Anime News

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.

The popular otome game Ikemen Sengoku is officially getting an anime adaptation slated for next year. This was confirmed by its mobile game developer Cybrid during a stage event held at the Animate Girls Festival 2016.

It's official: Tetsuya Imai's Alice to Zouroku manga is getting an anime adaptation next year. Details and further announcements will be revealed in the January 2017 Issue of Monthly Comic Ryu. First launched in the magazine's December 2012 issue, Alice to Zouroku is about a young girl named Alice who possesses the power of the "Looking Glass" giving the ability to turn everything she imagines into reality.

Sukunahiko, the god of hot springs, witnessed the urbanization of the society and the decline of visits on onsen (hot springs), which are one of Japans iconic cultural landscapes. He gathered nine apprentice goddesses at a school where they form an idol group in order to restore the onsen's former glory and make the younger generation aware and experience the happiness and hospitality every hot spring can offer.

When evil lurks around the corner and everything seems to become too desperate and tragic, a superhero will always appear to vanquish the supervillains and bring back peace and justice to everyone, a mainstream setting on Western media that is slowly paving its way to popularity on anime.

Along with several ongoing hit anime this Fall, including Izetta: The Last Witch and Drifters, Funimation Entertainment added a promising shoujo anime with a heroine unlike others, Kiss Him, Not Me on its roster and aired its first episode last Tuesday at 9:00 pm Eastern Time.

Sushi Police Animator Sae Okamoto opened up a Kickstater campaign last month for her anime project Mecha-Ude. It reached its starting project goal of $25,000USD which was then extended to $40,000USD and $60,000USD stretch goals.

After dropping to #2 on its 10th weekend in the Japanese Box Office (due to the premiere of Death Note Light up the NEW World), Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name) returns to the #1 rank spot earning a total of 17.

As of November 6, the Kyoto Animation anime film A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) bagged a total of 2.1 Billion yen in ticket sales. During its eighth weekend, about 1.6 million tickets were sold which surpassed the ticket sale records of the 3rd Madoka Magica film which earned around 2.

The latest episode of this autumn’s currently airing anime Izetta: The Last Witch is by far the most disturbing episode for me: Private Jonas Gallea was killed by Sieghart "Sieg" Müller, Eylstadt’s counselor of the Duchal Palace, as the latter chased a Germanian spy on the loose.