The COVID-19 pandemic hit the anime industry as hard as anybody else, pushing back an entire slate of shows leaving spring and summer a little fallow. If there was ever a sliver of good to come out of all of that its a list of returning shows released by Crunchyroll that shows many old favorites returning to the air.
Among the list are two popular shows pushed back due to COVID-19: the phrenetic volleyball anime Haikyu!! To The Top and the popular fantasy anime Is It Wrong To Try and to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? (Commonly known by a shortened version of its Japanese name DanMachi.) Both shows had abbreviated seasons in the spring and will finally wrap up their fourth and third seasons respectively starting in the fall. Haikyu!! Resumes its season on September 22 while DanMachi returns on October 2.
Two other notable anime that are slated to make a scheduled return this fall are the war epic Golden Kamuy and Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, a surprising continuation of the popular fantasy anime Inuyasha. Golden Kamuy follows a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war named Saichi Sugimoto and his Ainu partner Asirpa as they chase a treasure trove of hidden gold. The show begins its third season on October 5. While Inuyashu wrapped up its final season way back in 2004, the series gets a revival of sorts when it returns with the spinoff show Yasahime on October 3.
These four shows do not constitute the full list of returning shows coming to the fall, but they do provide a snapshot of an industry bouncing back from the pandemic with some of the more popular shows picking up where they left off following delays. Here is a full list of returning anime:
Golden Kamuy Season 3
Haikyu!! To The Top Season 4
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Season 3
The Irregular at Magic High School Season 2
Is the Order a Rabbit? Season 3
Mr. Osomatsu Season 3
Seizei Ganbare! Mahou Shoujo Kurumi 3rd Season
501st Joint Fighter Wing Strike Witches ROAD to BERLIN
TSUKIUTA. The Animation 2
The number of returning sequels coming for the fall season plus other new shows slated to make their debut makes for jam packed few months of anime. It will be a far cry from the spring and summer that saw series like Tower of God and Rent-A-Girlfriend emerge but lacked many returning shows delayed by COVID-19.
Announcements about the fall season are starting to trickle in, but the start of fall is still a few weeks away. There may still be some surprises in store about what may be coming.
Haikyu!! To The Top releases September 22, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? October 2, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon October 3 and Golden Kamuy October 5 all on Crunchyroll