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.

And we now have an exact premiere date folks, as an announcement during the “Fuji TV Anime Lineup Press Conference” this Thursday revealed that the much-awaited second season of The Promised Neverland is now slated for a January 7, 2021 release.

Some additional news for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Iori Miyazawa’s yuri (girls’ love) sci-fi light novel series Otherside Picnic (Urasekai Picnic). A new teaser visual was revealed on the series’ official website on Thursday, and it features lead characters Sorao and Toriko.

A new teaser visual was recently revealed for the new Prince of Tennis anime special entitled The New Prince of Tennis: Hyotei vs. Rikkai Game of Future. Check it out below. The series’ official Twitter also revealed a new cast member for the anime special.

Good news. The original English dub cast of Inuyasha was announced to be returning for the series. This was announced by Viz Media on their official Twitter account.

And COVID-19 continues to be a bane to the Japanese anime industry (and to the world at large) as another anime film suffers a delay: the release of upcoming original romance anime film Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru) is now delayed to June 25, 2021 from its original May 2021 release (at least it’s just a month, right.

Bushiroad’s newest mixed-media franchise gets a new manga series. Kadokawa’s Magazine Pocket manga app revealed that they will be launching a new manga based on D4DJ (Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ)’s in-story group Photon Maiden.

A new trailer was recently unveiled for the live-action film adaptation of supernatural boys-love manga series The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru). The new trailer previews the film’s theme song Kuraku Kuroku (Darker and Blacker) by band Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni (Zutomayo).