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Warning: Cuteness Ahead. Recent photo uploads from the Nekoya cat cafe reveal the establishment's pet cats dressed up in cute and awesome costumes. Majority of the photos show our furry feline friends cosplaying characters from Naruto, Pokemon, One Piece and even from the Studio Ghibli films.

Though the original Naruto manga has ended, its anime adaptation Naruto Shippuden is still ongoing with 483 episodes. In a recent release of this year's 50th Weekly Shonen Jump issue, some information reveal anime adaptations of the franchise's three epilogue novels namely Naruto: Sasuke's Story - Sunrise, Naruto: Shikamaru's Story, and Naruto - Konoha Hiden: Shūgen Biyori written by Shin Towasa, Takashi Yano, and Sho Hinata respectively.

HERO TV, a leading television channel in the Philippines will premiere the following titles starting this month: Yu-Gi-Oh. Arc-V, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin III: Dawn of the Rebellion, and Initial D: Final Stage.

An English-dubbed trailer for the upcoming PS3/PS4 game Persona 5 highlights the cute feline mascot Morgana. The videos released by Atlus USA also featured Cassandra Morris who will be voicing the character.

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, a two-hour Detective Conan TV special is scheduled to be aired on Tomiuri TV this December 9 titled Meitantei Conan Episode "One" Chiisakunatta Meitantei (Detective Conan Episode "One": The Great Detective Who Shrank).

In a recent Japanese video game ranking list released by 4Gamer, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 hits the 2nd place rank selling out a total of 66,035 copies. Developed by Dimps and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, the game was released in Japan on November 2.

In case you are not aware yet, Tite Kubo's popular long-running manga Bleach has ended. Now that the popular manga artist has a lot of free time on his hands, he surprised his followers in his Twitter account by cosplaying one of his creations.

Aside from admiring the characters from various Japanese animated TV series and movies, fans also appreciate the great efforts of those who voice and bring these characters to life. These are none other than the voice actors or [i]seiyuu[/i] in Japanese.

It's expected that we'll be welcoming 2017 with a lot of new anime and Seiren is one of them. The series' official website has revealed a new key visual as well as the key people who will be handling this project.

The recent Magical Fukushima event was in full Hawaiian theme as Fukushima Gainax announced its new anime project titled Flying Babies. The studio aims to complete the project before next year's event.