Re:ZERO Season 4als Exciting New Cast & Confirms 202 Premiere
Discover Fairouz Ai’s captivating role as Shaula in the latest season, featuring returning staff at White Fox for an exciting new adventure.
Fairouz Ai Joins the Cast of Re:ZERO Season 4, Returning Staff Confirmed, 2026 Air Date Announced
Kadokawa has unveiled key updates for the highly-anticipated fourth season of Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World-. The announcement includes a new cast member, a second teaser visual, details about the returning staff, and a broad 2026 premiere window for the upcoming season.
Fairouz Ai Cast as Shaula
Renowned voice actress Fairouz Ai will bring a new character, Shaula, to life. Take a look at the official teaser visual below:
Returning Staff for Season 4
Production remains in the trusted hands of animation studio WHITE FOX, with several key staff members returning:
- Director: Masahiro Shinohara
- Series Script Supervisor: Masahiro Yokotani
- Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Haruka Sagawa
- Monster Design: Keitaro Chiba
- Prop Design: Goichi Iwahata, Noritaka Suzuki
- Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki (BIHO)
- Art Director: Ryōka Kinoshita (BIHO)
- Color Key Artist: Izumi Sakamoto
- Compositing Director of Photography: Miori Miyagi (T2 Studio)
- 3D Director: Kentarō Ijima (Felix Film)
- Editing: Hitomi Sudō (REAL-T)
- Music: Kenichiro Suehiro
- Music Production: Kadokawa
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Sound Production: Magic Capsule
- Animation Production: WHITE FOX
New Cast Addition: Konomi Kohara as Rui
The recently aired 66th episode has also revealed that Konomi Kohara will join as the new character Rui.
Recap: Season 3 and Release Details
- The third season's 'Shūgeki-hen' (Attack Arc) premiered on October 2 with a special 90-minute episode on TOKYO MX, AT-X, and others.
- The 'Hangeki-hen' (Counterattack Arc) premiered on February 5.
- Crunchyroll streams the anime as it airs, with each arc comprising eight episodes.
- The third season had a limited advance theater screening throughout Japan starting August 30.
Series History and Spin-offs
- The first 25-episode anime season launched in April 2016, adapted from Tappei Nagatsuki's light novels.
- [Crunchyroll] streamed the first and second seasons as they aired.
- Both the Break Time and PETIT short anime spinoffs are also available on Crunchyroll.
- Funimation released the series on home video with an English dub in 2018.
- Two OVA volumes, Memory Snow and The Frozen Bond, are also available for streaming on Crunchyroll.
- The Director’s Cut of the first season, featuring new footage and hour-long episodes, premiered in January 2020 and is also streamed by Crunchyroll.
- Season 2 aired in two parts, starting July 2020, after a delay due to COVID-19.
Source: Press release
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