The AniFem Guide to Shojosei Series Coming Out in Summer 2026
With 11 series on this list, Summer 2026 might actually mark the highest number of shojo series premiering in one season since the site began—as long as we think of it in raw numbers and not percentages. With historical fiction, adaptations of classic manga, rom-coms, isekai, and pretty much every popular genre in the medium is represented here.
We’ve put together this guide ahead of the upcoming season to help our readers stay abreast of what’s coming out. While most of the series are new to the staff, I’ve cobbled together some notes about what catches our eye about each one based on trailers, summaries, reviews of the source material, and discussion between existing fans. In short, it’s all preliminary judgments and educated guesses, designed to help audiences find the right show for them.
A note about ambiguity: with the rise of web manga and light novels as source material, the lines between marketing demographics have gotten blurrier and blurrier over the last decade or so. For example, the webtoon that the spring 2026 series The Ramparts of Ice was based on has won awards as a shojo, josei, and seinen. If you feel like we’ve missed something, feel free to drop a comment!
With 11 series on this list, Summer 2026 might actually mark the highest raw number of shojo series premiering in one season since the site
