Anime News

Here’s some bad news for those who will be attending the “Battle Train Final Fantasy VII Remake Another Story” event this Saturday. Square Enix announced that they will be cancelling the event due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Kingdom Hearts fans. In case you missed it, Square Enix has released the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX and HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue on the Xbox One on Tuesday. This was previously reported last year that the games will be released for the said console this year.

If you are itching to get a Nintendo Switch this year, you better get it soonest while stocks are still available. In a report released by business news company Bloomberg on Monday, shortages of the popular handheld console will “likely” happen in April for the United States and Europe due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The premiere week of Sonic The Hedgehog film has been awesome so far as the website Box Office Mojo reported on Tuesday that film has earned US $70,002,074 so far. Let’s not forget that it has been four days since the movie’s official premiere date in the United States.

The manga may be ending soon, but we won’t be seeing the last of the quints yet. Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine has just announced that season two of the anime adaptation of Negi Haruba’s ultra-popular manga Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotoubun no Hanayome) is set to be released this October.

An English-dubbed trailer for My Hero Academia the Movie – Heroes: Rising – film was streamed by Funimation this Tuesday. Get to hear the English voices of the film’s new characters Nine, Slice, and Katsuma for the first time in the trailer here.

American distributor GKIDS has just announced that they will be holding limited theatrical screenings for the anime film adaptation of Daisuke Igarashi’s manga Children of the Lost Sea (Kaiju no Kodomo).

The official Japanese website of the live-action film adaptations of the highly-popular Rurouni Kenshin series has announced that Yosuke Eguchi will be reprising his role as Hajime Saito, captain of the Shinsengumi third unit.

Promotions are now in full swing for the upcoming third season of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (original Japanese title: Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru). The first promo video for the much-awaited season 3 has been released last Saturday, and the two-and-a-half-minute long video previews the new season’s theme song, “Megumi no Ame” (Budding Rain) by singer Nagi Yanagi.

A new promotional video was released last Thursday for the upcoming anime project of popular boys-love title Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (The World’s Greatest First Love). Like the first promo video, the second PV previews the anime’s theme song “Mirai no Kimi no Te no Naka de” (The Future is Also in Your Hands) by Shuhei Kita.