Anime News

No turnips trades are needed as Animal Crossing: New Horizons remain number 1 in the recent Japanese Video Game Rankings from May 4-10. The game had weekly sales of 192,942 in Japan alone. Overall copies sold are at 4,350,458.

It was announced on Friday on the official Twitter account for the Pokemon: Twilight Wings net anime short series that the 5th episode will be delayed to June 5 due to production delay caused by COVID-19.

What better way to get people/weebs to wash their hands properly than by getting a popular 2D idol group to promote it. Perhaps that’s exactly the thoughts of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, as they have recently collaborated with Love Live.

Manga artists are stepping up in support of Japan’s Stay Home campaign, and the newest artist to participate in this endeavor is Posuka Demizu, illustrator of The Promised Neverland manga series. The series’ official Twitter account posted on Tuesday Demizu’s special illustration depicting the three main characters wearing face masks.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been a common trend for artists and musicians to sing or play their instruments and record them in their own homes. Now wouldn’t be awesome if a lot if these performers all come together to pay tribute to an awesome anime series….

Most people are familiar with manga author Kenjiro Hata because of Hayate the Combat Butler. Now, get ready for a new Hata work on your TV screens, as his 2018 manga series Fly Me to the Moon (Tonikaku Kawaii or literally, Generally Cute) will be receiving a TV anime series.

Shueisha announced this Tuesday that science-fiction harem manga series World’s End will be getting a TV anime series set for a 2021 release.

If you all aren’t feeling scared enough of this ongoing pandemic and world crisis, Netflix is here to give us an added dose of scary (not the virus kind though): the streaming platform has announced this Tuesday that horror franchise JU-ON will be getting a live-action series slated for a July 3 release.

To be quite honest, a Cells at Work: Coronovirus Edition would be such a fitting release for this season. But while we’re not getting that yet—damn January 2021 seems so far away—we’ll have to content ourselves with this special illustration released by series author Akane Shimizu.

The Inuyasha fandom woke up from their long slumber last Friday because of this major news: Viz confirmed that the popular 2000s anime series Inuyasha is inspiring a new anime spin-off. The series is entitled Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Hanyou no Yashahime) and is set to focus on the daughters of half-brothers Inuyasha and Sesshomaru.