Oshi no Ko Season 3 Gets January 2026 Release Window

By Elijah Gonzalez | September 15, 2025 | 10:55am

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Oshi no Ko Season 3 Gets January 2026 Release Window

Yesterday, the third season of the showbiz-focused Oshi no Ko got a January 2026 release window alongside a teaser video that revealed a pair of new cast members; Yuto Takenaka will play Shun Yoshizumi, an assistant director for the variety show Fukabore☆One Chance!, and Yōji Ueda will be Tetsu Urushibara, that same variety show’s director.

The third season will once again be animated by Doga Kobo (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, Yuru Yuri, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night). Several key staff will be returning to their previous roles, with Daisuke Hiramaki as director, Jin Tanaka (Kowloon Generic Romance) handling series composition, and Kanna Hirayama once again as the character designer and chief animation director.

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The first season of Oshi no Ko began in April 2023 and ran until June, while the second started in July 2024 and ended in October. Its 24 episodes have adapted 80 chapters of Aka Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) and Mengo Yokoyari’s manga of the same name, which ran for 162 chapters from April 23, 2020, to November 14, 2024. At its current stable pace, the anime would need about one additional season after the third to complete the story.

While Oshi no Ko is a difficult series to describe without spoiling, it’s essentially a showbiz story with a mystery/thriller twist. It follows the children of a famous idol, Aqua and Ruby, as they attempt to make it big in the entertainment industry, all while one of the siblings pursues revenge. The setup is somehow a lot more complicated than that, and while there are a few odd choices that hamper the story, it offers well-written characters alongside a critical, clear-eyed look at the Japanese entertainment sphere writ large. Despite releasing almost yearly, Doga Kobo’s adaptation has maintained its visual consistency so far.

Beyond this season 3 release window announcement, it was also revealed that the series will have its first virtual live concert, B-Komachi Live Tour 2026 – Beyond the Brilliance VirtualLive, on April 25 and 26, 2026 in Aichi, Japan. Here, the members of the in-universe idol group B-Komachi will perform via live 3D (basically, performers’ motions will be mapped onto 3D avatars of the characters from the show).

You can view the teaser video for season 3 below: