On Tuesday, popular entrepreneur and otaku blogger Danny Choo posted an announcement on his website that his father Jimmy Choo will be following his footsteps in creating anime-related merchandise starting with Code Geass.

In its official website, Crunchyroll announced that it will simulcast the upcoming KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world. 2, the second season of the anime series based on the light novel written by Natsume Akatsuki and illustrated by Kurone Mishima.

Early this week, Amazon released the dub trailer for Ronja the Robber’s Daughter (Sanzoku no Musume Rōnya) television anime, revealing that it will stream the series on its Amazon Prime streaming service starting January 27.

A new original television anime has been announced on Tuesday to be in production by the company MAGES and it is to be entitled, “Lost Song” Given the tagline of "That song changes even the destiny of the stars.

Launched in January 2015 by Bushiroad the mixed media project known as “BanG Dream” will be gaining a stream in line with the anime’s airing in Japan as announced by “Anime Network Online”. Though there are no details on which part of the project will be streamed it has been confirmed that the series will be premiering on January 21 in Japan at 10:00 p.

Last week, Anime Network Online announced that it will stream the upcoming Urara Meirochō at 1:00 a.m. EST on Saturday, January 7 in the following countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Latin America,New Zealand, United States, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, South Africa, and Turkey.

A two-minute preview of the Yu-Gi-Oh. film titled Yu-Gi-Oh.: The Dark Side of Dimensions has been uploaded by Crunchyroll on Sunday where the series' protagonist Yugi Muto (voiced by Dan Green) is talking to his friends Tea Gardner (Amy Birnbaum) and Joey Wheeler (Wayne Grayson) about Yami Yugi.

2017, another year for the Pokemon franchise. The local Pokemon Center is Sapporo was recently redesigned to go along with the current winter snowfall. As a way of celebrating and accompanying the new change, the venue has offered new stuff related to the release of the new Pokemon games Pokemon Sun and Moon as well as the Pokemon's Alola Forms.

Last weekend, Makoto Shinkai's Japanese anime film Kimi no Na wa has hit #1 in the South Korean box office sold over a total of 837,556 tickets. The movie was immediately ranked at the #1 spot during its opening day on Wednesday selling 130,000 tickets and earned around 100 million yen.

A new year with lists of new anime, live action adaptation and films are up in production that many fans new and old can look forward to. But with so many new anime and other works coming out it will be a hard pick on what to watch first and what to continue following.