2019 in anime

Events in 2019 in anime. The first year of the Reiwa era.

Years in anime:	2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Centuries:	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
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Years:	2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Releases

Films

A list of anime that debuted in theaters between January 1 and December 31, 2019.

Release date	Title	Studio	Director(s)	Running time (minutes)	Ref
January 4	Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie Over the Rainbow	Sunrise	Kazuo Sakai	100	[1]
January 4	Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn	Kinema Citrus	Masayuki Kojima	119	[2]
January 12	Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly	Ufotable	Tomonori Sudō	117	[3]
January 18	Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight	Kinema Citrus	Masayuki Kojima	108	[2]
January 25	Even if the World Will End Tomorrow	Craftar	Yūhei Sakuragi	95	[4]
January 25 – March 8	Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System	Production I.G	Naoyoshi Shiotani		[5]
February 8	City Hunter the Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes	Sunrise	Kenji Kodama	95	[6]
February 8	The Saga of Tanya the Evil	NUT	Yutaka Uemura	115	[7]
February 9	Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection	Sunrise	Gorō Taniguchi	114	[8]
February 15	Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion	J.C.Staff	Katsushi Sakurabi	82	[9]
February 16	The Royal Tutor	Tear Studio	Katsuya Kikuchi	60	[10]
March 1	Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration	Shin-Ei Animation	Shinnosuke Yakuwa	111	[11]
March 2 – May 4	King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars	Tatsunoko Production	Masakazu Hishida		[12]
March 15	Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation	Bibury Animation Studio	Tensho	90	[13]
March 15	Mr. Osomatsu: The Movie	Pierrot	Yoichi Fujita	108	[14]
March 29	Trinity Seven: Heavens Library & Crimson Lord	Seven Arcs Pictures	Hiroshi Nishikiori	60	[15]
April 5	Laidbackers	Studio Gokumi	Kiyomitsu Sato Hiroyuki Hashimoto	59	[16]
April 12	Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire	TMS Entertainment	Tomoka Nagaoka	109	[17]
April 19	Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~	Shin-Ei Animation	Masakazu Hashimoto		[18]
April 19	Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day	Kyoto Animation	Tatsuya Ishihara	100	[19]
April 26	The Wonderland	Signal.MD	Keiichi Hara	115	[20]
May 10	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato	Wit Studio	Tetsurō Araki	82	[21]
May 17 – November 5, 2021	Fafner in the Azure: The Beyond	IG Zwei	Takashi Noto		[22]
May 24	Promare	Trigger	Hiroyuki Imaishi	111	[23]
May 31	Fujiko Mine's Lie	Telecom Animation Film	Takeshi Koike	57	[24]
June 7	Children of the Sea	Studio 4°C	Ayumu Watanabe	111	[25]
June 14	For Whom The Alchemist Exists	Satelight	Shōji Kawamori Masanori Takahashi	118	[26]
June 14	Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love Kingdom	A-1 Pictures	Takeshi Furuta Tomoka Nagaoka	84	[27]
June 15	Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2	Actas	Tsutomu Mizushima	54	[28]
June 15	Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl	CloverWorks	Sōichi Masui	89	[29]
June 21	Ride Your Wave	Science SARU	Masaaki Yuasa	96	[30]
June 29	Cencoroll 2	Anime Innovation Tokyo	Atsuya Uki	25	[31]
June 29	Frame Arms Girl: Kyakkyau Fufu na Wonderland	Zexcs Studio A-Cat	Keiichiro Kawaguchi	82	[32]
July 5	Free! Road to the World – Dream	Kyoto Animation	Eisaku Kawanami	120	[33]
July 12	Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution	OLM	Kunihiko Yuyama Motonori Sakakibara	98	[34]
July 19	Weathering with You	CoMix Wave Films	Makoto Shinkai	114	[35]
August 2	Dragon Quest: Your Story	Shirogumi	Takashi Yamazaki Ryūichi Yagi Makoto Hanabusa	102	[36]
August 9	One Piece: Stampede	Toei Animation	Takashi Otsuka	101	[37]
August 21	Shimajiro to Ururu no Heroland	Benesse Corporation	Takamitsu Kawamura, Ryoji Aoki	58	[38]
August 23	Ni no Kuni	OLM	Yoshiyuki Momose	106	[39]
August 30	KonoSuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Crimson Legend	J.C.Staff	Takaomi Kanasaki	90	[40]
September 6	Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll	Kyoto Animation	Haruka Fujita	90	[41]
September 13	BanG Dream! Film Live	Sanzigen	Tomomi Umetsu	72	[42]
September 20	Hello World	Graphinica	Tomohiko Itō	100	[43]
September 27 – November 29	The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran	Production I.G	Shunsuke Tada		[44]
October 5	Blackfox	3Hz	Kazuya Nomura Keisuke Shinohara	90	[45]
October 11	Her Blue Sky	CloverWorks	Tatsuyuki Nagai	108	[46]
October 22	Human Lost	Polygon Pictures	Katsuyuki Motohiro Fuminori Kizaki	110	[47]
October 25	Kimi dake ni Motetainda	Signal.MD	Shun Kudō	54	[48]
October 26	Saekano the Movie: Finale	CloverWorks	Kanta Kamei (Chief) Akihisa Shibata	116	[49]
December 13	Seven Days War	Ajia-do Animation Works	Yūta Murano	87	[50]
December 20	My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising	Bones	Kenji Nagasaki	104	[51]

Television series

A list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2019.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director(s)	Original title	Ref
January 3 – March 28	BanG Dream! (season 2)	13	Sanzigen	Kōdai Kakimoto		[52]
January 4 – March 29	Boogiepop and Others	18	Madhouse	Shingo Natsume	Boogiepop wa Warawanai	[53]
January 4 – March 22	The Price of Smiles	12	Tatsunoko Production	Toshimasa Suzuki	Egao no Daika	[54]
January 5 – March 30	The Morose Mononokean (season 2)	13	Pierrot+	Itsuro Kawasaki	Fukigen na Mononokean	[55]
January 5 – March 30	W'z	13	GoHands	Shingo Suzuki Hiromitsu Kanazawa		[56]
January 6 – March 24	How Clumsy you are, Miss Ueno	12	Lesprit	Tomohiro Yamanashi	Ueno-san wa Bukiyō	[57]
January 7 – June 24	Dororo	24	MAPPA Tezuka Productions	Kazuhiro Furuhashi		[58]
January 7 – April 1	Mob Psycho 100 II	13	Bones	Yuzuru Tachikawa		[59]
January 8 – March 26	Circlet Princess	12	Silver Link	Hideki Tachibana		[60]
January 8 – March 26	Kakegurui ××	12	MAPPA	Yuichiro Hayashi Kiyoshi Matsuda		[61]
January 8 – March 26	Pastel Memories	12	Project No.9	Yasuyuki Shinozaki		[62]
January 8 – March 26	Rainy Cocoa side G	12	EMT Squared	Hisashi Ishii		[63]
January 8 – March 26	Real Girl (season 2)	12	Hoods Entertainment	Takashi Naoya		[64]
January 8 – March 26	Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan	12	Creators in Pack (#2, 5) Ascension (#3) Zero-G (#4)			[65]
January 8 – March 26	Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me	12	Doga Kobo	Daisuke Hiramaki	Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!	[66]
January 9 – March 27	Kemurikusa	12	Yaoyorozu	Tatsuki		[67]
January 9 – March 27	Meiji Tokyo Renka	12	TMS/V1 Studio	Akitaro Daichi		[68]
January 9 – March 27	My Roommate Is a Cat	12	Zero-G	Kaoru Suzuki	Dōkyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.	[69]
January 9 – June 26	The Rising of the Shield Hero	25	Kinema Citrus	Takao Abo	Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari	[70]
January 10 – March 28	Dimension High School	12	Asmik Ace Polygon Magic	Yuichi Abe	Chō Jigen Kakumei Anime: Dimension Hai Sukūru	[71][A]
January 10 – March 28	Girly Air Force	12	Satelight	Katsumi Ono		[72]
January 10 – March 28	Grimms Notes the Animation	12	Brain's Base	Seiki Sugawara		[73]
January 10 – March 28	Revisions	12	Shirogumi	Gorō Taniguchi		[74]
January 10 – March 28	The Quintessential Quintuplets	12	Tezuka Productions	Satoshi Kuwabara	5-Tōbun no Hanayome	[75]
January 11 – March 29	B-Project: Zecchō Emotion	12	BN Pictures	Makoto Moriwaki		[76]
January 11 – March 29	Date A Live III	12	J.C.Staff	Keitaro Motonaga		[77]
January 11 – March 29	Hulaing Babies	12	Gaina	Yoshinori Asao		[78]
January 11 – March 29	The Promised Neverland	12	CloverWorks	Mamoru Kanbe	Yakusoku no Neverland	[79]
January 12 – March 30	Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale	12	Seven Arcs Pictures	Junji Nishimura		[80]
January 12 – March 30	Domestic Girlfriend	12	Diomedéa	Shōta Ihata	Domestic na Kanojo	[81]
January 12 – March 30	Endro!	12	Studio Gokumi	Kaori		[82]
January 12 – March 30	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War	12	A-1 Pictures	Mamoru Hatakeyama	Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen	[83]
January 12 – March 30	Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka	12	Liden Films	Hideyo Yamamoto	Mahō Shōjo Tokushusen Asuka	[84]
January 12 – March 16	Mini Toji	10	Project No.9	Yuu Nobuta		[85]
January 13 – March 31	The Magnificent Kotobuki	12	GEMBA	Tsutomu Mizushima	Kōya no Kotobuki Hikōtai	[86]
January 14 – April 1	Kemono Friends (season 2)	12	Tomason	Ryuichi Kimura		[87]
January 20 – March 24	Mysteria Friends	10	CygamesPictures	Hideki Okamoto	Manaria Friends	[88]
January 27 – April 14	Forest of Piano (season 2)	12	Gaina	Hiroyuki Yamaga	Piano no Mori	[89]
February 3 – January 26, 2020	Star Twinkle PreCure	49	Toei Animation	Hiroaki Miyamoto		[90]
April 2 – March 31, 2020	Ace of Diamond Act II	52	Madhouse	Mitsuyuki Masuhara	Daiya no Ēsu	[91]
April 2 – October 1	YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World	26	Feel	Tetsuo Hirakawa	Kono yo no hate de koi o utau Shōjo YU-NO	[92]
April 4 – June 20	Bakumatsu Crisis	12	Studio Deen	Mitsutoshi Satō		[93]
April 4 – June 27	Million Arthur (season 2)	13	J.C.Staff	Yōhei Suzuki	Operation Han-Gyaku-Sei Million Arthur	[94]
April 4 – June 20	Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki	12	Saetta	Hisayoshi Hirasawa		[95]
April 5 – June 21	Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu	12	C2C	Takebumi Anzai		[96]
April 6 – June 22	Ao-chan Can't Study!	12	Silver Link	Keisuke Inoue	Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyō ga Dekinai	[97]
April 6 – September 28	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba	26	Ufotable	Haruo Sotozaki	Kimetsu no Yaiba	[98]
April 6 – September 21	Fruits Basket	25	TMS/8PAN	Yoshihide Ibata		[99]
April 6 – June 22	Joshi Kausei	12	Seven	Tadayoshi Sasaki		[100]
April 6 – June 29	Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life	13	Platinum Vision	Ryōma Mizuno	Kono Oto Tomare!	[101]
April 6 – September 28	Mix	24	OLM	Odahiro Watanabe		[102]
April 6 – June 22	Nobunaga teacher's young bride	12	Seven	Tadayoshi Sasaki	Nobunaga Sensei no Osanazuma	[103]
April 6 – June 22	Over Drive Girl 1/6	12	Studio A-Cat	Keitaro Motonaga	Chō Kadō Gāru 1/6	[104]
April 6 – June 22	Senryu Girl	12	Connect	Masato Jinbo	Senryū Shōjo	[105]
April 7 – June 23	Afterlost	12	Madhouse	Shigeyuki Miya	Shōmetsu Toshi	[106]
April 7 – June 23	Fairy Gone	12	P.A.Works	Kenichi Suzuki		[107]
April 7 – July 7	Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine	12	TMS Entertainment	Susumu Kudo		[108]
April 7 – June 23	Midnight Occult Civil Servants	12	Liden Films	Tetsuya Watanabe	Mayonaka no Occult Kōmuin	[109]
April 7 – June 30	Ultramarine Magmell	13	Pierrot+	Hayato Date	Gunjō no Magmell	[110]
April 7 – June 30	We Never Learn: BOKUBEN	13	Studio Silver Arvo Animation	Yoshiaki Iwasaki	Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai	[111]
April 8 – March 23, 2020	I'm From Japan	50	ODDJOB	Isamu Ueno	Jimoto ga Japan	[112]
April 8 – June 24	Namu Amida Butsu! -Rendai Utena-	12	Asahi Production	Akira Oguro		[113]
April 8 – June 24	RobiHachi	12	Studio Comet	Shinji Takamatsu		[114]
April 8 – June 24	Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!?	12	Tear Studio	Hiraku Kaneko (Chief) Toshikatsu Tokoro	Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?	[115]
April 9 – June 25	Isekai Quartet	12	Studio Puyukai	Minoru Ashina		[116]
April 9 – July 2	One-Punch Man (season 2)	12	J.C.Staff	Chikara Sakurai		[117]
April 9 – June 25	Strike Witches: 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off!	12	acca effe Giga Production	Fumio Ito	World Witches Series 501 Butai Hasshinshimasu!	[118]
April 10 – October 2	Carole & Tuesday	24	Bones	Shinichirō Watanabe (Chief) Motonobu Hori		[119]
April 10 – June 26	The Helpful Fox Senko-san	12	Doga Kobo	Tomoaki Koshida	Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san	[120]
April 10 – June 26	Wise Man's Grandchild	12	Silver Link	Masafumi Tamura	Kenja no Mago	[121]
April 11 – June 20	Sarazanmai	11	MAPPA Lapin Track	Nobuyuki Takeuchi (Chief) Kunihiko Ikuhara		[122]
April 12 – June 28	Bungo Stray Dogs (season 3)	12	Bones	Takuya Igarashi		[123]
April 15 – July 1	King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars	12	Tatsunoko Production	Masakazu Hishida		[124]
April 29 – July 1	Attack on Titan (season 3, part 2)	10	Wit Studio	Tetsurō Araki Masashi Koizuka	Shingeki no Kyojin	[125]
July 1 – September 16	Star-Myu (season 3)	12	C-Station	Shunsuke Tada		[126]
July 1 – September 16	To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts	12	MAPPA	Jun Shishido	Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e	[127]
July 2 – September 17	Are You Lost?	12	Ezo'la	Nobuyoshi Nagayama	Sōnan desu ka?	[128]
July 2 – September 17	Magical Sempai	12	Liden Films	Fumiaki Usui	Tejina Senpai	[129]
July 3 – September 18	Astra Lost in Space	12	Lerche	Masaomi Andō	Kanata no Asutora	[130]
July 3 – September 18	How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?	12	Doga Kobo	Mitsue Yamazaki	Dumbbell Nan-Kilo Moteru?	[131]
July 4 – September 19	Demon Lord, Retry!	12	Ekachi Epilka	Hiroshi Kimura	Maō-sama, Ritorai!	[132]
July 4 – September 19	If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord	12	Maho Film	Takeyuki Yanase	Uchi no Ko no Tame Naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maō mo Taoseru Kamoshirenai.	[133]
July 5 – December 13	Dr. Stone	24	TMS/8PAN	Shinya Iino		[134]
July 5 – December 27	Fire Force	24	David Production	Yuki Yase	En'en no Shōbōtai	[135]
July 5 – September 26	Granbelm	13	Nexus	Masaharu Watanabe		[136]
July 5 – September 20	O Maidens in Your Savage Season	12	Lay-duce	Masahiro Ando Takurō Tsukada	Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo	[137]
July 5 – September 20	Wasteful Days of High School Girls	12	Passione	Takeo Takahashi (Chief) Hijiri Sanpei	Joshi Kōsei no Mudazukai	[138]
July 6 – September 28	Senki Zesshō Symphogear XV	13	Satelight	Katsumi Ono		[139]
July 6 – September 28	The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note	13	Troyca	Makoto Katō	Rōdo Erumeroi II-sei no Jikenbo	[140]
July 7 – August 11	Business Fish	12	IANDA	Takashi Sumida		[141]
July 7 – December 22	Ensemble Stars!	24	David Production	Yasufumi Soejima Masakazu Hishida		[142]
July 7 – September 29	Re:Stage! Dream Days♪	12	Yumeta Company Graphinica	Shin Katagai		[143]
July 7 – September 22	Teasing Master Takagi-san (season 2)	12	Shin-Ei Animation	Hiroaki Akagi	Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san	[144]
July 7 – September 22	The Ones Within	12	Silver Link	Shin Ōnuma	Naka no Hito Genome [Jikkyōchū]	[145]
July 7 – December 29	Vinland Saga	24	Wit Studio	Shuhei Yabuta		[146]
July 8 – October 7	Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest	13	White Fox Asread	Kinji Yoshimoto	Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō	[147]
July 8 – September 30	Cop Craft	12	Millepensee	Shin Itagaki		[148]
July 8 – September 1	Fire in His Fingertips: My Childhood Friend is a Firefighter	8	Studio Hōkiboshi	Toshihiro Watase	Yubisaki kara Honki no Netsujō: Osana Najimi wa Shōbōshi	[149]
July 8 – September 23	Hensuki: Are You Willing to Fall in Love with a Pervert, as Long as She's a Cutie?	12	Geek Toys	Itsuki Imazaki	Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasuka?	[150]
July 8 – September 23	Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga	12	Studio Deen	Noriyuki Abe		[151]
July 10 – September 25	Isekai Cheat Magician	12	Encourage Films	Daisuke Tsukushi		[152]
July 11 – September 19	Given	11	Lerche	Hikaru Yamaguchi		[153]
July 12 – September 27	A Certain Scientific Accelerator	12	J.C.Staff	Nobuharu Kamanaka	Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator	[154]
July 12 – September 27	The Demon Girl Next Door	12	J.C.Staff	Hiroaki Sakurai	Machikado Mazoku	[155]
July 13 – September 28	Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?	12	J.C.Staff	Yoshiaki Iwasaki	Tsūjou Kōgeki ga Zentai Kōgeki de ni Kai Kōgeki no Okā-san wa Suki Desuka?	[156]
July 13 – September 28	Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (season 2)	12	J.C.Staff	Hideki Tachibana	Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka?	[157]
July 14 – October 13	BEM	12	LandQ Studios	Yoshinori Odaka		[158]
July 30 – October 15	Try Knights	12	Gonzo	Tadayoshi Sasaki		[159]
October 1 – December 24	Bananya and the Curious Bunch	13	Gathering	Kyō Yatate	Bananya: Fushigi na Nakamatachi	[160]
October 2 – December 18	After School Dice Club	12	Liden Films	Kenichi Imaizumi	Hōkago Saikoro Kurabu	[161]
October 2 – September 30, 2020	Ahiru no Sora	50	Diomedéa	Keizō Kusakawa (Chief) Shingo Tamaki		[162]
October 2 – December 27	Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious	12	White Fox	Masayuki Sakoi	Kono Yūsha ga Ore Tsuē Kuse ni Shinchō Sugiru	[163]
October 2 – December 18	Kemono Michi: Rise Up	12	ENGI	Kazuya Miura	Hataage! Kemonomichi	[164]
October 2 – December 25	Oresuki	12	Connect	Noriaki Akitaya	Ore o Suki nano wa Omae dake kayo	[165]
October 2 – February 26, 2020	Radiant (season 2)	21	Lerche	Daisei Fukuoka Seiji Kishi		[166]
October 3 – December 26	Ascendance of a Bookworm	14	Ajia-do Animation Works	Mitsuru Hongo	Honzuki no Gekokujō: Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen	[167]
October 3 – March 20, 2020	Azur Lane	12	Bibury Animation Studio	Tensho		[168]
October 3 – December 19	High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World	12	Project No.9	Shinsuke Yanagi	Chōjin-Kokoseitachi wa Isekai demo Yoyu de Ikinuku Yōdesu!	[169]
October 4 – December 27	Granblue Fantasy The Animation (season 2)	12	MAPPA	Yui Umemoto		[170]
October 4 – December 13	Young Disease Outburst Boy	11	Studio Deen	Kazuya Ichikawa	Chūbyō Gekihatsu Boy	[171]
October 4 – October 16, 2020	Zoids Wild Zero	50	OLM	Takao Kato		[172]
October 5 – March 28, 2020	Aikatsu on Parade!	25	BN Pictures	Shishō Igarashi		[173]
October 5 – March 21, 2020	Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia	21	CloverWorks	Toshifumi Akai	Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majū Sensen Babylonia	[174]
October 5 – December 28	Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life (season 2)	13	Platinum Vision	Ryōma Mizuno	Kono Oto Tomare!	[175]
October 5 – December 21	Val × Love	12	Hoods Entertainment	Takashi Naoya		[176]
October 5 – March 7, 2020	Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun	23	BN Pictures	Makoto Moriwaki	Mairimashita! Iruma-kun	[177]
October 6 – December 22	Actors: Songs Connection	12	Drive	Osamu Yamasaki		[178]
October 6 – December 22	African Office Worker	12	Hotzipang	Tetsuya Tatamitani	Africa no Sararīman	[179]
October 6 – January 27, 2020	Babylon	12	Revoroot	Kiyotaka Suzuki		[180]
October 6 – December 22	Fairy Gone (season 2)	12	P.A.Works	Kenichi Suzuki		[181]
October 6 – December 29	Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit	12	ANIMA&CO.	Takayuki Kuriyama (Chief) Harume Kosaka	Keishichou Tokumu-bu Tokushu Kyouaku-han Taisaku-Shitsu Dai-Nana-ka -Tokunana-	[182]
October 6 – December 29	We Never Learn: BOKUBEN (season 2)	13	Studio Silver Arvo Animation	Yoshiaki Iwasaki	Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai	[183]
October 7 – December 23	Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!	12	Project No.9	Masahiko Ohta	Watashi, Nōryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!	[184]
October 7 – March 30, 2020	Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle	25	Gonzo	Masaki Tachibana		[185]
October 7 – December 23	Stand My Heroes: Piece of Truth	12	M.S.C	Hideyo Yamamoto		[186]
October 8 – January 7, 2020	Kandagawa Jet Girls	12	TNK	Hiraku Kaneko		[187]
October 8 – December 24	Z/X Code reunion	12	Passione	Yoshifumi Sueda		[188]
October 9 – March 25, 2020	The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods	24	Studio Deen	Susumu Nishizawa	Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin	[189]
October 10 – December 26	Assassins Pride	12	EMT Squared	Kazuya Aiura		[190]
October 10 – December 26	Beastars	12	Orange	Shin'ichi Matsumi		[191]
October 10 – December 26	No Guns Life (part 1)	12	Madhouse	Naoyuki Itō		[192]
October 10 – December 26	Stars Align	12	Eight Bit	Kazuki Akane	Hoshiai no Sora	[193]
October 11 – March 27, 2020	Case File nº221: Kabukicho	24	Production I.G	Ai Yoshimura	Kabukichō Syarokku	[194]
October 11 – December 27	True Cooking Master Boy	12	NAS	Itsuro Kawasaki	Shin Chūka Ichiban!	[195]
October 12 – December 28	Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Fourth Plate	12	J.C.Staff	Yoshitomo Yonetani	Shokugeki no Sōma: Shin no Sara	[196]
October 12 – April 4, 2020	My Hero Academia (season 4)	25	Bones	Kenji Nagasaki (Chief) Masahiro Mukai	Boku no Hero Academia 4	[197]
October 13 – January 18, 2020	Chidori RSC	12	3Hz	Masanori Takahashi		[198]
October 13 – December 29	Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld (part 1)	12	A-1 Pictures	Manabu Ono		[199]
October 13 – December 29	Tenka Hyakken ~Meiji-kan e Yōkoso!~	12	Liden Films	Daisuke Hashimoto		[200]
October 22 – March 24, 2020	Chihayafuru (season 3)	24	Madhouse	Morio Asaka		[201]
October 24 – December 12	Psycho-Pass (season 3)	8	Production I.G	Naoyoshi Shiotani		[202]
October 25 – December 20	Hi Score Girl (season 2)	9	Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment	Yoshiki Yamakawa		[203]

Original net animations

A list of original net animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2019.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director(s)	Original title	Ref
January 17	Ikebukuro	1	Shaft	Yukio Takatsu		[204]
February 14 – August 8	Fight League: Gear Gadget Generators	26	BN Pictures	Daisuke Nakajima		[205]
February 17	Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn – Prologue	1	Satelight			[206]
April 1	Ultraman	13	Production I.G Sola Digital Arts	Kenji Kamiyama Shinji Aramaki		[207]
April 19	Rilakkuma and Kaoru	13	Dwarf	Masahito Kobayashi		[208]
May 11 – July 27	Miru Tights	12	Yokohama Animation Laboratory	Yuki Ogawa		[209]
June 14	Aggretsuko (season 2)	10	Fanworks	Rarecho		[210]
June 28	7 Seeds	12	Gonzo	Yukio Takahashi		[211]
July 19 – January 23, 2020	Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya	12	Toei Animation	Yoshiharu Ashino		[212]
July 31 – October 31	Kengan Ashura	24	Larx Entertainment	Seiji Kishi		[213]
August 15	Cannon Busters	12	Satelight Yumeta Company	LeSean Thomas (Chief) Takahiro Natori		[214]
August 23	Hero Mask (season 2)	9	Pierrot	Hiroyasu Aoki		[215]
October 4 – December 20	Null & Peta	12	Shin-Ei Animation	Hirofumi Ogura		[216]
October 10 – March 26, 2020	Blade of the Immortal -Immortal-	24	Liden Films	Hiroshi Hamasaki	Mugen no Jūnin: Immortal	[217]
October 10 – December 26	Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise	13	Sunrise Beyond	Shinya Watada		[218]
November 22	Dino Girl Gauko	20	Ascension	Akira Shigino	Kyōryū Shōjo Gauko	[219]
November 28	Levius	12	Polygon Pictures	Hiroyuki Seshita (Chief) Keisuke Ide		[220]
December 3	Obsolete (part 1)	6	Buemon	Hiroki Yamada Seiichi Shirato		[221]
December 30	The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened	6	J.C.Staff	Hiroaki Sakurai	Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan: Psi Shidō-Hen	[222]

Original video animations

A list of original video animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2019.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director(s)	Original title	Ref
January 3 – February 27	Ikki Tousen: Western Wolves	3	Arms	Takashi Watanabe (Chief) Mitsutoshi Satō		[223]
January 16	Eromanga Sensei	2	A-1 Pictures	Ryohei Takeshita		[224]
January 30	It's My Life	1	Creators in Pack	Hisayoshi Hirasawa		[225]
February 27	Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san	1	DLE	Ouru Todoroki	Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san
March 6	The Thousand Musketeers	1	TMS/Double Eagle	Kenichi Kasai	Senjūshi	[226]
March 19 – September 22	Golden Kamuy (2nd/3rd OVAs)	2	Geno Studio	Hitoshi Nanba		[227]
March 20	Hi Score Girl: Extra Stage	3	J.C.Staff	Yoshiki Yamakawa		[228]
March 29	Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku – Youth	1	A-1 Pictures	Yoshimasa Hiraike	Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii	[229]
June 14	Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Prisma Phantasm	1	Silver Link	Shin Ōnuma		[230]
June 20	The Island of Giant Insects	1	Passione	Takeo Takahashi	Kyochū Rettō	[231]
July 8	Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation: Nepu no Natsuyasumi	1	Okuruto Noboru	Masahiro Mukai	Chō Jigen Game Neptune The Animation	[232]
July 9	Magimoji Rurumo	2	J.C.Staff	Chikara Sakurai		[233]
July 9 – November 27, 2020	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	5	Eight Bit	Yasuhito Kikuchi	Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken	[234]
September 10	The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún	1	Wit Studio	Yūtarō Kubo Satomi Maiya	Totsukuni no Shōjo	[235]
September 25 – November 22	Midnight Occult Civil Servants	3	Liden Films	Tetsuya Watanabe	Mayonaka no Occult Kōmuin	[236]
September 25	Mob Psycho 100	1	Bones	Yuzuru Tachikawa		[237]
September 26	Is the Order a Rabbit?? ~Sing For You~	1	production doA	Hiroyuki Hashimoto	Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka?	[238]
November 1	We Never Learn: BOKUBEN	1	Studio Silver Arvo Animation	Yoshiaki Iwasaki	Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai	[239]
November 8	Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World: Hyōketsu no Kizuna	1	White Fox	Kenichi Kawamura (Chief) Masaharu Watanabe	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu	[240]
November 13	YuruYuri,	1	Lay-duce	Daigo Yamagishi		[241]
November 20	Bean Bandit	1	Passione	Ken'ichi Sonoda (Chief) Yū Aoki
November 22	Fragtime	1	Tear Studio	Takuya Satō		[242]
December 8	Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan	2	David Production	Toshiyuki Kato Yasufumi Soejima	Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai	[243]

Deaths

Monkey Punch

• January 6: Fusako Amachi [ja], 78, Japanese voice actor^[244]
• January 25: Maeghan Albach, 44, American voice actress^[245]
• February 1: Kinryū Arimoto, 78, Japanese voice actor^[246]
• February 26: Yasuta Sato, 94, founder of Takara Tomy, collaborating to BeyBlade, Pretty Rhythm, Ryukendo and others,^[247]
• March 26: Fuyumi Shiraishi, 82, Japanese voice actor, radio announcer^[248]
• April 5: Wowaka, 31, Japanese musician; performed "Polaris", one of ending themes from anime series Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.^[249]
• April 11: Monkey Punch, 81, creator of Lupin III^[250]
• April 16: Kiyoshi Kawakubo, 89, Japanese voice actor^[251]
• June 10: Yuzuru Fujimoto, 83, Japanese voice actor^[252]
• July 18: Notable people killed in the Kyoto Animation arson attack
  • Naomi Ishida, 49, Japanese colorist^[253]
  • Yoshiji Kigami, 61, Japanese animator, director, and storyboarder^[254]
  • Futoshi Nishiya, 37, Japanese animator, director, and character designer^[255]
  • Yasuhiro Takemoto, 47, Japanese director^[255]
• July 28: Yuu Shimaka, 70, Japanese voice actor^[256]
• August 3: Kazuko Nakamura, 86, Japanese animator^[257]
• August 31: Michael Lindsay, 56, American voice actor^[258]

See also

• 2019 in Japanese television
• 2019 Japanese imperial transition
• 2019 in British television
• 2019 in television
• 2019 in animation

Notes

1. Live action / 3DCG anime hybrid series.