Hello everyone!! I'm Saori from Otaku Republic!

Today! November is approaching, and I wonder if some of you might already be heading into a long winter holiday? For all of you, I've picked out 5 exciting Winter 2026 anime titles that you'll want to review past episodes of early! I'll be introducing them now!

Many of the anime airing in the current Fall 2025 anime season started around early October and will air their final episodes and mark the end of the season in late December! Then, from January 2026, a new anime season...... the Winter 2026 anime season will air, and I've picked out 5 Winter anime titles that I, based on my very personal and biased opinion, want to check out! I'll introduce them now!

These are the five! There are various reasons (like a sequel airing after several years) (I actually considered adding Frieren, but decided against it), but the ones I particularly want to check out are Golden Kamuy Final Chapter and TRIGUN STARGAZE!

The reason for choosing Golden Kamuy is super simple! The anime will finally catch up to the concluding arc starting in January, so I definitely want to check the previous summaries early! As for TRIGUN STARGAZE, this is also a concluding arc, but it's difficult to prepare using the original manga version, so I'm thinking I'd like to check out the anime version now!

Why is it difficult to prepare for TRIGUN STARGAZE with the manga version? That's because the prequel, TRIGUN STAMPEDE, contains a lot of anime-original elements! In remaking it for the modern era, new characters were added and settings were changed, among many other elements that differ from the manga version. So, if you plan to check out TRIGUN STARGAZE starting in January, please check out the prequel anime, TRIGUN STAMPEDE, first!

Since the Winter 2026 anime season features quite a few famous titles, I plan to introduce them in a list again, but for now, if you have time, check out any title that interests you from these five! After all, for concluding arcs, you really want to have a solid grasp of the story so far, don't you? I'll be sure to check them out as soon as possible too!