Anime News

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. The manga’s author, Kotaro Shono, posted a special illustration to celebrate this announcement: The manga series is celebrating its 4th anniversary this year, with the manga’s 82nd chapter released last Sunday teasing “important news”—which turned out to be this announcement.

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.

Sad news for avid players of the Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Happiness Memories smartphone game: Bushiroad and Monstar Lab has revealed in their official websites that the game will be ending service on June 30 “due to the state of the game and the current operations situation”.

A new promo video was released this Sunday for the anime adaptation of Take’s slice-of-life comedy manga Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out. (Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai.). The new promo video reveals new cast member Yousuke Akimoto (Ubertino in Arte) as Master, the owner of the bar where character Shinichi works at.

A new promo video was revealed this Friday for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of yuri (girls’ love) light novel series Adachi and Shimamura. The new promo video reveals the series’ October 2020 premiere, as well as a preview for the series’ opening theme song “Kimi ni Aeta Hi” (The Day I Met You) performed by lead cast Akari Kito and Miku Ito.

It was announced by game developer UNIVRS on Wednesday that the company will be releasing the Little Witch Acadmia VR Broom Racing game for the Oculus Quest in late 2020. Releases for PSVR, SteamVR, and Oculus Rift is expected to be released in early 2021.

Eiichiro Oda, the creator of the popular franchise One Piece has recently released a message in relation to the the production of the anime and manga especially in this current COVID-19 pandemic. He explain that working on the One Piece manga is fully analog.