The fourth season has released its final episode.
The final episode of Classroom of the Elite 4th Season: 2nd Year 1st Semester has been released. Right after the season ended, the official X (formerly Twitter) account of the anime announced that “Classroom of the Elite” Season 5 is already in production. A key visual featuring Ayanokōji has been revealed. The first four seasons of the anime are now streaming on Crunchyroll.
Classroom of the Elite Season 5
Premiere date: yet to be announced
Animation studio: Lerche
Streaming service: Crunchyroll
What do we know about Classroom of the Elite Season 5 so far?
No other news about the upcoming season has been revealed other than its production and a visual.
The returning cast of the anime includes:
- Shōya Chiba as Kiyotaka Ayanokōji
- Akari Kitō as Suzune Horikita
- Ayana Taketatsu as Kei Karuizawa
- Yurika Kubo as Kikyō Kushida
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Kakeru Ryūen
- Nao Tōyama as Honami Ichinose
- Rina Hidaka as Arisu Sakayanagi
Noriyuki Nomata directed the fourth season of the anime at Lerche. Yasushi Shigenobu and Kyōto Katsuya wrote the scripts with Shigenobu overseeing them. Maki Kōno designed the characters and Satoki Iida was the sound director. Masaru Yokoyama and Kana Hashiguchi composed the music. Other staff members include:
- Art Setting: Satoru Hirayanagi
- Art Director: Hirofune Hane
- Colour Design: Mio Takekawa
- CG Director: Tomohiro Hirayama
- Director of Photography: Misato Sekiya
- Editing: Yukie Oikawa
- Sound Effects: Ijo Okuda
What is Classroom of the Elite about?
The anime is based on the popular light novel series written by Shōgo Kinugasa and illustrated by Shunsaku Tomose. The first parts of the novel series were published from May 2015 to September 2019 under Media Factory’s MF Bunko J imprint. The sequel Classroom of the Elite: Year 2, was published from January 2020 to November 2024. The upcoming season of the anime is based on this sequel. The latest sequel of the novel is titled Classroom of the Elite: Year 3, and it began publishing in March 2025. The series also has a manga adaptation by Yuyu Ichino.
Seven Seas Entertainment releases the novel in English, and describes the second year story as:
As Ayanokōji and his classmates begin their second year at the Advanced Nurturing High School, they’re greeted by a fresh gauntlet of exams and a fresh batch of rather unique first-year students. They’ll have to get to know each other quickly, because the first special exam pairs the first-years with the second-years on a written test—with only the second-years facing expulsion if their team performs poorly! Worse yet? It seems one of the new first-years is also from the White Room. Can Ayanokouji avoid expulsion while sussing out the identity of this hidden foe?