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Synopsis Boxing has reached a new evolution with Megalo Boxing, a new form of boxing that utilizes mechanical limbs known as Gear to enhance the speed and power of its users. Junk Dog is an underground fighter of the sport who due to the illegal nature of his participation, is forced to throw matches as dictated by his boss Gansaku Nanbu.

Back in May 2017, a hiatus had been announced for the fantasy battle manga Noragami. Now after a year-long hiatus, the series is set to resume its serialization in the July 2018 issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine to be released in Japan on June 6.

The Ashita no Joe 50th anniversary project “Megalo Box” has just reached its fourth episode and now the Twitter account of the series has revealed three more cast/characters to add to its crew. In addition to the reveal of the new cast/characters, a new promo video featuring them is currently being streamed by TMS Entertainment.

GKIDS officially uploaded an English-subtitled trailer for Fireworks (Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom.) on Thursday. The film is slated to be screened in the US in July.

It was announced on Wednesday that GKIDS will have US movie screenings for the anime film Fireworks (Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom) will be on July 3, 5, and 7. The said movie screening dates will be released as a Fathom Event.

It was announced on Thursday during Nintendo’s Board of Directors meeting that the company’s current Present and Representative Director Tatsumi Kimishima will be retire effective on June 28. His positions will be taken over by Shuntaro Furukawa.

There seems to be more in store for Dragon Ball FighterZ players as a new trailer video was uploaded by Bandai Namco Entertainment on Tuesday. The video below features the fusion of Dragon Ball Super’s Goku Black and Zamasu, Fusion Zamasu.

Coming this July, Tsuburaya Productions long-running “Ultra” series of tokusatsu action TV shows gains a new entry to it’s line-up with “Ultraman R/B.” Featured in this latest entry is a pair of brothers as lead heroes with elemental powers.

More on the upcoming “Cells at Work.” anime adaptation is revealed as the June issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine lists four new cast/characters for the work. It was in January that the anime adaptation had been first revealed and at the time a full staff had been confirmed for the production.

A teaser video was recently released on the official website of the live-action Gintama films. The video below shows some key scenes from the first live-action movie. It’s current working title for now is “Gintama 2” and more will be revealed the soonest.