Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! lands on 3 October
Aniplex has confirmed a 3 October start for the adaptation of Muchimaro's Weekly Shonen Magazine comedy, with a second trailer, a Nanawo Akari ending theme and a same-day simulcast.
The television anime of Muchimaro's Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! will start on 3 October, with a second main trailer, a full streaming line-up and an ending theme from Nanawo Akari all confirmed for the series known in Japan as Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru!.
When and where it airs
TOKYO MX, BS11, Gunma Television and Tochigi Television begin on 3 October at 24:30, which is half past midnight on 4 October, with AT-X following on 6 October at 23:30 in a version with the restrictions lifted. Streaming is split in two: d Anime Store and AnimeFesta carry the show from 3 October at 24:30 at the same time as the terrestrial broadcast, while Netflix, Disney+, U-NEXT, Prime Video, DMM TV, ABEMA, Hulu and FOD start on 6 October at noon, Japan time.
What the show is
Muchimaro's manga runs in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, has passed 2.7 million copies in print and took first place in the print category at the Next Manga Awards in 2023. It follows Mizunoe Ume, who wins literary prizes but is failing the sciences badly enough to risk repeating a year, and who joins the student council to lift his grades only to find a president, a treasurer and an assortment of eccentrics already installed there.
Who is making it, and the music
Naoyuki Tatsuwa directs, with Ryo Imamura on character design and Masahiro Yokotani handling series composition and scripts, and Passione producing the animation. Aniplex lists Yumi Uchiyama, Shizuka Ishigami and Hiyori Kono among the cast. Sangatsu no Phantasia perform the opening theme, and Nanawo Akari's Pi is the ending song, her first collaboration with Shou Yamamoto in ten years, with a digital release on 7 October.
Our opinion
This is the rare gag comedy that arrives with an award and a content warning attached, and the AT-X cut is the tell. A show scheduled past midnight on four terrestrial stations and released simultaneously in a restrictions-lifted version on a service known for that kind of thing is a comedy whose jokes are the product, not a detail to be tidied up for broadcast, and that two-track release is worth naming rather than pretending the 24:30 slot means the same thing everywhere. The more revealing number is the gap: first place in the Next Manga Awards in 2023, a green light after it, an air date in October 2026. Three years from award to broadcast is the real cost of the adaptation pipeline, and it is why the simulcast window matters more than the trailer. Viewers outside Japan get the same-day version on d Anime Store and AnimeFesta while the global platforms wait three days, and that gap quietly decides whether an imported comedy lands as a weekly habit or turns up as backlog.