Anime News

Naruto remains as one of the most popular and successful franchises in Japan. Although its original manga series has ended as well as its anime adaptations (Naruto and Naruto Shippuden), a new theme song compilation album will be released in Japan titled “Naruto Final Best”.

The “Etrian Odyssey” franchise has a new game in development and “Etrian Odyssey V” director Shigeo Komori shares plans set up for it. Announced on Monday in an interview with Famitsu, it has also been revealed that the 10th anniversary of the Nintendo DS and 3DS dungeon-crawler RPG series will be coming up this year.

Hakusensha's Ane LaLa magazine announces its end as its releases its final October issue for this year on Tuesday. With the end of the magazine also brings the end to a number of series finishing and/or the transferring of others.

Long time running franchise “Kamen Rider”, mainly known for its variety of adaptations is taking on the gaming world once more. Titled, “Kamen Rider: Climax Fighters”, the game will be for playable on the PS4 console and has Bandai Namco taking charge of it.

What meant to be a report on actress Emi Takei on Monday brings instead news of a new live action film in progress for the classic shounen series, “Rurouni Kenshin” a.k.a. “Samurai X.” The shounen series by Nobuhiro Watsuki released its first live action film in 2012, directed by Keishi Ōtomo.

With December just a few months away, it won’t be long until we get to see the live-action movie adaptation of the popular manga and anime series Fullmetal Alchemist on the big screen. The official website of the live-action movie has released a new poster revealing the 13 main characters of the franchise.

Hurricane Harvey is considered as one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Texas in years. A lot of families lost their homes and some were only left with only a little of their possessions. In relation to the recent tragedy that happened in Houston, the company Sentai Filmworks has opened a GoFundMe campaign on Friday as a way to help its employees to get back on their feet following the devastating hurricane.

Coming together for a collaboration campaign is piglet boy Panpaka and golden retriever mascot Pompompurin. Fans of the two characters will have a chance to enjoy a variety of merchandise and even a short anime film coming in October.

"Puella Magi Madoka Magica Ultimate Best" gains a spot amongst the 51 analog records to be released on November 3. Announced yesterday by Aniplex, the album, which is also known as "Magica Ultimate Best" will be taking part of (Japanese analog company) Toyo Kasei organized event, “Record Day.

Coming to Playstation 4 and the Playstation VR Headset on October 5 is a new fiction mystery game titled, “Tear: Owari to Hajimari no Shizuku.” This will be Rockin Heart Games’ first original game since it first opened on November 16, 2015.