I'm Looking for Zombie Anime Sets October 2026 TV Asahi Premiere With First PV and Cast

What was announced

The television anime I'm Looking for Zombie will begin airing in October 2026, the production revealed during the "TV Asahi New Anime Fest: Summer 2026" livestream. According to the official @zommasu_anime account, the series will run on TV Asahi's nationwide 24-station "IMAnimation" block every Saturday from 11:30 PM. The same reveal brought the show's first teaser PV, a teaser visual, and the main voice cast, giving the autumn lineup hopeful its first substantial look.

The cast

The official account introduced five young leads alongside their voice actors. Kyori Nemoto voices Aki, a curious girl raised in a village cut off from the zombies who now relishes the outside world. Her childhood friends are Natsuki, voiced by Lynn, and Haru, voiced by Toshiya Miyata. Rounding out the group are Yuu, voiced by Hibiku Yamamura, and Sakura, voiced by Yuka Nukui. Each character was unveiled with a new character visual posted by the official account.

What the show is about

I'm Looking for Zombie is a zombie and youth comedy set in a world where roughly 90 percent of humanity contracted a deadly disease, died, and rose again as zombies that attack the living. Thirteen years after that collapse, which the story calls "Red Day," the survivors live away from the big cities while a new generation that never knew the old world comes of age. The plot follows Aki and her friends Haru and Natsuki as they leave their village to search for Aki's missing father in a ruined outside world. Our catalog lists the series under the adventure genre.

Staff and studio

Outlets covering the stream, including Lisani and Animate Times, report that the series is animated by Studio Comet and directed by Shinya Une. It adapts the manga by Katsuwo, the creator known for Mitsuboshi Colors, which has run in KADOKAWA's Comic Dengeki Daioh. Animate Times had previously reported the TV anime adaptation itself, so the October window, the broadcast block, the cast, and the teaser PV are the new details from this reveal.

What we know

A specific premiere date within October has not been announced. The teaser PV, which lets fans hear the five leads for the first time, is streaming now on the show's official YouTube channel, and the production says more information will follow ahead of the autumn debut. With a comedy author best known for cozy slice-of-life work taking on a post-apocalyptic premise, the tonal mix is shaping up to be the series' biggest hook.