100 Girlfriends Episode 35 Turns the Spotlight on Mothers
The episode gives Hahari a dedicated, earnest segment and opens a serious arc around Shizuka's mother, pushing the series' sentimental side.
Anime News Network
NGJ's Dungeon Roguelike Hits Steam on November 12
The announcement fixes a concrete launch date and full content list for a roguelike that has been in demo, with the console port arriving two months after Steam.
4Gamer.net
Live-Action Look Back Film Wins UNIMED Award at Venice Film Festival
The student jury honor at Venice adds a festival award to the live-action Look Back adaptation ahead of its GKIDS theatrical release in 2026.
Anime News Network
The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Episode 9 Splits Critics on Cast Bloat
The review argues the season keeps adding characters to Tokiyuki's circle without giving them anything to do, so developments like the plan to assassinate the Emperor land without weight.
Anime News Network
Netflix and Sega Plan Live-Action Crazy Taxi Film and Sonic Kids Anime
Sega's Sonic movie success gave it leverage to sell Netflix three adaptations at once across different genres, and Netflix is taking on a game that has not shipped a mainline entry in over a decade alongside one that has not released yet.
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Bookworm Part 3 Episode 21 Returns To The Fall Gathering
The episode keeps Georgine as the backbone of the plot and pushes the confrontation forward, but the speed of the adaptation undercuts the drama the season is trying to build.
Anime News Network
Triple-i Initiative Showcase Surprise Edition Streams October 9 With 40 Titles
The lineup leans as heavily on updates to shipped games as on new ones, so the showcase is functioning less as a reveal stage and more as a distribution channel for live-service and post-launch content.
4Gamer.net, Game Spark, GameBusiness.jp
Ace Combat Hour Zero Prequel Series Streams On IGN Ahead Of Ace Combat 8 Launch
The prequel runs on IGN rather than a game storefront, which puts the story setup in front of a general entertainment audience in the two weeks before the October 2 launch, and the episodes wrap on September 29, the same day the Deluxe Edition arrives.
Anime News Network
The Fable Season 2 Trailer Sets January 2027 Premiere
The sequel keeps The Fable's cast, director, and studio in place and swaps only the music composer, so the second season is a continuation of the production team behind the two-cour 2024 run rather than a rebuild.
Anime News Network
BanG Dream! Ave Mujica Prima Aurora Film Trailer Previews New Song
The trailer arrives roughly a month before the October 16 opening, putting the film in front of the same audience while a January 2027 sequel series is already scheduled.
Anime News Network, Anime Corner
Ace Combat 8 Story Trailer Reveals New Cast And Superweapons
The trailer confirms the playable conflict is a two-nation air war between the FCU and Sotoa, and the superweapon details show Ace Combat 8 is keeping the numbered series' tradition of a single scaled-up hardware threat rather than an ensemble of them.
Denfaminicogamer
Ushijima The Loan Shark Gets New One-Shot Set 10 Years After Manga End
The one-shot exists only as a physical exhibition piece for now, so 10 years of pent-up readership gets a single, time-limited viewing window at Yurakucho Marui rather than a collected release.
Anime News Network
Latest Crayon Shin-chan Film Sets Franchise Box Office Record
The 33rd film in a series that has run since 1992 has now out-earned every earlier entry, which tells you the Shin-chan film brand is still growing its audience three decades in.
Anime News Network
Jupiter Announces Picross S CLIMAX for Switch 2 and Switch
After nine numbered entries, Jupiter is consolidating the series into one release and attaching a packaged edition, which asks returning players to bring their save data before they can reach the new puzzles.
Automaton
Crazy Taxi: World Tour Closed Network Test Report Details Pickup Race and Police Chase
The report confirms that the long-running Crazy Taxi series is being built around online network battles rather than the solo score attack the original arcade game was known for.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Razer Ships Dania-Themed Wuthering Waves Collection With In-Game Item Codes
Razer built a full four-product line on a single Wuthering Waves character added in May 2026, and the code cards inside the mouse and keyboard packages push buyers back into the game.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Three Kingdoms Heroes Tale Demo Launches With More Than 450 Playable Generals
With the demo limited to a single 190 AD scenario and three named generals, Hizaniya is testing a narrow slice of the roster, an original-general generator, and carry-over save bonuses before the Q1 2027 release.
Game Spark
Producer Says Super Danganronpa 2x2 PC Specs Target 4K Visuals
The recommended specs read as a 4K-first target rather than a floor for the game, which reframes the Switch performance worry Sakakibara answered in the same exchange.
Game Spark
ENDLESS Legend 2 Review Calls Fantasy 4X A Masterpiece
Console owners who have never touched the series are being told to start here, in the same week the game leaves the early access stage Game Spark already called a possible masterpiece of fantasy strategy.
Game Spark
Steam Page Opens For Family Time, A Child-Rearing Sim From The Developer Of Viva Project
The store page marks the point where sgthale's AI-character interaction work moves into a management sim with an explicit failure state, a shift in genre for the developer behind Viva Project and MyRobot.
Game Spark
Hidari Yokoyama Launches Ayaru's Brush with Romance on Shonen Jump+
Yokoyama returns to Shonen Jump+ with a simultaneous English release, the same rollout the service gave Moebana and Tsuruko Returns the Favor.
Anime News Network
Danganronpa 2x2 PC Specs Were Set for 4K, Producer Says
The listed recommended specs came from a 4K assumption rather than the game's actual needs, so the number players were comparing against other releases will be revised before the January 14, 2027 launch.
Automaton
NYCC 2026 Sets Japanese Guests and Anime Premieres for October
The slate puts Japanese creators and publishers directly in front of a US convention audience, with the Jump+ and Magazine editors appearing together on the same MANGA Plus and K MANGA panel.
Anime News Network
Magellan Tide Games Announces Feed The Fire For PC
A three-person Tokyo team's co-op horror game puts its design weight on the daylight-to-darkness gap, where an hour-long session and proximity chat turn resource chores into arguments before the bonfire goes out.
Automaton