Anime News

It was revealed in the combined sixth and seventh issues of the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on Monday that the Naruto Shinden (The New Legend of Naruto) novel is confirmed to have an anime adaptation.

Popular video streaming platform Netflix has added new anime films into their growing library namely Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You. and The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky. It is now available for streaming on the said platform for the United States.

The popular video game Monster Hunter: World has won the Quadruple Platinum Prize in the recent PlayStation Awards 2018 in Japan. The awards ceremony happened via live-stream on Monday by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia.

It was confirmed in a listing by Amazon that the anime adaptation of FuRyu’s smartphone game Pastel Memories is confirmed to have a total of 12 episodes. The anime will premiere in Japan on January 8.

The last episode of notoriously graphic anime Goblin Slayer aired recently on Crunchyroll's streaming platform, and ended with a message "Goblin Slayer will return", indicating the anime has likely been confirmed for a second season.

New game installation is announced for “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures” by Bandai Namco, and it is a new competitive arcade game with a battle royale-style for up to 20 players. Featuring characters from “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” Parts 3 to 5, the game is described as a “battle royale with network versus supporting up to 20 players.

A new trailer for the upcoming game Devil May Cry 5 was released by CAPCOM on Tuesday. The new video features the character V. The game will be released in March 8 for Xbox One, PC, and the PlayStation 4 Hideaki Itsuno will return to direct the game.

It was announced on the fourth compiled volume of Ichigeki manga on Thursday that the history drama manga series is confirmed to have a film adaptation. Ichigeki is created by Jiro Matsumoto and it is a period drama based on the novel Bakumatsu Ichigeki Hissatsu-tai (Bakumatsu One-Hit Kill Team) by Yoshio Nagai.

Yuriko Yamaguchi, the voice actress who provided the Japanese voices of Nico Robin (One Piece), Sarah Rockbell (Fullmetal Alchemist), and Nurse Joy (Pokemon), is coming to the Arizona’s Taiyou Con event in Mesa.

The latest anime film of the Dragon Ball franchise titled Dragon Ball Super: Broly has conquered the Japanese box office earning 2 billion yen in just 11 days. This was confirmed by the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun on Tuesday.