Preview images for Classroom of the Elite Season 4 Episode 1 have been revealed. Alongside the images, a new commercial (CM) video has also been released, narrated by Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and voiced by Shoya Chiba.
The new season will begin broadcasting on April 1. The first episode will be a special 90-minute premiere, and episodes 1 through 4 will be aired consecutively. The series will also be streamed on Crunchyroll.
CM (15 sec.):
Episode 1 – Preview Images:
Additionally, a talk stage event will take place on April 12 at the Kochi Anikuri Festival 2026. Voice actors Shoya Chiba (Kiyotaka Ayanokoji) and Akari Kito (Suzune Horikita) are scheduled to appear. More details about the event will be revealed on March 10.
Key Visual:
NEW CAST:
Minako Satō as Tsubasa Nanase
Hiroya Egashira as Kazuomi Hōsen
Momoko Seto as Ichika Amasawa
Shinnosuke Tokudome as Takuya Yagami
Iori Saeki as Sakurako Tsubaki
Shōgo Sakata as Riku Utsunomiya
CAST:
Shōya Chiba as Kiyotaka Ayanokōji
Akari Kitō as Suzune Horikita
Ayana Taketatsu as Kei Karuizawa
Yurika Kubo as Kikyō Kushida
Masaaki Mizunaka as Kakeru Ryūen
Nao Tōyama as Honami Ichinose
Rina Hidaka as Arisu Sakayanagi
STAFF:
Director: Noriyuki Nomata
Series Composition: Kou Shigenobu
Script: Ko Shigenobu, Kyoko Katsuya
Character Design: Maki Kono
Art Director: Hirofune Hane
Music: Masaru Yokoyama, Kana Hashiguchi
Animation Production: Lerche
Classroom of the Elite is adapted from the light novels published under the MF Bunko J label. These novels are authored by Syogo Kinugasa, with illustrations provided by Tomoseshunsaku.
Crunchyroll describes the series as follows:
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it’s said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school’s problem children.
What’s more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class.
One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school…
Source: Comic Natalie
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