All 26 Wangan Midnight Episodes Stream Free on YouTube from September 4
The free YouTube run puts the 2007 street-racing anime in front of a new audience, timed to the manga's 35th anniversary.
Denfaminicogamer
Anker Soundcore 3 Fire Reported in Store During Ongoing Recall
The fire raises the question of whether the recall covers the actual failure mode, since the cause is still under investigation and its link to the recall reason is unconfirmed.
ASCII.jp
Nijisanji Nostalgia Collection 2026 Merchandise Goes on Sale September 7
The collection condenses a year of per-liver birthday and anniversary goods into two uniform product lines, a format that standardizes how those limited-time visuals are sold across both the Japanese and English stores.
PANORA
Megami Device Yggdrasil Skoll Sharpshooter Tempest Announced for January 2027
The Tempest is not a simple recolor; it adds three new face designs by Nidy-2D-, which is the main draw for collectors of the Yggdrasil line.
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Karkeshi GP Gashapon Series Returns With NISSAN and MAZDA Selections
The Karkeshi toy line returns as a gashapon series, pairing the classic shooter-and-pylon play with licensed NISSAN and MAZDA model lineups in two simultaneous 24-type selections.
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Jagi DIGACTION Figure Returns With Bust and Bare Face Parts
The re-release brings back the third Hokuto brother, the one who carved seven scars and used Kenshiro's name, with extra parts and a discount at AmiAmi.
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Cavico's Buster Maiden UV Clear Kit Opens Preorders on Amazon
The UV clear edition adds a glow effect to the mecha musume kit, and Cavico is selling it on Amazon at 3,913 yen with an October 31 release.
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Sekiro: No Defeat Plushies and Pamphlets Open for Pre-Order at Kadostore
The merchandise drop lands on the same day the film opens in Japanese theaters, letting Kadokawa and Arch convert the three-week theatrical run into direct merchandise sales through their own storefront.
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DIGIMON BEATBREAK Festival Merchandise Opens for Pre-Order at Kadostore
The festival line gives DIGIMON BEATBREAK a full merchandise wave built on newly drawn art, with Kadostore's random illustration card bonus pushing repeat purchases before the September 22 pre-order cutoff.
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FOUND Vol.0 Built a Custom Video Pipeline for Six Hours of Live Drawing
The event's staging split DJs from illustrators and VJs across two floors and merged three live video streams in real time on GALLERIA PCs, a setup built to sustain six hours of nonstop drawing and playback.
KAI-YOU
Suzuki Sensei's 99-Yen Kindle Sale Puts Its Middle School Allegory in Focus
The sale is the hook, but the column's real point is that the manga's strange intensity comes from the author shrinking his own adult problems to middle school size, which is why the class discussions carry so much weight.
ASCII.jp
OPPO Reno16 5G Packs 6700mAh Battery Into a 6.3-Inch Body
The Reno16 targets compact-phone buyers by fitting a 6700mAh battery, 80W charging, and IP69K durability into a 6.3-inch, 182g body.
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EEFUL Holdings Wins ICC Kyoto 2026 Catapult Grand Prix
A care-industry succession and M&A firm took the top prize at ICC's highest-tier pitch contest, repeating its 2025 win and putting operational reform of Japan's fragmented elderly care sector in front of the conference's 1,200-plus attendees.
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STATE OF ESCAPE Teams with AOISIMON for Sixth Artist Collaboration
The sixth artist collaboration puts AOISIMON's character-driven art on the brand's signature neoprene bags, sold across three channels with location-specific advance colors.
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Nia From Xenoblade 2 Gets a 1/7 Scale Figure Re-Release
The re-release puts the awakened Blade form of Nia back on the market, a 1/7 scale figure based on Saito's original illustration, now open for reservations on Amazon.co.jp.
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Polly Pocket Gashapon Line Turns Furniture into Wearable Rings
The gimmick is built into the furniture itself: part of each miniature transforms into a ring, so a display collectible doubles as wearable jewelry.
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Snail Shell's RPGEX Line Adds Kunoichi Reppu, a Delusional Ninja Figure
The new RPGEX entry builds its premise on a comedic misunderstanding, and the option parts set and doll parkas extend the line's accessory support beyond the figure itself.
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Arcade Archives Arkanoid Revenge of DOH Launches September 3
Hamster is selling the Switch 2 and PS5 versions as a separate 1,100 yen product with a 330 yen owner discount, a sign that the Arcade Archives 2 tier is positioned as a paid upgrade rather than a free carryover for existing buyers.
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BUZZmod. Adds Madoka Kaname in New Walpurgisnacht Rising Outfit
The figure reproduces Madoka's new magical girl outfit from the upcoming movie, with a fabric ribbon swap designed to keep the back ribbon from blocking the figure's range of motion.
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Renne Bright Figure from Trails through Daybreak II Set for April 2027
The figure is designed to sit beside the earlier Cold Steel IV Renne figure, letting collectors display the character's growth across the Trails timeline.
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Millions Knives Joins Kotobukiya's OSHI WORKS Figure Line
The OSHI WORKS line brings TRIGUN STAMPEDE's antagonist into the same scale as its ARTFX J figures, with a magnet-secured square base built for easy display in collection cases.
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threezero MDLX X Force Armor Figure Opens Pre-Orders
The figure extends the MDLX line's Rockman X compatibility, letting owners swap armor parts between figures to reproduce the game's partial armor exchange forms.
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Kotobukiya Unveils Heavy Weapon Unit 80 Evil Axe Gray Ver. for January 2027
The Gray Ver. extends the M.S.G line's recombination play, since its frame parts are shared with the Evil Scythe and can be combined into new weapons.
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Medicom Toy Re-Releases UDF Grogu Series 1 and 2 in September
The film's release has pushed demand for Grogu figures past supply, and Medicom Toy is re-releasing the sold-out UDF series while confirming Series 4 is under internal consideration.
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