Anime News

Gaming company Square Enix has announced this Saturday the launch of an official smartphone game for the Irregular at Magic High School franchise. The smartphone game is given the official title The irregular at magic high school Reloaded Memory and was launched by way of a new website that opened last weekend.

Popular Japanese girl group Momoiro Clover Z is back to sing Sailor Moon songs, as the official website for the franchise revealed this Monday that the group will be singing the theme songs for the upcoming Sailor Moon Eternal films.

Japanese newspapers reported that veteran voice actor Tomita Kosei has passed away last September 27 due to a stroke. The prolific and beloved voice actor was 84 years old. Kosei’s agency Production Baobab published a short obituary last week announcing his passing.

A lot of things worth looking forward to this coming 2021, as a release window has just been announced for the 5th season of hit shounen series My Hero Academia. A new promo video released just this Saturday revealed that the upcoming 5th season is now set for a spring 2021 premiere (this period starts at around April).

Tamashii Nations has given us more reason to spend as they have announced an accurate “Proplica” of Tanjiro Kamado’s sword. The is 88-centimeters long and definitely a must have for Demon Slayer fans.

Anime streaming platform Crunchyroll announced this week that they will be streaming the upcoming anime titles slated to air in the Fall 2020 season. The following titles are: I'm Standing on a Million Lives (premiering on October 2), Rail Romanesque (premiering on October 2), Eagle Talon ~Golden Spell~ (premiering on October 4), and Is the order a rabbit.

The Super Mario fever continues as the recently released Super Mario 3D All-Stars video game remains #1 in the recent Japanese Video Game rankings from September 21 to 27. Weekly copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars is 63, 803 with total copies sold so far at 273,939.

Here’s a bit of bad news for those who are looking forward to the further chapters of the One Piece manga. It was announced on Friday via a Tweet from the editorial department of the Weekly Shonen Jump that the manga will not appear in this year’s 44th issue, which will be shipping on Monday in Japan.

Make way for the newest ice-skating-themed anime (with a twist), as a new promo video was just released for the TV original anime Skate-Leading Stars. The PV previews the anime’s opening theme song Chase the Core by Takao Sakuma.

Good news to US fans of Japan’s beloved “gentleman thief”, as American distributor GKIDS has announced that they will be screening LUPIN III THE FIRST in US cinemas. The screenings, which will be done in cooperation with TMS Entertainment and Fathom Events, will be held on October 18 & 21—the former to feature English dub, while the latter to feature Japanese dub with English subtitles.