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.
The Psyren anime added two more voices this week. The show’s official X account announced Thursday that Reiko Suzuki is playing Elmore Tenjuin and Ayumu Murase is playing Van Tenjuin. Character art for both roles went out with the announcement,…
Firefly Wedding gets an English dub today. Crunchyroll announced the cast on Thursday and said the dubbed version starts streaming on Friday, October 23, two weeks after the anime’s Japanese premiere on October 9. Rowan Gilvie leads as Satoko and…
Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi opened in Japanese theaters on Friday, and the staff marked the day by confirming that a second film is in production. A new key visual and more cast for the first film came with the…
The Los Angeles Philharmonic named Joe Hisaishi its Composer-in-Residence on Thursday, and the post comes with a five-year artistic partnership running from the 2027/28 season through 2031 The orchestra announced it on its website, and the scope is larger than…
Cygames has cancelled the two Uma Musume Pretty Derby concerts scheduled for Los Angeles this week, after the staff could not secure the U.S. visas needed for the production. The shows were part of Uma Musume: Pretty Derby – 7th…
Ghibli Park has extended the run of its newest short film, A Night in the Valley of Witches, through June 2027. That is a long stay for a studio that normally swaps its shorts out every month. The film debuted…
Koei Tecmo put out a gameplay trailer on Wednesday for The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother, and it came with a release date. The game arrives March 18 on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and PC through…
The Pokémon Company has confirmed the first permanent Pokémon store outside Asia, and it is going to London. The announcement came this week with no opening date before 2029. That gap is the story. A three-year runway tells you this…
On the evening of October 21, several of the biggest manga platforms in the world went offline at roughly the same time. MANGA Plus, Kodansha's Magazine Pocket, K MANGA, Niconico Manga and BOOK☆WALKER all entered emergency maintenance within a few…
Crunchyroll confirmed on Wednesday that it will stream English dubs for two shows that premiered in Japan on October 7, and it released the cast lists for both. The Magic Knight Rayearth remake gets a full dub, and Sasaki and…
The Eleceed anime has a date, and it is later than the one fans were given last time. On Wednesday the show's official website began streaming an English-subtitled trailer and confirmed an April 2027 premiere. Amuse Creative Studio had originally…
Voice actor Hiroshi Tsuchida died on October 11 of heart failure. He was 54. His agency, 81 Produce, announced the death on Tuesday and said the funeral was held privately for family members only, at the family’s request. Tsuchida was…