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Gachiakuta Season 2: First Look PV Out — No Date Yet

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The wait for more Gachiakuta just got a little shorter — and a little longer at the same time. The official anime website has released a First Look PV for Season 2, dropping the first proper footage from the upcoming run, while confirming there is still no premiere date on the horizon.

What the Gachiakuta Season 2 First Look PV Shows

Published on the official Gachiakuta anime website on 29 July 2026 and reported the same day by Crunchyroll News, the PV collects multiple advance cuts from Season 2’s main story — described by the production team as the first public showing of actual footage from the new season. The clip was first screened at the “Return to the Pit” panel at Anime Expo 2026 in Los Angeles on 3 July, where director Fumihiko Suganuma, voice actor Aoi Ichikawa (Rudo), and producer Naoki Amano presented it to a live audience for the first time.

Alongside the PV, the team released new character illustrations for Enjin and Zanka, two figures who will play significant roles in Season 2. The Zanka artwork was distributed as a limited-edition postcard at Anime Expo, while the Enjin piece was given out at the 25th Taipei Comics & Animation Festival on 26 July — both now going public for the first time.

Gachiakuta official anime key visual featuring the main cast
Image courtesy of BONES Film

No Release Date — And Production Is Still Early

Studio BONES Film, which produced all 24 episodes of Season 1 across two back-to-back cours (July to December 2025), is confirmed to return for Season 2. What is not confirmed is when it will arrive. No premiere window has been announced, and reporting following the Anime Expo panel indicated that production is still in early stages — placing a 2026 release firmly off the table and a 2027 window at the optimistic end of the range.

Enjin character artwork for Gachiakuta Season 2
Image courtesy of BONES Film

In the meantime, the franchise has been expanding across other media. A stage adaptation ran in Tokyo (May 2026) and Kyoto (June 2026) with a live cast. A survival action RPG, Gachiakuta: The Game (working title), was also revealed earlier this year, with no developer or release window announced for it yet.

Where to Watch and Catch Up in Singapore

The full 24-episode Season 1 is streaming now on Crunchyroll, which is available in Singapore. Gachiakuta was Crunchyroll’s most-viewed anime in July 2025 — the month it launched — and the platform is confirmed to carry Season 2 as well. If you haven’t started the series yet, now is the time: 24 episodes of sharp post-apocalyptic action from the studio behind My Hero Academia and SK8 the Infinity makes for a solid catch-up before the next chapter eventually drops.

Zanka character artwork for Gachiakuta Season 2
Image courtesy of BONES Film

Check the Manga Anime section at GameTrader.SG for updates as more Season 2 news comes in.

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Fate Rewinder Anime Premieres April 2027 on Crunchyroll — Bones Film’s Next Hit

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When Bones Film puts its name on a new series, Singapore’s anime community pays attention. The studio behind Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Mob Psycho 100, and Blood Blockade Battlefront has just confirmed its next project: Fate Rewinder (Unmei no Makimodoshi), the Shogakukan Award-winning time-travel manga by Fūta Kimura, is heading to Crunchyroll in April 2027. The studio dropped the first official teaser trailer at Crunchyroll’s showcase panel during Anime Expo 2026 on 3 July.

What Is Fate Rewinder?

Fate Rewinder is a time-travel action manga serialized in Monthly CoroCoro Comic by Shogakukan. It launched as a one-shot in January 2022 and moved straight into regular serialization the following month — a rapid greenlight driven by immediate reader response. Since then it has ranked first in the magazine’s popularity polls for 12 consecutive months and has collected 12 tankōbon volumes as of April 2026.

The story follows Chrono, a 14-year-old with a single unshakeable vow: to never abandon anyone. After a personal tragedy claims his sister, Chrono is recruited into the Space-Time Strategic Enforcement Unit (SSEU) — the Fate Rewinders. Every agent carries a Retry Eye: a micro-time machine implanted directly in their eye socket that lets them rewind to the moment before a fatal event and try again, as many times as it takes. Chrono’s photographic memory, analytical instincts, and extraordinary mental durability make him a fast riser in the unit, but his real goal is cracking Case 999 — his sister’s death — and bringing down the terrorist network known as the Clock Hands.

Fate Rewinder key visual showing Chrono and the full team of Rewinders
Image courtesy of Fate Rewinder Project / Shogakukan

The manga won the 71st Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2026, the same year as fellow winner Dandadan — whose anime was one of 2025’s biggest breakouts. Yen Press has licensed the English edition, with the first volume pencilled for October 2026, giving new readers a head start before the anime premiere.

The Creative Team Behind It

The production line-up is the kind that turns anime into cultural events:

  • Director: Rie Matsumoto — Best known for directing the visually adventurous Kyousogiga and the fan-favourite Blood Blockade Battlefront on Crunchyroll. Matsumoto’s kinetic, character-driven direction is a strong match for a series built on rapid-fire time loops and high-stakes action.
  • Character Designer: Toshihiro Kawamoto — Kawamoto’s credits include Cowboy Bebop and Wolf’s Rain. Seeing that design sensibility applied to Fūta Kimura’s angular, expressive character art is a genuine reason to be excited.
  • Series Composition: Kimiko Ueno
  • Music: Satoshi Murai
  • Animation Production: Bones Film

Voice Cast

Four lead roles have been confirmed:

  • Chrono — Sho Komura
  • Shirai — Kōki Uchiyama (Tomura Shigaraki in My Hero Academia, Xiao in Genshin Impact)
  • Akaba — Kohei Amasaki
  • Lemon — Reina Ueda (Himeno in Chainsaw Man, Vivy in Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song)

Watch the Official Teaser

Fate Rewinder | Official Teaser — via Crunchyroll on YouTube
Fate Rewinder official teaser — Shirai, voiced by Kōki Uchiyama
Image courtesy of Crunchyroll

When and Where Singapore Fans Can Watch

Crunchyroll confirmed it will stream Fate Rewinder in all territories outside Japan, Mainland China, North Korea, and South Korea — Singapore is squarely included. Expect the show to follow Crunchyroll’s standard simulcast pattern for TV Asahi titles, with episodes dropping weekly from the April 2027 premiere window. A more specific premiere date has not yet been announced.

On the manga side, Yen Press’s English licence means the series should reach local comics and book retailers once volumes start shipping from October 2026. With 12 volumes already in print in Japanese, there is more than enough source material to read ahead of the anime.

Bones Film’s track record in Singapore — Mob Psycho 100, My Hero Academia, FMA: Brotherhood — suggests Fate Rewinder will find its audience here quickly once the full trailer drops. April 2027 is the date to mark.

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Daemons of the Shadow Realm Cour 2 Starts July 4 — FMA Creator’s Anime Hits Its Peak

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The wait is over. Hiromu Arakawa’s Yomi no Tsugai — known internationally as Daemons of the Shadow Realm — launches its second cour tonight, with episode 13 airing in Japan on 4 July at 11:30pm JST and streaming on Crunchyroll in Singapore shortly after. If you’ve been sleeping on one of Spring 2026’s most talked-about shonen anime, this is the best possible moment to catch up.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm Cour 2 key visual
Image courtesy of Hiromu Arakawa / Square Enix / Aniplex / Bones Film

What Arakawa Has Built Since Fullmetal Alchemist

Hiromu Arakawa needs little introduction to Singapore anime fans. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood remains one of the most beloved anime productions ever made, and Arakawa-sensei has been busy since: Yomi no Tsugai (黄泉のツガイ) has been serialised in Square Enix’s Monthly Shonen GanGan since 2021. The anime adaptation — announced in July 2025 and premiering on 4 April 2026 — has been worth every year of the wait.

The story follows twins Yuru and Asa, raised apart in an isolated mountain village that appears, at first, to exist in feudal-era Japan. Yuru is a skilled hunter; Asa has been confined indoors since childhood, assigned a mysterious duty by the village elders. When armed attackers descend hunting specifically for Yuru and kill the village adults, the siblings are forced to flee — whereupon the outside world reveals itself as entirely modern: helicopters, firearms, mobile phones, contemporary cities. The village’s isolation was deliberate, concealing both the twins and the ancient supernatural creatures they’re bonded with: the Daemons of the title. Cour 2’s key visual — stamped with the phrase “Defy your fate.” — suggests the reckoning with that hidden truth is about to arrive.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm — Cour 2 Main PV, via Aniplex on YouTube

The Bones Film Team That Made Brotherhood

Daemons of the Shadow Realm promotional visual
Image courtesy of Hiromu Arakawa / Square Enix / Aniplex / Bones Film

The production pedigree here is exceptional. Bones Film handles animation — the studio behind FMA: Brotherhood, My Hero Academia, and Soul Eater. Director Masahiro Ando worked on both the original 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist series and Brotherhood. Character design is by Nobuhiro Arai, who was part of the Brotherhood animation team. Series composition belongs to Noboru Takagi, whose credits include Attack on Titan, Golden Kamuy, and Kuroko’s Basketball. Music is composed by Kenichiro Suehiro (Vinland Saga, Chainsaw Man).

Voice cast highlights: Kensho Ono as Yuru, Yume Miyamoto as Asa, Misaki Kuno as the daemon Gabby, and Rikiya Koyama as Migi. An English dub launched simultaneously with the first cour on Crunchyroll.

New Themes Signal a Tonal Shift

Daemons of the Shadow Realm Cour 2 visual
Image courtesy of Hiromu Arakawa / Square Enix / Aniplex / Bones Film

Cour 2 arrives with a new pair of theme songs. “Back Shot” by Masanori Otoda takes over the opening slot from Vaundy’s Tobu Toki, and Kei Sugawara’s “Kujaku” (Peacock) closes episodes in place of Yama’s Tobō yo. Both were previewed in the Cour 2 main PV released on 27 June — and if the track choices are any indication, the back half of the season is going darker and harder than the first.

How to Watch Daemons of the Shadow Realm in Singapore

Crunchyroll is the streaming home for Singapore and Southeast Asia, with Muse Communication holding the regional licence. The full first cour — all 12 episodes — is available now in both Japanese with English subtitles and English dub. Episode 13 lands shortly after the Japanese broadcast on the night of 4 July JST, putting Singapore fans only hours behind Japan each week.

Elsewhere, Netflix begins streaming the series for subscribers outside Asia from 4 July, bringing the anime to a much wider global audience. If you’re in Singapore, Crunchyroll is your platform of choice — and with cour 1 fully available right now, there’s nothing stopping you from a weekend binge before episode 13 drops.

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Daemons of the Shadow Realm: FMA Creator’s Anime Hits Netflix 4 July

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If the name Hiromu Arakawa means anything to you — and if you grew up watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, it absolutely should — mark this Saturday on your calendar. Daemons of the Shadow Realm (original Japanese title: Yomi no Tsugai / 黄泉のツガイ), Arakawa’s first major anime since FMA, arrives on Netflix Singapore on 4 July 2026, with the full first cour available for subscribers from day one.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm | Official Trailer 3 — via Crunchyroll on YouTube

What Is Daemons of the Shadow Realm?

Yuru, protagonist of Daemons of the Shadow Realm, with a hunter's arrow
Image courtesy of Bones Film / Project TSUGAI

The story centres on twins Yuru and Asa, separated at birth and raised in completely different worlds. Yuru grows up as a skilled hunter in a remote mountain village, while Asa is confined to a specialised role inside the same community. In this world, certain humans can bond with pairs of supernatural creatures called Daemons — and twins “born between day and night” are prophesied to wield greater Daemon power than anyone before them.

When Yuru and Asa are finally reunited, their abilities prove far beyond the prophecy’s scope, and the show quickly expands from its rural opening to reveal a modern society with its own agenda for the twins. The manga ran in Square Enix’s Weekly Shōnen Jump+ and Monthly Shōnen Gangan, and Arakawa has described the Daemon bond system as the kind of intuitive, relationship-driven power that drew her to alchemy in FMA — but taken in a new direction.

The Dream Team Behind It

The production is exactly what FMA fans have been hoping for. Bones Film — the studio behind Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Soul Eater, and My Hero Academia — handles animation. Director Masahiro Andō worked on the original 2003 FMA television series, giving him deep familiarity with Arakawa’s source material sensibility. Series composition is by Noboru Takagi, and music comes from Kenichiro Suehiro, whose recent credits include Vinland Saga and Delicious in Dungeon.

The voice cast is equally strong: Kensho Ono (Giorno Giovanna in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5) plays Yuru; Yume Miyamoto (Ochaco in My Hero Academia) voices Asa; and Yuichi Nakamura (Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen) appears as the enigmatic Dera. An English dub is available on Netflix from launch.

Netflix Arrival: Binge the Whole First Arc from 4 July

The full cast of Daemons of the Shadow Realm against a modern city backdrop
Image courtesy of Bones Film / Project TSUGAI

The anime originally premiered on Japanese television on 4 April 2026 and has been streaming simultaneously on Crunchyroll with a same-day English dub. Netflix is now bringing it to over 240 countries and territories (excluding Japan and Vietnam) starting 4 July. With the first cour of 12 episodes already fully aired, Singapore subscribers can watch the complete opening arc as a binge from day one — then pick up new episodes weekly on Saturdays as the second cour of the planned 24-episode run unfolds later in 2026.

In Southeast Asia, anime regional licensor Muse Communication holds distribution rights, and the simultaneous Netflix rollout means there are no region-lock concerns for Singapore viewers — the show will be right there in your Netflix library when you open the app on Saturday morning.

For fans who have been waiting for an Arakawa anime since Brotherhood concluded, this is the one. The combination of her world-building instincts, Bones Film’s action pedigree, and a voice cast drawn from the biggest titles of the past five years makes Daemons of the Shadow Realm the highest-stakes premiere of the Summer 2026 season. Check out our Manga & Anime section for more Summer 2026 coverage as the season ramps up.