Anime News

If you remember the PPAP song and dance craze, then get ready for more. As the singer and comedian Pikotaro will be teaming up with the popular Pokemon Pikachu for a new song that will be released on August 31 in Japan.

Here’s some bad news for those who are currently playing the English Version of Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story smartphone game. It was announced on Friday on the game’s official Twitter account that the English version of the game will officially shutting out all its operation effective September 29 11:59 pm PDT.

There’s still a long wait and a lot of adventures to go before we get to finally reach One Piece manga’s ending. The creator of the popular franchise, Eiichiiro Oda mentioned in an interview that he plans to finish the series in 4 to 5 years.

The recent August 17-23 Japanese Video Game rankings reveal that for another consecutive week, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still number one with weekly copies at 42,863. Overall sales of the game is almost halfway to 6 million as its currently at 5,594,061.

The official Youtube channel of Sony Music Japan has just released a 140-second music video version of the Marutsuke, the ending theme song to the boys-love band series given. The full music video for the song is bundled as a Blu-ray disc with the mini-album gift, which is performed by the in-anime music band given.

Big name-performers have just been announced for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of South Korean mobile RPG app King’s Raid. The anime’s opening song, legendary future, will be sung by popular anisong pop duo fripSide.

Funimation has recently revealed the English-dub cast for studio NUT’s original TV anime series Deca-Dence. They are: The dub cast includes: ·        Trina Nishimura as Natsume ·        Gabe Kunda as Kaburagi ·        Morgan Lauré as Kurenai ·        Barry Yandell as Hugin ·        Kimberly Grace as Pipe The English dub is directed by Jeremy Inman, with Paul Cline as sound engineer.

It cannot be denied that irreplaceable, talented staff and artists were taken from the anime world when the deadly arson against Kyoto Animation was perpetuated. While their works will live on forever in the hearts of fans all over the world, the family of late KyoAni background artist Mikiko Watanabe wanted to make sure that her art will never be forgotten.

October is about to get really bloody (and exciting.), and Funimation is here to amp up the hype for the upcoming premiere of the new TV anime for Higurashi: When They Cry. Funimation has just revealed an English-subtitled trailer for the new Higurashi series for us all poor souls who don’t know a lick of Japanese.

The first full trailer was just revealed for Netflix and studio Sublimation’s upcoming anime adaptation of CAPCOM’s Dragon’s Dogma video game series. Check out the trailer here. In addition to a new trailer, Netflix has also revealed a new key visual for the series.