World Trigger Remake Announced
After 3 years since Season 3, the hit sci-fi anime will return with a whole fresh reboot.
On December 10, 2025, it was officially confirmed that World Trigger’s Reboot Project, previously announced on December 4.
The project will readapt the 1st Season of the series with a ‘completely new production’ by Toei Productions (One Piece, Dragon Ball, Pokemon), who were responsible for the original anime.
The content spans from the series’ first chapter to the B-Rank Wars Arc for a total of 120 chapters, which is the content of Season 1’s 73 episodes that aired from October 5, 2014 to April 3, 2016.
Will the anime shorten the amount of episodes?
If the reboot will follow the standard 12-14 episode cour format, this project will divide the 120-chapter first season into multiple seasons.
Otherwise, it could be that the anime will have 52 or more episodes, assuming two weekly chapters will be adapted per episode at the very least.
With a total of 99 episodes across 3 seasons, the anime originally adapted the first 199 chapters of the manga, ending on January 23, 2022, meaning it has been 3 years since the original anime.
More details will be revealed in Jump Festa 2026 on December 20-21, 2025.
About World Trigger
World Trigger is a manga written and illustrated by Daisuke Ashihara, originally published in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 9, 2013 to November 26, 2018, stopping at Chapter 169, until it was moved to the monthly Jump Square on December 4, 2018 due to the author’s health issues.
The series has reached 29 volumes and 259 chapters as of writing and has sold 15 million copies by July 2023.
World Trigger is the story of Yūma Kuga, a humanoid “Neighbor” from another world, and Osamu Mikumo, a Border trainee, who work together to protect Mikado City from interdimensional invaders.
Source: Twitter
World Trigger ‘Reboot Project’ TV Anime will readapt the 1st Season of the series with a ‘completely new production’.
The content spans from the series’ first chapter to the ‘B-Rank Wars Arc’. More details will be revealed in Jump Festa 2026.https://t.co/L3YsI9a5iY https://t.co/vKwKMjATdE pic.twitter.com/AshLzSfa7e
— Shonen Jump News (@WSJ_manga) December 10, 2025
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