The official website for the upcoming new Magic Knight Rayearth TV Anime has been launched!

We also learned that the new project will air on Asahi TV channel in 2026, although no specific date has been given.

With this announcement, we also have a second key visual, the first one where we can see the three girls from upfront.

Official website: https://rayearth-anime.com
Official X account: https://x.com/rayearth_info

I am really happy with Hikaru and Fuu’s designs, they look close to the manga (including Hikaru’s hair color, as we had seen already in the first key visual), but I’m not sure about Umi’s face…

It seems the “old” logo is back. I wasn’t sure if they would keep the same iconic logo or if they would do a brand new one (it would have been a bad idea, in my opinion). So it’s great that the old logo is back, even if it has some minor changes. Also, I loved the fact that in this new key visual they are replicating CLAMP’s “whiteout” technique to make it more “glossy/shiny”. It definitely makes you think about the manga and I wonder if this will be applied to the actual anime as well (not sure if it might work).

I was also expecting to have some information about the staff but alas, not this time!

And we now know for a fact that the new project is indeed a TV anime, as it strongly suggested.

I am currently in Tokyo for the CLAMP Exhibition so I could not post this earlier (although I did make a post about it on X), but the official Magic Knight Rayearth account on X announced today that a new anime project is in the works in celebration of its 30th anniversary!

The full PV and Key Visual will be shown at the CLAMP Exhibition, which opens tomorrow in Tokyo.

Given that the preview video was posted on TMS’s YouTube channel, it is safe to say that the new anime will be animated by the same studio that animated the original series.

Stay tuned for more info!

I am not sure at this point what to think about this. I am not exactly surprised as there were some rumors and speculation that this could happen (the official X account was one big hint, plus all the recent wave of goods). I just don’t want it to be worse than the original series. Hopefully this will introduce CLAMP to a new and younger audience.

This is the first CLAMP anime adaptation to get a remake, and that is quite something. Similarly, Rayearth was CLAMP’s first anime adaptation for the TV. I’ll be watching closely the next announcements as they come!