Anime News

On its official Twitter account, Yen Press announced that the hardcover omnibus version of Erased volume I will be on sale starting February 2017. Erased, also known in Japanese as Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (The Town Without Me), is a manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe.

Funimation Entertainment on Sunday, January 1, revealed the English dub cast for Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA anime, adding that the series will also get a home video this April 2017. English dub Cast • Madeleine Morris as Akari Mamiya • Leah Clark as Aria H.

Funimation Entertainment on Sunday, January 1, revealed the English dub cast for Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid anime, adding that the series will also get a home video this April 2017.

On Sunday, Kadokawa released a list of theaters that will be screening the Kantai Collection movie in 4DX and MX4D starting on February 11. The movie first opened in Japan on November 26 and sold over 100 million yen in ticket sales in its first weekend alone.

Tomo Takeuchi's Welcome to the Ballroom manga is getting an anime adaptation slated for a Summer season release. A promotional video of the anime project was revealed on Sunday, featuring Unison Square Garden's song Chandelier Waltz.

A new preview has been released for the upcoming girls band anime series Bang Dream. which is slated for a January 21 premiere. The video ad gives a preview of the anime's opening theme song titled Tokimeki Experience perform by Poppin' Party.

Further details are now released for the upcoming second film of the shounen fantasy anime “Fairy Tail” as announced on Saturday by the website launched by the film distribution company GAGA. It was in May 2015 that it was first announced that there would be a second anime film for the series by the “Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen” Magazine though no further details were disclosed at the time.

A light visual novel created by TYPE-MOON and Yuichiro Higashide entitled Fate/Apocrypha launches an official website on Saturday in which not only do they announce of their anime adaptation but they also release a list of details along with a promotional video.

With the upcoming TV anime adaptation of the light novel series “Kabukibu” by Yuuri Eda to premier in April 2017 with the direction of Kazuhiro Yoneda and animation done by “Studio Deen” it has been announced that a manga adaptation shall be made as well and shall be published in “Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace seinen” manga magazine.

The live-action film adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure will hit Japanese theaters this August 4. The film's official website has released another visual on Sunday which features the series' main protagonist, Josuke Higashikata to be played by Kento Yamazaki.