Anime Episode & Manga Chapter Release Tracking

Anime runs on a seasonal structure that makes it unusually predictable and unusually easy to get wrong. Series are grouped into quarterly cours, most run weekly within them, and a schedule published before a season starts holds for most of it. The exceptions — a delayed episode, a recap week, a split cour resuming two quarters later — are exactly the events that a static schedule does not capture.

Manga is the opposite: highly irregular. Weekly and monthly serialisation is interrupted by author hiatuses, magazine break weeks and holiday schedules, often announced only in the previous issue. The gap between 'this is a weekly series' and 'a chapter arrives this week' is where most of the useful information lives.

What this category tracks

Seasonal premieres

New and returning series by cour, with premiere dates and episode counts where announced.

Weekly episode releases

Episode availability including simulcast timing, and delays against the published schedule.

Chapter releases

Serialised chapter publication for tracked titles, including volume compilation dates.

Hiatus and resumption notices

Announced breaks, magazine skip weeks and confirmed return dates.

What matters most here

Split cours are the structural detail that makes a naive schedule useless. A series announced as twenty-four episodes may air twelve, pause for a quarter, and return — and during the pause it is neither finished nor currently airing. Recording the pause and the announced resumption as their own events is the only way the schedule stays honest across the gap.

Where this data comes from

• Official series and studio schedule announcements
• Licensed streaming platform simulcast listings
• Publisher and magazine serialisation schedules
• Official hiatus and resumption notices

Every indexed entry links to its primary source. See our editorial and sourcing policy for what we verify and what we do not.

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