Anime News

Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/9N1gmaD499k The film premiered in Japan on July 19 and immediately conquered box office charts in its first three days earning US$15.22 million. It had a special North American premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the its Special Presentations Category with screenings on September 8, 10, 14.

As of this writing, the anime adaptation of the popular smartphone game Azur Lane has aired with two episodes so far. To add more hype, it was announced in Comic Heaven magazine on Thursday that the anime adaptation will have its own spinoff manga.

Science is more fun when mixed in with anime, like the 2018 TV anime Cells at Work. Now, get ready for more science fun, as we’ll be seeing our favorite cells in a new setting. Kodansha’s Morning magazine announced this Thursday that the science-centered manga will be getting a new spinoff manga entitled Hataraku Saibou.

A new trailer for the upcoming My Hero Academia the Movie –Heroes: Rising-- film was released this Friday on the movie’s official website. The trailer previews the movie’s theme song, “Higher Ground”, by Japanese rock band sumika.

  Good news to Digimon fans in the West: Bandai Namco has officially released the Digimon ReArise smartphone game for Western players. The game went live for Western territories this Wednesday, even though the earlier announced release date of the game was October 21.

  An official English dub trailer of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was released this Thursday on Aniplex of America’s Youtube channel. The trailer gives us a preview of the English dub voices of main characters Kamado Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko, Tanjiro’s fellow mizunotos Zenitsu Agatsuma and Innosuke Hashibira, and hashira Giyu Tomioka.

Good news to all JPop fans, especially to those who lament the lack of JPop MVs on Youtube: the Jpop Empress Ayumi Hamasaki surprised fans last October 2 when she dropped all 128 of her music videos on Youtube.

Good news to those itching to get their hands on the next-gen PlayStation (or for those who are waiting for this release so that PS4 prices will go down): Jim Ryan, the new President & CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has just announced that the PlayStation 5 will be launched during the 2020 holiday season.

Honestly, we all knew that the biggest cast announcements are left for last, and we were right. Netflix today has just introduced the most important cast member for its upcoming live-action adaptation of classic scifi anime Cowboy Bebop—and honestly, I think this is the one role that they got right.

Seriously, what is it with ~old~ anime series getting new seasons or adaptations. This time, it’s the 2013 vampire anime series Strike the Blood. It was announced during the “Dengeki Bunko Aki no Namahoso Festival” last Sunday that the vampire series is set to receive a new original OVA episode, as well as a 4th OVA series.