Premiere Date: April 8th (Crunchyroll) It's admittedly difficult to recommend a series with fan service elements at its core, but it's honestly not difficult to say keep an eye for How Not to Summon a Demon Lord's second season. The first season has a lot of attention to detail when it comes to that fan service, and that same amount of quality in the production is paid to how its action plays out. Couple this with a fun main character, and you're set up for quite a good time. But this is likely only going to be a major fit for those looking for this sort of anime! There are worse kinds out there, for sure.

Premiere Date: April 5th (English Dub with Funimation after release) Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket kickstarted its new anime reboot with the promise it would follow a lot more closely to the original manga release than the first adaptation released over 20 years ago. The problem continued to deliver with the second season as it brought several major moments to life through the anime for the first real time. Now we'll see that in action even more so with its third and final season. This will be the first real anime adaptation of the manga's ending as Takaya intended (who remains the creative supervisor for its final outing), and fans of the classic series will finally be able to close the book on this one at last.

Premiere Date: April 12th (Crunchyroll) Yoshitoki Oima's A Silent Voice is one of the most beloved manga releases of all time, and the creator's follow up series is shaping up to be just as well remembered. Taking on science fiction once more (but with more of a fantasy spin this time around), To Your Eternity follows an immortal being whose main purpose is to learn and grow as it takes the forms of beings and objects it meets along its journey. It's a little more complicated than that, and the anime reflects this with a huge boon to its presentation with the studio behind hits like Baccano, Durarara, and In/Spectre and even a theme song from Hikaru Utada, who's contributing her first anime theme ever! This one's going to be big.

Premiere Date: April 5th (Funimation) Megalo Box was one of the other major surprises of the 2018 slate of releases as it brought a whole new kind of vision to a classic series. With that first season being the 50th Anniversary celebration of Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba's Ashita no Joe, and it coming to a pretty narratively fulfilling end, this second season of episodes are all the more intriguing. Considering itself more a "sequel" than anything, this new season will be jumping seven years into the future and centers on a version of Gearless Joe who has lost his way in the years since his Megalonia win. If it has anything close to the character work in the first season, Megalo Box 2: Nomad is bound to be a knockout.

Premiere Date: March 27th (Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu) Leading the way for the strong Spring 2021 season is one of the biggest anime comebacks of the year as a whole. Following the massively successful response to the fourth season (especially the second half of it), the fifth season of the series will be hitting quite hard as it picks up from a massive One For All cliffhanger from that Season 4 finale. Featuring a joint training exercise between Class 1-A and 1-B, the fifth season is going to show off quite a bit of fun and unique battles. Expect this one to dominate most of the conversation.