Anime News

Natsume Ono's ACCA 13-Ku Kansatsu-Ka manga will have an anime adaptation. According to its official website, the first episode is scheduled to premiere on January 10 (11pm Japan Standard Time). The story is set in a world that is separated into 13 wards with an observation division under the authority of the organization "ACCA".

In a recent announcement during the Tokyo Comic Con on Friday, the staff of the upcoming live-action adaptation of Full Metal Alchemist revealed that the movie is slated for a December 2017 premiere in Japan.

Lupid the Third fans, get hyped. An upcoming movie titled Lupin the IIIrd Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon (Lupin the Third: Goemon Ishikawa's Spray of Blood) will premiere this February 4. The official website has officially released the trailer video as well as the poster visuals.

A new hand in Japanese entertainment in Legendary Entertainment’s upcoming live action Pokemon film appears with Rob Letterman as acting director as announced by Entertainment News Source “Deadline”.

With all these upcoming anime and manga announcements, it seems that Hayate the Combat Butler fans also have something to look forward to as well. In the first 2017 issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, Hayate the Combat Butler creator Kenjirou Hata stated that he wanted to create another new series under the franchise and to release it by next year.

Megami Megazine's January 2017 issue reveal that Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection will be in two anime films. The first film is set to premiere in Japan this summer. The story of the films takes placed just three months after the 2nd A's with new characters added along with the Florian sisters.

The second season for Tales of Zestria the X is slated to premiere on January 8 next year. A television commercial was streamed recently featuring the anime season's new ending theme song titled "Innosense" performed by the popular Japanese band FLOW.

Good news One Piece fans. The website Fandango has been offering pre-sale tickets to the One Piece Gold anime movie which is set to be screened in the United States as well as in Canada for one week (January 10-17).

An announcement by Studio 4°C on Tuesday reveal that they are in collaboration with Gunma TV in producing the anime TV short titled Sentai Heroes Sukiyaki Force - Gunma no Heiwa o Negau Season. It will be aired in the said channel starting January 9 every weekday on 6:35pm (Japan Standard Time).

The director, writer, and cast of the 2013 TV anime Yuyushiki return as a special Original Video Animation (OVA) DVD is set to release on February 22. This has been revealed on Wednesday in the January 2017 issue of Megami Magazine.