Dragon Quest VII Reimagined debuts in top 3 spots; My Hero Academia : All's Justice debuts at #16 Japan's Game Ranking: February 2-8 Rank System Title Publisher Release Date Weekly Copies Total Copies 1 NSw Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Square Enix February 5 177,563 177,563 2 NSw 2 Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Square Enix February 5 160,101 160,101 3 PS5 Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Square Enix February 5 118,798 118,798 4 PS5 Nioh 3 Koei Tecmo February 6 40,570 40,570 5 NSw 2 M

Manga launched in 2021, inspired TV anime in July 2024 with 2nd season debuting this July This year's 12th issue of Shueisha 's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine published the final chapter on Monday for Yūsei Matsui 's The Elusive Samurai ( Nigejōzu no Wakagimi ) manga. The manga's 24th volume will ship on March 4, and the 25th volume will ship on May 1. The 26th volume will ship on August 4, and the 27th and final volume will ship on October 2. Viz Media and MANGA Plus had bo

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End season 2 earns 3.6% rating Title Station Date Time Length Average Household Rating Sazae-san Fuji TV February 8 (Sun) 18:30 30 min. 7.3 Detective Conan NTV February 7 (Sat) 18:00 30 min. 6.4 Chibi Maruko-chan Fuji TV February 8 (Sun) 18:00 30 min. 5.5 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End season 2 NTV February 6 (Fri) 23:00 30 min. 3.6 Doraemon TV Asahi February 7 (Sat) 17:00 30 min. 3.5 Crayon Shin-chan TV Asahi February 7 (Sat) 16:30 30 min. 3.4 Blue

Natsuki Hanae , Konomi Inagaki , Shōya Ishige , Yūki Ono join cast The staff for the  second television anime season based on Tsurumaikada 's Olympic ice-skating manga Medalist announced four new cast members on Monday. Natsuki Hanae plays Kakeru Uobuchi, a temporary coach who specializes in teaching jumps. Konomi Inagaki plays Miku Ahiru, a first-year middle school student and member of Tonanmachi Lake Figure Skating Club (FSC) in Niigata. She has won the gold medal at

Series debuted as one-shot in 2024 The March issue of Akita Publishing 's Mystery Bonita magazine published the final chapter of Wataru Midori 's Kagami no Kuni no Shitateya (The Tailor Through the Looking Glass) manga on February 6. The second compiled book volume is scheduled to ship in Japan in April. The story centers on a custom formal suit store in Ginza and its narcissistic clerk. The store's customers all seem to carry some sort of worry when they enter the store. Mi

Following 1st screenings in February, Sentai will release film in 4K UHD in early 2027 Sentai Filmworks announced on Wednesday that it will screen the world premiere of the 4K version of Ninja Scroll ( Jūbei Ninpūchō ) anime film on February 15 at 10:00 p.m. CET at Berlinale, the 76th Berlin International Film Festival. The film will then get encore screenings on February 16 and 22. This will mark the first anime film to be featured in the event's Berlinale Classics section

TMS Entertainment produces Akiko Abe 's story of boy meeting mysterious girl on island Shochiku presented an early teaser trailer for To You in the Beyond , the anime film of Akiko Abe 's Doko Yori mo Tooi Basho ni Iru Kimi e novel, on Wednesday. The teaser announces the film's staff and October 9 opening. (Production companies Shochiku and Pony Canyon report that "international release details" will be announced later.) The teaser also announces and previews the insert

Yumeji Ehon manga takes place in Taishō era The March issue of Shogakukan 's Big Comic Original Zokan magazine announced on Thursday Usamaru Furuya will launch a new manga titled Yumeji Ehon (Dreamland Picture Book) in the May issue on April 11. The preview for the issue (pictured below, with Furuya's manga at left) teases that the manga will take place in the Taishō era. The May issue will publish the first two chapters, for a total of 62 pages. Furuya announced on Janua

8th volume shipped on Monday Hina Sakurada announced on X (formerly Twitter ) on Monday that the Yonoi Tsukihiko’s Happy Hell manga will end in the next compiled book volume. Seven Seas publishes the series in English and describes the story: For the sake of her family's farm, Hanabata Mikan has been arranged to marry the heir of a food and holdings company, Yonoi Tsukihiko. Mikan refuses, saying she already has a man she loves, only for Tsukihiko to laugh in her face! He

China removed My Hero Academia series in February 2020 for using controversial character name The Shanghai Character License Administrative Company issued a statement on January 31 after Chinese social networking sites criticized Gōshō Aoyama 's Detective Conan series for doing an illustration collaboration with Kōhei Horikoshi 's My Hero Academia series. Chinese digital platforms had removed the My Hero Academia manga and anime in February 2020 following a controversy,

Anna Nagase voices café-working student Kache with opening theme by "KAngel" The website for the television anime of WSS (Why So Serious) Playground and Xemono's Needy Streamer Overload game (Needy Girl Overdose in Japanese) presented the anime's second full promotional video on Tuesday. The video announces and previews one more cast member as well as the opening theme song for the anime. Anna Nagase voices Kache, a vocational school student who works as a cast member at

Shūgo Nakamura , Atsushi Tamaru , Kento Hama play rival team members The website for Ace of Diamond Act II Second Season , the sequel to the 2019-2020 anime of Yūji Terajima 's Ace of Diamond Act II ( Daiya no A Act II ) manga, announced three more cast members on Tuesday. The three are (from left to right in the image below): Shūgo Nakamura as Kōya Urabe, a third-year student and Norikane Academy's pitcher Atsushi Tamaru as Sōichi Yagira, a third-year student and Sōsei

New visual, message from Oda unveiled for season premiering on March 10 Netflix began streaming on Tuesday a trailer for One Piece: Into the Grand Line , the second live-action season , based on Eiichiro Oda 's One Piece manga. The video previews the characters and locations introduced in the second season: Netlfix also shared a new visual and a message from series creator Eiichiro Oda: The second season will premiere onNetflixon March 10. The second season began producti

Yoshino Aoyama as Shurako, Yuki Sakakihara as Doppelganger Ota-suke listed on Tuesday two more cast members for the television anime adaptation of Byū 's Let's Go Kaikigumi manga. Yoshino Aoyama as Shurako, Mechako's cousin who plots to defeat Mechako and become the leader of "Kaikigumi" Yuki Sakakihara as Doppelganger, who can transform into any person The anime will run on TBS and 27 affiliated channels on Sunday evenings. The horror comedy manga begins one fateful d

Film to stream subbed/dubbed Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it will begin streaming Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc , the film based on the Reze Arc of Tatsuki Fujimoto 's Chainsaw Man manga, this spring in subtitled and dubbed formats. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired worldwide theatrical rights the film. The company opened the film in theaters in the United States on October 24, several days prior to its originally scheduled October 29 release,

Cygames Pictures becomes CyberAgent 's subsidiary on February 27, changes name on April 6 Media advertising company CyberAgent announced last Friday that Cygames Pictures will become a consolidated subsidiary of CyberAgent on February 27. Cygames Pictures is currently a subsidiary of CyberAgent's subsidiary Cygames . Cygames Pictures will change its name to CyPic on April 6. Nobuhiro Tanaka will continue to serve as President and CEO. CyberAgent's Representative Director a

Kevin Penkin returns to score Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi , 1st of 3 films The " Made in Abyss FIlm Concert" debuted the teaser trailer for Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi ( Made in Abyss : Awakening Mystery), the first film in the new Made in Abyss anime film trilogy , on Sunday. The teaser announces more staff members and the fall 2026 opening for the first film. The newly announced staff members are: Design Leader: Takeshi Takakura Art Directors: Osamu Masuyama , Ter

Miho Sugiura , Itsuku Onishi credited for art direction, color key in new season The official website for the anime of Q Hayashida 's Dorohedoro manga revealed the second season's key visual by character designer Tomohiro Kishi on Sunday. The visual announces the new season's updated staff, and it also announces that the season will premiere on Wednesday, April 1 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. EDT) on various platforms "almost simultaneously worldwide." Most of the staff is r

Masaaki Mizunaka , Junya Enoki , Takehito Koyasu (in reprisal from CD drama) join cast The official website for the anime of late manga creator Hisaya Nakajo 's Hana-Kimi manga presented the anime's second key visual and three more cast members on Sunday. The newly announced cast members are: Masaaki Mizunaka as Megumi Tennōji Junya Enoki as Itsuki Kujō Takehito Koyasu as Masao Himejima Notably, Koyasu is reprising the role from the manga's previous CD drama. Viz Media

Series debuts in April The staff for the television anime   of Kumako Hisama's Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi! (Living Life to the Fullest in a Tiny One-Tatami-Mat-Sized Room) manga introduced four more characters and a teaser trailer on Monday. The four characters are Michika Narumi (a first-year student at a different high school from Meiko's, who works at a cat café in the same building as Hedgehog), Majikarumomorin Gōda (an 18-year-old who ended up living at Hedgehog), Gao (a