that will cover the first semester of the Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e 2-nen Sei Hen) light novels.
The first season premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series, and Funimation streamed an English dub.
The second and third seasons adapt the original story's complete first-year-student arc. The second season premiered in July 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired under the title Classroom of the Elite II.
The third season premiered on January 3 and aired for 13 episodes, concluding the first-year arc. Crunchyroll streamed the season as it aired in Japan.
Kadokawa published the first volume of the original light novel series in May 2015. Seven Seas is releasing the novel series and its manga adaptation in English. The Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e 2-nen Sei Hen) light novels are a sequel to the main light novel series. The first novel volume of the new second year series debuted in Japan in January 2020 as the 15th overall book in the series (the series has three "in-between" short story anthology volumes prior to the start of the second year arc). Seven Seas is also releasing the sequel novels in English.
The franchise has more than 9.5 million copies in circulation (not sold), including digital copies.
Sources: Press release, MF Bunko J Natsu no Gakuensai 2024 livestream
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