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.
Bandai Namco Filmworks revealed the teaser trailer, key visual, main cast and main staff for the television anime of Jun Wakatsuki’s Promise Me the Spotlight on Wednesday. The anime will air on TV Tokyo and its six affiliate channels. No…
Julietta Suzuki’s Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite is getting a television anime. ShoPro Entertainment announced it on Wednesday with a teaser promotional video and a key visual, and Viz Media, which publishes the manga in English, confirmed it is producing the…
Toei will open Girls Band Cry the Movie on May 21, 2027. The film’s first teaser video and a key visual debuted on Tuesday, and the teaser carries a detail worth pausing on: inside the film’s story, TOGENASHI TOGEARI goes…
Sony is co-financing Lionsgate’s live-action Naruto film and will handle international distribution, according to a Tuesday report from The Hollywood Reporter. The same report says the film has been greenlit to begin production in spring 2027, following a bidding round…
Viz Media has unveiled a new teaser trailer, a fresh key visual and the main cast for the anime adaptation of Keigo Shinzō’s Hirayasumi manga. The announcement arrived on September 28 and confirms a January 2027 premiere in Japan on…
Japan is getting a new anime awards event. The Nippon Anime Awards was announced on Monday during Tokyo Anime Next, and it will be held at SGC Hall Ariake on November 21, 2027. The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) is…
The Trigun franchise is getting a prose novel. The autumn issue of Shueisha’s Jump SQ. RISE announced Trigun Manuscript, written by series creator Yasuhiro Nightow in collaboration with Takehiko Oxi, who wrote Trigun Stampede. It is scheduled for this winter.…
A website opened on Monday to announce that The Bloodthirsty Bride Devours the King is getting a television anime. The adaptation of Shiki and Yū Shinonome’s manga will air in 2027. No month, no episode count and no cast have…
Kaze wo Tsugumono has filled out its cast list. The original television anime’s official website announced four supporting roles on Saturday, and confirmed that an advance theatrical screening will run for two weeks from November 13. The names joining the…
The winter 2027 anime season runs from January to March, and it is already the most crowded January in a while. Ten shows have locked in exact premiere dates, and roughly another fifteen are confirmed for the month with nothing…
The Charisma anime has a date. The official site announced on November 1 that the TV series will premiere on TBS affiliate networks at 11:56 p.m. on January 7, 2027, and confirmed two more cast members alongside a teaser promo.…
Shun Saeki, the artist behind Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, announced on November 1 that their exclusive contract with Shueisha has ended. Saeki had been tied to the publisher for years, and the statement frames the split as a simple…