Anime Origins release date, checked against Roblox's own record
The Anime Origins release date is the one thing about this game with no published answer we could find. Roblox holds a creation date for the experience, 14 October 2025, and it holds nothing else that names a day. The date in circulation, 14 August 2026, sits about ten months later than that, and we have not found a source that establishes it. This page shows the first-party record, what it settles, and what it cannot.
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The short answer, and why it is not a single date
Two different things get called the release date, and they are about ten months apart. Keeping them separate is most of the work here.
- What Roblox records
Created 14 Oct 2025, 15:47 UTC
The created field on the Games API, by the group Origins Project
- What Roblox does not record
Any release or publication date
There is no such field in the response for this experience.
- What is in circulation
14 August 2026
Stated by the top TikTok result in this check, which we ran on 22 August 2026. The earliest dated coverage of this game we hold anywhere on this site is 15 August 2026, which sits alongside that date rather than explaining it. We have not found what establishes it.
So if you need one sentence: we found no published official Anime Origins release date, the earliest date Roblox holds is 14 October 2025, and that is a creation date rather than the day anyone could join. The rest of this page is the evidence for both halves of that sentence, including the parts that do not favour us.
By the time this page was generated, that creation date was 312 days ago.
Check a date against Roblox's record
Somewhere you saw a date. Put it in and this works out where it sits in the dated record that belongs to Roblox rather than to a writer: how far it is from the creation timestamp, and which of the five dated first-party records it falls before or after.
By 22 August 2026, the experience had existed for 312 days.
The record can place that date. It still cannot confirm it as the release date, because Roblox holds no field that names one.
- 14 October 2025312 days before your date: The experience was created on Roblox
- 13 December 2025252 days before your date: The first four game passes appeared
- 18 January 2026216 days before your date: Shiny Hunter was added
- 28 March 2026147 days before your date: Four passes were revised on the same day
- 10 August 202612 days before your date: A game pass named "Test" was created
The five records come from the Games API and the Game Passes API and are listed in full on our Anime Origins update log.
What the record settles and what it does not
Every other page that answers this question gives you a date with no field name attached. Here is the field name, the value, and the part most pages leave out, which is what the field cannot decide.
| Question | Field | What it shows | What it does not settle |
|---|---|---|---|
| When was the experience created? | Games API, created | 14 October 2025, 15:47 UTC | It does not say when players could first join. An experience can sit private for months after it is created. |
| When did it go public? | No such field | Not exposed | The response for this experience carries no published, released or firstPublished field. There is no first-party value to read, which is why every date in circulation is an inference by whoever wrote it. |
| When was it last changed? | Games API, updated | It never records what changed, and it moves for a one line tweak exactly as it does for a whole new mode. | |
| Is a launch or relaunch event scheduled? | Virtual Events API, data | An empty list says what Roblox is listing, not what the developer intends. Games can ship updates without ever creating a scheduled event. | |
| How much play has accumulated? | Games API, visits | Visits carry no timestamps, so the total cannot be split across dates, cannot bound how long the game has been joinable, and cannot locate a launch day. |
The live figures, read on this request
- Last updated
- 22 Aug 2026, 01:12 UTC
- Players in the experience
- 22,243
- Total visits
- 14,095,551
- Favourites
- 16,822
- Approval
- 93.7% of 24,320 votes
- Scheduled events listed
- 0
Read not read. The scheduled events figure is a count of what Roblox lists right now. Zero means the listing is empty at that moment, and nothing more than that.
Ten months sat between creation and the date the guides quote
304 days separate the creation timestamp from the middle of August 2026. That gap is not a contradiction and it is not evidence of anything shady. Roblox experiences are routinely created long before anyone outside the studio can join one. What the gap does explain is why this search returns a mess: two honest answers exist, they are far apart, and almost nobody says which one they are giving you.
What sits inside the gap
The game passes are the interesting part. Four of them were created on 13 December 2025 and a fifth followed on 18 January 2026, which puts paid content in place months before the coverage window. Roblox records that those passes exist and when they were created. It does not record whether anyone could buy them yet, so this narrows the question without closing it.
Why we are not just picking one
We could write a single date at the top of this page and rank perfectly well with it. The reason not to is that we would be doing the thing this page exists to point out, and the next person would quote us as a source. A date we invented would be indistinguishable from a date anybody else invented, except that ours would be newer.
Why this search hands you codes pages
We looked at the first page of results for anime origins release date on 22 August 2026 and wrote down what we saw. Of the 9 results, we characterised 8. Those 8 split like this.
3 TikTok videos
Short clips. Nothing written down that anyone can quote or check later.
4 Codes pages from large guide sites
GamesRadar, Beebom, IGN and GameRant. Each one ranks a page about codes, not a page about when the game came out.
1 A different series entirely
A Crunchyroll page for Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, matched on the word origin.
None of the eight results we characterised is a page about the release date itself. Four large sites rank a codes page for a question about dates, which happens when a domain is strong enough that its nearest page wins by default. That is a reasonable thing for a search engine to do when no better page exists. This page is an attempt to be the better page, and if it fails, it will fail on being wrong rather than on being about something else.
We recorded that one snapshot by hand on a single day. Results move, and we have not tracked them since.
Anime Origins release date questions
- What is the Anime Origins release date?
- No official Anime Origins release date has been published anywhere we could find. Roblox records the experience as created on 14 October 2025, and a creation date is not a public release date. The date in circulation is 14 August 2026, which the top result in our own search check states, and we have not found a source that establishes it.
- Does Roblox publish an Anime Origins release date?
- No. The Games API response for this experience has a created field and an updated field and nothing that names a release or publication date. That missing field is the whole reason this question has no clean answer.
- How long has Anime Origins been released?
- Counting from the created date Roblox records, the experience has existed since 14 October 2025. This page computes the elapsed days on each request and shows the time of the read, so the figure is never a number somebody typed in once and left there.
- Is a new Anime Origins release or event scheduled?
- Roblox listed no scheduled virtual event for this universe when this page was loaded, and the page shows that read time next to the figure. That is a statement about the Roblox listing, not about what the developer intends to do.
Read next
- Anime Origins codes, units and rates on our home pageEverything we hold on this game in one place
- Anime Origins update log, every date Roblox recordsThe five dated records this page checks against
- Anime Origins codes and the ones the guides disagree aboutThe same sourcing problem, applied to codes
- Anime Origins tier list compared across three sitesWhere the published rankings contradict each other