Shogakakun Asian on Friday, February 17, announced that it has acquired the license to publish Mami Kashiwabara’s original BanG Dream. Manga in English Language. “While the BanG Dream. manga shares the same premise with the hit television anime series currently airing in Japan, the manga provides more comprehensive details to each character and features additional scenes not seen in the anime,” Shogakukan Asia said in a statement.

Admit it-- sometimes we do get the feeling that some of the anime that we watch almost have very similar character faces. In a poll conducted in the Goo Ranking website, it revealed that K-ON. ranked number one in the anime poll of anime series with same face characters.

Gender-bender, body-swapping in particular, has been one of the most sought genres associated with comedy. We enjoy the misunderstandings, the hilarious scenarios, and of course, the inner awkward moments created due to the supernatural phenomenon of exchanging bodies.

Earlier this week, Funimation challenged its viewers to deduct what could be its future important announcement by posting a teaser image of a blond girl holding pipe. Two days later, Funimation finally confirmed our guesses: this North American anime distributor will release the English dub version of Gosick mystery anime in May.

The unique tale between a polar bear and white seal known as “Koisuru Shirokuma” a.k.a “Polar Bear in Love” is announced on Wednesday by its staff to have its “petite anime” adaptation released in 50 theatres in Japan along with a new visual depicting the large bear chasing the none too happy seal for the upcoming adaptation.

If you love the songs featured in Makoto Shinkai’s international-hit Kimi no Nawa (Your name) anime film, and kind of wish you can also hear and sing the songs in English language too, this could be a good news for you.

Kadokawa began streaming a video on Wednesday, introducing the main cast members of the anime adaptation of Yuuri Eda's Kadokawa. light novel series. And if you’re thinking that the characters seemed to remind you of something, that’s probably because it’s CLAMP who did the character designs.

Yuri fanatics, are you ready. In case you missed it, Naoko Kodama's popular yuri manga NTR: Netsuzou Trap is green lit for an anime adaptation this year. In its official Twitter account, the staff and visuals for the upcoming anime TV series has been released.

Funimation released a teaser image on its official Twitter account on Tuesday. It appears that this North American anime distributor company has plans in bringing Gosick to the West and in English dub.

In his official Twitter account on Tuesday, Shaman King manga creator Hiroyuki Takei announced that plans for a new Shaman King anime remake is not pushing through for the reason that the original anime cast as well as the music could not be used.