Anime News

Another year, another round of anime. Anime streaming platform Crunchyroll revealed its lineup for the 2020 anime season. It seems that this seasons is filled with some interesting titles to watch (and most possibly catch-up just in case you’re left behind.

Be prepared for some live-action fujoshi shenanigans as Kodansha has just announced that popular shoujo manga title Kiss Him, Not Me (Watashi ga Motete Dousunda) will be getting a live-action film adaptation.

Our favorite divinities are back in action, as a new promo video was released for the upcoming season 3 of the live-action TV series adaptation of Saint Young Men. Get to see Jesus and Buddha go to karaoke, bond under a kotatsu, and Jesus turn bottled water into bottled wine (with bread) in the trailer here.

We are just a few weeks of 2020, and the anime fans are welcomed with the sad news that Fate/Stay Night director Yuuji Yamaguchi has passed away. We are deeply saddened to know about this announcement.

Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block has announced that Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of the Underworld will premiere in their block starting on January 18 at 12:00 AM EST (actually making the premiere date to be January 19).

Digimon fans in the US, rejoice. Fathom Events in partnership with Toei Animation has announced that they will be holding US theatrical screenings for the upcoming Digimon Adventure: The Last Evolution Kizuna anime movie.

Remember 2017’s smash hit game Doki Doki Literature Club. Yes, the game that played with everyone’s heads and tested our individual sanities is still fresh in the heads (and hearts) of many. Now, get ready to dive back into the world(s) of Sayori, Yuri, Natsuki, and (JUST) Monika as DDLC creator Dan Salvato announced that he is set to release new DDLC content, three years after the hit game was first released on Steam.

The official website of multimedia project Kandagawa Jet Girls has just released the prologue video for its PS4 game. You can watch it here. The game is set for a January 16 release in Japan. Like the anime, the game is set in a futuristic world where high school girls compete in jet ski races in pairs—the Jetter maneuvers the jet ski while the Shooter is at the back, attacking opponents using a squirt gun.

Heads up to Irregular fans. The official website and Twitter account for the Irregular at Magic High School (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei) TV anime just announced that its second season will be airing this July.

The newest My Hero Academia film, Heroes Rising, has been showing in Japan for three weeks already and now it is time for the box office reports to come in. According to official figures, the second film in the ultra-popular franchise has earned a total of 1.