Actor also known for work on The Bill Cosby Show, Easy Street, NYPD Blue Entertainment news website The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday that actor Lee Weaver died on September 22. He was 95. Weaver is perhaps best known for his work on shows such as The Bill Cosby Show and Easy Street, and for his work on the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? film. He voiced Alpine in the Toei Animation -animated G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero U.S. television series, which a

Pokémon Legends: Z-A stays at #1, Once Upon a Katamari debuts at #4 Japan's Game Ranking: October 20-26 Rank System Title Publisher Release Date Weekly Copies Total Copies 1 NSw Pokémon Legends: Z-A Nintendo October 16 195,849 1,068,401 2 NSw 2 Pokémon Legends: Z-A Nintendo October 16 71,991 684,896 3 NSw 2 Mario Kart World Nintendo June 5 35,176 1,966,569 4 NSw Once Upon a Katamari Bandai Namco Entertainment October 23 17,289 17,289 5 PS5 Ninja Gaiden Nippon Microsoft Octo

New season to feature returning cast, mostly returning staff Kadokawa revealed on Saturday that the television anime of Kanaineko 's Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (Bungo Stray Dogs Ruff!) spinoff manga for the Bungō Stray Dogs franchise will get a second season titled Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! 2 . The anime will debut in 2026. Kanaineko drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement: Returning cast members include: Yūto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai Yo

Festival held on October 19-22 brought together creators, companies, fans The 2025 World Webtoon Festival event held from October 19 to 22 in Seoul attracted about 210,000 visitors. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) organized the event and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) hosted the event, which aimed to solidify South Korea's status as the birthplace of webtoons and to showcase the scalability and sustainability of webtoon intellectual property. T

Series centers on gender-bending office romance between murder suspect, former special force officer Korean entertainment media outlets reported on October 24 that the romantic comedy webtoon I'm NOT a Guy!? is set for a live-action television adaptation. Actors Si-wan Im and In-ah Seol are in talks to star in the adaptation, based on the web novel and webtoon series of the same name. The series centers on a gender-bending office romance between I-jun Yoon, a third-generatio

Company also licenses Dodo's The Abandoned Villainess Became A Zombie Korean novel series Crossed Hearts, a new California-based global English publisher , revealed on Wednesday that it has licensed Mai Ando's You're Way Too Cheeky, Chigaya-kun! (Namaiki sugiru yo, Chigaya-kun) manga, for a planned release in May 2026. Crossed Hearts describes the story: Ever since the day they met, no matter how many times she tries to brush him off, Natsune somehow always ends up at the ce

My Hero Academia earns 3.3% rating, Tougen Anki earns 2.2% Makoto Shinkai 's 5 Centimeters Per Second anime film aired on Fuji TV on Friday, October 24 at 12:45 a.m., and it earned a 1.2% rating. Title Station Date Time Length Average Household Rating Detective Conan NTV October 25 (Sat) 18:00 30 min. 6.0 Chibi Maruko-chan Fuji TV October 26 (Sun) 18:00 30 min. 5.7 Doraemon TV Asahi October 25 (Sat) 17:00 30 min. 3.4 My Hero Academia final season NTV October 25 (Sat) 17:

I Want to Be Pampered by the Marquis of Ice! , The Monster Life of The Freshly Grafted get English releases Media Do , NTT Docomo , Akatsuki Group, and MyAnimeList 's joint digital manga distribution service Manga Mirai announced on Tuesday that it will release the first English translations for titles from publisher TO Books . The English licenses include Erika Kamori's manga adaptation of Mochiko Mochida 's I Want to Be Pampered by the Marquis of Ice! ~Reincarnated as a Gi

Series launched in April 2020 This year's 48th issue of Kodansha 's Young Magazine announced on Monday that Tsukasa Monma and Shikako 's Manchuria Opium Squad manga will switch to an irregular release schedule out of consideration for Shikako's health. Kodansha publishes the series in English on the K manga app and describes the story: "Here in Manchuria, the cheapest thing you'll find is a person's life." In 1937, Isamu Higata is sent to the Japan-controlled Chinese pu

Main staff, cast return as setting shifts to Kyoto The staff for the television anime of Kenichi Kondō 's Dark Gathering manga announced on Tuesday that production on a second season has been green-lit. The anime's website presented a teaser visual for the new season, which switches the setting to Kyoto with the returning main staff and main cast: The anime premiered on Tokyo MX on July 9, 2023 at 25:05 (effectively July 10 at 1:05 a.m.). The show then aired on BS Asahi

New visual unveiled for upcoming Elbaph arc Toei Animation and One Piece anime producer Ryūta Koike announced during a One Piece News livestream on Tuesday that the anime will reduce its annual episode output to a maximum of 26 episodes moving forward starting in 2026. Following the conclusion of the Egghead arc this year, the anime will take a three-month production hiatus from January-March 2026. The anime will return in April 2026 for the first of two cours (quarters

The Ice Mage's Unrequited Love was Me in Disguise , As Miss Beelzebub Likes also added Manga UP! Global added Kurimiya 's Hebigami Transforms When He’s Cold ( Hebigami-kun wa Samui to Henshin Shi Chaukara ) manga on Wednesday and added Guntao 's manga adaptation of Shusui Hazuki 's The Ice Mage's Unrequited Love was Me in Disguise ( "Kimi o Aisuru Koto wanai" to Itta Kōri no Majutsushi-sama ) light novel on Saturday. Manga UP! describes Hebigami Transforms When He’s Cold

Visual for Drum Island unveiled A One Piece News livestream announced on Tuesday that One Piece : Into the Grand Line, the second live-action season based on Eiichiro Oda 's One Piece manga, will premiere on Netflix on March 10, 2026. Netflix unveiled a new visual for Drum Island and a video announcement by Iñaki Godoy , who stars as Monkey D. Luffy. Godoy gave the same announcement in Japanese during the livestream: The second season began production in July 2024, and ha

PS4, PS5, Switch game delayed from summer release Idea Factory International announced on Tuesday that it will release Compile Heart 's role-playing game Calamity Angels: Special Delivery (Todokero! Tatakae! Calamity Angels) physically and digitally for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch in North America and Europe on February 17. The game was delayed in the West from last summer to 2026. The game will get a Plus Edition that includes a 52-page hardcover

DLC adds Golden Frieza (Ultra Supervillain), Broly ( Dragon Ball Super ) Bandai Namco Entertainment America announced on Tuesday that it will release the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 game's "FUTURE SAGA Chapter 3" DLC on Thursday. The company streamed a trailer: The new DLC adds Golden Frieza (Ultra Supervillain) and the Dragon Ball Super version of Broly. New skills, parallel quests, costumes, accessories, and loading screen illustrations are also included in the update. Drago

Main story ended in 2021, spinoff arcs about Yūshi's travels began in same year The December issue of Kodansha 's Shonen Sirius magazine published the final chapter of the spinoff arcs of Waka Miyama 's Elegant Yokai Apartment Life ( Yōkai Apāto no Yūga na Nichijō ) manga last Friday, marking the end of the entire manga, which includes the main story and the later side stories, after a 14 year run. Miyama ended the manga's main story in August 2021, and entered spinoff st

Card action game will feature "Nichirin Sword" controller This year's 48th issue of Shueisha 's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that Konami is developing the first arcade game for the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba franchise titled Kimetsu no Yaiba : Nichirin Battle Slash. The game will be a card action game. Konami will exhibit the game at the Amusement Expo event taking place at Tokyo Big Sight on November 15. Shueisha describes that the game will feature

Crunchyroll reveals English dub cast for season Crunchyroll announced on Saturday that it will stream the English dub of Isekai Quartet 3 , the third season for the Isekai Quartet crossover anime, on October 27. The English dub cast includes: Christopher Guerrero as Ains Elizabeth Maxwell as Albedo Cristina Vee Valenzuela as Darkness Zeno Robinson as Garfiel Arnie Pantoja as Kazuma Zach Aguilar as Otto Jamie Marchi as Ristarte Ray Chase as Roswaal Anthony Bowling

Bushiroad adds 3 episodes every other Friday Bushiroad began streaming the English dub of the Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez DELUXE Finals ( Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez Deluxe Kesshō-hen ) anime on YouTube on Friday. The Cardfight!! Vanguard franchise 's website revealed the English dub cast and its YouTube channel is streaming an English-dubbed trailer. Bushiroad started streaming the dub on October 24 and will add three episodes every other Friday at 7:00 p.m. EDT/EST.

Anthology featuring films by Shinichirō Watanabe , Shuhei Morita screens at Tokyo Int'l Film Festival running from October 27 to November 5 The Edge of Time Chinese animated anthology began streaming a new trailer on Sunday. The anthology includes Shinichirō Watanabe 's ( Cowboy Bebop ) " A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot ," and Shuhei Morita 's ( Freedom , Tokyo Ghoul ) "Roots" ( Tsuru no Mai ) animated short films. The anthology is screening at the 38th Tokyo International