REMOW’s It’s Anime FAST channel is adding two new exclusive titles for streaming on the Samsung TV Plus service later this month: You Don’t Know Gunma Yet ～Reiwa Version～ and KANAGAWA ELVES.
Both “light anime” series are currently available only to watch on Samsung TV Plus in North America on channel #3202.
The upcoming broadcast schedule (listed in Eastern Standard Time) is listed as follows and subject to change:
KANAGAWA ELVES
- • March 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM — Episodes 1–12
- • March 30, 2026 at 3:30 AM — Episodes 1–12
You Don’t Know Gunma Yet ～Reiwa Version～
- • March 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM — Episodes 1–8
- • March 30, 2026 at 4:30 AM — Episodes 1–8
KANAGAWA ELVES (also known in Japanese as #Kanagawa ni Sunderu Elf) aired in Japan on TV Kanagawa’s local news and variety program Neko no Hitai Hodo Wide, starting December 4, 2025.
©Yoroida/MICRO MAGAZINE/KANAGAWA ELVES Anime Project
The light anime series was directed by Yuji Umoto (SHIBUYA♡HACHI), with Taeko Miura as sound director and Shin Kawamoto as music composer. IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio handled the animation production.
The original manga series by Yoroida debuted in Micro Magazine’s Comic Elmo on August 4, 2020. Six tankobon volumes have been released as of December 2025.
REMOW describes the main premise of KANAGAWA ELVES as:
After their home was burned down, the elves relocated to Kanagawa Prefecture— a modern fantasy comedy overflowing with local pride.
You Don’t Know Gunma Yet ～Reiwa Version～ premiered in Japan on January 10, 2026 on SKY PerfecTV!’s Tetsudo Channel. Its Japanese title is Omae wa Mada Gunma o Shiranai ~Reiwa-ban~.
©Ida Hiroto, Shinchosha/Gunma Project
Tetsuya Tatamitani (Africa Salaryman) directed the series and served as series composer, with Emi Saito and Kohei Nakayama as scriptwriters. Imagica Infos and Imageworks Studio were in charge of the animation production.
The original manga series by Hiroto Ida was serialized in Shinchosha’s Kurage Bunch website from October 25, 2013 to May 31, 2019. A total of 11 tankobon volumes were published in Japan. The manga also inspired a live-action TV drama series and live-action film adaptation in 2017.
The first short anime series, You Don’t Know Gunma Yet, was released in 2018 and ran for 12 episodes. It is currently streaming on Crunchyroll in select countries and territories worldwide.
REMOW describes the main premise of You Don’t Know Gunma Yet ～Reiwa Version～ as:
Kamitsuki is moving from Chiba Prefecture to Gunma Prefecture. During the move, he contacts his best friend living in Gunma, Todoroki, only to be told, “…Don’t come. No one who’s come to Gunma has ever returned alive.”
What kind of place is Gunma? What is about to befall him? The overwhelming intensity reveals the unknown “truth of Gunma”…
Source: press release
