Anime News

Pokemon GO officially launched in June 6 last year and as of today, it is still considered as one of the most popular downloaded game application in both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. To celebrate its first anniversary, the game’s developer Niantic has come up some special game events which will officially be launched at the Pokemon Fest to be held in Chicago.

A new upcoming anime is revealed combining the popular character type of moe girls and the traditional board game that is shogi and its name is “Ryuoh no Oshigoto.” Based on the light novel series written by Shirow Shiratori, illustrated by Shirabi and under the publication of GA Bunko, an imprint of SoftBank's SB Creative subdivision, the upcoming anime already has a list of staff and cast confirmed.

More is to come for the shounen series, “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures” as a new installment of the “Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai” a.k.a. “Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan” manga by Hirohiko Araki is announced by the August issue of Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine on Thursday.

The Captain Tsubasa stage play titled Super Experience Stage Captain Tsubasa will be kicking off this August and diehard fans can’t seem to wait for it. In the production’s official website, a new visual has been revealed as well as three new videos which the first and second video introduces Hikaru Matsuyama and Taro Misaki (both will be respectively playing the roles of Soichiro Sorihashi and Ko Kanegae).

The anime industry has lost another great individual. Seiji Yokoyama, popular for his music compositions in Saint Seiya has passed away on Saturday in a hospital in Sera, Hiroshima. His cause of death was due to pneumonia.

Released on July 8 was the new anime feature film “Mary to Mahou no Hana” a.k.a. “Mary and the Witch's Flower”; now 4 days has passed since the film was was released in 365 theaters (458 screens) across Japan.

It has been revealed in the official website of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations that the anime adaptation of Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring is slated to premiere in August. The anime arc will be centering on Uchiha Sasuke’s daughter, Sarada Uchiha.

The game app The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls on Sunday released a promotional video confirming that The Idolm@ster Cinderella Gekijo is green-lit for a second season slated to air in October. The series is based on the manga of the same name created by Kuma-Jet and Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Artists have a chance to get their works recognized as a contest named, “Project BigShip” is revealed on Monday by IG Port, the parent company of animation studios Production I.G, Wit Studio, XEBEC,Signal.

The latest superhero-themed anime series, “THE REFLECTION” has just held a premiere screening of its first episode on July 5 at NHK Broadcasting Center in Tokyo and now a report has been released giving details on the cast and staff’s expectations of the series when they made their appearance at the event.