Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 earns 2.7%, The Elusive Samurai 1st season rebroadcast earns 2.3% Title Station Date Time Length Average Household Rating Sazae-san Fuji TV April 26 (Sun) 18:30 30 min. 6.9 Detective Conan NTV April 25 (Sat) 18:00 30 min. 5.6 Chibi Maruko-chan Fuji TV April 26 (Sun) 18:00 30 min. 4.5 Doraemon TV Asahi April 25 (Sat) 17:00 30 min. 2.7 Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke NTV April 25 (Sat) 17:30 30 min. 2.7 One Piece

Director Jason Andrew Cohn, Bread & Butter Films to launch Kickstarter campaign for feature-length documentary about Osamu Tezuka The Tezuka Productions YouTube channel began streaming on Friday the first trailer for the upcoming feature-length documentary on Osamu Tezuka titled Tezuka: God of Manga. The documentary project will have a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that will begin on an as of yet unspecified date. Director Jason Andrew Cohn and the Bread & Butter Films pr

Kirio Fanclub, Yowayowa Sensei also receive dubs HIDIVE announced on Friday it will release English dubs for the the television anime of Petals of Reincarnation, the second season of The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior, the anime of Kirio Fan Club, and the television anime of Yowayowa Sensei. The release schedule is as follows: Petals of Reincarnation: May 13 The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior season 2: May 20 Kirio Fan Clu

Platform recorded approximately 86 million visits in March 2025 A coalition of major Korean webtoon platforms have successfully shut down one of the largest Spanish-language piracy sites, marking a significant milestone in global anti-piracy efforts. On April 27, Kakao Entertainment and Naver Webtoon announced that, together with member companies of the Copyright Overseas Promotion Association (COA) — including Lezhin Entertainment, RIDI, KidariStudio, Toomics, and Topco Medi

2012 anime centers on boy who starts new team after soccer club breaks up Crunchyroll began streaming all 39 episodes of the 2012 Galaxy Kickoff!! (Ginga e Kickoff!!) anime with Japanese audio and English subtitles on Friday. Crunchyroll describes the anime: When a soccer club breaks up due to a lack of players, one boy aims to start a new team, inspired by a girl who plays professionally. The series adapts Hiroto Kawabata's 2006 soccer novel Ginga no World Cup (Galactic Worl

Company says spin-off will allow each business unit to strengthen its expertise, operate more independently CJ ENM, one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in Korea, is moving to spin off its webtoon production label Manhwa Family into a separate entity, as part of a broader strategy to focus on its core live-action content business. According to a regulatory filing on April 21, CJ ENM Studios, one of the production arms of CJ ENM, will carry out a physical split of it

Game to launch for PS5/4, Switch 2/Switch, Xbox One, PC via Steam Type-Moon announced on Saturday that it is developing the Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina 2D fighter game for release in early 2027 for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. The game will have voiceover in Japanese only, and text available in: Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. TYPE-MOON describ

Character launches in May as part of game's Season Pass 2 SNK revealed on Saturday that it will add Mr. Karate to the Fatal Fury City of the Wolves fighting game in May. The character is part of the game's Season Pass 2. English announcement trailer Japanese announcement trailer Kim Jae Hoon, the first DLC character for Season Pass 2, launched on January 22. Nightmare Geese launched on February 26, and Blue Mary debuted on March 26. Wolfgang Krauser debuted in the game on Apr

Operator of Newtoki announced all affiliated platforms would cease operations One of South Korea's largest illegal webtoon distribution sites, Newtoki, has abruptly shut down its services just weeks before the government rolls out a new rapid blocking system targeting copyright infringement. According to industry sources on April 27, the operator of Newtoki announced that all affiliated platforms — including Manatoki (for Japanese manga) and Booktoki (for web novels) — would

TV anime of sequel novel, OVA of previously unanimated manga chapters “The Quintessential Quintuplets Special Event 2026 in Toyota Arena Tokyo” announced on Saturday both a new television anime based on the Gotōbun no Hanayome: Shunkashūtō (The Quintessential Quintuplets: The Four Seasons) sequel novel series, and a new original video anime based on the manga chapters that have yet to be animated. The new television anime adapts Hajime Asano's sequel novel series under the fu

"I am a hero too" anime short adapts manga short in Ultra Age fan book A manga short story that My Hero Academia creator Kōhei Horikoshi drew for the My Hero Academia Fan Book: Ultra Age is inspiring a short anime. The anime short "I am a hero too" will debut this summer. My Hero Academia Fan Book: Ultra Age went on sale exactly one year earlier, to the day. "I am a hero too" is the second short anime based on a My Hero Academia manga short, after the "More" short that aired

Yūki Wakai voices Saint Arrows Academy's team leader The staff for the television anime of Tetsuhiro Koshita's Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko manga announced information on the anime's ending theme song and another cast member on Saturday. The voice acting idol unit i☆Ris is performing the ending theme song "Welcome to Azatosa World." Yūki Wakai voices Peiko Nikaidō, the leader of Saint Arrows Academy's team: While the originalHonō no Tōkyūji Dodge Danpei dodgeball manga center

New story takes place in same universe as Under the Oak Tree Kakao Entertainment announced on April 29 it will release a webtoon adaptation of The Forgotten Meadows, a new web novel by Suji Kim, on May 5 via Kakao Page and Kakao Webtoon. The project has drawn attention as the latest work from Kim, the author behind the global hit Under the Oak Tree, which became the first Korean web novel to enter The New York Times Best Seller list. The new story shares the same universe, fu

Webtoon tells story of exiled crown prince, assassin tasked to kill him Korean webtoon and web novel production company Kidari Studio revealed on April 28 it is moving forward with its latest webtoon adaptation for the newly launched short-form video platform Lezhin Snack with a live-action adaptation of the Wild Eyes webtoon. The short-form adaptation completed filming on April 16, and the project has now entered post-production. The story of the webtoon reads: Court lady Ka

Asuma Kagemori appeared in episode 5 The staff for the television anime of Hiromu Arakawa's Daemons of the Shadow Realm (Yomi no Tsugai) manga confirmed on Sunday that Akira Ishida is playing Asuma Kagemori. Asuma is the second-born son of the Kagemori family, and he appeared in episode 5 on Saturday. The animepremieredon theTokyo MX,BS11,Gunma TV, andTochigi TVchannels on April 4 at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT). It is also running onHTBHokkaido TV, Aomori Broadcasting,Miyagi

Sword Art Online, Slayers, The Familiar of Zero also teased for original webcomics LINE Digital Frontier, part of WEBTOON Entertainment, has announced the launch of Studio White, a new webcomic production label created in collaboration with Kadokawa and RedIce Studio. The new studio will focus on adapting well-known Japanese intellectual properties into original webcomics for global audiences, to be distributed exclusively on WEBTOON platforms. Studio White will debut with a

Shion Wakayama, Tomoyo Kurosawa voice new magical girls Shichōka, Selma Therese Aniplex started streaming on Thursday the third full trailer for Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (Gekijōban Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten), the official sequel to the Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion film. The trailer revealed two new magical girls and their voice cast. The trailer also announced additional new and returning staff m

Zach Cregger's film opens on September 18 Sony Pictures Entertainment began streaming on Thursday a trailer for the new live-action reboot of CAPCOM's Resident Evil survival horror game franchise: The film will open in theaters on September 18. The film stars Austin Abrams (Weapons, Euphoria, Wolfs) as Bryan. The cast also includes Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser (Richard Jewell, Black Bird, The Fantastic Four: First Steps). Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) di

2nd season's main visual, returning & new characters also revealed Kadokawa revealed on Sunday the main visual and July debut for Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! 2, the second season anime based on Kanaineko's Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (Bungō Stray Dogs: Woof!) spinoff manga for the Bungo Stray Dogs franchise. Kadokawa also revealed the returning and new characters who will appear in the anime's second season. The returning and new characters appearing in the second season are: Ango Sakagu

13th volume ships in August The 12th volume of Hajime Inoryū and Shōta Itō's Lonely Deaths Lie Thick as Snow (Furitsumore Kodokuna Shi yo) manga announced on Thursday the series will end in the next volume in August. The series entered its final arc in the 11th volume, which shipped on December 23. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and describes the story: A routine call regarding a burglary at an empty mansion leads cocky young police detective Jin Saeki to a grueso