Fourteen years after their last television season, the Minami sisters are officially coming back. Minami-ke: Korekara unveiled a teaser trailer, a teaser visual and character visuals at the Minami-ke Special Event 2026 on Sunday, with the franchise's original cast confirmed to return.
Following the event, the official website of Minami-ke: Korekara updated with the new materials, giving fans their first full look at the comeback. Korekara is the franchise's fifth television anime and its first since Minami-ke: Tadaima wrapped up in 2013.
The teaser trailer opens at the Minami family's apartment as Haruka calls her sisters for dinner, before Kana and Chiaki launch into their usual squabbles. Their school friends and the other Minami household all appear as well, and the returning cast's voices make the reunion feel like no time has passed at all.
Watch the teaser trailer here:
Alongside the trailer, a teaser visual shows Chiaki, Kana and Haruka leaping in the same direction, with Chiaki at the front and Haruka at the back. Character visuals for the cast were released with it, putting the sisters and their friends in their new-season designs.
Nearly the entire original cast is back, led by the three sisters:
Rina Sato as Haruka Minami (Mikoto Misaka in A Certain Magical Index)
Marina Inoue as Kana Minami (Armin Arlert in Attack on Titan)
Minori Chihara as Chiaki Minami (Yuki Nagato in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Nana Mizuki as Toma Minami (Hinata Hyuga in Naruto)
Rika Morinaga as Makoto (the original voice of Mako-chan)
Tetsuya Kakihara as Fujioka (Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail)
Daisuke Ono as Hosaka (Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler)
Aki Toyosaki as Yoshino (Yui Hirasawa in K-On!)
Eri Kitamura as Yuka Uchida (Sayaka Miki in Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
Momoko Ohara as Shuichi (also the voice of Yū in the franchise)
Saori Goto as Keiko (Moeka Kiryu in Steins;Gate)
Ao Takahashi as Riko (Kana's classmate and love rival)
The rest of the returning ensemble includes Yoshino Nanjo as Miyuki, Tatsuya Hayama as Akira Minami, Reiko Takagi as Maki, Ryoko Ono as Atsuko, Ayaka Saito as Hitomi, Saeko Chiba as Hayami, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Natsuki Minami, Shinji Kawada as Haruo Minami and Shintaro Asanuma as Takeru. No new characters were announced, underlining that Korekara is a reunion first and foremost.
Behind the scenes, Jun'ichi Kitamura directs the new season at LIDEN FILMS, with Takamitsu Kono on series composition and Nobuhiro Ando on character designs. Franchise veterans Yasunori Ebina and Yasuhiro Misawa return as sound director and composer, joined by art directors Masaru Sato and Midori Kikuchi, color designer Saki Kurata, director of photography Yuki Tsuchimoto and sound effects artist Naoto Yamaya.
What Is Minami-ke: Korekara About?
Minami-ke: Korekara adapts Koharu Sakuraba's Minami-ke, a comedy and slice-of-life manga that has run in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine since March 2004. Kodansha published the manga's 29th collected volume on November 6, two days before the event.
The manga's slice-of-life stories have already produced four television seasons, beginning with Minami-ke in 2007 and continuing with Minami-ke: Okawari, Minami-ke: Okaeri and Minami-ke: Tadaima in 2013. Daume, Asread and Feel handled those earlier seasons, which makes LIDEN FILMS the fourth studio to take on the Minami household.
Crunchyroll describes the series as follows:
There are three of the Minami sisters: Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, who have an average life. The girls only have each other to depend on and help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking.
The announcement even keeps the franchise's customary warning intact, reminding viewers that the story simply depicts the three sisters' everyday lives and asking them not to expect too much. It is the same low-key promise the series has made since 2007, and it remains the whole point of Minami-ke.
Minami-ke: Korekara premieres in April 2027. No broadcaster, episode count or international streaming home was announced at the event, so fans outside Japan will need to wait a little longer to find out where the sisters' return will stream.
