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On Thursday, during the "Plus Ultra - Fuji TV Anime Lineup Presentation 2018" event by Fuji TV, it was revealed that an anime adaptation of the augmented reality smartphone game Ingress is now in the works and slated to be released in Japan in October during its +Ultra programming block.

A countdown website was launched by Bandai Namco Entertainment on Monday teasing of a new Dragon Ball smartphone game. The official website of the franchise have mentioned that more information will be revealed in the “Hokka Hokka da ne V Jump” live stream on March 21 at 8:00pm Japan Standard Time.

The 38th animated movie of the Doraemon franchise titled Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Takarajima (Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island) opened last weekend in 369 theaters in Japan. It conquered the Japanese box office on its opening weekend with 717,000 tickets sold woth 843,148,500 yen (around 8 million USD).

It was announced on the official website of Young Magazine on Tuesday that the anime adaptation of the comedy manga series Back Street Girls will be premiere in July. Created Jasmin Gyuh for Kondasha’s Weekly Young Magazine in March 2015, the series centers on three yakuza men who were forced by their boss, also a producer, to become part of an idol group.

From just a simple browser and mobile game, there’s seem to be no stopping the Touken Ranbu franchise. A live-action film project is officially green-lit and will open in Japan theaters on 2019. The film will be directed by Saiji Yakumo (who directed Mars live-action) with script written by Yasuko Kobayashi (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Kagegurui, and Attack on Titan).

As a way to celebrate Dengeki’s 25th anniversary and 10th anniversary of the popular Macross franchise, both Macross and Dengeki Hobby will be teaming up to create life-size figures of Macross Frontier’s Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee.

According to a report by animeblurayuk, Sky Cinema will be broadcasting Sunao Katabuchi and MAPPA’s latest successful work In This Corner of the World in both High and Standard Definition. The screening will be in the original Japanese dub with English subtitles.

Synopsis This is the daily life story of a simple businessman and his alien. The Good The biggest highlight of the series lies in the creativity of the aliens’ designs and their details. Whether it be on how the wife manages her disguise to parts of the alien culture, this aspect of the series brought a highly refreshing feel to it.

Synopsis This is the story of “Toji”, sword-wielding shrine maidens who serve as a unit in the police force and exorcise mysterious, hostile creatures known only as "aradama.” They attend school in order to improve their skills and abilities and when spring comes around, representatives from all schools are chosen to take part in a tournament.

A collaboration art piece on Guillermo del Toro's “The Shape of Water” film has been done by artist Yoshitaka Amano and was opened in Japan on Thursday. Amano is known to regularly illustrate different collaboration and tribute art with his most recognized work being for the “Vampire Hunter D” and the “Final Fantasy” series.