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.
CourScore
15.4
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 7 hours ago
Top reasons
- Cross-platform audience rating - Weighted audience rating 72.8
- Domestic episode engagement (Niconico) - 18,206,009 episode views on Niconico (JP domestic)
- Reddit discussion momentum - 22 weekly Reddit threads, compared with current activity
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 & Commercial19
Production Feasibility45
Audience Reception73
Strategic Priors9
Fandom Engagement57
CourScore history
CourScore over time
Last analysedOct 28, 2026, 06:23 AM
Next scheduledin 17 hours
Renewal FAQ
FRIEND. renewal questions
Common questions about this title's renewal prospects, answered by Courcast's daily analysis.
- Is FRIEND. getting a new season?
- According to Courcast's latest analysis, FRIEND. has a 15/100 renewal signal score. This score is updated daily and blends fandom momentum, streaming signals, source-material runway, and franchise history. Check back regularly for the latest forecast.
- Will FRIEND. be renewed?
- FRIEND. currently scores 15 out of 100 on Courcast. Signals driving this estimate include online discussion volume, sequel history within the franchise, and platform engagement data - all recalculated daily. Scores from 70 indicate strong renewal signals; scores from 85 are labelled very likely.
- What is FRIEND.'s renewal probability?
- FRIEND.'s CourScore is 15 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 | favorites | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | popularity | GLOBAL | 158 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | trending | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| cdjapan | bd rank | JP | 81 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode count | GLOBAL | 13 | Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode dislikes | GLOBAL | 2,573 | Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode likes | GLOBAL | 70,730 | Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | series available | GLOBAL | 1 | Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| filmarks | mark count | JP | 3,009 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| filmarks | score mean | JP | 82 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest daily | GLOBAL | 79 | Aug 11, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest weekly | GLOBAL | 100 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | momentum log ratio | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| justwatch | jp platform count | JP | 1 | Sep 30, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | favorites | GLOBAL | 159 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | member count | GLOBAL | 23,050 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | rating rank | GLOBAL | 1,972 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | score mean | GLOBAL | 76.24 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | completed | GLOBAL | 170 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | members | GLOBAL | 241 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | plan to watch | GLOBAL | 45 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | watching | GLOBAL | 7 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | entry likes | GLOBAL | 2 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | figures total | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | goods total | GLOBAL | 6 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | media total | GLOBAL | 2 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | merch added 30d | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | merch total | GLOBAL | 8 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode comments | JP | 714,787 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode mylists | JP | 193,412 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode views | JP | 18,206,009 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| comments 7d | GLOBAL | 559 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| mentions 1d | GLOBAL | 3 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| mentions 7d | GLOBAL | 22 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| score 7d | GLOBAL | 2,039 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| thread count | GLOBAL | 22 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| threads 7d | GLOBAL | 22 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| shikimori | completion ratio | GLOBAL | 0.59 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | member count | GLOBAL | 65 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | score mean | GLOBAL | 57.1 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| youtube | trailer views | GLOBAL | 6,666 | Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM |