Nue's Exorcist Anime Heads to TV in Summer 2027

Kota Kawae's supernatural manga Nue's Exorcist is officially getting a TV anime, with a summer 2027 premiere on the TV Asahi nationwide network announced during the Jump Press showcase on October 12, 2026. The reveal arrived with a first teaser trailer, a new key visual and the main cast lineup, as reported by Anime Corner, ending years of fan speculation about an adaptation.

The series follows Gakuro Yajima, a high schooler who has been able to see spirits since childhood, who discovers a hidden room at his school containing Nue — a powerful, video-game-loving phantom sealed away for sixty years. Kawae blends supernatural action with school-life comedy in Nue's Exorcist, giving the manga a lighter touch than many exorcist battle series while keeping the emotional stakes real. When a violent spirit leaves Gakuro mortally wounded, he forms a contract with Nue, borrowing her power on the condition that he help vanquish evil spirits alongside local exorcists who remain wary of her. The teaser visual carries the tagline "Fight — to choose a path where no one is hurt," according to Final Weapon.

Fans have been demanding this adaptation for a long time. Nue's Exorcist topped AnimeJapan's 2025 "Manga We Want to See Animated" public poll, taking first place among fan-nominated manga that had not yet been adapted, with more than 156,000 votes cast across the ranking, as reported by Anime Corner. That many votes from a single fan poll is a rare show of force for a manga that is still early in its serialization.

The manga has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump since May 2023 and has sixteen collected volumes in Japan, with approximately 1.6 million copies in circulation, according to Essential Japan. For a series with that many copies in circulation, a Nue's Exorcist TV anime was arguably only a matter of time — and the announcement confirms it.

A Reveal Years in the Making

The announcement did not come out of nowhere. The manga's appearance in the Jump Press promotional artwork, combined with a domain registration for the series that surfaced in September, set fan speculation running — though reports at the time cautioned that a domain registration alone was not official confirmation. October 12, 2026 turned speculation into fact.

For a manga that had already topped a major fan poll, the wait for a Nue's Exorcist anime felt increasingly overdue — which is why the Jump Press reveal landed like a payoff years in the making. From here, the timeline is clear: the anime premieres in summer 2027, which gives fans roughly a year and nine months to catch up on the manga. More updates are likely at Jump Festa in December, where the series is expected to be a major presence. For more on what's happening across the medium, see the latest anime and animation news.

The Team Behind Nue's Exorcist

Studio Hibari is producing the animation. The staff list is stacked: Hiroyuki Hashimoto directs, Hiroshi Seko — whose credits include Jujutsu Kaisen and DAN DA DAN — handles series composition, Shunpei Mochizuki serves as character designer, Takayuki Yamaguchi is the sound director, and MONACA composes the music, according to Anime Corner.

The first three cast members are Kaito Miura as Gakuro Yajima, Saori Onishi as Nue, and Sayumi Suzushiro as Kazusa Suo. The combination of Seko's track record with battle-heavy ensemble shows and Hashimoto's direction gives the Nue's Exorcist adaptation a strong creative foundation on paper. If the teaser is any indication, the studio is leaning into the red-energy visual signature of Gakuro's borrowed power, which should translate well to weekly television.

How to Catch Up Before Summer 2027

English-speaking readers are in luck: VIZ Media publishes the manga in English in both print and digital editions, and it is also available on Manga Plus, so you can start from chapter one today. The English releases make it easy to get through the story well before the summer 2027 broadcast.

If you are new to the series, the opening chapters establish the contract and the wary exorcist factions around it, making the first few volumes the perfect on-ramp before the anime arrives.

One thing is still missing: no North American streaming home has been announced yet, and there is no English dub confirmed. Jump's adaptations have been on a tear lately — recent coverage includes another Jump manga anime announcement — so expect the streaming picture to firm up closer to the premiere, most likely around Jump Festa in December.

With the cast, staff and teaser all revealed, Nue's Exorcist has gone from most-wanted to officially on the way. Summer 2027 cannot come soon enough.