Anime News

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.

A new trailer for Makoto Shinkai’s anime film Weathering With You was released on GKIDS’ official YouTube channel on Monday. You may watch the trailer here. The film will be screen by Fathom Even on January 15 and 16.

Cosplay is a wonderful hobby, and it never fails to amaze a lot of audiences with its colors, awesome craftsmanship, and creativity. While you go around in portraying your favorite character, it’s inevitable that you will encounter some malfunctions: a part of your weapon fell off, your wig falls off, a part of your costume gets a tear, and so on.

There are a few days left until the premiere of the 22/7 idol anime, and the newest idol franchise is gearing up with special announcements. Besides the daily countdown on the franchise’s Twitter account, the Yasushi Akimoto-produced group was also revealed to be getting their own manga series.

This week the Aniplex+ online retail service in Japan listed the currently-airing Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side-Story with 13 episodes, distributed across five Blu-ray home releases. The first, fourth, and fifth releases will have three episodes each, with the remaining releases having two episodes each.

It’s the new year but we will never get tired of sports anime—especially sports that have yet to receive an anime show. This time Japan gives us an anime series on the contact sport (that’s hard to watch sometimes because the players appear to get hurt real bad) rugby.

International streaming platform Netflix has just added 32 more episodes to the 1986 Saint Seiya anime. The Netflix release features an all-new English dub cast, and is available to the streaming service’s users in North America, New Zealand, and Australia.