Nue's Exorcist is getting an anime. Sort of. On September 30, 2026, reports surfaced that a TV adaptation of Kota Kawae's Weekly Shonen Jump manga is "in development." No studio. No cast. No release window. Just those two words, and fans are already losing it. Honestly? Fair.
Here's why it matters. The manga kicked off in Jump in May 2023 and has since piled up 16 volumes and 162 chapters. Volume 17 lands November 4. Circulation sits around 1.6 million, up from 1.2 million in mid 2025. The hook is simple but it works: Gakuro Yajima can see spirits, and he teams up with Nue, a pop culture obsessed spirit sealed in a school room, to hunt evil spirits and track down the one that killed his father. Viz runs it in English alongside Japan. And back in 2025, it won the AnimeJapan poll for the manga most deserving of an adaptation, with nearly 160,000 votes. Past winners like Komi Can't Communicate got shows. This one was always coming. We just didn't know when.
Now for the rumor mill. Fans are throwing Studio Pierrot's name around, and a few retweets from informants like Sugoi have kept that fire going. Treat it as speculation, because nothing official backs it up. Pierrot makes sense on paper, though. Naruto, Bleach, Black Clover: big Jump energy, big weekly fights. The harder question is tone. Nue's Exorcist swings between gamer girl comedy and genuinely nasty supernatural fights, and that balance is hard to pull off. Then there's the art. One reviewer earlier this year called out the heavy fan service, and that criticism isn't going away once it hits TV. A studio has to decide what to keep, what to tone down, and what to lean into. That's where adaptations live or die.
So what should you actually expect? Don't hold your breath for a trailer this year. A teaser visual or staff reveal around Jump Festa or AnimeJapan 2027 is a reasonable guess, with a premiere more likely late 2027 or 2028. Expect a first season covering the early arcs, since there's a mountain of source material. And keep your hype in check until a studio is named. Still, a poll winner with growing sales and an official "in development" tag? That's about as solid as pre-announcement news gets. Read the manga now, so you can smugly say you knew it first.
