Anime News

An announcement was released on Thursday by iDragons animation studio that the animated adaptation of the The King of Fighters franchise The King of Fighters: Destiny will get two more seasons and a film finale.

The official box office report has been released for the first weekend of 2018 (January 6-7) and romantic comedy film “Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions the Movie: Take on Me” takes sixth place in rankings in its opening weekend.

The second season of the dark fantasy series that is “Overlord” just made its debut this month and already plans have been released for its humorous spin-off titled “Ple-Ple-Pleiades.” The spin-off is a series of comedy works featuring the Ainz Ooal Gown and the guardians of the Tomb of Nazarick as chibi characters and what occurs when they are not out fighting or searching for new information.

With 12 episodes and confirmed story details, “dMatsu-san”, the short anime spinoff of the “Osomatsu-san” series now has an official teaser video and visual streaming released by Docomo's dTV service.

It won’t be long— the open beta for Dragon Ball FighterZ will begin in January 14-15. In a new character video released by Bandai Namco Entertainment America on Monday, it introduces Goku Black along with a preview of his move sets in the game.

NisiOisin announced in his official Twitter account on Wednesday that his popular novel Bakemonogatari will be getting a manga adaptation to be launched in the 15th issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine on March 14.

It was revealed on Tuesday by Sony that its PlayStation 4 console has sold over 73.6 million units as of December 31, 2017. Aside from this, over 55.9 million PlayStation 4 games were sold during the holiday period from November 20 to December 31, 2017.

Hayao Miyazaki is back with his first anime in five years. The Ghibli Museum’s official website posted an announcement on Tuesday that Miyazaki’s CG short Boro the Caterpillar will premiere in the museum on March 21.

The official website of the action series “Saga of Tanya” has revealed a look into the upcoming film for the series with a teaser video and visual drawn by creator Shinobu Shinotsuki. More than having an official look at the film, there is also news on for the manga side of the franchise.

Just this week, a recent report revealed that the Nintendo Switch console has hit a new record as it surpasses the Wii U’s lifetime sales in Japan with more than 3,407,158 units sold. The Wii U console sold 3,301,555 units.