Anime News

The summer 2020 anime season may be ending, but it won’t be the end for some series that got a lot of fan love this season. One of the much-talked about series this summer 2020 was the anime adaptation of Reiji Miyajima’s romcom manga series Rent-a-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu)—and its successful run has earned it a second season.

We are getting closer and closer to the premiere date of the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Hitoma Iruma’s yuri light novel series Adachi and Shimamura, and to further hype the series’ release, TBS Animation just revealed two character promo videos for the leads.

Relive the adventures of InuYasha in the comforts of home as anime streaming platform Funimation announced they will now stream the first 54 episodes of the anime series as well its four anime films namely: Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time, Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass, InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler, and Inuyasha the Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island.

Another record has reached for the popular manga Demon Slayer as publisher Shueisha confirmed on Thursday that when the 22nd volume will be released in Japan on October 2, will be officially reach the 100 million copies mark in terms of circulation.

It was revealed this week that Digital Media Right has acquired 11 licenses to some anime, anime films, and OVA. Anime fans would be able to stream these titles through RetroCrush. RetroCrush is another popular anime streaming service notable for having old and classic anime series, anime films, and OVAs in their growing library.

On its awesome debut week, Super Mario 3D All-Stars is currently number 1 in the recent Japanese video game rankings from September 14-20. The recent report by Famitsu says that 210,316 copies were sold on its first week alone.

Yes, people, the Hollywood live-action remake of your name (Kimi no Nawa) is still a thing, as entertainment news website Deadline reported this weekend that the Hollywood remake will be directed by Lee Isaac Chung.

A new teaser video was just released for the upcoming second season of the TV anime adaptation of Afro’s manga series Laid-Back Camp (Yurukyan Δ). Check it out here. The new season is set for a January 2021 premiere.

2021 is shaping up to be a pretty good year thanks to announcements of new anime to look forward to—and to make the next year appear even better, Fruits Basket is adding itself to the bunch. The last episode of Fruits Basket season 2, which aired just yesterday, announced that the beloved series will be getting a third season entitled Fruits Basket The Final.

The future is definitely now, as the time has come for us to finally see a real-life moving Gundam. A Japanese Gundam fan with the Twitter handle @yoshi115t has posted a thread consisting of several pictures and a video of what appears to be a test run for the life-sized Gundam in Yokohama.