Akira Kiyose, a high schooler who loves to sing, gets recruited by a talent agency called sMiLea Production. Akira learns that the legendary idols Anela, who shocked the world with their sudden retirement, are behind the agency developing talent. Together with Banri Naoe and Chihiro Isuzugawa, also recruited by the agency, they form an idol group as they chase their dream towards super stardom alongside other idol groups LEGIT and JAXX/JAXX. (Source: Aniplex USA, edited)

Episodes 13-17 of Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (※Muri ja Nakatta!?) I want to learn to love myself—just the way I am! Renako Amaori, a former gloomy and socially awkward girl, reinvented herself for high school and successfully made her debut. She even managed to join the top-tier popular group... only to be suddenly confessed to by two of its brightest stars?! One is the school's ultimate prince, Mai Ouzuka. The other, the beloved angel of the campus, Ajisai Sena. There's no way she can handle both their affections—no freaking way! While still struggling to give them an answer, Renako agrees to help her friend Kaho by joining a cosplay event. It's the perfect excuse to delay her reply... or so she thought. But as she witnesses Kaho's passion firsthand, something begins to stir inside her. What is it that she truly wants? What is she truly searching for? Can she really not become someone's lover? Or has that no freaking way... not been so impossible after all? (Source: REMOW, edited)

This is the anime adaptation of Kantoku Fuyuki Todoki (Insufficient Direction), the first essay manga by the queen of the manga world, Moyoco Anno. The comedic and heartwarming autobiographical story follows her everyday married otaku lifestyle with Hideaki Anno, the founder of the otaku cult. (Source: ANN)

27-year-old Tokyo office worker Mire Yoshizuki just returned to Japan, while 22-year-old fourth-year college student Sora Nagase aspires to be a teacher, and 20-year-old boyish Reika Kawatani is a part-time Hiroshima okonomiyaki shop worker and freelancer. What draws together these three women from completely different walks of life is a magic gem. A New Magical Story begins when they are mysteriously brought together by chance and embark on a journey. (Source: ANN)