Anime News

The Love Live franchise’s success has translated across different media, such as anime, live-action concerts, record albums, and most remarkably its highly popular rhythm gacha smartphone game, Love Live.

Brace yourselves for fresh horrors (with some comedy on the side) on your PC, as XSEED Games has just announced the digital release of Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko’s Hysteric Birthday Bash on PC for Western players.

The highly-popular Fate franchise also made some major announcements at the recently-concluded AnimeJapan2019. One of these is the release of a new trailer for the anime adaptation of its highly popular smartphone game, Fate/Grand Order.

Another game bites the dust as Bandai Namco Entertainment PC Browser game titled Dragon Ball Z X Keeperz will be ending its service effective June 25. This was confirmed in the game office website. Dragon Ball Z X Keeperz was first launched to the public on March 20 2018 as free-to-play browser game for the PC with an option of in-game purchases.

Kyoto Animation has recently released a new PV for the newest Sound. Euphonium movie entitled Oath’s Finale (Chikai no Finale).

AnimeJapan2019, one of the largest anime events in Japan, has just ended, and among the many exciting news announced in the three-day event is an all-new My Hero Academia movie. This good news was announced during the My Hero Academia stage event “2019 PLUS ULTRA STAGE” last March 23.

The newest Persona project, which was first teased to fans as Persona 5 R last December, has been officially confirmed by Atlus via a trailer aired after the special episode Persona 5 the Animation: Stars and Ours broadcast in Japan last March 24.

Good news to fans of Cells at Work: the hit anime series about the anthropomorphized cells of the human body is coming back for a second season. This was announced in the official Twitter account of the Cells at Work anime.

Just last month, Konami announced the release of the newest Yu Gi Oh. game, Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution for Japanese players. Only a month after that announcement, Konami has confirmed that the game will also get a Western release this summer.

The Japan Foundation has recently announced that popular JPop acts HYDE, Wagakki Band, Misia, and PuffyAmiYumi will be performing in the Japan Night concert. It will be held on May 12 with two schedules: HYDE and WagakkiBand will perform at 6pm at the PlayStation Theater (1515 Broadway), while Misia and PuffyAmiYumi will perform at the Sony Hall (235 W.