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Anne Shirley (2025)

Published on:

31 December 2025

Last modified:

1 January 2026

Anne Shirley is a twenty-four-episode anime series that was produced by The Answer Studio and released internationally in 2025.

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Episodes

Overview

Produced by The Answer Studio, Anne Shirley consisted of twenty-four episodes released throughout 2025. Based on L.M. Montgomery’s novels Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island, this anime series is available to stream on the Crunchyroll website.

Official Synopsis

On the beautiful Prince Edward Island in Canada, an orphan named Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent to Green Gables, the home of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. They choose to adopt her anyway, as Anne finds friendship, love, and happiness in her new home. Come along for the story of a purehearted and imaginative girl growing up, leaving for college, and returning home a changed woman.

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Details

Company Credits

Produced by The Answer Studio.

Runtime

24 × 43 minutes

Principal Cast (Japanese)

Honoka Inoue as Anne Shirley
Aya Nakamura as Marilla Cuthbert
Yasunori Matsumoto as Matthew Cuthbert
Naoya Miyase as Gilbert Blythe
Yume Miyamoto as Diana Barry
Hikari Ota as J.A. Harrison
Kimiko Saito as Rachel Lynde
Sayaka Kikuchi as Jane Andrews
Sora Amamiya as Ruby Gillis
Aki Sasamori as Josie Pye
Chiharu Sawashiro as Charlie Sloane
Fumiko Orikasa as Muriel Stacy

Principal Cast (English)

Monica Flatley as Anne Shirley
Linda Leonard as Marilla Cuthbert
Randy Pearlman as Matthew Cuthbert

Source Material

Based on Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery.

Credits

Director: Hiroshi Kawamata. Series composition: Natsuko Takahashi. Character design: Kenichi Tsuchiya. Animation directors: Yuji Watanabe and Naoko Saito.

Episodes

S1E01: It’s Such an Interesting World
S1E02: I Love Pretty Things
S1E03: Looking Forward to Things Is Half the Pleasure of Them
S1E04: One Can’t Stay Sad Very Long in Such an Interesting World
S1E05: Let Us Look on the Bright Side of Things
S1E06: I Thought Nothing Could Be as Bad as Red Hair
S1E07: I’ve Been Making Mistakes, but Each Mistake Has Helped to Cure Me of My Shortcomings
S1E08: I Don’t Want to Be Anyone but Myself
S1E09: Next to Trying and Winning, the Best Thing Is Trying and Failing
S1E10: I Don’t Know What Lies Around the Bend, but I’m Going to Believe That the Best Does
S1E11: I’d Like to Add Some Beauty to Life
S1E12: Perhaps We Always Love Best the People Who Need Us
S1E13: When I Think Something Nice Is Going to Happen, I Seem to Fly Right Up on the Wings of Anticipation
S1E14: It Is Never Too Late for the Real Prince to Come for the True Princess
S1E15: I’ll Come from the Ends of the Earth If Necessary
S1E16: It’s Nicer Not to Know
S1E17: Love Is the Power That Transforms Everything
S1E18: I Feel as If I Had Opened a Book and Found Roses of Yesterday, Sweet and Beloved, Between Its Leaves
S1E19: I’ll Walk the Road to Heaven from Here
S1E20: My World Has Tumbled into Pieces
S1E21: Has the Real Prince Come at Last…?
S1E22: How Horrible It Is That People Have to Grow Up, and Marry, and Change!
S1E23: I Have Learned to Look upon Each Little Hindrance as a Jest and Each Great One as the Foreshadowing of Victory
S1E24: It’s the Birthday of Our Happiness