Crunchyroll is heading back to Anime Frontier, and it is bringing a full slate of premiere screenings with it. The convention runs from December 4 to 6 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, and Crunchyroll's schedule includes first episodes of The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Dengeki Daisy, BLESS, Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 and more. Crunchyroll shared the lineup yesterday. Check out the official post down below:
Crunchyroll's Anime Frontier 2026 Schedule
Crunchyroll has 4 screenings planned across the weekend. All times below are local Central Time in Fort Worth, with MST in parentheses.
Friday, December 4
- Crunchyroll Anime Premieres: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM CT (2:30 PM to 4:00 PM MST), Mainstage (Ballroom AB). Crunchyroll calls this an exclusive screening of new series and returning favorites, with the titles to be announced at a later date.
- Crunchyroll Screening: Magic Knight Rayearth: 5:45 PM to 7:05 PM CT (4:45 PM to 6:05 PM MST), Room 202A. Episodes 1 to 3 of Magic Knight Rayearth (2026) on the big screen.
Sunday, December 6
- Crunchyroll Premieres: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CT (10:00 AM to 11:00 AM MST), Room 203ABC. Fate Rewinder, Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms Season 2 Episode 1, and Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 Episode 1.
- Crunchyroll Presents: Aniplex Anime Premieres: 1:45 PM to 3:45 PM CT (12:45 PM to 2:45 PM MST), Mainstage (Ballroom AB). Episode 1 of Here U Are, BLESS, Dengeki Daisy and The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All.
The Aniplex Premieres
The Sunday Mainstage block has the most new shows. The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All is based on the manga by Sumiko Arai, which began as a short story on Arai's X account in 2021. It follows high school girls Aya Osawa and Mitsuki Koga, who connect over their love of rock music. Aya has a crush on the masked clerk at the record store she visits, without knowing the clerk is Mitsuki. CloverWorks is producing the anime, which is set to premiere in January 2027.
Dengeki Daisy adapts Kyousuke Motomi's manga, which ran in Shogakukan's Betsucomi from 2007 to 2013. After her older brother dies, Teru is left with a phone that connects her to a mysterious person named Daisy, who sends her messages of support. She later ends up working for the grouchy school janitor Tasuku Kurosaki and starts to wonder who Daisy really is. Studio Deen is producing the anime for January 2027.
BLESS is based on Yukino Sonoyama's manga about Aia Udagawa, a first-year at Aoiyama High who wants to be a makeup artist, and his classmate Jun Sumisaki, who wants to be a model. A-1 Pictures is producing the anime, also set for January 2027. Here U Are adapts the boys' love manhua by D Jun about university students Yang Yu and Huan Li. Crunchyroll announced the anime during its Anime Expo panel in July, with Rouseact producing and Tomoe Makino directing.
Shangri-La Frontier, Medaka Kuroiwa And Magic Knight Rayearth
The Sunday morning block brings back 2 returning shows. Shangri-La Frontier follows Rakuro Hizutome, a teen who masters glitchy "trash games" before jumping into the hit full-dive VR game Shangri-La Frontier as his bird-masked character Sunraku. Season 3 is set to premiere in January 2027. Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms follows popular student Mona Kawai as she tries to win over transfer student Medaka Kuroiwa, a monk-in-training who is forbidden from falling in love. Its 2nd season is also set for January 2027.
On Friday, Crunchyroll is showing the first 3 episodes of the new Magic Knight Rayearth anime, which premiered in October. The series is based on the CLAMP manga about 3 eighth-grade girls who are pulled from Tokyo Tower into the magical world of Cephiro and tasked with rescuing a princess.
Crunchyroll held an early screening event in September as well, as covered in Crunchyroll Anime Nights Will Screen Black Clover Season 2 Early On September 21. Anime Frontier itself is organized by LeftField Media, the same company behind Anime NYC.
Which Crunchyroll premiere at Anime Frontier 2026 are you most excited to see, and will you be in Fort Worth for it?
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