Anime News

Popular animation studio Studio Ghibli revealed yesterday the main cast and staff for their 1st 3DCG film Earwig and the Witch. Their website lists the following as the movie’s main cast, but did not specify their character’s names.

A new promo video for the upcoming second season of Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotoubun no Hanayome) was released yesterday, with the video spotlighting Ichika, the oldest of the five Nakano sisters.

Last Friday, anime streaming website Crunchyroll revealed the trailer to the newest addition to its Crunchyroll Originals slate: the TV anime adaptation of HiRock and Shinya Komi’s Ex-Arm sci-fi manga series.

Two new cast members were revealed for the currently-airing third season of popular franchise Golden Kamuy. They are: Tasuku Hatanaka as Yuusaku Hanazawa Yuichiro Umehara as Vasily The third season premiered last October 5, with Crunchyroll streaming the series internationally as it aired in Japan.

Netflix recently released an English-subtitled trailer for The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon’s Judgement, the newest series for the Seven Deadly Sins franchise. Check it out here. An English version of the series’ teaser visual was also revealed by the streaming giant: The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon’s Judgement is slated for a January 6, 2021 release.

Just this weekend, Hita City in Oita prefecture unveiled life-sized statues of Attack on Titan characters Eren, Mikasa, and Armin in front of the city’s Oyama Dam. The erection of these statues were meant as a tribute to Attack on Titan author Hajime Isayama, who was born and raised in the said city.

This movie keeps on breaking more and more records, as Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train is now the 5th best-selling film of all time in Japan. Its total earnings on its 24th day in theaters (November 8) now puts the film’s over-all gross at 20.

Video game publisher Nexon has just announced that the official smartphone game to the KonoSuba franchise entitled KONOSUBA - God's blessing on this wonderful world. Fantastic Days – is set for a global release this coming 2021.

The official Twitter account of the Sword Art Online franchise has just revealed that the earlier-announced anime project for Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online: Progressive light novels is an animated theatrical film.

The recent Japanese video game rankings from October 19 to 25 show Animal Crossing: New Horizons back on top. Ring Fit Adventure is in the second rank, while Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe are at #3 and #4 respectively.