Aogiri High School Hijacks Kyoraku CM in Special Collaboration
The collaboration brings a major pachinko and amusement operator together with a popular VTuber group, blending corporate advertising with fan-driven content hijinks.
PANORA
VTuber Agency New Meta Debuts Otobana Yuuri on June 23
The debut adds a new talent to New Meta, an idol-focused VTuber agency that emphasizes approachable, daily-life content over distant star personas.
PANORA
Sigma and JINS Collaborate on Hiroshi Sugimoto's Camera Man for Extinction Exhibition
The collaboration brings together an eyewear brand and an optical manufacturer to realize Sugimoto's concept of a human camera, turning a conceptual artwork into a functional device.
ASCII.jp
Demo of Artillery Simulator 'IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator' Released on Steam
The demo's strong early reception and the game's niche focus on manual artillery operation-requiring players to handle everything from ballistic calculation to shell loading-suggest a growing audience for hyper-detailed simulation games that eschew direct battlefield visibility.
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Girls Band Cry SD Figure 6-Piece Box Opens for Preorder at Amiami
The box set offers the first full SD figure lineup for the band, with a limited edition variant and exclusive bonuses that make it a collector-focused release.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Touken Ranbu Online Chibigurumi Plush Toys Get Second and Third Waves
The new waves extend Bandai Spirits' Chibigurumi line for the 11-year-old game, adding ten more characters across two June releases and scheduling additional waves for August.
Inside
First-Person RPG 'Necrofane' Passes 50,000 Wishlists on Steam
The wishlist milestone signals strong pre-release interest for a small-studio title that wears its classic FPS and dungeon-crawler inspirations openly, and the Kickstarter's stretch goals suggest the developer is already planning multiplatform and co-op features for launch.
Game Spark
Danganronpa 2 and Zozotown Collaboration Items Open for Pre-Order
The collaboration marks a fresh merchandise push for the 2012 PSP title ahead of its planned remake, with original character designs by a guest illustrator.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Ao Ashi Teams With DIME for World Cup-Themed Soccer Special
The collaboration ties Ao Ashi's fictional soccer narrative to real-world Japanese soccer history and the ongoing World Cup, using the manga's cultural weight to frame a broader feature on the sport's development in Japan.
Comic Natalie
The Apothecary Diaries Browser Game Launches With New PV
The launch marks the first online game adaptation of the popular anime series, expanding the franchise into interactive media ahead of its third season and theatrical film.
Anime Anime
Don't Fret Hands-On: Sentient Guitar Horror Game Pits Sound Against Survival
Don't Fret turns the horror genre's usual stealth logic on its head by making sound both the player's primary tool and the main threat, creating a tension that the preview suggests may be stronger than its frequent jump scares.
4Gamer.net
Jujutsu Kaisen 5th Anniversary GiGO Collaboration Launches July 31
The collaboration marks the anime's fifth anniversary with a broad slate of exclusive merchandise and food items across GiGO's nationwide locations.
Nijimen
Hunter x Hunter Greed Island Ichiban Kuji Returns With Gon, Hisoka Variants
The second Greed Island lottery expands the figure selection with multiple character variants, a common Ichiban Kuji draw for collectors.
Inside
Zoom Launches AI Teammate ZoomMate for General Availability
ZoomMate shifts Zoom from a meeting tool into an execution platform by embedding AI agents directly into the conversation flow, a move that competes with standalone AI assistants that lack real-time business context.
ASCII.jp
Tohakusha to Hold Identity V Popup Events at Six US Bookoff Stores
The popup events mark a physical retail push for Identity V merchandise in North America, bringing a Japan-focused product line to a wider audience through the BOOKOFF chain.
ASCII.jp
Yamaha Launches The Create Feat. Vocaloid Program With 1 Million Yen Prize
Yamaha, the creator of VOCALOID, is directly investing in finding new talent through a structured tournament and educational content, signaling a formal push to sustain the Vocaloid creator ecosystem.
KAI-YOU
Sanrio House Opens First Western Japan Store at LUCUA Osaka
The expansion of sanrio house into western Japan signals Sanrio's continued investment in experiential retail with photogenic spaces and limited merchandise.
Anime Anime
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Gets Seiko Collaboration Watch
The collaboration brings a high-end, everyday-wear timepiece from a major Japanese watchmaker to a classic anime series, with design details drawn directly from the show's iconography.
Anime Anime
Baby Steps Hits Lowest Steam Price at 50 Percent Off
The sale marks the cheapest entry point yet for a game that reframes walking as a physics-based challenge, from the creator of 'Getting Over It'.
Denfaminicogamer
Neighborhood Story and Sanrio Characters Collab Pop-Up Store Runs in 4 Cities
The collaboration brings together two distinct style-driven properties-Yazawa's fashion-forward manga world and Sanrio's character brand-in a merchandise event aimed at an adult fanbase.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Yandere Virus Cooperative Horror Game Demo Released, Full Version Set for August 19
The demo gives players an early look at a co-op horror game that turns infected friends into pursuers, with a proximity voice chat system that could shape how teams coordinate under pressure.
Game Spark
Takara Tomy Releases Tomica Premium Unlimited Razor Crest Model
The Razor Crest joins the Tomica Premium Unlimited lineup, offering a detailed die-cast model of a ship central to the Mandalorian story, timed with the upcoming film.
Inside
JoyPix.ai Launches AI Lip-Sync Models Motion-2.5 and Motion-2.5-Dialog
The update pushes JoyPix.ai's core lip-sync tool from a single-person model to a two-person dialogue model, expanding its use for interactive content and virtual presenter workflows.
ASCII.jp
To Love-Ru's Kentaro Yabuki Launches Charamix Project With AI Life Partner Characters
This marks Yabuki's first major foray into an AI-integrated character project, moving beyond traditional manga and anime into a behavioral-data-driven lifestyle companion service.
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