Anime News

It was reported today that Inferno Cop voice actor Junichi Goto has passed away yesterday, February 24, after figuring in a motorcycle accident. He was 40 years old. The accident happened in the Shuto Metropolitan Expressway’s Haneda Route in Tokyo’s Ota Ward at around 9:00 AM.

The upcoming English-dubbed Bluray release of the 2005 anime series Emma: A Victorian Romance has just announced that theater actor James Rieser has been cast as Hakim Atawari, William’s womanizer friend.

The official website for the idol anime franchise 22/7 has announced that member Mizuha Kuraoka will be going on hiatus because of health reasons. According to the official announcement, Kuraoka has had several recurrences of poor health, and while she and the staff had tried their best for her full recovery, it still wasn’t enough.

An exciting teaser trailer was unveiled in the official website of the Rurouni Kenshin live-action films last week. The trailer hints at the upcoming fight between Kenshin and Enishi. Check it out here.

We are honestly not surprised in this development. Oricon’s weekly print sales chart from the February 10-16 week reveals that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has completely occupied the entire top 19 ranks with the recently released 19th volume at #1.

Popular streaming platform Netflix announced the official English Dub cast of BEASTARS on Thursday. The following confirmed voice cast are: Jonah Scott as Legoshi Griffin Puatu as Louis Lara Jill Miller as Haru Kaiji Tang as Bill Ben Diskin as Jack Daman Mills as Kai Erika Harlacher as Els Keith Silverstein as Gouhin During the release of the eight issue of Weekly Shonen Champion magazine, the creator of the popular BEASTARS manga Paru Itagaki commented in her author’s note saying that the “end is in sight” for the series.

Here’s some bad news for those who will be attending the “Battle Train Final Fantasy VII Remake Another Story” event this Saturday. Square Enix announced that they will be cancelling the event due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Kingdom Hearts fans. In case you missed it, Square Enix has released the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX and HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue on the Xbox One on Tuesday. This was previously reported last year that the games will be released for the said console this year.

If you are itching to get a Nintendo Switch this year, you better get it soonest while stocks are still available. In a report released by business news company Bloomberg on Monday, shortages of the popular handheld console will “likely” happen in April for the United States and Europe due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The premiere week of Sonic The Hedgehog film has been awesome so far as the website Box Office Mojo reported on Tuesday that film has earned US $70,002,074 so far. Let’s not forget that it has been four days since the movie’s official premiere date in the United States.