Here's a List of All the Anime Impacted by COVID-19
From TV series to one of the most anticipated anime films of all time

UPDATED as of June 22
With the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, as well as Japan’s recently-expanded State of Emergency declaration, the past few weeks have seen a number of announcements for anime postponements. This goes beyond shifting TV schedules; some of the biggest projects and events have been impacted, as well.
Because of all the fast-paced news and updates, we wanted to provide a resource for our users and readers to keep track of all the delays. Below you will find a list of shows, movies and events impacted by the effects of coronavirus this season. We want this to act as a living document that you can reference back to whenever more news comes, so please be aware that the information here can be added, changed, and updated at any moment.
We hope for the wellbeing of the people working behind all of these shows, projects, events, as well as all of Crunchyroll’s users and readers.
SHOWS:
- Sword Art Online Alicization War of the Underworld Part 2 (Scheduled to air July 11)
- Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
- IDOLiSH7 Second BEAT!
- Appare-Ranman! (Resumes July 3 from Episode 1)
- Food Wars! The Fifth Plate (Resumes July 3 from Episode 1)
- No Guns Life (2nd Cour)
- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax (Rescheduled for July 2020)
- Hatena☆Illusion (Episode 12 aired on June 3)
- Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
- The Millionaire Detective - Balance: Unlimited (Resumes on July 30)
- Pokémon Journeys (Resumed June 7)
- Digimon Adventure: (Resumed June 7 from Episode 1)
- One Piece (Returns June 28)
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A Certain Scientific Railgun T (2nd half to broadcast from July 24)
- Healin'Good♡PreCure
- BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS
- The Promised Neverland Season 2
- The Irregular at Magic High School Season 2
- Kiratto Pri☆Chan
- MAJOR SECOND Season 2 (Returned May 30, back on hiatus until July 11)
- Duel Masters King (Returned May 31)
- Mewkledreamy (Returned May 31)
- Kingdom Season 3
- Black Clover (Returns July 7)
- Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE 2nd Season
- Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS
- Mashin Hero Wataru (Returns June 19)
- Extra Olympia Kyklos (Returns June 22)
- The Quintessential Quintuplets (Postponed to January 2021)
- VLADLOVE
- Sazae-san (Returns on June 21)
- Gal and Dino
- Akudama Drive (Postponed to October 2020)
- Pokémon: Twilight Wings (Next episode to premiere on June 5)
- Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima (Postponed to October 2020)
- Higurashi When They Cry
- HAIKYU‼ TO THE TOP (2nd Cour)
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa (Postponed to October 2020)
- MAESETSU! - Opening Act- (Postponed to October 2020)
- Strike the Blood IV volume 2 (Release delayed to July 29)
- Zoids Wild Zero
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger's Judgment
- EX-ARM (Delayed to Fall 2020)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Sime Season 2 (Delayed to January 2021)
- Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgment- (episode 8 delayed to July 3)
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Delayed to October 2020)
- Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 3
- Log Horizon Season 3
- Ikebukuro West Park
DUBS:
- Crunchyroll's English Dubs (5/6/20 update to Crunchyroll's English Dubs)
- Funimation SimulDub Delays
- HIDIVE DUBCAST delays
MOVIES:
- Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] iii.spring song
- given (Movie)
- Love Me, Love Me Not
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0
- Violet Evergarden The Movie
- Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
-
A Whisker Away (Theatrical release canceled, will premiere on Netflix worldwide on June 18)
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Pokémon the Movie: Coco (Theatrical release now scheduled for Winter)
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Fate/Grand Order THE MOVIE -Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot-
CONVENTIONS:
- Anime Central
- Sakura-Con
- Anime Boston
- Kawaii Kon
- AnimeNEXT
- Colossalcon
- San Diego Comic-Con
- Japan Expo
- Fanime
- Anime North
- Anime Expo (Anime Expo Lite online event to be streamed July 3-4)
- Otakon (Otakon Online event now scheduled for August 1)
- EVO 2020
- Tokyo Game Show (planned to be moved online)
- World Cosplay Summit (online event planned for August 1-2)
Keep an eye on this article for further updates!
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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.