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
14.6
CourScore measures renewal signals out of 100. It is not a calibrated probability of an official sequel announcement within 18 months.
Signal coverage: 98% • Signal freshness: High • Updated 4 hours ago
Top reasons
- Domestic episode engagement (Niconico) - 13,188,622 episode views on Niconico (JP domestic)
- Cross-platform audience rating - Weighted audience rating 53.1
- Titles like this rarely return - 19 years with no new entry: of films (first entries) in that position, under 1% got a new season or film within 10 years
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 & Commercial21
Production Feasibility45
Audience Reception66
Strategic Priors11
Fandom Engagement34
CourScore history
CourScore over time
Last analysedOct 30, 2026, 06:58 PM
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Renewal FAQ
LOTUS renewal questions
Common questions about this title's renewal prospects, answered by Courcast's daily analysis.
- Is LOTUS getting a new season?
- According to Courcast's latest analysis, LOTUS 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 LOTUS be renewed?
- LOTUS 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 LOTUS's renewal probability?
- LOTUS'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 | average score | GLOBAL | 43 | Oct 5, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | favorites | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | popularity | GLOBAL | 131 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | trending | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode count | GLOBAL | 13 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode dislikes | GLOBAL | 38 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | episode likes | GLOBAL | 2,409 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| crunchyroll | series available | GLOBAL | 1 | Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest daily | GLOBAL | 23 | Oct 18, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | interest weekly | GLOBAL | 20 | Sep 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| google trends | momentum log ratio | GLOBAL | -0.21 | Sep 27, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| justwatch | jp platform count | JP | 1 | Oct 5, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | member count | GLOBAL | 123 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | rating rank | GLOBAL | 7,492 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | score mean | GLOBAL | 67.42 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | chapters total | GLOBAL | 22 | Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | completed | GLOBAL | 221 | Oct 5, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | members | GLOBAL | 337 | Oct 5, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | plan to watch | GLOBAL | 65 | Oct 5, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | source members | GLOBAL | 239 | Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | source status code | GLOBAL | 3 | Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | volumes total | GLOBAL | 4 | Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | watching | GLOBAL | 23 | Oct 5, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mangadex | chapters total | GLOBAL | 44 | Oct 26, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mangadex | source status code | GLOBAL | 3 | Oct 26, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode comments | JP | 187,596 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode mylists | JP | 266,512 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| niconico | episode views | JP | 13,188,622 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | completion ratio | GLOBAL | 0.61 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | member count | GLOBAL | 96 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | score mean | GLOBAL | 50.5 | Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| wikipedia | pageviews daily | EN.WIKIPEDIA | 1 | Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | figures total | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | goods total | GLOBAL | 11 | Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | media total | GLOBAL | 2 | Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | merch added 30d | GLOBAL | 0 | Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mfc | merch total | GLOBAL | 13 | Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM |