Anime News

The Sound. Euphonium franchise appears to be on a roll, what with new film projects since last year—we got Liz and the Blue Bird (Liz to Aoi Tori) in 2018, then we got another movie, Chikai no Finale (Oath’s Finale), which was released in Japan last April.

Multimedia franchise Love Live is gearing up for its 9th anniversary next year with a major, major celebration. Get all your feels ready and whip out those dusty Kingblades, because the OG Love Live group μ's will be back on stage.

Sad news for those waiting for episodes 9 and 10 of Fruits Basket: the two episodes are set to be aired to a later date, as Japanese TV channels are currently broadcasting major tennis tournament The French Open.

Unfortunate news for fans of Sailor Moon musicals, more known to fans as Seramyu: the franchise’s 5th musical stage play will be delayed to summer 2020, as opposed to the original plan to debut the musical this summer 2019.

Gaming fans, rejoice, as the much-awaited game from legendary game creator Hideo Kojima has just officially announced a release date. Sony has just released a bizaare but engaging nine-minute trailer for Kojima’s Death Stranding, which will be released worldwide on November 8 of this year—sooner than what most expected.

Your Name director Makoto Shinkai’s newest film, Weathering with You (Tenki no Ko) has just released a new trailer. The 2-minute trailer, which exhibits Shinkai’s characteristic animation style, offers us more insight on the upcoming film, as well as previews of the other characters.

These days it appears that we are getting a lot of news about Hollywood live-action remakes of Japanese anime or video games. There is the upcoming live-action remake of Makoto Shinkai’s worldwide hit Your Name, which will be directed by 500 Days of Summer’s Marc Webb.

A month ago we got the news that the insanely-difficult-but-still-addicting Play Station 4 title Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will be making the jump to print content, by way of a spin-off manga featuring one of its NPCs.

Atlus keeps on delivering fresh teasers for the newest addition to their Persona 5 game, which is Persona 5 The Royal. A recent tweet from the game’s official Twitter account features the new female character, Kasumi Yoshizawa, interacting with the male protagonist.

In today’s case of “the internet bands together under a common agenda for the good of all”: netizen comments have gotten Paramount Pictures to bow down to the will of netizens, as the film outfit has just announced that their live-action adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog will be moved to a February 2020 premiere so as to make adjustments to the character’s design.