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2015 in anime

overview of anime-related events during the year of 2015

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ19606165 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events in 2015 in anime.

Awards

9th Seiyu Awards (held in 2015, awarded works from 2014)

10th Seiyu Awards (held in 2016, awarded works from 2015)

Conventions

January 16–18 - Otakon Vegas 2015

March - AnimeJapan 2015

Releases

Films

List of anime film releases that debuts through theater screening from January 1 - December 31, 2015.

Television series

A list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2015.

Original net animation

List of streamed anime series debuts from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015

OVA/OAV

List of anime that are debuted as DVD, Blu-ray, and other media releases in 2015.

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The public source identifies “2015 in anime” as overview of anime-related events during the year of 2015. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around anime, overview and anime-related.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2014, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with anime, overview and anime-related providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19606165. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2014 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “2015 in anime” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.