Anime News

It was announced before that Sanrio and Fullmetal Alchemist collaborated to produce cute and irresistible toys and merchandise. During the Sanrio Expo that happened on Friday, more designs were revealed as well as the announcement that that following merchandise that will be on sale starting this Fall.

With a total of 300,000 ticket sales by September 3 and three months after its release on June 10, the KING OF PRISM anime franchise’s second film, “KING OF PRISM: PRIDE the HERO” has earned a total of 500 million yen.

It is official, the complete schedule for the release of the second season in Japan has been released on the “Osomatsu-san” homepage. Marking the schedule reveal of the Matsuno brothers’ return is a new visual.

Remember the game Catherine that was released by Atlus for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in 2011. If you loved this game, then here is a special treat for you. A 30-minute livestream event happened on Thursday in which Atlus focused on its new division named Studio Zero.

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.