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Two new attractions are headed for Universal Studios Japan for its 4th year of Cool Japan collaborations. Based on the highly popular frnachises of “Sailor Moon” and “Final Fantasy”, the attractions will be making their debut in the next year.

Merchandising and promotional events are up as Japanese anime goods store Animate celebrates the official announcement of Osomatsu-san’s second season release date being October 2. From merchsndising to collectables there are a total of three events to be held and two are to be under the Animate banner.

The Nintendo 3DS eshop has officially released a demo for the upcoming  dungeon crawler titled “Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth.” With the launch of the demo also comes the announcement of what to expect with the launch edition of the game.

During the release of the DVD rental version of Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale on Tuesday, a new intro text was added before the start of the movie. The said text states that the SAO movie's post-credits scenes is a teaser trailer for a “new work”.

Head's up, Digimon fans. If you visit to the Google Play store, you will find that the English release of the smartphone game, Digimon Linkz is now available. As of this time, the game is now open for pre-registation and the official launch has not been announced.

A cameo appearance takes place in the upcoming film “Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu” a.k.a “Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King.” Making their appearance is not a character of the series but rather characters of “GeGeGe no Kitarō” a.

Players will now have a chance to play as more characters for the upcoming Playstation 4 game, “Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time” according to Bandai Namco. Included with the revelation of new playable characters are new areas for players to explore.

Before even reaching its official anime release, plans are already made for the release of a Blu-ray/DVD BOX for the upcoming fantasy series, “Children of the Whales” a.ka. “Kujira no Kora wa Sajō ni Utau.

A 2-minute sneak peek is up for the first episode of IDOLiSH7 coming in January 2018.Just uploaded today on the official website for the upcoming TV, this will be the second time that the clip has been released for showing.

Character Meliodas of the “Nanatsu no Taizai” a.k.a. “The Seven Deadly Sins” franchise takes a step into the “Monster Strike” verse for a smartphone game collaboration this year. Announced on the official game site on Thursday, Meliodas will be found in the "Dragon's Sin Meliodas" version of the game.