Paws & Palaces

Paws & Palaces is a Chinese animated action-fantasy series receiving a Japanese-dubbed television release in October 2026. A secret team of six cats protects the Forbidden City’s national treasures by entering wuhua worlds, inner spaces built from the memories carried by cultural relics. Their enemy, Black Owl, tries to rewrite or destroy those memories. The core Japanese cast is Kazuki Ura as Soubi, Makoto Furukawa as Oboi, Sora Amamiya as Heian, Takeo Otsuka as Zeze, Kentaro Tone as Rohan and Hikaru Tono as Momo. The main PV adds Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, M・A・O, Makoto Koichi, Shinnosuke Tachibana, Masahiro Yamanaka, Genta Nakamura and Sho Hayami. Riko Azuna performs both the opening and ending themes. Tokyo MX starts the dub with episodes 1–4 on October 10, 2026 at 8:00 p.m. JST and continues weekly from episode 5 on October 14. BS Nippon TV begins the four-episode block on October 11 at 26:30. iQIYI lists the original 2025 Chinese release with 16 episodes, but the Japanese announcements do not separately state a final dub count. Named streaming services, international Japanese-dub availability, song titles and a universal release hour remain unconfirmed.