Anime News

Rise up, Log Horizon fans. It’s been 6 years since the last Log Horizon anime premiered, and who would’ve thought we’d get announcements about the series—and yet here we are. Yes, there is news for the beloved anime, as NHK made a surprise announcement that Log Horizon is getting a third season.

Congratulations are in order for popular anisong singer LiSA and her longtime boyfriend, veteran voice actor Tatsuhisa Suzuki. This Wednesday, January 22, LiSA updated her official Instagram and website with a message announcing that she has registered her marriage with Suzuki.

A new promotional video of My Hero Academia was posted on Tuesday previews the anime’s new opening theme song titled “Star Marker” by KANA-BOON. The said video also previews the School Festival Arc which is the second half of the anime’s fourth season.

We recently reported about the Cool Japan attractions that can be found in Universal Studios Japan. Japanese website Oricon News released a sneak-peek of experiencing the Attack on Titan XR ride. The mentioned ride officially opened to the public on Tuesday and can be found in the Universal Studios Japan Osaka theme park.

It was announced on Thursday by Square Enix that they are currently working on a new “experience” for the popular Kingdom Hearts franchise. This time, it’s not for the consoles but for smartphones. The project is temporarily titled as “Project Xehanort”, with a tagline that says, "Why did he become the seeker of darkness.

In the eight issue of Weekly Shonen Champion magazine on Thursday, the creator of the popular BEASTARS manga Paru Itagaki commented in her author’s note saying that the “end is in sight” for the series.

We are just a few weeks away until the official premiere of the Hollywood film Sonic the Hedgehog. Amidst its controversy last year due to the design of the titular character, they managed to pull through after a major design rework.

Popular Streaming platform Netflix and The Pokemon Company both announced on Tuesday that the 22nd film of the Pokemon franchise titled Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution will be added to Netflix’s streaming library on February 27.

July is still a ways off, but upcoming anime series Assault Lily Bouquet is gearing up for its summer premiere with more announcements. First off is a cast announcement via its official Twitter account: popular voice actress Rie Takahashi (Takagi in Teasing Master Takagi-san, Megumin in KONOSUBA) will be joining the Assault Lily cast as Shiori Rokkaku.

Netflix has just dropped a surprise announcement by revealing that they have gained the rights to stream Studio Ghibli films WORLDWIDE—except in North America and Japan. And while yes, HBO Max will make Ghibli digitally available in North America, release in the said platform won’t be ‘til May 2020—a good three months later than Netflix, which will start adding Ghibli films to its library by February 1.