Anime News

Many are familiar with the annual Pikachu Outbreak event where roughly 1,500 Pikachu mascots invade the streets of Yokohama and run wild with a different theme each August. This year, a new Pokemon will be making their appearance.

The new Evangelion film, “Shin Evangelion Gekijō-ban :||”, is officially confirmed to debut in 2020 as a teaser announced the news. Shown prior to the screenings of Mamoru Hosoda's new “Mirai no Mirai” film, this marks around a year since the last announcement was made in regards to the film.

The anime industry has lost another great person. It was announced that Fujio Tokita, a Japanese voice actor and actor passed away. He died at age 81 due to a brain hemorrhage. His close family will hold a funeral service his eldest son Seiji as the chief mourner.

A second English-subtitled trailer of the I Want to Eat Your Pancreas anime film was uploaded by Aniplex of America on Wednesday. In this latest video, the song “Fafare” performed by rock band sumika was previewed.

It was announced on Monday by the official Facebook page of Toonami that they will be officially airing Attack on Titan Season 3 on August 18. It will premiere in Japan on July 22. A world premiere for the season’s first episode happened during Anime Expo last July 8.

It was announced on Monday that an independent development circle named Spicy Tails will be developing a virtual reality anime based on the popular Spice & Wolf novels by Isuna Hasekura. The VR anime will have English subtitles and Hasekura is confirmed to be writing a new scenario for this unique anime adaptation.

A new teaser visual for the second season of Mob Psycho 100 was released on Friday on the official website of BONES confirming that it will be aired on January 2019. The series is based on the manga of the same name created by ONE.

New characters visuals were revealed on Thursday by the staff of the Gekijōban Nanatsu no Taizai: Tenkū no Torawarebito (The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky) anime movie. Pictures and description of the characters can be seen below: Sorada is a young member of the Winged People Clan from the Sky Palace searching for a legendary Lord Oshiro who is tasked to protect Sky Palace from the evil Demon Clan.

Anime Expo was hyped as the winner of the USA qualifiers for the World Cosplay Summit has been announced. In a tweet posted by the official World Cosplay Summit Twitter page on Sunday, Jewel Cat Cosplay (Julie Ziolkowski) together with her partner Christy Plasil-Tang were announced as the country’s representative for the World Cosplay Summit grand finals which will be held at Nagoya, Japan.

Toei Animation’s Hugtto. Precure anime staff revealed a new visual on Wednesday featuring Cure Étoile, Cure Ange, Cure Yell, and the two new characters Cure Armour and Cure Ma Cherie. Junichi Sato (director of Ojamajo Doremi, Princess Tutu, Aria, and Sailor Moon) and Akifumi Zako (director of Toriko and Fresh Pretty Cure) will be directing the series at Toei while Fumi Tsubota is in charge of the script.