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Kadokawa announced this Monday that popular comedy slice-of-life manga series Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out. (Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai.) is getting a TV anime adaptation slated for a July release. The announcement also revealed a first official visual for the upcoming anime: Series author Take has expressed their thoughts and excitement for the upcoming anime adaptation of their manga, saying that “it was the hardest thing to keep this announcement a secret”.

We’re all excited for the release of the Wotakoi live-action movie this Friday, and to get us all hyped up even more, TOHO has released a new promotional video. The video features lead cast Kento Yamazaki (who plays Hirotaka) and Mitsuki Takahata (playing Narumi) recording soulful songs for the movie.

It’s still raining success for Makoto Shinkai’s latest film, as online film earnings aggregator Box Office Mojo estimates that the film has already made more than $7.2 million in North America. Weathering with You opened to 224 theaters in the US last January 31, but it already had held special screenings since January 15, where it earned over $1 million.

Sad news for ardent players of the Release the Spyce smartphone game: the game’s official Twitter account has announced this Monday that the app will be closing down this March 29. The game, whose official title is Release the Spyce secret fragrance, was only just launched on February last year.

Yes, you've read that right. The new theme song trailer was released on the official YouTube channel of the Final Fantasy franchise on Friday. The said new trailer teases the game’s theme song “Hollow” by Yosh (Survive Said the Prophet).

Behind all the awesome detailed costumes, bulky armor, and colorful wigs, are ordinary people with each have their own jobs and their own chosen career. Yuan Herong is a cosplayer from China very notable for her awesome cosplays of memorable fighting game characters such as Chun Li from Street Fighter and Mai Shiranui from the King of Fighters.

The winners of the 18th annual Visual Effects Society (VES) awards was announced on Wednesday and Alita, the character the live-action Hollywood film Alita: Battle Angel won the award for Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature.

To those who are still hoping to get themselves a Nintendo Switch and expecting a new model to be released this year, you might have to choose from the previous released models as it was recently revealed during Nintendo’s financial results briefing that no new model will be released for the console this year.

Website Famitsu recently released the following video games that topped Japan’s charts last week. The Number 1 spot was taken by Sega’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon PS4 game. The game was released on January 16 in Japan and has sold weekly copies of 39,719.

If you’re a massive fan of both Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune from the popular Sailor Moon franchise, you’re in luck as the Citizen Watch’s “wicca” brand is releasing a “Precious Pair Edition” watch featuring our two favorite senshi pair.