Anime News

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.

Last month, a certain chapter of the 'Ai Mai Mi' manga was posted for a while but was later unlisted in its main website. It featured author Choborau Nyopomi announcing that a third season of the anime adaptation is in the works and hoping that a fourth season might happen as well.

Another announcement from the Fantasia Bunko Big Thanks Festival 2016 revealed an upcoming anime adaptation of Ryo Mizuno’s Grancrest Senki/Record of Grancrest War. Other details regarding the anime adaptation is yet to be announced.

It was confirmed during the Fantasia Bunko Big Thanks Festival 2016 in Akihabara that the famous action fantasy light novel series High School DxD by Ichiei Ishibumi will be having a new anime series. The light novel series started on September 2008, and successfully yielded 22 volumes and 3.

Sekina Aoi’s school comedy light novel series Gamers. is expected to have its anime adaptation, according to an official announcement during the Fantasia Bunko Big Thanks Festival 2016 in Akihabara. This will be the second time that Sekina Aoi’s works would be given an animated series, after his Student Council’s Discretion two TV anime adaptations in 2009 by Studio Deen and 2013 by AIC.

It was announced during the Fantasia Bunko Big Thanks Festival 2016 in Akihabara that Shoji Gatoh’s Full Metal Panic will be having its new TV anime adaptation in fall 2017. Aside from that, they are already working on an audio drama based on the “Odoru Very Merry Christmas” episode.

Famitsu leaked out their first screens of the upcoming second Attack on Titan game based on Hajime Isayama’s popular manga. The said game is titled Shingeki no Kyojin: Shichi Kara no Dasshutsu (Attack on Titan:Escape from the Jaws of Death) and will be released in Japan by 2017.

Mixi’s smartphone game “Monster Strike” film adaptation will be out by December 10, and two trailers from Warner Brothers Japan are already out to show the features of the film, particularly its theme song “Yume no Arika” (The Hiding Place of Dreams) sang by Naoto Inti Raymi in the new teaser.