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This Is the End Stagnation Committee Light Novels Have Anime in the Works (Updated)

The "Dengeki Bunko Fall Festival Online 2026" announced on Saturday that Kien Aien's Kochira, Shūmatsu Teitai Iinkai. (This Is the End Stagnation Committee.) light novel series has an anime in the works.

Novel illustrator Ogipote also drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement.

祝！こちら、終末停滞委員会。アニメ化🎊!! お陰様で…自身にとっても初の担当作品の映像化になります。動きます😭！！鋭意制作中！お楽しみにッ！ https://t.co/Izx8tmFgbJ

— 荻pote (@ogipote) October 3, 2026

The story imagines if our world is actually in the middle of an apocalypse, unbeknownst to most people. Weird creatures beneath Tokyo's Shinobazu Pond, a giant snail perched on the Eiffel Tower, a demon lord who looks like a beautiful girl …. Yet, in the underbelly of society, there are boys and girls who fight the coming apocalypse while giving it the middle finger. They can't cancel the apocalypse, and they can only delay it. Still, they take their arms into battle. Why? To them, this is just day-to-day life, a ritual festival every day for the young.

Kadokawa published the first light novel volume with illustrations by Ogipote on July 10, 2025, and published the sixth volume on July 10, 2026. Hiroshi Sakurai began a manga adaptation on Kadokawa's Shōnen Ace Plus service in April 2024, and Kadokawa published the second manga volume on July 10.

Update: Added announcement video and celebratory illustration.

Source: "Dengeki Bunko Fall Festival Online 2026"

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