With the end of Winter 2022, which gave us the likes of My Dress-up Darling and Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2. This Spring season will not disappoint us as we got a lot of good shows to look forward to. The most anticipated anime to watch this Spring 2022 are Rising of the Shield Hero 2, Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 3, Spy x Family and Ao Ashi.
Top Sequel Anime to Watch This Spring 2022
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2)
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Studio: Kinema Citrus (Made in Abyss, Black Bullet, Barakamon)
- Airing Date: April 6, 2022
The long awaited Season 2 of Rising of the Shield Hero is here after a 3 long year halt and a bunch of delays despite the series’ getting a second and third season greenlit almost immediately after the first season aired and there had been no announcement of when it would actually air until recently. The second season is set to follow more of his adventures protecting the world of Melromarc from the evils that try to destroy it.
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Ultra Romantic (Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 3rd Season)
- Genre: Comedy, Psychological, Romance, School, Seinen
- Studio: A-1 Pictures (Seven Deadly Sins, Sword Art Online, Your Lie in April)
- Airing Date: April 9, 2022
Aka Akasaka‘s popular manga series, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is back with the third season as we continue to see the mind games between Shinomiya and Shirogane as they avoid showing weakness by admitting feelings for the other first.
Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu. 2nd Season (Komi-san Can’t Communicate)
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, School, Shounen, Slice of Life
- Studio: OLM (Pokemon, Inazuma Eleven and Odd Taxi)
- Airing Date: April 7, 2022
Tomohito Oda‘s Komi-san is back with its second season after its first season release last year. We will continue to watch Tadano as he helps Komi make friends despite her communication disorder. We will also be introduced to a bunch of new eccentric characters.
Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita. Heart (Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It 2nd Season)
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Studio: Zero-G (Grand Blue, Tsugumomo, High-Rise Invasion)
- Airing Date: April 2, 2022
Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita is back with another season which let us see Shinya Yukimura, a level-headed scientist and his partner, Ayame Himuro deal with love the only way they know how, through lots of experiments and hypotheses.
Top New Anime to Watch This Spring 2022
Spy x Family
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Shounen
- Studio: Wit Studio (Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga and Great Pretender) & CloverWorks (Promised Neverland, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai and My Dress-up Darling)
- Airing Date: April 9, 2022
Tatsuya Endo’s famous comedy manga series SPY X FAMILY is finally getting an anime adaptation. The story follows Twilight, a spy who is best when going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But he receives the ultimate impossible assignment which needs him to get married and have a child. Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath.
Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (Aharen Is Indecipherable)
- Genre: Comedy, School, Shounen
- Studio: Felix Film (Nekopara, Urasekai Picnic and A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd)
- Airing Date: April 2, 2022
Aharen-san wa Hakarenai follows Reina Aharen, a small cute student with a quiet voice and is bad at determining distance and personal space. We also have Raidou Matsuboshi, who is seated beside her in class. He has a menacing face, but in reality, he is a kind boy with an imagination that can run wild at times. The anime follows their odd friendship that starts to blossom when Raidou picks up Aharen’s eraser for her. She misinterprets his gesture and now believes them to be best friends, showing how the simplest of things can prove to be the most complicated of challenges for them.
Ao Ashi
- Genre: Seinen, Sports
- Studio: Production I.G (Attack on Titan, Haikyuu!! and Psycho-Pass)
- Airing Date: April 9, 2022
Production IG is known for its sports anime like Haikyuu!, Kuroko no Basket and Run with the Wind. The studio is back with the adaptation of yet another hit sports manga Ao Ashi by Yuugo Kobayashi and Naohiko Ueno.
The story follows Ashito Aoi, a third year middle school student from Ehime, who meets Tatsuya Fukuda, a “J Youth League” coach. Even though he’s still rough around the edges, Ashito has such amazing potential that he gets invited by coach Fukuda to participate in his team’s try-outs in Tokyo. The story of the boy who will revolutionize football in Japan begins to unfold.
Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san (Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie)
- Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
- Studio: Doga Kobo (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Plastic Memories and Himouto! Umaru-chan)
- Airing Date: April 10, 2022
Famous Romance-Comedy manga Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san by Keigo Maki is finally getting an anime this spring. The anime follows Izumi is a high school student whose life is filled with misfortune. Due to his unlucky disposition, his days are full of nothing but unfortunate events, until he starts dating Shikimori. She seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, fun to be around, sweet when she wants to be… but she has a cool dark side that comes out under the right circumstances. With the cute yet cool Shikimori now by Izumi’s side, his luckless days are over, bringing a life full of happiness and warmth.
Kakkou no Iinazuke (A Couple of Cuckoos)
- Genre: Comedy, Harem, Romance, Shounen
- Studio: SynergySP (Initial D series, Cross Game and Major series) & Shin-Ei Animation (Teasing Master Takagi-san, Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon)
- Airing Date: April 24, 2022
Popular Romance-Comedy manga Couple of Cuckoos by Miki Yoshikawa is getting an anime adaptation. The story follows Nagi Umino, a second-year student who was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken, Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend as she never wants to actually marry. But once Nagi makes it to dinner, he finds his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised…who turns out to be none other than Erika herself!
Yuusha, Yamemasu (I’m Quitting Heroing)
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
- Studio: EMT Squared (Renai Boukun, Assassin’s Pride and Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear)
- Airing Date: April 5, 2022
Yuusha, Yamemasu follows the story of Leo, the strongest hero who saved the world. Now that the world is at peace, he is unwanted as he is too strong and is exiled. He now seeks a job at the Demon King’s Army, which he had defeated and needs to be rebuilt. The Army had many problems: too much work, financial troubles, etc. Leo starts to make things better using his power. Leo encounters Echidna again, and asks her why she invaded the human world. There was an unexpected story…!
Shijou Saikyou no Daimaou, Murabito A ni Tensei suru (The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody)
- Genre: Action, Fantasy, School
- Studio: SILVER LINK. (Non Non Biyori, Chivalry of a Failed Knight and Kokoro Connect) & Blade (Iwa Kakeru!, Cheating Craft and Donten)
- Airing Date: April 6, 2022
This anime follows the Demon Lord Varvatos, who thinks life is a big fat snore and decides to reincarnate, he calibrates his magical strength to be perfectly average. But there is no way he could have predicted that everyone in the modern world would be weak as hell, which means he is totally overpowered once again! Reborn under the name Ard, he has ladies fawning over him, the royal family begging him to become the next king, and an ex-minion insisting on killing him?! But Ard has a one-track mind, and he won’t stop at anything to achieve his ultimate goal!
Tomodachi Game
- Genre: Game, Psychological, Shounen
- Studio: Okuruto Noboru (How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Ω and The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter)
- Airing Date: April 6, 2022
Tomodachi Game by Yuuki Satou and Mikoto Yamaguchi is the new hype as many compare this anime to the famous Netflix series “Squid Game”. The story follows Yuichi Katagiri, a high school boy who loves to spend his time with his five friends. But, after their school trip funds are stolen, all the five friends are forced to play the Tomodachi Game. And this deadly game tests their friendship.
Love All Play
- Genre: School, Shounen, Sports
- Studio: Nippon Animation (HunterxHunter 1999 and Bakuten Shoot Beyblade) & OLM (Pokemon, Komi-san Can’t Communicate and Odd Taxi)
- Airing Date: April 2, 2022
Love All Play follows Ryou Mizushima who joined his middle school’s badminton team full of motivation — but without a proper coach, ended up in obscurity. Nevertheless, he did eventually reach the prefectural tournament on his physical strength. Now he joins the prestigious Yokohama-Minato High School’s badminton team under the legendary coach Ebihara and is surrounded by talented teammates. He strives to become a top athlete and take his high school team to the inter-high tournament.
Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechuu (Skeleton Knight in Another World)
- Genre: Action, Fantasy
- Studio: Studio KAI (Super Cub, Uma Musume and Cagaster of an Insect Cage) & HORNETS (Somali and the Forest Spirit)
- Airing Date: April 7, 2022
The anime follows a gamer who played video games until he fell asleep…and one day he woke up, he found himself in the game world, as a skeleton! Equipped with the powerful weapons and armor of his avatar but stuck with its frightening skeletal appearance, Arc has to find a place for himself in this new, fantastical land. All his hopes for a quiet life are dashed when he crosses paths with a beautiful elven warrior, setting him on a journey full of conflict and adventure.
Check out our articles on the other anime seasons:
Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch This Spring 2022 Anime to Watch Out in Summer 2021 Anime to Watch Out in Summer 2021
