Anime

Popular anime Fruits Basket has released its latest key visual for Season 2! Based on Takaya Natsuki’s classic shojo manga, Season 1 of the TV anime was broadcast from April to September last year with season two set to follow this spring. The series follows high school girl Honda Tohru, who finds herself moving in

Vampire-themed dramatic stage reading title Mars Red is set to make the jump to TV anime in 2021! Written and directed by legendary theatre practitioner Fujisawa Bun’o, the stage production also boasted promotional artwork by mangaka Karakara Kemuri. Like the stage show, the TV anime will be set in the Taisho era (1912 – 1926)

Set in Hakodate, Hokkaido, the series revolves around talented vocalist Nanahoshi Ren and his bandmates, enthusiastic leader Goryou Yuto, Matoba Wataru, and Kikyou Rio, who together form boyband Argonavis. As a popular Bushiroad franchise, BanG Dream! features numerous titles over mediums like rhythm games, manga, anime. Argonavis is its first ever male idol group.

The Shirobako movie has released its main trailer, starring Aoi and a host of other familiar characters! [embedded content] The trailer also showcases the movie’s theme song, “Hoshi wo Atsumete” by fhana. Set in the world of anime production, Shirobako is an original anime project first broadcast in 2014. The movie picks up four years

Iconic pirate manga One Piece is getting a Western live action drama adaptation! The 10 episode series will stream exclusively on Netflix as a Netflix Original. The manga’s original author, Oda Eiichirou, is on board as an executive producer. He has also released an official comment, stating his excitement for the project. The live action

In 2019, Fate/stay night, the origin of the currently airing anime Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, celebrated 15 years since its release as a video game. Commemorating the occasion, an event titled “TYPE-MOON Exhibit: Tracing 15 Years of Fate/stay night,” which looks back at the history of the Fate series and TYPE-MOON, opened

Members of the cast, including Eguchi Takuya (who plays Hikigaya Hachiman), Hayami Saori (Yukinoshita Yukino), Toyama Nao (Yuigahama Yui), Sakura Ayane (Isshiki Iroha), and Horii Chado (Tobe Kakeru), will be present at a special event on Anime Japan 2020’s Flower Red stage on March 21 at 1:15 pm. Adapted from the series of light novels

The upcoming anime adaptation of the much loved visual novel Higurashi When They Cry has announced its key cast members: Hoshi Souichirou as Maebara Keiichi, and Nakahara Mai as Ryugu Rena, with both reprising their roles from the previous anime adaptation. Inspired by the classic horror/mystery game, Higurashi was first adapted as a TV anime

3DCG anime Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, the latest installment in the Ghost in the Shell franchise, will be available to stream exclusively via Netflix this April! In addition to releasing a new trailer and teaser poster, the show has also confirmed key casting: Tanaka Atsuko (Kusanagi Motoko), Otsuka Akio (Batou), and Yamadera Koichi (Togusa),

A new project has been announced for popular manga Bleach as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations! More information is expected from a live stage event at AnimeJapan 2020 on March 21. Members of the cast and crew will be in attendance, including Morita Masakazu who plays Kurosaki Ichigo, Okiayu Ryoutarou who plays Kuchiki Byakuya,

A 3D action RPG inspired by classic manga Inuyasha will be released for iOS and Android later this year! [embedded content] Titled Yomigaeru Monogatari, the game is produced by Hammer Entertainment. Players will encounter familiar characters and scenes from the original work, and will also be able to engage in raid and PVP battles. It

Adapted from the light novel series written by Fuse and illustrated by Mitz Vah, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime follows a salaryman is stabbed to death and wakes up as a slime in another world. Taking on the name of Rimuru, he tries to build his own society where all kinds of

The series’ ending theme, “nameless story” by Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets, is set to be released as a single on Jan. 29. Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets have provided music for numerous anime franchises including Touhou Project, High School of the Dead, Gate, and Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens. (C) 2018 Kamachi Kazuya /

Popular manga Death Note is getting its first original material in 12 years with a one shot manga in the March edition of Jump Square! The 87-page one shot will follow middle school boy Tanaka Minoru, who has won the title of the cleverest in Japan three years running. Two years after the Shinigami Ryuk

Trigger has released the first trailer for its upcoming TV anime BNA, which airs this April! [embedded content] Its key creative team has also been revealed. Yoshinari You will direct with a script by Nakashima Kazuki and character design by Yoshigaki Yusuke. Concept art is by Canadian artist Genice Chan. BNA follows a young woman,

My Hero Academia has released a new key visual by character designer Umakoshi Yoshihiko, plus a trailer for its upcoming School Festival arc! [embedded content] The trailer features some of the School Festival’s action set to the new opening theme song by KANA-BOON, “Star Marker”. Originally created by Horikoshi Kouhei and currently running in Weekly

20 years on from the original anime’s debut, Digimon Adventure will be getting a reboot anime in Apr. 2020! A modern adaptation set in 2020, the new world of Digimon Adventure is a place where networks are essential in everyday life. As cyberterrorism threatens the peace, humans are still unaware of the existence of those

Key’s latest game, Heaven Burns Red, has been delayed until 2021. It was originally scheduled for release on iOS/Android on Feb. 28. The reason for the delay has been cited as the studio’s desire to deliver the best possible smartphone RPG experience to fans. The game is the first in 13 years from Key co-founder

Inspired by Tsukushi Akihito’s manga of the same name, the series follows a young girl named Riko and her robot friend Reg as they explore a mysterious hole in the ground known as the Abyss. (C)Tsukushi Akihito, Takeshobo / Made in Abyss the Movie: Dawn of the Deep Soul Production Committee

Season 2 of popular anime Fruits Basket will be hitting the airwaves this spring! An epic 7-minute trailer provides a quick overview of the Season 1 while gently teasing the developments of Season 2. Originally a manga by Takaya Natsuki, Fruits Basket revolves around recently orphaned high schooler Honda Tohru, who finds herself homeless after

Known worldwide for its Studio Ghibli-produced movie in 1995, shoujo manga Whisper of the Heart is heading back to the big screen with a brand new live action adaptation. Hirakawa Yuichirou is to direct the movie. Protagonist Tsukishima Shizuku, who loves to read, will be played by Seino Nana, while aspiring violin-maker Amasawa Seiji will

Popular anime Shirobako‘s upcoming movie has released its latest key visual! Alongside Aoi and the usual crew, the new visual features a new character named Miyai Kaede. It has also been revealed that the movie will pick up four years after the original anime, focussing on Aoi being entrusted with a new anime project. First

Key is currently crowdfunding for an OVA adaptation of planetarian side story Snow Globe. Having already achieved its original target, it has also reached its first stretch goal of 50 million yen! planetarian was first released as a visual novel in 2004 with an animated movie following in 2016. The crowdfunding campaign to animate Snow

Universal Studios Japan has released a new music video teasing its upcoming Super Nintendo World area! [embedded content] Following people around the world as they enter the famous green Warp Pipe to Super Nintendo World, the video is set to Galantis and Charli XCX’s “We Are Born to Play”. The area will feature numerous attractions,

Braving the freezing temperatures, a whopping 750,000 comic lovers gathered at Tokyo Big Sight from Dec. 28 to 31 for Comiket 97! These fans were greeted by over 8000 doujinshi circles and 144 companies, and of course, heaps of amazing cosplayers! Like the last event, it was held over four days due to Olympics preparations

Appare-Ranman!, an original anime project from P.A. Works, has released info and visuals for the main cast! Hanae Natsuki will play one of the show’s two central characters: Sorano Appare, a self-taught genius mechanic who can bring any machine to life, but isn’t so great with handling people. Yamashita Seiichirou will voice the other, a

Classic mystery visual novel Higurashi When They Cry is set to receive a new anime adaptation! Passione will be heading the project, with Monogatari director Watanabe Akio providing character design. Infinite is to produce the series. [embedded content] Set in 1983, the franchise revolves around the sinister background to a seemingly peaceful rural village and

Popular anime My Hero Academia will receive a new opening and ending theme song for the second half of Season 4! Rock band Kana-Boon will perform opening theme “Star Marker”, while Ryokuoushoku Shakai will perform ending track “Shout Baby”. Both will be introduced into the anime with the beginning of the School Festival arc on

The Granblue Fantasy anime will be back on Mar. 27 with a special episode named Extra 1: Mou Hitotsu no Tabiji on Mar 27! Inspired by the popular game of the same name, Season 1 of Granblue Fantasy aired from Apr. 2017, and continued with Season 2 in Oct. 2019. The series follows a young

Code Geass’ Taniguchi Gorou and Gurren Lagann’s Nakajima Kazuki are teaming up for a new original anime project titled Back Arrow! [embedded content] The teaser trailer is narrated by voice actor Kaji Yuki, who is confirmed to star in the series. Nothing else about the project has been revealed yet. (C)Taniuchi Goro, Nakajima Kazuki, Aniplex