Most Anticipated Anime from the Summer 2024 Releases

The upcoming Summer 2024 lineup is packed with anime series and movies, with much-awaited sequels to anime like Tower of God, Kimi ni Todoke, and Kinnikuman. The season also brings sequels to recent hits like Oshi no Ko, Kengan Ashura, Shy, etc. 

Amidst them, P.A. Works will release three anime this summer, an original, a manga, and a game adaptation. In contrast, Gaina will release a brand new adaptation of the 1975 mecha anime, former Kyoto Animation veterans will be releasing a movie produced by Science Saru and Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot Look Back is finally getting the most-awaited movie adaptation. 

Besides these, there are other noteworthy anime that you should watch. So, without further ado, let’s discuss the most-anticipated summer 2024 anime.

10. Midnight Punch

• Release Date: July 2024
• Studio: P.A. Works

NewTube is the world’s largest video-posting online platform. Masaki is one such NewTuber who gets fired from a NewTube group because of a certain incident. While planning to make a comeback on NewTube, Masaki meets Live, and their goal is to surpass 1 million subscribers on NewTube. Midnight Punch is a comedy anime by P.A. Works to look out for. 

9. Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

• Release Date: June 29, 2024
• Studio: P.A. Works

This is the third entry on this list, a P.A. Works anime. This time, it’s a game adaptation, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. Sakuna is a spoiled harvest goddess banished from her celestial home to an island dominated by demons. In Hinoe Island, she fights these demons while harvesting rice with the help of her guardian, Tama, and a group of outcasted humans. On this island, she must rediscover her birthright as the harvest goddess.

8. The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies 

• Release Date: July 9, 2024
• Studio: Bones

Mira is the leader of an evil organization whose only goal is to conquer and destroy everything. Their target is Earth this time, but he finds a magical girl named Byakuya Mimori standing up against his evil pans. Much to his surprise, he fell in love with Mimori. 

FACT: The manga remains unfinished due to the author’s passing, with only 3 volumes comprising 21 chapters. So, you don’t have to worry about a sequel unless the production team wants to continue it as an anime original.

7. Isekai Suicide Squad

• Release Date: July 5, 2024
• Studio: Wit Studio

A group of most-wanted criminals is assembled to be sent to an Isekai, where orcs, dragons, and otherworldly monsters rule. This group of Supervillains, Harley Quinn, King Shark, Peacemaker, Deadshot, and Clayface, must complete their mission; otherwise, the explosives planted in their necks will be their only way out.

The world of DC comics meets the world of anime. How will this fare?

6. The Elusive Samurai

• Release Date: July 2024
• Studio: CloverWorks

Tokiyuki Houjo is the next successor of the Kamakura Shogunate but lacks in every aspect except hide and seek, which is deemed useless for a successor. However, when Takauji Ashikaga overthrows the Kamakura, a priest named Yorishige Suwa helps him escape to a faraway land where he can prepare to take revenge and take back what is rightfully Tokiyuki’s.

5. Na Nare Hana Nare

• Release Date: July 2024
• Studio: P.A. Works

It’s an original sports anime, but from none other than P.A. Works. If you are familiar with the studio’s strongest releases, it’s their originals. So, you better keep an eye out for it. 

Na Nare Hana Nare follows the lives of six girls with six different personalities, each with dreams, problems, and worries. These six high school girls might change the monotonous world around them.

4. How to Become Ordinary

• Release Date: July 2024
• Studio: Lapin Track

Honobu Yonezawa, the author who brought you Hyouka is also the original creator of this new anime adaptation. Honobu’s love to make mundane things as the main protagonist of his stories also continues in this anime. 

The story is about Kobato, who wants to lead a peaceful and normal life after a painful incident. He comes across a like-minded girl named Osanai, who also wants to live an ordinary life. Although they began high school with that as their ultimate goal, things didn’t go as planned. They were dragged into continuous events shrouded in mysteries and disasters.

3. Grendizer U

• Release Date: July 2024
• Studio: Gaina

Grendizer U is an alternative version of the 1975 mecha anime UFO Robo Grandizer with 74 episodes.

2. Look Back

• Release Date: June 28, 2024
• Studio: Studio DURIAN

Look Back is a movie adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s critically acclaimed one-shot that received global recognition.

Ayumu’s four-panel manga in the school newspaper is celebrated as the best artwork in her class. One day she was asked to leave one of her slots to Kyomoto, a truant student. When Kyomoto’s work gets published alongside hers, it receives praise for the highly detailed artwork making Ayumu jealous. 

Ayumu starts polishing her skills to beat Kyomoto, but soon enough quits making manga altogether. However, things changed when Ayumu met Kyomoto on graduation day while she was delivering the latter’s certificate. 

1. The Colors Within

• Release Date: August 30, 2024
• Studio: Science SARU

With industry veterans like Naoko Yamada, Reiko Yoshida, and Takashi Kojima onboard, The Colors Within is a must-watch and highly recommended movie for Summer 2024.

The Colors Within follows the story of a high school girl, Totsuko, who can see people’s emotions as colors. She can see the colors of happiness, sadness, calm, fright, and every other emotion. However, she continuously reads the environment around her to avoid darkening these colors. She forms a band with a girl and a boy with beautiful colors.

Honorable Mentions:

These upcoming releases are obvious entries (mainly sequels) for the most anticipated anime of the Summer 2024 list. Still, I wanted to add some new anime to look out for. Hence, these anime are included as honorable mentions.

• Oshi no Ko Season 2
• Tower of God Season 2
• Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Season 3
• My Hero Academia The Movie 4: You’re Next
• Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season
• Kengan Ashura Season 2 Part 2
• Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc
• Shy Season 2
• NieR:Automata Ver 1․1a Season 2