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Oshi no Ko Season 3 Premieres in 2026
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The "Ichigo Production Fan Kansha-sai 2025" (Ichigo Production Fan Appreciation 2025) event for the Oshi no Ko anime announced on Sunday that the third season will premiere in 2026, and also revealed a teaser visual featuring Ruby in a video.
The franchise's first official puzzle game was also announced on Sunday.
The second season's story focuses on a 2.5D stage play titled "Tokyo Blade." In the story, the play is an adaptation of a manga. In the play, Kana Arima (voiced by Megumi Han) plays Tsurugi, Akane Kurokawa (voiced by Manaka Iwami) plays Sayahime, Aqua Hoshino (voiced by Takeo Ōtsuka) plays Touki, and Melt Narushima (voiced by Seiji Maeda) plays Kizami.
The first television anime of Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari's Oshi no Ko manga premiered in Japan in April 2023 with a 90-minute first episode. HIDIVE streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and it is also streaming an English dub. The company stated that the anime became the streaming service's "#1 series launch in the streamer's history."
Aka Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Mengo Yokoyari (Scum's Wish) launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine in April 2020. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service is releasing the manga in English digitally. The manga started its final arc in June 2024, and the manga ended in its 166th chapter on November 14. The manga's 16th and final compiled book volume shipped in Japan on December 18.
Yen Press licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Gorou is a gynecologist and idol fan who's in shock after his favorite star, Ai, announces an impromptu hiatus. Little does Gorou realize that he's about to forge a bond with her that defies all common sense! Lies are an idol's greatest weapon in this outrageous manga from Aka Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Mengo Yokoyari (Scum's Wish).
The manga won first place in the seventh "Next Manga Awards" (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) in 2021, and also won in the Best General Manga category in the 46th annual Kodansha Manga awards in 2022. The series was nominated for the 26th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2022, and was also nominated for the 14th and 15th Manga Taisho Awards. The manga ranked at #7 on the top 20 list of manga for male readers in the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook. The manga has over 3 million copies in circulation.
The manga also inspired a live-action film and television series adaptation. The series debuted on Amazon Prime Video worldwide on November 28 with eight episodes, and the sequel film then premiered after the series in theaters on December 20.
A stage play adaptation of the manga's "2.5D Stage Play arc" ran at the Umeda Arts Theater in Osaka from December 26-29.
Source: Oshi no Ko anime's X/Twitter account
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