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The anime and manga industry has lost another great man. In a blog posted on Wednesday, the wife of manga artist Yoshihiro Kuroiwa announced that he has passed away last May 8. He died of a heart attack.

Last May 9, the Otaku Coin Preparation Committee (OCPC) released a concept paper for its cryptocurrency Otaku Coin. The coin is slated to be issued this summer or fall with a voting platform scheduled for 2019.

On its fifth consecutive weekend in the Japanese Box Office, the latest Detective Conan movie titled Meitantei Conan Zero no Shikkōnin still remains number one in the charts. The film has officially earned a 6,760,140,400 yen and sold around 5,190,000 tickets in Japan alone.

It’s time to bring back the nostalgia. During a live stream presentation on Twitch on Monday, Arc System Works confirms that the Guilty Gear PlayStation will be released for the following platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam.

It was officially announced my HAOLINERS last weekend that a new original anime series titled TO BE HEROINE will be airing on the Japanese channel Tokyo MX1 beginning on May 19. This will be Emon’s first original short anime series from the Haoliners brand “TO BE HERO” that was first broadcasted from October to December 2016 (12 episodes of 10minutes).

Synopsis Luck is not Akira’s side as he finds once he arrives in Tokyo. Not only does he find that the company he just got accepted into disappearing but his housing has also gone down the drain as well.

Synopsis One day, Mukouda Tsuyoshi ends up being summoned with a group of people from Japan to a different world of sword and magic. Rather than being a summoned hero, however, he was just a civilian who got caught in a "Hero Summoning" by accident.

Synopsis In a verdant frontier village, there lives an energetic girl named Rin. Meanwhile, within the royal palace in the bustling capital city, the songstress Finis spends her days in solitude.

The upcoming “Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation” has been confirmed to release in Japan on October 19, 2018. Along with the film’s premiere date announcement, a new visual was also released for the sequel work to the 2017 theatrical anime film, “Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection.

In celebration of the Japanese release of the last “Mobile Suit Gundam” anime and the latest “Detective Conan” film, a collaboration poster has been released featuring the characters of the two works.