A new trailer has been unveiled for the upcoming MF Ghost 3rd Season TV anime series, which also announced a new cast member and an early weekly streaming date. The third season will begin streaming early in Japan on Amazon Prime Video on January 1, 2026, before airing on Japanese TV on January 4, 2026.
Voice actress Nanako Aizawa is also joining the third season as the character Emma Green.
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She joins an anime voice cast that includes:
- • Yuma Uchida as Kanata Katagiri/Kanata Rivington
- • Ayane Sakura as Ren Saionji
- • Daisuke Ono as Shun Aiba
- • Hiroshi Kamiya as Mikhail Beckenbauer
- • Ryota Osaka as Koki Sawatari
Tomohito Naka is returning to direct MF Ghost 3rd Season, with Kenichi Yamashita as series composer, Naoyuki Onda as character designer and co-chief animation director, and Akio Tobashi as music composer. FelixFilm is in charge of the animation production and is also handling the CG animation production with directrain.
The third season’s opening theme song is “TIMELESS POWER” by Yu Serizawa feat. MOTSU, while the ending song is “Yokan no Tochu” by Himika Akaneya and produced by m-flo’s Taku Takahashi.
The first season of MF Ghost aired during the Fall 2023 season from October 2, 2023 until December 18, 2023. The second season ran from October 7, 2024 to December 23, 2024. Crunchyroll streamed both of the past seasons and will do so again for the third season.
The anime is based on the Initial D sequel manga series by Shuichi Shigeno, which was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine from September 4, 2017 to February 17, 2025. Twenty-three tankobon volumes were released in Japan as of June 2025.
A new sequel manga to MF Ghost titled Subaru and Subaru was launched in Weekly Young Magazine on July 22, 2025.
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Kodansha USA licensed the MF Ghost manga in English digitally, describing the main premise as:
In a near future where cars have mostly switched over to sustainable power, combustion engine racing is a rarity. The MFG is the last major race for this dying breed, and half-Japanese Kanata Rivington has come back to try his luck. But that’s not all he’s come to Japan to do…he’s searching for his father, too. Can even the ambitious Kanata accomplish all he’s set out to do?
Sources: MF Ghost Official Twitter (2), Anime News Network
