Anime News

A certain balloon made a show in this year’s Saga International Balloon Festival. It was none other than the Meowth Balloon of Team rocket who made their appearance on November 1 as part of the collaboration work between Saga Prefecture and “Pokemon” in celebration of the franchise’s 1000th episode.

New features are now out for “Pokemon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon” as the Pokemon Company shares a new trailer and details for the game. Included in these features are details on “Team Rainbow Rocket” and legendaries that will be exclusive to the game.

Coming in January 2028 is another live action adaptation to join the rest. This time the work to be adapted is the 1989 manga series, “Video Girl Ai.” Set to be released in TV Tokyo's 30-minute midnight programming block "Saturday Drama 24”, the series is entitled as “Denei Shoujo: VIDEO GIRL AI 2018.

To all those who have had their fair share of questions for the cast of the upcoming live action film adaptation of “Fullmetal Alchemist”, they will now have a number of them with the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) held on Wednesday.

Yuri and Shoujo-ai fans will have another addition to their collection next year as Éclair (Éclair: Anata ni Hibiku Yuri Anthology) will be officially published by Yen Press and is slated for release in spring 2018.

“Free. Iwatobi Swim Club” will officially be expanding in the following year. On Monday the anime franchise has announced that for the next summer, a new series will be released promotional plans are already going underway.

The time has come for spooks, thrills and screams. It’s Halloween. The one day of the year where everyone can celebrate dressing up as all kinds of monsters or creatures and party through the night and enjoy all kinds of sweets no matter what age.

Shojo Beat, a magazine publication owned by Viz Media experienced a fire in their warehouse on Monday. The damage has caused some upcoming manga volume titles to be delayed in its releases. For manga titles that are expected to be released on November 7, the release date and shipment will be moved to November 28.

Details on the main staff for Sui Ishida's “Tokyo Ghoul:re’ are officially confirmed by this year's 49th issue of Weekly Young Jump magazine. The series is set for 2018 and other details on the series has also been confirmed.

It was revealed last weekend that the final film of Studio Ghibli’s director Hayao Miyazaki will be titled as Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (How Do You Live.). There is no definite date for its premiere.