Crunchyroll, the global anime streaming service and digital manga platform, announced during New York Comic Con 2025’s “Crunchyroll Industry Panel” on Thursday that it has acquired the rights to Oshi no Ko‘s third season.
Ruby and Aqua’s adventures will be available on the platform for the first time in January 2026, and the season is currently in production.
Oshi no Ko Season 1 from KADOKAWA and studio Doga Kobo premiered on the HIDIVE platform, one of Crunchyroll’s main competitors in the anime space, in Spring 2023. Season 2 aired in Summer 2024. Episodes later appeared on Netflix.
Oshi no Ko is based on Shueisha‘s Weekly Young Jump manga series written by Aka Akasaka and illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari. The series is about an OBGYN tasked with delivering the babies of his favorite pop idols. But on the night when the babies are supposed to be born, he is murdered by one of the idol’s obsessive fans.
This is where the story gets weird (in a good way). The doctor is reincarnated as the idol’s son while retaining the memories of his past life.
Read Crunchyroll’s official synopsis of Oshi no Ko Season 3 below:
The story enters a new stage.
It’s been six months since “POP IN 2” was released. Thanks to MEM-Cho’s hard work, B-Komachi is about to get their major break. Aqua is a multi-talented entertainer, and Akane’s career as a talented actress is going smoothly. Meanwhile, Kana lost the cheerfulness she once had. To track down the truth behind Ai and Goro’s deaths, Ruby keeps rising in the entertainment world…
Using lies as a weapon.
Watch the Oshi no Ko Season 3 teaser trailer below:
Also at its Thursday panel Crunchyroll revealed that it has acquired the worldwide theatrical rights (excluding most Asian territories) to That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Seas, which will be an all-new standalone story in the fan-favorite That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime franchise. With animation from studio 8-Bit, the film will be released by Crunchyroll in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Source: Crunchyroll
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