The results of the third weekly poll of the Fall 2026 anime season are in, with Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity making a spectacular debut at the top of the rankings.
Organized by the Anime Corner community, the Week 3 rankings for Fall 2026 attracted a total of 7,067 voters. The debut of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity on this week’s voting list came as a major surprise.
The Studio Pierrot blockbuster claimed first place with 20.15% of the total votes, marking the highest voting percentage recorded since the beginning of the Fall season. The result also ended Even the Student Council Has Its Holes!’s two-week reign at the top of the rankings.
After a 22-year journey, the Bleach anime has officially reached its conclusion with its final episode, which also introduced the next generation of the Kurosaki and Kuchiki families following a time skip. Returning after an unexpected production hiatus, the final two episodes of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War generated considerable excitement. The penultimate episode officially brought the prolonged war against Yhwach to an end, with the main antagonist being defeated across all three worlds.
Here are the Top 10 anime in the Fall 2026 Week 3 rankings:
- 1. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity (20.15%)
- 2. Firefly Wedding (9.23%)
- 3. The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 (8.82%)
- 4. STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 2nd-3rd STAGE (8.19%)
- 5. Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! (5.62%)
- 6. FX Fighter Kurumi-chan
- 7. Black Clover Season 2
- 8. Ranma ½ (2024) Season 3
- 9. The Ramparts of Ice Season 2
- 10. Blue Box Season 2
The gap between Bleach in first place and runner-up Firefly Wedding, which received 9.23% of the votes, reached 10.92 percentage points. However, the competition among the next three contenders was much tighter. The difference between second, third, and fourth place was just 1.04 percentage points. Meanwhile, former leader Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! slipped to fifth place with 5.62% of the vote.
Further down the Top 10, Ranma ½ (2024) Season 3 made a modest climb from 10th to eighth place, edging out The Ramparts of Ice Season 2 in ninth by just 0.01 percentage points. Outside the top 10, the rankings also saw impressive advances from A Certain Dark Side’s Item, which jumped from 28th to 12th place, and Romelia War Chronicle, which rose from 37th to 22nd.
Sources: gamek