Anime News

If you’re still looking for anime to marathon while on this pandemic, get ready to get into a nostalgia train as Digital Media Right announced yesterday that they have partnered with Tezuka Productions to bring 9 classic anime titles to its streaming platform RetroCrush.

It seems that final season for the Attack on Titan anime is something worth looking forward to as its new promotional video reveals that the anime will be done by animation studio MAPPA. The new animation studio tasked to produced the final season of this popular anime series have also animated notable anime like Yuri.

The hype and reign of Animal Crossing: New Horizons continue as it still reigns and remain #1 in the recent Japanese Video Game Rankings from May 18 to 24. Ring Fit Adventure is still on rank number 2, while Splatoon 2 takes the third place.

Paramount Pictures confirmed on Thursday that they will be producing a sequel to the Sonic the Hedgehog film. Jeff Fowler returns to direct the sequel, as well as the first movie’s scriptwriters Pat Casey and Josh Miller.

The official website of the anime adaptation of Atsushi Ohkubo’s Fire Force (En En no Shouboutai) has just revealed this Wednesday that rock band Cider Girl will be performing the ending theme song for the series’ upcoming second season.

The hype train ain’t over yet for our favorite quintuplets, as an announcement this Wednesday revealed that Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotoubun no Hanayome) is getting its very own smartphone game (yes, you read that right).

Adapting manhwas into anime series is apparently the new trend nowadays, as Crunchyroll reveals a character trailer for the TV anime adaptation of Yongje Park’s Webtoon manhwa (that’s Korean manga) The God of High School.

Unfortunate news for fans who have been excited for the Rurouni Kenshin live-action films: the official website for the two “final chapter” films announced this Wednesday that both films have been delayed due to the COVID-19 disease.

Kadokawa announced this Wednesday that a smartphone game will be released based on the anime adaptation of Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki’s Saga of Tanya the Evil (Youjo Senki literally, Military Chronicles of a Little Girl) novel series.

Kyoto police have officially arrested the suspect in deadly arson in Kyoto Animation’s 1st Studio Building, 10 months after the unfortunate incident. The suspect, identified as 42-year old Shinji Aoba, was taped by the media being transferred by police from the hospital to a Kyoto police station where he will now be officially questioned.