Anime
The TV anime Love Live! Hasunosora Girls’ High School Idol Club has locked in a premiere date of January 10, 2027. It starts on TOKYO MX in the Sunday 22:30 slot, and a total of nine stations have been announced, including BS11, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto. The news broke during the Hasunosora livestream on…
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 streams all 10 episodes exclusively worldwide on Netflix starting October 20, 2026. Separately, from 19:00 that same day, CD PROJEKT RED Japan’s official Twitch channel will live stream the Japanese dub of episode 1 for free, with no archive left behind afterward. Even without a Netflix subscription, opening Twitch at 19:00 gets…
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With Umamusume: Pretty Derby 7th EVENT WORLD TOUR “THE STAGE” in LOS ANGELES scheduled for October 22 and 23 local time, the visas the performers need to travel to the United States had still not been approved as of October 19, three days out from the show. Cygames says it has been preparing for more…
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On October 19, 2026, Tatsunoko Production kicked off its “65th Anniversary Year” leading up to the studio’s 65th anniversary. The actual 65th anniversary of its founding falls on October 19, 2027, and the company is designating the two years starting today as its commemorative period. Starting the party a full year early is the first…
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The TV anime Kizuguchi to Houtai has a premiere date, January 9, 2027, and the leads have been announced: Hisako Kanemoto as protagonist Riyo Washizu and Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tsuyoshi Kiriya, the family’s wakagashira. It airs Saturdays at 26:00 (2:00 a.m.) in the ANiMAZiNG!!! block on ABC TV and the TV Asahi national network, gets…
GUNDAM
Bandai Namco Entertainment announced Gundam Blitz Order, a new smartphone title, on October 15, 2026. It is an idle simulation game in which you build a force out of Mobile Suits, battleships, and Mobile Armors and send it into battle, and it will be distributed free to play with optional in-app purchases on iOS and…
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The anime film The Apothecary Diaries: Treasure of the Departed Consort, opening in Japan on Friday, December 11, 2026, has cast Miyuki Sawashiro as Ruoqing, a middle-ranking consort who died in the rear palace five years ago, and Ai Mikami as Yinshan, the head lady-in-waiting who once served her. The news came in the fourth…
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Which ONE PIECE game should you start with? The right answer is the one you can actually play on current hardware while getting the purest hit of the manga’s momentum. As of October 2026, ONE PIECE games across consoles, PC, and mobile stretch back more than two decades. I hear the same complaint constantly: there…
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SSS-class revival hunter (Japanese title: Shishite Ikiru SSS-kyu Hunter), airing from January 2027, has released its second trailer. Eight additional cast members and the ending theme were announced alongside it, and a whole run of blanks that were still empty when the anime was first revealed got filled in at once. The new names are…
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Lieutenant Matilda Ajan from Mobile Suit Gundam is getting a painted, fully finished figure in MegaHouse’s GGG line. It was built from a new illustration drawn by Tsukasa Kotobuki and supervised in detail by the artist himself, priced at 22,000 yen (about US$144, converted at 153 yen to the US dollar) including tax, with shipping…
