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With the completion of the planetarium program titled, “Bono Bono - Uchū kara Kita Tomodachi” a.k.a. “Bono Bono - The Friend That Came From Space” a commemoration screening event was decided for the program as it released its PV on August 17.

Synopsis This is the story of a young runaway girl named Ichiko Usami who ends up being discovered by a masked boy by the riverbed. She is brought to his home where she is introduced to the rest of the colorful residents but trouble haunts her as her mistake looms over her and she cannot get it out of her head upon seeing a child’s sock within the house.

AbemaTV is bringing back volleyball series, “Haikyuu.” to TV screens once more with a special broadcast of not one but four works of the series on August 19. The broadcast will be shown on the internet TV’s “Anime 24” channel and will be starting at midnight.

Though he went on hiatus way back due to health reasons, Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi is now back with a new manga project to look out for. It was announced in the official website of Grand Jump magazine that Togashi along with Hachi Mizuno are currently collaborating in a short two-chapter manga titled Akuten Wars (Bad Weather Wars).

Synopsis This is the story of Inaba Yuushi, a young male who lost his parents at a young age and up until he graduated middle school he has been staying with his uncle’s family. Now as he is about to enter high school he aims to live on his own.

Synopsis The story tells of a young man named Touya Mochizuki; not much can be said about him but one day he is suddenly struck by lightning. When he awakens rather than being in heaven, he finds himself face to face with Kami himself who apparently has made a mistake and had killed him accidentally.

Support towards the growth of physics studies in Japan is coming up with a new promotional project to be launched by Tokyo-based character goods company G-Mix and its name is “Particle Boys.”   As part of its promotional project, plans are being made for the release of a variety of merchandise including LINE stamps and a four-panel manga series found only Twitter.

Snapchat continues to be one of the most used and popular mobile phone application and social media site. It is mostly known for its app that allows filters to a person’s selfie like adding a dog’s tongue and ears, cat ears, and so on.

On its fifth weekend, the latest movie of the Pokemon franchise titled Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You. continue to dominate the Japanese box office rising at #4. In first few days of movie screenings, 436,000 tickets were sold earning the movie 516 million yen.

For three consecutive weeks, the blu-ray disc releases of Makoto Shinkai’s anime film masterpiece your name. dominated in blu-ray sales and remained in Oricon’s overall Blu-ray Disc chart. If you want to watch this move again and again, you may purchase eitherthe Standard Edition, Special Edition, or the Blu-ray Disc Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD release edition.