Rilakkuma gets a third season, and 15 of its episodes are free here
The bear short was renewed after episode 24. We checked all 1,349 short-form entries in our index against the live site to see what the free short anime shelf actually holds.
By Riley Kuroda · AnimeSphere staff · September 12, 2026
A third season of the Rilakkuma short anime has been announced, under the title Rilakkuma: Ki Mama ni Manpuku Biyori, with the news following the twenty fourth episode, as reported by Anime News Network. This one lands on a series we carry.
What the free run covers
Our index records RILAKKUMA as a short-form television series, first airing in 2026 and still running, with a recorded episode length of one minute. We hold no total episode count for it. The live page, titled "Watch RILAKKUMA Free Online", states 15 episodes free.
The free run does not begin at episode 1. In our index the English-language rows run from episode 9 through episode 24, so it picks up partway in.
The uploads sit on the Crunchyroll channel, which carries a YouTube verified badge. We fetched the episode 9 upload today. It is titled "RILAKKUMA Episode 9 DUB", and its watch page reports an automatic English caption track, which means the audio is English. It runs 90 seconds against a recorded episode length of one minute, so it is a whole episode. The country allow-list on those rows includes the United States. A separate Japanese-language set of uploads has a country list that does not include the United States, so a reader there reaches the English one.
The short-form shelf, measured today
Our index holds 1,349 entries recorded as short-form television series. Every one of those pages was fetched from animesphere.app today, and none failed to load. Of the 1,349, 47 state a free episode count, 566 free episodes between them. 45 of the 47 have a recorded episode total to compare against, and 15 of those reach it, so roughly a third of the free short-form runs are whole.
The other end of the shelf is thin. 15 of the 47 state exactly one episode, and 22 state two or fewer. One horror anthology franchise accounts for 10 of the 47 entries and only 16 episodes between them, a fifth of the shelf given over to one and two episode fragments.
Three complete runs
- Galaxy Angel: the live page states 25 episodes free against a recorded total of 25. The channel is Nozomi Entertainment. The episode 1 upload is titled "Galaxy Angel Episode 1 (Dub)", and the same channel posts a separately numbered set whose titles say "(Sub)", so both an English dub and a Japanese-language set exist. The dub covers all 25 episodes, the Japanese-language set 23 of them. Each upload runs 821 seconds against a recorded episode length of 13 minutes. The country allow-list is Canada and the United States.
- Tono to Inu: 24 episodes free against a recorded total of 24. The episode 1 upload runs 154 seconds against a recorded length of 3 minutes, and its watch page reports only an automatic Japanese caption track, so the audio is Japanese.
- Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express: 12 episodes free against a recorded total of 12. The episode 1 upload runs 210 seconds against a recorded length of 4 minutes. Its watch page reports an authored English subtitle track alongside an automatic Japanese caption track, so that is Japanese audio with real English subtitles.