Summer 2026 anime, week by week

50 titles AniPalate recorded while they aired. Still airing. This page is rebuilt with every weekly reading, and stays here once the season ends.

Summer 2026 shows premiered in July; AniPalate's readings of them run from 1 Aug 2026 to 28 Sept 2026, so the opening weeks are not in this record.

BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity has the highest score of the 50 Summer 2026 titles AniPalate recorded, 9.0; the median title sits at 7.2.

Mebius Dust was dropped by the largest share of the people who started it, 28.1%; BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity by the smallest, 0.3%.

Over the 6 weeks from 17 Aug 2026, Dara-san of the Reiwa Era rose the most, +0.8. Oh Boy, Was I Wrong About Her and BLACK TORCH fell the most, -0.2.

Though I Am an Inept Villainess grew fastest over the same weeks, +40.8% members.

The season's rankings

Rose the most

1Dara-san of the Reiwa Era+0.8
2Let's go KAIKIGUMI+0.7
3Iron Wok Jan!+0.5
4The Insipid Prince's Furtive Grab for the Throne+0.4
5Though I Am an Inept Villainess+0.4

Most dropped

1Mebius Dust28.1%
2Recommendations from Iwamoto-Senpai25.0%
3Red River23.5%
4Flaming Dodgeball Girl Danko18.3%
5Let's go KAIKIGUMI17.5%

Grew the fastest

Rises and growth are measured over the 6 weeks from 17 Aug 2026, a span every compared title was recorded across. Dropped is the share of the people who started a title who dropped it, at its latest reading.

Every title, by score

Each title's latest recorded score, its change over the shared span, and the share of the people who started it who dropped it. Scores are to one decimal place, the precision AniList records them at, so a change of 0.1 can be rounding.

#	Title	Score	Change	Dropped
1	BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity	9.0	+0.2	0.3%
2	Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3	8.6	+0.2	1.0%
3	Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia	8.4	+0.2	2.8%
4	Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky	8.3	+0.4	3.5%
5	Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You	8.2	0.0	1.6%
6	Grand Blue Dreaming Season 3	8.2	+0.1	1.0%
7	You and I Are Polar Opposites Season 2	8.2	0.0	0.8%
8	Saga of Tanya the Evil Season 2	8.0	-0.1	1.6%
9	Though I Am an Inept Villainess	8.0	+0.4	1.6%
10	Draw This, Then Die!	8.0	+0.4	5.9%
11	The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 3	8.0	+0.1	2.6%
12	THE GHOST IN THE SHELL	7.7	+0.1	4.1%
13	Goodbye, Lara	7.6	0.0	3.8%
14	The Elusive Samurai Season 2	7.6	0.0	2.8%
15	Clevatess Season 2	7.6	+0.1	1.4%
16	Sparks of Tomorrow	7.6	+0.1	6.0%
17	Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games	7.5	+0.1	5.7%
18	BanG Dream! YUME∞MITA	7.5	+0.2	4.6%
19	Iron Wok Jan!	7.5	+0.5	6.1%
20	KAIJU GIRL CARAMELISE	7.5	0.0	5.9%
21	I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day	7.4	0.0	5.8%
22	Victoria of Many Faces	7.4	+0.3	5.1%
23	Grow Up Show	7.3	+0.3	9.1%
24	From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman II	7.2	+0.1	2.3%
25	Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life	7.2	+0.4	7.8%
26	Dara-san of the Reiwa Era	7.2	+0.8	9.6%
27	HELL MODE: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing Season 2	7.2	0.0	1.8%
28	Chainsmoker Cat	7.0	+0.3	8.9%
29	Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs Season 2	6.9	+0.2	3.5%
30	BLACK TORCH	6.9	-0.2	6.7%
31	The Ogre's Bride	6.9	0.0	6.0%
32	A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires	6.9	+0.1	5.6%
33	Rich Girl Caretaker: I'm Secretly the Caregiver of the Most Popular Girl in This Rich Kid School	6.9	-0.1	4.5%
34	Oh Boy, Was I Wrong About Her	6.8	-0.2	5.8%
35	My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked	6.8	+0.4	11.6%
36	Please Excuse My Younger Brothers	6.8	0.0	9.6%
37	The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System	6.7	0.0	4.7%
38	Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. Season 2	6.7	+0.2	5.6%
39	The Duke’s Son Claims He Won’t Love Me Yet Showers Me with Adoration	6.7	+0.2	7.2%
40	Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2	6.5	-0.1	6.1%
41	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance	6.4	-0.1	7.8%
42	The Insipid Prince's Furtive Grab for the Throne	6.3	+0.4	7.2%
43	The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power	6.3	0.0	7.2%
44	Flaming Dodgeball Girl Danko	6.2	n/a	18.3%
45	Let's go KAIKIGUMI	6.2	+0.7	17.5%
46	Red River	6.2	+0.1	23.5%
47	The Forsaken Saintess and Her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World	6.2	+0.1	9.0%
48	The World's Strongest Rearguard	5.7	+0.1	10.7%
49	Recommendations from Iwamoto-Senpai	5.4	+0.2	25.0%
50	Mebius Dust	4.8	0.0	28.1%

Open Seasonal Pulse in AniPalate

Scores, member counts and vote distributions from AniList, shown with their permission terms for complementary use. Week-by-week figures are AniPalate's own weekly recordings. Cover art belongs to its rightsholders and is displayed from AniList's CDN beside the title it depicts, never copied. AniPalate is unofficial and not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList.