Painting Rivers and Lakes 5, Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5, 画江湖之不良人 第5季, Hua Jianghu: Bu Liang Ren V, Hua Jianghu: Bu Liang Ren 5th Season, 画江湖之不良人 第五季, 画江湖之不良人 V, The Degenerate-Drawing Jianghu 5, Painting Rivers and Lakes 5, Hua Jianghu: Bu Liang Ren 5th Season
Announcement status
Official announcement records with supporting citations.
Official announcement logged Jan 1, 2023, 12:00 AM.
Franchise timeline
Review every Courcast-tracked season for this series and jump between entries.
Courcast score breakdown
CourScore weighs signals for an official sequel announcement within 18 months, blending attention velocity, completion strength, and catalogue health.
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.
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.
CourScore history
CourScore over time
Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5 renewal questions
Common questions about this title's renewal prospects, answered by Courcast's daily analysis.
- Is Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5 getting a new season?
- Yes - Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5 has an officially confirmed continuation. See the Announcement Status section above for the full details and citations.
- Will Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5 be renewed?
- Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5 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 Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5's renewal probability?
- Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 5'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.
Fresh telemetry
Courcast watches every connected signal to surface the freshest indicators of momentum.
| Source | Metric | Geo | Value | Collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anilist | average score | GLOBAL | 63 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | favorites | GLOBAL | 14 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | popularity | GLOBAL | 268 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | trending | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode count | GLOBAL | 60 | Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode dislikes | GLOBAL | 1,827 | Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode likes | GLOBAL | 30,704 | Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | series available | GLOBAL | 1 | Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest daily | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 22, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest weekly | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | momentum log ratio | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | favorites | GLOBAL | 3 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | member count | GLOBAL | 593 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | rating rank | GLOBAL | 2,599 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | score mean | GLOBAL | 74.81 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | completed | GLOBAL | 319 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | members | GLOBAL | 1,032 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | plan to watch | GLOBAL | 430 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | watching | GLOBAL | 140 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mangadex | source status code | GLOBAL | 2 | Oct 26, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| comments 7d | GLOBAL | 25 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| mentions 1d | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| mentions 7d | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| score 7d | GLOBAL | 56 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| thread count | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| threads 7d | GLOBAL | 1 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM | |
| shikimori | completion ratio | GLOBAL | 0.08 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | member count | GLOBAL | 490 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | score mean | GLOBAL | 69.9 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| simkl | score mean | GLOBAL | 80 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | popularity | GLOBAL | 21.41 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | vote count | GLOBAL | 26 | Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |