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
15.8
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
- Domestic episode engagement (Niconico) - 26,173,420 episode views on Niconico (JP domestic)
- Cross-platform audience rating - Weighted audience rating 53.3
- MAL community size - 960 MAL list entries (watching/completed/planned)
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 & Commercial22
Production Feasibility45
Audience Reception68
Strategic Priors16
Fandom Engagement29
CourScore history
CourScore over time
Last analysedOct 28, 2026, 06:23 AM
Next scheduledin 12 hours
Renewal FAQ
Kizuna (Special) renewal questions
Common questions about this title's renewal prospects, answered by Courcast's daily analysis.
- Is Kizuna (Special) getting a new season?
- According to Courcast's latest analysis, Kizuna (Special) has a 16/100 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 Kizuna (Special) be renewed?
- Kizuna (Special) currently scores 16 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 Kizuna (Special)'s renewal probability?
- Kizuna (Special)'s CourScore is 16 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 | 50 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | favorites | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | popularity | GLOBAL | 318 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | trending | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode count | GLOBAL | 12 | Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode dislikes | GLOBAL | 16 | Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode likes | GLOBAL | 3,364 | Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | series available | GLOBAL | 1 | Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| filmarks | mark count | JP | 155 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| filmarks | score mean | JP | 48 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest daily | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 3, 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 |
| kitsu | member count | GLOBAL | 178 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | rating rank | GLOBAL | 9,917 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | score mean | GLOBAL | 64.11 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | completed | GLOBAL | 775 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | members | GLOBAL | 1,017 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | plan to watch | GLOBAL | 158 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | watching | GLOBAL | 27 | Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mangaupdates | bayesian rating | GLOBAL | 8.46 | Oct 26, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | figures total | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | goods total | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | media total | GLOBAL | 26 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | merch added 30d | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | merch total | GLOBAL | 26 | Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode comments | JP | 1,048,781 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode mylists | JP | 121,629 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode views | JP | 26,173,420 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | completion ratio | GLOBAL | 0.71 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | member count | GLOBAL | 234 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | score mean | GLOBAL | 57.4 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | popularity | GLOBAL | 0.68 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | vote count | GLOBAL | 2 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |