Six Shows, Four Channels, One Month
ABEMA is pitching this as a "sports autumn" event, and the scale is the story. Add up the per-series counts in the report from Japanese anime news site Anime Anime and you get 709 TV episodes across six series, spread over four of ABEMA's linear-style channels between September 12 and October 10. Each series gets its own block, and every episode stays free on demand for one week after its broadcast slot.
Haikyu!! goes first. Season 3 (10 episodes) airs Saturday, September 12 at 5:30 PM JST, with a rerun on Sunday, September 13 at 11:30 AM. Season 4 (25 episodes) follows on Saturday, September 19 at 3:30 PM and Sunday, September 20 at 4:00 AM. Both run on the ABEMA Anime 2 channel. Seasons 1 and 2 are not part of this event, so this is the Karasuno-versus-Shiratorizawa stretch onward.
Major is the biggest single block. All six series, 154 episodes in total, run daily from September 14 to September 27 at 11:30 AM and 10:30 PM on the Natsukashi Anime 00's channel, ABEMA's nostalgia channel for 2000s anime.
Kuroko's Basketball gets all three seasons, each bundled with its OVA, on ABEMA Anime 2. Season 1 airs Thursday, September 17 at 3:00 PM. Season 2 airs Wednesday, September 23 at 3:00 PM and again Thursday, September 24 at 4:00 AM. Season 3 closes it out on Saturday, September 26 at 9:15 PM and Sunday, September 27 at 9:30 PM.
Inazuma Eleven's three TV series (127 episodes) run daily from September 21 to September 27 at 11:00 AM and 11:00 PM on the Anime SPECIAL 2 channel. The block ends with Inazuma Eleven the Movie 2025 on Sunday, September 27 at 11:00 PM and again at 1:00 AM. That film opened in Japanese theaters in December 2024 as a two-parter: a compilation of the original Football Frontier arc paired with a prologue to the Victory Road game.
Ace of Diamond is the long tail. All four series, 191 episodes, run daily from September 27 through October 10 at 4:00 AM and 4:00 PM, also on Anime SPECIAL 2.
The Hajime no Ippo Block Is the Deep Cut
The boxing series gets the most granular schedule of the six, and it also folds in a TV special and an OVA. It all runs on ABEMA's Family 2 channel.
Season 1, all 76 episodes, airs nightly from September 21 to September 26 at 9:00 PM. Late on September 26, ABEMA follows it with the TV special Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road at midnight and the OVA Mashiba vs. Kimura at 1:40 AM. Season 2, Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (26 episodes), starts right after at 2:50 AM with episodes 1 through 3, then continues September 27 at 9:00 PM (episodes 4 through 17) and September 28 at 9:00 PM (episodes 18 through 26). Season 3, Hajime no Ippo: Rising (25 episodes), runs September 28 at 1:30 AM (episodes 1 through 5) and September 29 at 6:00 PM (episodes 6 through 15) and 11:00 PM (episodes 16 through 25).
That is the full TV run of Ippo Makunouchi's rise as a pro boxer, in order, in nine days.
What's on the Lineup
Anime Anime's own one-line summaries cover all six. Major follows Goro Shigeno from childhood as he chases a pro baseball career. Haikyu!! tracks Karasuno High's volleyball club as it grows and competes. Kuroko's Basketball is about high schoolers who put everything into basketball. Ace of Diamond follows a high school team aiming for Koshien, Japan's national high school baseball tournament. Inazuma Eleven is set at Raimon Junior High, home of a weak soccer club whose members grow together as teammates. Hajime no Ippo is the pro-boxing story of Ippo Makunouchi.
The manga credits behind the block are a who's who of Japanese sports comics: Haruichi Furudate (Haikyu!!) and Tadatoshi Fujimaki (Kuroko's Basketball) at Shueisha, Takuya Mitsuda (Major) at Shogakukan, and George Morikawa (Hajime no Ippo) and Yuji Terajima (Ace of Diamond) at Kodansha. Inazuma Eleven comes from game developer LEVEL-5.
Looking Ahead
The catch for readers outside Japan is that ABEMA is a Japan-only service. Its content is geo-restricted, so these free broadcasts are not accessible from overseas IP addresses. The event itself has no international component.
Most of the lineup is already available abroad through the usual channels, though. Haikyu!! streams on Netflix and Crunchyroll in several territories, and Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! is listed on Crunchyroll, Netflix and Prime Video, with availability varying by region. Anime Anime did not mention any international streaming for the event, and ABEMA has not announced one.
The marathon kicks off with Haikyu!! Season 3 on September 12 and wraps with the final Ace of Diamond block on October 10.