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"Let's go, together! Head for the goal, Diamond Friends!!"
The new anime will have a theme of "Aikatsu with your friends!" and will center on a new protagonist named Aine Yuuki, who is good at making friends, and is enrolled in Star Harmony Academy's general education track. She befriends Mio Minato, the school's top idol, and becomes an idol herself.
(Source: Anime News Network)
The new anime will have a theme of "Aikatsu with your friends!" and will center on a new protagonist named Aine Yuuki, who is good at making friends, and is enrolled in Star Harmony Academy's general education track. She befriends Mio Minato, the school's top idol, and becomes an idol herself.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Last updated
Oct 28, 2026, 06:21 AM
Evidence
Announcement status
Official announcement records with supporting citations.
Confirmed
TV seasonOfficial announcement logged Jan 1, 2019, 12:00 AM.
Franchise overview
Franchise timeline
Review every Courcast-tracked season for this series and jump between entries.
Renewal pulse
Courcast score breakdown
CourScore weighs signals for an official sequel announcement within 18 months, blending attention velocity, completion strength, and catalogue health.
Confirmed
CourScore measures renewal signals out of 100. It is not a calibrated probability of an official sequel announcement within 18 months.
Signal coverage: 100% • Signal freshness: High • Updated 12 hours ago
Top reasons
- Strong renewal expectation - Strong signals suggest renewal is expected.
Runway
Anime original
This is an anime original, not an adaptation, so there is no source material to run down - renewal turns on sales and popularity rather than runway.
Financial & Commercial0
Production Feasibility0
Audience Reception0
Strategic Priors0
Fandom Engagement0
CourScore history
CourScore over time
Last analysedOct 28, 2026, 06:21 AM
Next scheduled11 hours ago
Renewal FAQ
Aikatsu Friends! renewal questions
Common questions about this title's renewal prospects, answered by Courcast's daily analysis.
- Is Aikatsu Friends! getting a new season?
- Yes - Aikatsu Friends! has an officially confirmed continuation. See the Announcement Status section above for the full details and citations.
- Will Aikatsu Friends! be renewed?
- Aikatsu Friends! has already been confirmed for a new entry - it has cleared the renewal hurdle. See the Announcement Status section for the source citation.
- What is Aikatsu Friends!'s renewal probability?
- Aikatsu Friends!'s CourScore is 100 as of the latest update. CourScore is Courcast's proprietary metric that aggregates over a dozen renewal signals - from source-material runway to social buzz - into a single daily signal score out of 100.
Latest signals
Fresh telemetry
Courcast watches every connected signal to surface the freshest indicators of momentum.
| Source | Metric | Geo | Value | Collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anilist | average score | GLOBAL | 72 | Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | favorites | GLOBAL | 114 | Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | popularity | GLOBAL | 5,505 | Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | trending | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| ann | rating | GLOBAL | 6.61 | Oct 25, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode count | GLOBAL | 13 | Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode dislikes | GLOBAL | 2,581 | Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode likes | GLOBAL | 71,050 | Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | series available | GLOBAL | 1 | Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| filmarks | mark count | JP | 215 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| filmarks | score mean | JP | 76 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest daily | GLOBAL | 0 | Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest weekly | GLOBAL | 0 | Sep 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | momentum log ratio | GLOBAL | 0 | Sep 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| justwatch | jp platform count | JP | 2 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | favorites | GLOBAL | 9 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | member count | GLOBAL | 1,384 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | rating rank | GLOBAL | 2,685 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | score mean | GLOBAL | 74.65 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | completed | GLOBAL | 4,613 | Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | members | GLOBAL | 13,691 | Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | plan to watch | GLOBAL | 5,624 | Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | watching | GLOBAL | 1,585 | Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | entry likes | GLOBAL | 10 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | figures total | GLOBAL | 4 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | goods total | GLOBAL | 318 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | media total | GLOBAL | 32 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | merch total | GLOBAL | 354 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode comments | JP | 16,763 | Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode mylists | JP | 4,793 | Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode views | JP | 922,657 | Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | completion ratio | GLOBAL | 0.21 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | member count | GLOBAL | 1,864 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | score mean | GLOBAL | 72 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| simkl | score mean | GLOBAL | 78 | Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | popularity | GLOBAL | 15.32 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | vote count | GLOBAL | 12 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| wikipedia | pageviews daily | EN.WIKIPEDIA | 10 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | channel views total | GLOBAL | 0 | Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | subscribers total | GLOBAL | 0 | Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | trailer views | GLOBAL | 632,845 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | uploads 30d | GLOBAL | 25 | Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | uploads 7d | GLOBAL | 25 | Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | views 30d | GLOBAL | 173,420 | Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | views 7d | GLOBAL | 173,420 | Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 AM |