Classroom of the Elite Season 4 anime has revealed the first teaser trailer, teasing “Second-Year Arc, First Semester — Begins!” at the end. Studio Lerche will again be animating the series. The announcement was made at the ongoing AnimeJapan 2025 event.
This will be the final year for Ayanokoji and his classmates, with some major changes in each of the classes. A special trailer narrated by Akari Kito was recently revealed for the Year 3 novel series, which will begin on March 24.
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The anime is an adaptation of Shogo Kinugasa’s Classroom of the Elite light novels. The first season premiered in 2017 and had 12 episodes. Season 2 was announced in March 2022, and it ran for 13 episodes in the Summer 2022 anime season. Season 3 was delayed from its original schedule and ended up premiering in January 2024, also getting a total of 13 episodes.
Crunchyroll is streaming the anime, and they describe the story:
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it’s said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school’s problem children.
What’s more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class.
One month later, Ayanokoji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school…
Source: Classroom of the Elite Official X, AnimeJapan 2025
© Shogo Kinugasa, KADOKAWA / Classroom of Elite Production Committee
