Anime News

As of Tuesday, the Sword Art Online anime film titled Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale has sold over 600 million yen in the international box office. That’s over 700,000 tickets sold. The movie’s opening weekend screenings in North America theaters earned a total of US$1.

Yu-Gi-Oh. VRAINS, the upcoming sixth anime of the popular franchise will release in May. To bring in more hype, the staff recently released visuals of two new characters on Tuesday (see above picture).

It seems that another yuri manga may be positive for an anime adaptation. It has been revealed in the yuri manga event Yuriten 2017 that the manga Kase-san and… by Hiromi Takashima might be green-lit for an anime series.

It was announced way back that two yuri manga series NTR: Netsuzou Trap and Citrus are green-lit for anime adaptations. Although Citrus has not been releasing any big announcements so far, the Netsuzou Trap anime is slated to premiere in July.

In just its first four days of its screening in North America, The Sword Art Online anime film titled Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale has earned 1.35 million dollars in ticket sales-- a new opening record for an anime film distributed by Aniplex of America.

If you’re heading to Japan this Fall and you’re a diehard Sailor Moon fan, you’re in for some great news. The franchise’s official website announced on Monday that the next musical production of Sailor Moon will open at the AiiA 2.

Batter up. Kondansha’s Morning magazine announced on its 17th issue on Tuesday that Yuji Moritaka and Keiji Adachi’s baseball manga Gurazeni is confirmed for an anime adaptation in 2018. Just to give you a little synopsis on the manga series, it is a “baseball money survival” story which centers on a baseball team where each player’s performance will determine his annual salary as it operates as a highly-stratified society.

The unique anime featuring magical boys makes its return this year as a confirmation was made this Saturday on the evening session of the "Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE. LOVE. All Star." event that coming this summer, an original video anime (OVA) has been green lit for “Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE.

On Tuesday, a Twitter user and Pokemon player @suica_pokeca shared images of their max out step tracker of the Pokewalker. Below shows their tweet as well as the two images that were shared: 苦節7年、ついにポケウォーカーカンスト達成！！ pic.

Are you ready for more Digimon. V Jump magazine has revealed that Bandai Namco Entertainment is developing a new Digimon game for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita platforms titled Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory slated for release this year.