anime 1 source 41m ago
Bless now has a fixed January 8, 2027 Noitamina slot and a Crunchyroll run outside Japan and China, so the television version is scheduled ahead of the live-action series Amazon Prime Video has set for spring 2027.
Anime News Network
animeannouncement 1 source 41m ago
A second season renewal with the full main cast returning keeps the adaptation anchored to Kairi's manga version, the work the anime credits as its source, rather than to Suisei's original novels.
Anime News Network
anime 1 source 41m ago
The teaser fills in the supporting idol-group cast and confirms the ending song, which leaves the April 2027 premiere as the remaining piece the production has not yet dated beyond the month.
Anime News Network
animeannouncement 1 source 1h ago
ABEMA is funding pilots from individual web animators and carrying them through casting, translation, and promotion, which puts a streaming service directly behind creators who usually work outside the studio system.
Anime News Network
animeevent 1 source 2h ago
A stage-and-video production built around Mamoru Hosoda's film is being pushed past its single Tokyo venue into cinemas and home streaming for the last day, which extends the run's reach without extending the run itself.
ASCII.jp
animeevent 1 source 2h ago
Putting the full three-performance run on U-NEXT, each with its own cast send-off video and a catch-up window, means the Amagasaki anniversary show is no longer limited to the people inside the gymnasium.
Nijimen
anime 1 source 5h ago
The month leans on three features with named studios and directors behind them, ufotable's Mahoutsukai no Yoru, Mamoru Oshii's Votoms film and the Rakuen Tsuiho sequel, while the remaining titles come from established family and idol properties.
ASCII.jp
animeevent 1 source 6h ago
The anniversary's headline event leans on the original voice cast and a FLOW live rather than new animation, which keeps the 20th year centered on the 2006 series while Code Geass: Asphar of the Star Chaser carries the franchise's next step in 2027.
Denfaminicogamer
animerelease 1 source 7h ago
A 12-episode, three-minute-per-episode run released weekly on Mellow's own channel with English subtitles built in points to a short-form distribution model aimed past the domestic market from the first episode.
ASCII.jp
animerelease 1 source 11h ago
The week's slate puts a Criterion-priced 4K release and a US$54.95 hardcover Black Jack debut on the same November 3 date as dozens of standard-priced manga volumes, which is where the North American market's price spread is widest.
Anime News Network
animereview 1 source 11h ago
The premiere spends a full episode on game mechanics before revealing its premise, so the two-episode launch is doing the work a single episode normally would.
Anime News Network
animeannouncement 1 source 20h ago
The film moves the franchise's concert-driven story to a theatrical format while keeping the full team roster, and the 2027 date puts it after the 4th Season arc that launched in September.
Anime News Network
animeannouncement 3 sources 22h ago
The adaptation arrives with the source already complete: Kawachi ended Rainy Day Serenade in November 2025 at 14 volumes, and a side story, Rainy Day Serenade: Gaiden, starts in Kiss on November 25.
Anime News Network, Anime Corner, Nijimen
animeannouncement 1 source 22h ago
The full staff list, a narrator and a MIYAVI opening theme give J.C. Staff's adaptation a settled production shape ahead of its January 9 broadcast and ABEMA stream.
Anime News Network
animeannouncement 4 sources 1d ago
The staff turnover is the substance here: FuRyu Pictures replaces 8-Bit and Ryuta Ura takes over character design, so the fourth season changes studios while keeping its director, script writer, composer and core cast.
Anime News Network, Denfaminicogamer, Anime Anime, and 1 more
animerelease 1 source 1d ago
Kawahara's death-game premise shifts from VR and AR to mixed reality, and the Prime Video launch arrives with Episodes 1 and 2 already synopsized and Ado's creditless opening out, so the roll-out leans on the premise and the theme song.
Anime Anime
anime 2 sources 1d ago
The apology is an admission that a platform's default ad automation settings can push anime collaboration content past the rights holders who are supposed to approve every piece of it.
Anime Anime
animeannouncement 1 source 1d ago
One planned reward puts a supporter inside the film's world through generative AI, so the same tool that fills in period landscapes is also what backers are paying to enter.
ASCII.jp
animerelease 1 source 1d ago
BLUE RIGHTS is releasing a pilot film and a song together while openly recruiting co-creation and co-production partners across publishing, music, merchandise, and overseas distribution, which reads as a project still assembling its production and business base rather than one announcing a finished series.
ASCII.jp
animeannouncement 1 source 1d ago
AnimeFesta's short-format adaptation line keeps pulling from Lezhin webtoons rather than ComicFesta manga, and OceanVeil gives the English release a home outside Coolmic.
Anime News Network
animeannouncement 1 source 1d ago
The adaptation arrives with the manga still unfinished and its author back at the desk after a two-year hiatus, so the anime is drawing on a story whose ending has not yet been drawn.
Anime News Network
anime 1 source 1d ago
A music and culture magazine putting nine critics on a single Netflix-originated film, with contributors drawn from VTuber and Vocaloid circles, treats anime criticism as something built from internet culture rather than reviewed from outside it.
KAI-YOU
animeannouncement 1 source 1d ago
The adaptation moves a manga that has run irregularly in an adult magazine since October 2015, in chapters often only one or two pages long, into a full animated production, with a music video already carrying the project's branding.
Anime News Network
anime 1 source 1d ago
A pilot film with a finished song and staff credits is a concrete production step for a project Kinema Citrus announced at Anime Central in May 2024 without a release date attached.
Anime News Network