Overview
- Episode 12, which premiered Thursday on Crunchyroll, closed the first half of Season 3 with a special 27‑minute runtime.
- The finale shifts the Culling Game to the Sendai Colony and spotlights Yuta Okkotsu in new high‑stakes clashes introduced this cour.
- Following the extended episode, the anime enters a hiatus under its split‑cour plan, and neither MAPPA nor Crunchyroll has given a date for the continuation.
- A split‑cour releases one season in two broadcast blocks to ease workloads and secure TV slots, a step industry watchers note helps MAPPA maintain animation quality on combat‑heavy arcs.
- Trade coverage points to early 2027 as the earliest realistic window for Part 2 due to occupied broadcast slots and production logistics, though this timing remains unconfirmed.