The latest anime news, as it happens — new series announcements, season renewals, cast and staff reveals, trailers, delays and industry updates out of Japan, explained without the filler.
Crunchyroll has picked up The Apothecary Diaries: The Late Lady’s Treasure, the first feature film in the franchise. The company announced the acquisition on Thursday, and Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will handle distribution together. The deal covers North America…
Attack on Titan: The Musical is going on the road. The production announced on Tuesday that it will begin a world tour with a run at the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from April 15 to May…
Masako Watanabe, a manga creator whose career spanned more than seventy years, died on October 3 at 12:38 a.m. JST. She was 97. The news was posted to her X account on Tuesday. Watanabe was born in Tokyo on May…
The sequel film to Expelled from Paradise has a trailer and a theme song. The official site for Rakuen Tsuihō -Expelled from Paradise- Kokoro no Resonance began streaming the video on Tuesday, revealing “Beyond the Night” by TeddyLoid featuring Ayane…
The Kagurabachi anime world tour has a finale, and it lands in Japan. The closing event is set for March 25, 2027 at Tokyo’s Kabukiza Theatre, the same venue where the adaptation was first announced. Organisers also revealed the remaining…
The official website for The Fable anime announced on Wednesday six new cast members and a January 9 premiere for the show’s second season, along with a new visual. The season will adapt the Yamaoka arc of Katsuhisa Minami’s crime…
Shochiku announced on Wednesday that Yumene Connect, Kou Sawada’s comedy manga, is getting a TV anime. The reveal came with a teaser trailer, a teaser visual, the two lead voice actors, and the main production staff. Studio Massket is handling…
The television anime of Sho Kasugai’s Millennium Family has added Taihi Kimura to its cast. Kimura voices Noel, the third son of the Benfield family, the production announced on October 10. The announcement is a single casting update, and it…
The television anime of My Sword Saint Master Is Too Cute to Live With! now has a teaser trailer, a full main cast and a January 2027 premiere. The promo came through the Deregula YouTube channel, the anime label run…
Bandai Namco Filmworks has started streaming the first 10 minutes of the fifth film in the six-part Girls und Panzer das Finale series. The clip went up over the weekend and covers the opening stretch of the penultimate chapter. Part…
Spy x Family is back in the American top ten. The series’ 16th English volume sits at number six on the New York Times “Graphic Books and Manga” list for October 2026, and it is one of only two newly…
Voice actress Manaka Iwami announced on October 13 that she has married and given birth to her first child. She shared the news at the start of her radio program Tekuteku, and a handwritten note went up on her agency’s…