The Tachibana family is coming home for the new year. Shin-Ei Animation announced on November 13 that the new episodes of ATASHIn’CHI Next, the latest net anime in the long-running family comedy franchise, will premiere on the official ATASHIn’CHI YouTube channel on January 1, 2027 at 6:00 p.m. JST.
A monthly release schedule
After the New Year’s Day debut, fresh episodes will drop on the first Friday of every month at 6:00 p.m. JST (1:00 a.m. PT the same day). Alongside the date, the anime’s official website revealed a key visual, additional staff, the returning main cast and the theme song artist.
Staff and cast
Taku Kimura, who directed Chainsmoker Cat, helms the series, and Masae Otake designs the characters. Band Kinmokusei performs the opening and ending theme song, “Saraba” (Farewell). The family’s familiar voices are back:
- Kumiko Watanabe as Mother
- Kenichi Ogata as Father
- Fumiko Orikasa as Mikan
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Yuzuhiko
Why it matters for fans
The net anime project celebrates the 30th anniversary of Eiko Kera’s original manga and animates stories that the earlier anime never adapted. According to Anime News Network, earlier batches of new net episodes rolled out monthly in 2024 and from late 2025 into early 2026.
ATASHIn’CHI follows the everyday chaos of the Tachibana household: a clumsy but hard-working Mother, a quiet Father who insists on doing things his own way, romantic high schooler Mikan, and her deadpan but secretly naive younger brother Yuzuhiko. Kera drew the manga in the Sunday edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun from 1994 until 2012, then returned with ATASHIn’CHI SUPER in 2019. The franchise’s first TV anime ran from 2002 to 2009, followed by films in 2003 and 2010 and the Shin ATASHIn’CHI series in 2015-16.
Good news for international viewers: the official YouTube channel has been streaming the anime with English subtitles since 2020, making it one of the easiest classic family comedies to watch from outside Japan.
Source: Anime News Network
