Next year’s Classroom of the Elite 2nd Year (or Classroom of the Elite 4th Season) has received a trailer and key visual, along with the announcement of an April 2026 premiere window.
This year previously saw the release of a teaser trailer, and Crunchyroll’s announcement that it had secured the anime for streaming.
Classroom of the Elite is based on the MF Bunko J light novels written by Syogo Kinugasa and illustrated by Tomoseshunsaku, which Seven Seas Entertainment describes as such:
Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Can they beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?
Previou seasons premiered in 2017, 2022, and 2024; Season 3 will initially meant to to begin in 2023.
The Classroom of the Elite light novel series began in 2015, with Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 beginning in 2020. Classroom of the Elite: Year 3‘s first volume launched in March 2025.
Staff
• Director: Noriyuki Nomata (new, the upcoming Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo)
• Series composer: Kou Shigenobu (since Season 3)
• Character designer: Maki Kono (new)
• Animation production: Lerche (since Season 1)
Cast
• Shoya Chiba as Kiyotaka Ayanokoji
• Akari Kito as Suzune Horikita
• Ayana Taketatsu as Kei Karuizawa
• Yurika Kubo as Kikyo Kushida
• Masaaki Mizunaka as Kakeru Ryuen
• Nao Touyama as Honami Ichinose
• Rina Hidaka as Arisu Sakayanagi
Source: @youkosozitsu