Anime News

Good news to those who prefer their anime in English dub: Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block has just announced on their official Facebook page that they will be premiering –anime of the year—Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba on October 12.

A new trailer was recently revealed for the live-action film of fan-favorite horror franchise Hell Girl (Jigoku Shoujo). Besides giving us more glimpses of the film and its creepy feels, we also get to hear a preview of the film’s theme song entitled Figure.

Nintendo has released this Wednesday an overview trailer of their remake of the 1993 Game Boy title The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Check it out below.   Nintendo’s official website describes the game’s key features as such: • As Link, explore a reimagined Koholint Island and collect instruments to awaken the Wind Fish to find a way home.

We’re getting ever so closer to the much-anticipated release of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Remake and as such, we’re getting more sneak previews into the game. Just this Wednesday, a new trailer was released during the Tokyo Game Show event.

Atlus just streamed the slick new opening movie for the upcoming Persona 5 Royal, the enhanced follow-up to their highly-successful Persona 5 game. Without further ado, check it out below. While I’ll forever miss ”Wake Up, Get Out, Get Out There”, we get a groovy new song whose (presumably) English lyrics we’ll all struggle to understand.

In today’s edition of “things we never knew we needed but deep down we all knew we deserved ”: yes, you read that headline right. Worldwide fast food company KFC has just launched a dating simulator game which features Colonel Sanders as a hot anime --daddy-- guy.

Good news to SAO fans. The much-awaited second half of Sword Art Online: Alicization anime is set for an October 12 release in Japan. The announcement on the anime series’ official website also stated that the Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of the Underworld will air on 5 channels in Japan: Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, and MBS.

Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko) has been dominating the Japanese box office, raking in 12.17 billion yen in ticket sales since it opened on July 19. Its dominance in the box office was not halted even by the likes of One Piece Stampede nor by Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World.

A new trailer for the upcoming theatrical OVA of Sato’s yuri manga Fragtime was just released this Monday. Check it out below: The trailer also reveals more cast members, listed below. Only Anzai’s role was named.

Missed (cursing at) Kyuubey. Get ready as anime studio SHAFT is set to bring us back to the world of tragic magical girls. It was announced earlier this year that the Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side-Story, a spin-off smartphone game of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica series, is getting an anime adaptation and is set for a release this year.