Anime News

It was revealed on Thursday on the official website of the Sword Art Online: Alicization website that two popular Japanese artists Eir Aoi and LiSA will perform the theme songs for the upcoming anime series.

It was announced on Monday that the Chinese game streaming platform WeGame suspended its distribution and selling of CAPCOM’s popular RPG multiplayer RPG hit, Monster Hunter World. The reason for this suspension was due to an order by the Chinese government saying that the game did not comply to regulations unspecified.

Doraemon is probably one of the most popular Japanese series ever. In Indonesia, a family expressed their great love for the well-known time-traveling cat by designing and decorating their house into a full Doraemon theme.

Mexico has gain a majority of the awards in this year’s World Cosplay Summit 2018 including the grand champion of the prestigious cosplay competition which was held in Nagoya, Japan last July 4. Ed and Lius of Banana Cospboys took the audience on a nostalgia trip on their awesome Street Fighter skit.

Kirito is back in the new upcoming anime series of the Sword Art Online franchise titled Sword Art Online: Alicization. The series will cover the original novel’s “Alicization Arc” which is from volumes 9 to 18.

The excitement for the upcoming Dragon Ball Super anime film titled Dragon Ball Super: Broly continues as seven poster visuals were released on its official website on Wednesday. Each visual in the poster features a different group or character.

Naruto and Boruto fans might have another game to add to their to-play list as the 35th issue of the Weekly Shonen Jump announced of a co-op PC browser game titled Naruto x Boruto Borutical Generations slated to launch this year.

Koji Natsumi’s light novel series Girly Air Force will be having an anime adaptation slated to be released in winter 2019. This was confirmed on its official website on Thursday. The series (which contains illustrations by Asagi Tosaka) was launched in 2014 and the ninth volume was published and released by Dengeki Bunko last June 9.

A new promo video and visual was released on Thursday on the official website of Dynamic Planning and Toei Animation’s upcoming net anime short Robot Girls NEO. The first episode of this net anime is slated to be released on August 18 at 12:00pm exclusively on Animax’s streaming service, “Animax on PlayStation”.

The highly anticipated animated movie of the My Hero Academia franchise titled My Hero Academia: Two Heroes opened in Japan in over 299 theaters. In its first weekend last week, it was able to earn around 500,320,000 yen ranking to #4 on the box office.