We Are Aliens won the Anima’t Award for best feature-length film at Sitges, the 59th Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya, which wrapped this week in Spain. The film is directed by Kohei Kadowaki and produced by NOTHING NEW,…
Aikatsu Stars! Hoshiboshi no Progress finally has a date. Bandai Namco Pictures showed the full trailer and a new key visual at a fan meeting for the film on Saturday, and the trailer confirms the movie opens in Japan on…
Comikey has licensed Mato Kauta’s The Wolf King’s Bride (Ōkami-Heika no Hanayome), a shōjo series that ran in Hakusensha’s LaLa magazine from 2009 to 2018 and never had an English release. The company announced the pickup on Friday and released…
Peow2 has licensed three manga for English release, and the list reads like a short tour of everything mainstream publishers tend to skip. The Sweden-based publisher announced the acquisitions across Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday: Jiro Matsumoto’s Jyoshikohei, Hitoshi Tomizawa’s Alien…
Viz Media laid out its summer 2027 lineup on Friday, and the biggest name on the list is JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 8—JoJolion. Hirohiko Araki’s series will finally get an English release in a deluxe hardcover edition with color pages,…
Firefly Wedding has added another name to its anime cast. The show’s official X account announced on Thursday that Kanon Amane will voice Yukari, a courtesan at the Isekichi brothel. Yukari is a supporting role, and the announcement did not…
The Japan Actors Union has published its first set of rules on generative AI and voice recordings. The union presented a 21-page document at a press conference on Thursday, titled “Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI on Vocal Audio…
The third and final Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club film has a date. A teaser posted on the trilogy’s official website confirms that Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Dōkōkai Kanketsu-hen Saishūshō opens in Japan on February 5, 2027. The…
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has one promotional video left in it, and the franchise used it. The official YouTube channel posted “the last” PV for The Calamity, the fourth and final part, on Friday, closing out the run with a…
Happy Kanako’s Killer Life is getting a TV anime. TOHO animation announced on Saturday that Toshiya Wakabayashi’s manga will premiere next April, with Shinji Takamatsu directing at Studio Drive. The announcement came one day after TOHO animation posted a picture…
Ei Ohitsuji’s Ochibure Zeus to Dorei no Ko is moving publishers. The November issue of Asahi Shimbun Publications’ Nemuki+ magazine announced on Tuesday that the manga, also known as Fallen Zeus and the Slave Boy, will shift to Ichijinsha’s Zero-Sum…
Kodansha USA Publishing rolled out a big batch of announcements on Thursday. The publisher revealed a new slate for its Kodansha Print Club and a stack of fresh licenses, ten titles in all, most of them due between January and…