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Episode Notes
Both Disney+ and the Disney owned Hulu streaming service have now announced their official programming slates for February 2026. Per Hulu Press, several highly anticipated anime works are scheduled to release new English dubs between Feb. 4–27. These series include Spy x Family , My Hero Academia: Final Season , Pretty Cure and One Piece . Disney+ will also see the addition of two new titles, including a spinoff of the popular French Japanese anime series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir .
Reader Version
In this episode, the host Ruz discusses the upcoming anime releases on Disney+ and Hulu for February 2026, highlighting a quiet but notable comeback for anime content on these platforms. While Ruz personally does not subscribe to Disney+ or Hulu, he acknowledges that both services are preparing to release several highly anticipated English dubbed anime series throughout the month. These include popular titles like Spy x Family, My Hero Academia: Final Season, Pretty Cure, and One Piece, with Disney+ also adding a spinoff of the French Japanese series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Ruz provides a rundown of the specific anime releases scheduled on Hulu, such as the One Piece Whole Cake Island Arc dubbed episodes starting February 4th, the complete My Hero Academia Final Season dubbed on February 6th, Beyblade X Season 2B on February 16th, Pretty Cure Season 1 on February 23rd, and Spy x Family Season 3 on February 27th. On Disney+, Beyblade X Season 2B and Miraculous World: Tokyo Stellar Force are set to debut on February 16th and 27th, respectively. He notes that this slate marks a positive shift after a slow start to the year for both platforms, which had few new anime offerings in January and December 2025.
The host shares his personal opinion on My Hero Academia’s final season, expressing that he found it somewhat boring and not to his liking. He also points out that while One Piece, Spy x Family, and My Hero Academia have large fanbases, titles like Beyblade X and Pretty Cure are less well known outside Japan. Ruz gives a brief overview of these franchises, explaining Pretty Cure’s long running magical girl series and Beyblade’s competitive spinning top battles, noting their ongoing popularity and new installments.
Ruz critiques Disney+ for its track record with anime, suggesting that while the platform leverages strong IPs to attract viewers, the quality of its original content and adaptations often falls short in storytelling and consistency. He implies that Disney’s approach may prioritize grabbing attention over delivering high quality anime experiences. Despite this, he acknowledges the importance of these releases for fans and the potential for more diverse anime content on these mainstream platforms. Throughout the episode, Ruz encourages listeners to support the podcast by following and subscribing, emphasizing the need to reach monetization thresholds to improve content quality and production setups.
He thanks his audience for their support and promises more anime and manga related content, including episodic reviews, in future episodes. The tone remains casual and conversational, blending news updates with personal commentary and community engagement.
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Hey, what's going on guys? It's your boy Ruz. Welcome back again to another episode of the podcast. I know, I know, we are here today because we need to talk about a lot of anime stuff. But first, let's go ahead and get the anime news and all the stuff that we need to do first. Does that make sense? Basically, we're very close to getting monetized, okay? We need hours. So if you are new to the channel, please follow the podcast. It really does push the podcast to more people. We're very close to 220 followers, literally about two followers left. So please click that follow button, okay? And don't forget to stream the rest of the streams.
Alright, it says here for this article, Disney and Hulu pull off a quiet anime comeback this February. Now me personally, I don't use Disney and I don't use Hulu, but I will watch whatever is on Disney and whatever is on Hulu due to other methods. Alright, let's go. Thus far, 2026 has seen few new anime releases for the popular streaming services Disney Plus and Hulu. However, both platforms are preparing to remedy this content drought next month. Both Disney Plus and the Disney owned Hulu streaming service have now announced their official programming slates for February 2026. Per Hulu Press, several highly anticipated anime works are scheduled to release new English dubs between February 4th to February 27th.
These series include Spy X Family, My Hero Academia, Final Season, Pretty Cure, and One Piece. Disney Plus will also see the addition of two new titles including a spinoff of the popular French Japanese anime series titled Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. The complete list of upcoming anime titles and release dates for both streamers in February can be viewed below in this article. As you can see, Spy Family, One Piece, My Hero Academia, this which is, I don't know what this one is, but it's got some magazine, New Beyblade of course, and yeah, does it.
In Hulu, One Piece, Whole Cake Island Arc episodes 844 to 891 dubbed starting from February 4th, My Hero Academia Final Season, Complete Season 8 dubbed from February 6th, I didn't really enjoy My Hero Academia Final Season, I'm not gonna lie, I thought it was kind of boring, and yeah, I don't know, I don't know, it just didn't rub me the right way. Beyblade X, Complete Season 2B on February 16th, Pretty Cure, Complete Season 1 dubbed on February 23rd, Spy X Family, Complete Season 3 dubbed February 27th, Disney Plus, Beyblade X, Complete Season 2B on February 16th, Miraculous World, Tokyo Stellar Force on February 27th.
This new content slate marks a promising turning point for what had earlier been a lackluster year for both streaming platforms. So far, Hulu's only two major anime additions for January 2026 have been Fire Force Season 3 Part 2 and a... Höchstens verdubbed version of Digimon Fusion Seasons 1 and 2. Disney Plus likewise left anime fans high and dry and will not have anything new to offer in the anime department until next month. December 2025 was also an uneventful period for Hulu with the mid-2000s anime rom com Lovely Complex being one of the only new additions to the site's anime catalog. That is a big fat shame.
While One Piece, Spy X Family, and My Hero Academia have massive followings, Beyblade X and Pretty Cure are comparatively more obscure outside Japan. Because I ain't never heard of it. Even though both titles belong to hugely successful IPs, one of several installments in the long run running Pretty Cure franchise Pretty Cure 2004 revolves around middle school students Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro. Despite being polar opposites, the two girls team up to protect their world from the forces of evil after meeting Mipuru and Mepuru, two extraterrestrial refugees from the mythical quotations Garden of Light. As of January 2026, the anime portion of the franchise consists of 22 unique entries.
Additionally, the franchise's 23rd anime star Detective Pretty Cure is slated to premiere in Japan on February 1st. Initially created in 1999, the Beyblade multimedia franchise features a universe where players enjoy competing in large scale tournaments with spinning tops imbued with the spirits of mythical beasts known as Bit Beasts. In the Beyblade X anime, former Beyblade champion Jackson Cross joins forces with amateur blader Robin Kazami after the latter is cruelly kicked off his team. The two then cross paths with multi nana Nero, an influencer with a giant following in the Beyblade community.
Determined to rise through the ranks of X Tower, Cross and his teammates form Team Persona and begin a slow ascension to greatness. Beyblade X initially premiered in the US in July 2024, airing weekly on Disney XD while simultaneously streaming new episodes by Hooli. I don't think anyone really uses Hooli like that. And Disney Plus has a track record of actually producing slop or creating IPs or going off of IPs that they just don't do the justice of the series in the future content that they are making. I think mainly it's just to grab people's attention, which they do do, do not get me wrong, because of how strong the IPs are being present from the past.
But from their works, it just doesn't come off as positive in terms of their creation and their story writing and the consistency of how good they are aiming for it to be. If you're new, especially to the podcast, don't forget to follow, subscribe. It's very important that you do. You push the numbers higher, impressions go higher, more people see it. And when it comes to monetization, all I need for you guys to do is just watch the whole catalogue. Go through the catalogue, play it in the background, put it on low volume and just let the hours rack up. Because really and truly, we need 2000 hours in a month to reach there. Right now, we are about almost at 400 hours and we're within 30 days.
So without you guys, I can't reach monetization. And without monetization, I cannot now help myself in the way I want to help myself when it comes down to content in terms of replacing broken setups or needing new setups. Thank you once again. Subscribe. More anime stuff coming, more manga stuff coming, and more reviews coming on episodic anime reviews. Take care. Peace.