Anime News

In the final episode of the anime series Drifters which ended on Friday, the episode end card left a teaser that hints of a second season in "20XX". The production of the anime series is a way of celebrating the 70th anniversary of Shonengahosha (the original publisher of the Drifters manga.

Arc System Works and Yasuhiro Wada's (creator of Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons) upcoming game Birthdays the Beginning is given a delayed date release. This was recently announced on Wednesday by NIS America.

Yes. people. Neko Atsume (the popular kawaii kitty collector game app) will have its own movie and will premiere in Japan on April 8, 2017. The film will be screened in Shinjuku Musashinokan another cinemas nationwide.

In a recent announcement released by NIS America on Tuesday, two of the most anticipated games in the Touhou franchise titled Touhou Double Focus and Touhou Genso Wanderer will have a slight delay of release.

In a recent tweet posted by Teruzane Utada on Friday, his daughter singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada is now working on a new theme song for the Square Enix game Kingdom Hearts III. Mr. Utada took back what he said on a tweet dated back October 2013 that he and his daughter will be working together for the game and commented that it is still undecided as of this time.

The official website of the upcoming live-action television series based on Yayoi Ogawa’s Kimi wa Pet (Tramps Like Us) romance manga series has released the show’s trailer in stream. Apart from , introducing the show’s characters, the trailer also revealed that the first episode of the television series will air at Fuji TV on February 6 next year.

The February 2017 issue of Kodansha’s Morning Two magazine revealed that Shiori Amase’s rugby manga, All Out.., is getting a stage play that will debut in May next year. According to reports, the play will be held at the Zepp Blue Theater Roppongi in Tokyo.

Early this week, the official website for the Clockwork Planet anime opened, revealing the television adaptation series’ cast and staff. Clockwork Planet anime, under the direction of Tsuyoshi Nagasawa at Xebec, is slated to air April next year on TBS and BS-TBS.

A new historical fiction anime is about to come to screen and its name is “Shoukoku no Altair”. It tells the story of a young Pasha known as Mahmut serving on the council of the Türkiye Stratocracy. With the council split between the warmongers and the pacifists from the growing threat of an aggressive Empire Mahmut sets out on a quest to keep the peace as the clouds of war grow larger.

The popular short telling the story of a young girl assigned to be a dentist to a dragon otherwise known as “Dragon Dentist” gains a two-part special anime adaptation to be aired around a week apart with the first part of the special airing on February 18, 2017, at 8 a.