A third season of Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World is officially in the works. The announcement came at the Fantasia Bunko Grand Thanksgiving Festival 2026 Online event on October 25, 2026, along with a teaser…
The BanG Dream! sequel series that carries both band names now has a date. A second teaser promotional video for BanG Dream! It's MyGo!!!!! // Ave Mujica debuted on October 25, 2026, and it confirms the anime premieres on January…
The Detective Is Already Dead is heading for a conclusion. Author nigozyu confirmed in the series’ 14th volume, published Friday, that the next novel will be the last. That makes volume 15 the finale of a story that started in…
Seven Seas Entertainment has picked up Secret Relationships for English print. The license covers McQueen Studio’s boys’ love office romance webtoon, which finished in 2023 and later became a live-action series. The first print volume arrives in August 2027. Seven…
Haruko Ichikawa has a new series. Cosmic Mimimi launches in the next issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon, which goes on sale November 25. The announcement ran in the magazine’s December issue, out now in Japan. Kodansha is billing the series…
The music from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is out on its own. Two albums arrived after the show's Netflix debut on October 20, splitting the release in the way that has become standard for anime: a full score for the people…
Japan's annual list of Persons of Cultural Merit includes anime director Rintarō this year, an honor that has reached the animation industry only rarely. His real name is Shigeyuki Hayashi, and he is 85. The citation arrives in a busy…
The announcement of Kaiju No. 8: The Final Mission turned a two-season anime into a three-part story with a deadline. Anyone starting now has two seasons, one side-story episode, a compilation film and a pile of shorts to sort through…
TOHO animation used Saturday's Defense Force Boot Camp in Tachikawa event to close a question the franchise had left open since December. The anime's conclusion arc is a film. It is called Kaiju No. 8: The Final Mission, and it…
Bagudan is ending less than a year after it started. The December issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Dessert announced that Yūichirō Momose and artist Hina Hinata’s Bagudan: Sono Otoko-tachi Toriatsukai Chūi ni Tsuki will finish in the magazine’s next issue on…
Michiko Aoyama’s Mokuyōbi ni wa Cocoa o has sold more than 460,000 copies as a novel. It now exists as a manga, drawn by Nao Emoto, and as of October 20 the chapters are readable online. The adaptation started in…
Kodansha is turning one of its English-language one-shots into a full series. The November issue of Monthly Young Magazine, out this week, announced that Rin Shimokawa’s Godmother will start serialization in the magazine’s next issue on November 18. The one-shot…