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Square Enix has released Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II for the Nintendo Switch 2, with improved frame rates and resolutions. The two games originally released in 2018 and 2023. The series has sold 7 million units worldwide, about the same as Final Fantasy XIII. The HD-2D style introduced with the 2018 game has since appeared in the Dragon Quest I & II remakes and the upcoming Final Fantasy Resonance.
Ai Kikaku Center is preparing an official VOD service for Manga Nippon Mukashi Banashi, the anime that began airing in 1975. Revenue from viewing the works will go entirely toward digitizing them. The series runs 1,467 episodes, and the original films and tapes are still preserved in good condition, but only some works have been digitized. Preserving more than 1,000 remaining episodes will take enormous time and cost. Start date, pricing, and the distribution lineup are not disclosed.
BS12 TwellV has slotted the HD remaster of Street Fighter II MOVIE for October 18 at 19:00 in its Sunday Anime Theater block, the remaster's first television broadcast. The 1994 theatrical film adapts Capcom's Super Street Fighter II X, with Gisaburo Sugii directing and Group Tuck handling animation. Its story picks up years after Ryu beat Sagat, as Interpol and the US Air Force move against Shadaloo and its leader sends spy robots out to find strong fighters.
ibisWorks, the studio behind the free drawing app ibisPaint, released ibisOffice, a free open-source office suite that opens and edits Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. The desktop app runs on Windows and Mac; the browser version uses Wasm and WebGPU, and files stay in the browser. ibisOffice is written in Rust with GPU rendering and shares no code with older office suites. The code is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0-only, with a commercial license for products that cannot meet the AGPL terms.
Famitsu's software chart for October 5 to 11 puts the Switch 2 version of Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] at No. 1 with 23,411 copies. Rhythm Heaven Groove is second at 14,527, and Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is third at 13,801. Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen enters at fourth on Switch 2 and eighth on PS5, and the PS5 Kingdom Hearts Collection takes fifth at 6,261.
The official Macross site announced on October 15 that Bandai's capsule toy Macross F Mini CD Collection 2 arrives in November 2026, with eight types at 400 yen per pull. It follows the first Macross F Mini CD Collection, released in August 2025, and draws mainly on CD jackets from the Macross Frontier films, among them Universal Bunny, Houkago Overflow and Toki no Meikyuu. Each case opens to show the inner jacket art, comes with a ball chain, and carries a QR code for the songs.
The Art of Manga exhibition, which debuted at the de Young Museum in San Francisco last year, opens at the Brooklyn Museum with 658 works, most of them the same selection. Brooklyn curator Joan Cummins says the hard part was hanging 658 pieces in the right order in a circa 1900 room with columns and two ceiling heights. Brooklyn adds pages from Jiro Taniguchi's Hundred Year Lineage; the de Young's full-scale printing press is now a video installation.
Kohei Kadowaki and NOTHING NEW's We Are Aliens won the Anima't Award for best feature-length film at the 59th Sitges Film Festival in Catalonia. It is the first Japanese film to take the award since Yuta Murano's Seven Days War six years ago; Makoto Shinkai's your name. won in 2016 and Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai in 2018. Kadowaki, who turned 30 on October 14, is the youngest Japanese director to win it.
Episode 21 of TBS's Sunday drama VIVANT airs on October 18 and brings back Kumiko Tashiro, the Betsupan operative played by singer-songwriter Reiya Mada. Tashiro, who handles the Caucasus region, met Yusuke Nogi (Masato Sakai) in episode 18. In the new episode, Nogi and Nokor (Kazunari Ninomiya) face a manhunt after freeing Kurosu (Tori Matsuzaka) and other Betsupan members from Shaki Castle, and Tashiro devises a local plan to reach them.
Japanese Animation TV Ranking for October 5-11, from Video Research data on Kanto households: Sazae-san led at 7.3%, then Detective Conan at 5.2% and Chibi Maruko-chan at 5.1%. The Apothecary Diaries season 3 drew 3.6%. Debut episodes of The Vermilion Mask and Dragon Ball Super: Beerus scored 3.1% and 2.8%. Doraemon took 2.6%, a Demon Slayer rebroadcast 2.5%, Crayon Shin-chan 2.3%, Bluey 1.9% and Animated O-saru no George 1.8%.
The TV anime Dr.STONE exhibition, Science Kingdom Museum, runs from December 10 to January 4, 2027, at Sunshine City Exhibition Hall A in Ikebukuro. It commemorates the completion of Dr.STONE SCIENCE FUTURE and takes its premise from the Science Kingdom museum shown at the end of episode 37. Character designer Yuko Iwasa drew the key visual, revealed on October 17 as tickets went on sale through e+, with general admission at 2,000 yen in advance.
Peter Rabbit and m♡petit by misako, the brand produced by model Misako Aoki, released a collaboration line at Fashion Center Shimamura stores and the Shimamura Park online store on October 17, 2026. The range covers accessories, room and interior goods, and pet items, alongside apparel shown in model images without listed prices. Featured pieces include a rosette at 1,089 yen, a rabbit-ear shoulder bag at 3,289 yen, loafers at 3,839 yen, a pet bed at 2,739 yen, slippers, a pillow cover, and a duvet cover.
F&C announced that the Steam version of Dead of the Brain: Shirei no Sakebi, the 1992 horror adventure from its FairyTale game brand, launches October 31 with Japanese language support. A free demo opens October 20. The release is the first entry in the PC98 Software Completion Plan, a joint project with FAKKU, which publishes the Steam version.
BULKHEAD introduced a bonus for the blue team in WARDOGS on October 15, the day Season 2 began. The bonus gave Lonestar players 2.5% extra EXP and 5% extra cash, a total of about 100 to 200 additional EXP per match. The studio had announced the measure to address the blue team's low win rate, which BULKHEAD put at around 20%. The following day, October 16, the studio posted a video on X in which CEO Joe Brammer said, "We made the wrong call." Players had rushed to join the blue team, which hurt matchmaking and gave that faction an overwhelming win rate. Tracking also showed the percentage bonus favored top-tier players, who earn more per match, widening the progression gap. BULKHEAD removed the EXP and cash bonus after one day and said it will keep adjusting spawn points, which it found insufficient. The game is in early access on PC via Steam.
HIMEHINA ended the world tour "LIFETIME is BUBBLIN" at SGC Hall Ariake in Tokyo on the 4th, with a finale of about three hours 20 minutes and 43 acts before 5,000 people. The tour ran since last November across 7 venues in Japan plus Taipei, Seoul, and San Jose, with an all-song cover event the day before. The duo announced a Nippon Budokan live for July 13, 2027.
Don Pachi, the indie developer behind Mech Builder 3D, has announced Waifu Curator, a museum restoration and organization sim. The museum's halls are themed around figure types, including sporty, gothic, idol, and beast girl collections. Players pick up fallen figures, check their details against the in-museum guide, and return them to their display stands. Don Pachi's post puts the figure count at 420, in materials ranging from plastic to metal, silver, gold, and glass. The game comes to PC via Steam on November 10, Japanese support included, with no price announced yet.
Abu Dhabi-based developer and publisher Red Dunes Games is exhibiting nine titles at TGS2026, with three stated goals: spreading its titles in Japan, expanding its network with Japanese IP companies, and raising its profile in a market it calls very large. Co-founders Sultan Al Darmaki and Mohamed Al Jneibi say the Acquire partnership remains strong and ongoing.
Indie brand ARTODRIA will launch a CAMPFIRE crowdfunding campaign for the romance visual novel Bujutsubu Kanojo -Girlfailure Art Club- on October 24, running through December 26. The goal is 2 million yen under an All-in format, with stretch goals up to 10 million yen for a theme song and background music by composer Tenmon. The game is planned for PC via Steam in 2027.
Individual developer takechika.NK released TKG Do, a free browser game about making one bowl of tamago kake gohan, on the N.K. Works website on October 16. Players scoop and shape rice, crack up to three eggs, choose whether to beat, separate, or meringue the egg, add one topping, and season with soy sauce or salt. The finished bowl is scored out of 100 across six items and given a title.
Developer YuLu released AMPANIC for PC via Steam on October 16. Every shop job, from luring customers to gathering materials and mixing orders, runs on mouse aim. Customers who leave end the run, so players juggle order priority with precision. The game supports solo play, online co-op, and a versus mode that sends served customers to a rival's queue. It costs 480 yen and supports 14 languages, including Japanese.
The Streamer Awards 2026 announced its nominees on October 16. Hololive's Koseki Bijou and Gigi Murin were named in the Best VTuber category, alongside Ironmouse, TheBurntPeanut, and Crelly. Japanese indie game Meccha Chameleon was nominated for Stream Game of the Year next to Minecraft, Big Walk, and Fortnite. Winners are decided by 70 percent public voting and 30 percent judges' votes, with public voting open until October 31.
The weekly Steam roundup covers this week's releases and announcements on Valve's storefront. Planet Zoo 2 adds fully aquatic species and flying animals for the first time in the series, with aquariums and aviaries. Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 lets players pick between Space Marine Malum Caedo and Battle Sister Naila Baylas. The list also carries over the hill, Enshrouded, Valor Mortis, Beyond These Stars, Ratatan, and Chained Beasts.
An Ichiban Kuji lottery for Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card begins in stores and online on Friday, November 6, 2026, at 750 yen per draw. The A Prize is a Sakura Kinomoto figure in her Clear Card Arc opening outfit. Other prizes include a Clow Card Book accessory case, a Tomoeda Elementary uniform pouch, a wobbling face glass, a metal charm, a fabric collection, a rubber collection, and a ticket file with stickers. The Last One Prize is a rose-petal figure of Sakura and Kero-chan.
Liquid Swords, the studio Christofer Sundberg founded in 2020 after co-founding Avalanche Studios, is reported bankrupt, with salaries unpaid for several months, according to Swedish media cited by Insider Gaming. Its debut title Samson, an open-world crime-city action game, released in April 2026 to a Metascore of 51 on PC from 33 reviews and mixed Steam reception. Around 30 employees will receive state support, and a buyer is being sought.
Inui Toko's song "Tokyo City Night" is the opening theme for the Yomiuri TV drama "Jotei," which starts late night on October 22 in the Drama DiVE slot, every Thursday at 0:59 a.m. The song, written by YU and Takahiro Yamaguchi with music and arrangement by I Don't Like Mondays, is on her second mini album "One day," released October 7, 2026. Travis Japan's "Checkmate" is the ending theme.
The TV anime BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War and graphic item brand graniph have produced their first collaboration, a 17-piece lineup of long-sleeve T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, and cardigans. Designs center on Zanpakuto Shikai releases: Renji Abarai's Zabimaru, Kenpachi Zaraki's Nozarashi, Byakuya Kuchiki's Senbonzakura, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi's Ashisogi Jizo, plus a loose-fit shirt focused on Ichigo Kurosaki.
Bandai Namco Pictures announced on October 17 that the new film Aikatsu Stars! ~Hoshi no Progress~ opens nationwide on January 22, 2027. A key visual and main trailer were released, and the theme song 'Five stars' was unveiled in part. The story follows Nijino Yume and friends near graduation, summoned by Elza to the Venus Jamboree. Teruo Sato directs; Yuko Kakihara writes the screenplay.
Toko Inui, the Nijisanji VTuber, will sing the opening theme for the Yomiuri TV drama Jotei, which starts late night on October 22. The song is "Tokyo City Night," from her second mini album One day, released October 7. Jotei adapts the manga by Ryo Kurashina and Issaku Wake and stars Nagisa Saito. Inui said she is happy to accompany a work loved by many.
The fall anime dreamland begins airing October 17, 2026 on ABC TV and TV Asahi's ANiMAZiNG!!! slot. Episode 1, titled Terence, follows a boy haunted by nightmares after his mother's death in a fire. Inside a nightmare he realizes he is dreaming, overcomes his fear of flames, and awakens as a traveler of the dream world. The series adapts French manga artist Reno Lemaire's battle fantasy, directed by Juan Pablo Machado.
The Bleach franchise's official YouTube channel posted "the last" promotional video for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity on Friday, ahead of the fourth and final part's closing episodes. Episode 49 airs October 19 and episode 50, the series finale, airs October 26. Both were delayed while staff said they were improving the anime's quality as it heads toward its climax, and a "climax selection" of episodes ran in the weeks before episode 49. The Calamity debuted on TV Tokyo on July 25 at 11:00 p.m. JST and began streaming in Japan the next day at noon, running for 10 episodes. The first half of the new promo looks back over the arc and the path toward the final confrontation between Ichigo Kurosaki and Yhwach. A marathon screening and talk event is set for October 25 at United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba, one day before the finale.
Analogue will release the Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+, new versions of its Super Famicom and Mega Drive compatible consoles. Both add Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless, USB-C power, a revised OS, cartridge swapping while powered on, wired controller priority, and controller-based power on and off. Each costs $219.99 in three color variants, with pre-orders from 0:00 on October 20 Japan time and shipping in December 2026.
OceanVeil is adding 19 anime titles from Media Blasters to its streaming service over the coming weeks, some with English dubs. Magical Witch Punie-chan arrives October 19 with sub and dub, followed by CODE-E on October 21, Eiken on October 27, Rio - Rainbow Gate! on November 1, Gakuen Heaven on November 5, and Girl's High on November 9. The remaining titles, including Ai no Kusabi and Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix, have no dates yet.
VONDELS has released a line of Miffy glass ornaments, announced on October 16, 2026 and sold at marcs STORE and other retailers. The hanging ornaments cost 6,600 yen each and include designs with bears, stars, trees, flowers, tulips, a Santa outfit, a rainbow, a paintbrush, and a crown. A 250mm Delft blue Tree Topper costs 11,550 yen. Each piece is blown and painted by hand.
ANA will fly a Chiikawa-themed aircraft on domestic routes, with the first scheduled flights on October 19: Haneda to Nagasaki (ANA Flight 661, departing 8:15) and Nagasaki to Haneda (ANA Flight 664, departing 11:00). The livery places seasonal motifs from across Japan around Chiikawa and friends. A campaign tied to the launch offers 500 original acrylic stands and 100 original passport cases by lottery, and collaboration goods are planned.
An Oxford University research team published a preprint on October 5 analyzing wildlife awareness among Planet Zoo players and non-players. The survey covered 545 people, 272 players and 273 non-players, aged 18 to 64. Planet Zoo players' average donation to animal conservation was about twice that of non-players. Play time and recent play status correlated positively with species knowledge and with favorable views of reptiles, a group the paper describes as generally less liked.
MAYLA is taking preorders on three pumps themed to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable characters Josuke Higashikata, Rohan Kishibe and Yoshikage Kira. Each color carries motifs from the character's design and Stand, and the insoles bear a collaboration logo with the Morioh Town mark. The pumps cost 33,000 yen with 600 yen shipping, and preorders close at 17:00 on November 16.
New Blood Interactive and Saibot Studios have released Tenebris Somnia, a survival horror adventure for PC and consoles. The game follows Julia, who revisits her ex-boyfriend Ivan's apartment to find out why a monster attacks him in her recurring nightmare, solving puzzles and fighting creatures. It mixes 8-bit and 16-bit style pixel art with live-action cinematic scenes made in Argentina with practical effects. Japanese is supported, and Happinet plans a domestic release.
At Machi Asobi vol.31 in Tokushima, Aniplex producer Yuma Takahashi held the debut event for his MC Training Project. Takahashi, in his 23rd year at Aniplex and MC of roughly 500 events, selected four voice actors from about 20 agency applicants through auditions. Three appeared: Katsuhiro Tokuishi and Yu Kosaka of 81 Produce and Yu Kawada of Rakuen Dog. Yuki Ayami of Across Entertainment was absent for work.
DOES digitally released "Nandatte Ii yo" on Friday, October 16, 2026, the second installment of a three-month consecutive release project tied to the band's 20th debut anniversary. The garage rock song carries lyrics and composition by Wataru Ujihara, and its music video incorporates retro home-video-style recording footage, recent overseas live footage, and off-shots. The first installment, "Ningen Shikkaku," is already available.
Comikey licensed Mato Kauta's The Wolf King's Bride manga and released the first five chapters digitally, with new chapters every Friday. Kauta serialized the title in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine from 2009 to 2018; it ran 19 volumes and had no previous English release. Comikey had said in August it would release several Hakusensha shojo titles in English digitally and teased an image that included this manga.
Sweden-based publisher Peow2 announced over three days that it has licensed three manga for English release: Jiro Matsumoto's Jyoshikohei, Hitoshi Tomizawa's Alien 9, and Yasushi Nirasawa's Phantom Core. Jyoshikohei will run in three omnibus volumes starting in 2027, with the first carrying an A3 poster of new Matsumoto artwork. Alien 9 arrives in 2027, and Phantom Core follows in spring 2027, a companion to Peow2's Creature Core.
Developer OOPS.K announced Well Up on October 17, a first-person climbing game for PC via Steam set for January 19, 2027. The player wakes at the bottom of a dark well and climbs a single rope, controlling each hand separately with physics-based input. The rope gets wet, mossy, and frayed as you go, and a stamina gauge must be managed by resting at knots.
The Tenth Mosaic ran for two days, September 22 and 23, 2026, at the Institut francais de Tokyo in Iidabashi, Tokyo. The event treats games as the tenth art, a French and Italian classification that also names film as the seventh art and manga as the ninth. Its name comes from the idea of scattering many games like a mosaic to bring the whole picture to the surface. A courtyard DJ booth played remixes of game music, a lobby lined up vintage consoles and hobby PCs, and classrooms held exhibits and talk sessions by creators from Japan and abroad. The opening report describes a venue that did not read as a game show: the building's white architecture and green courtyard hid most of the programming, and talk tickets sold out quickly. French food and wine stalls sat in the courtyard, and the crowd stayed quiet despite the turnout.
Ueno Marui's fifth floor hosts the Ao Hiiragi POP UP SHOP in Marui from October 30 to November 8, free to enter. New goods use original illustrations from Hoshino Hitomi no Silhouette, Whisper of the Heart, and Giniro no Harmony, sold in advance at the venue. Spending 2,000 yen per transaction earns one of 11 postcard designs at random, venue only and not with later AMNIBUS sales.
The Japan Actors Union presented a 21-page guidelines document on Thursday covering generative AI use in vocal audio work. It runs six sections and 22 articles, from prior notification and written consent to compensation, data oversight, and cease and desist requests. At the press conference, voice actors Masako Nozawa and Bin Shimada described hearing their voices used without permission.
SuniSute - SneakerStep is taking official lottery advance applications through October 26, 2026 for its first hall concert, We are SneakerStep! -3rd Step- "DAWN". The run is three performances on January 15 and 16, 2027 at SGC HALL ARIAKE in Tokyo, the group's largest solo venue. Arena standing and reserved seats are 8,800 yen, family seats 7,700 yen. Applications go through STPR TICKET with a free STPR ID.
Chris Zukowski of How To Market A Game examined conversion rates for 160 titles, splitting them into 2020 to 2022 and 2023 to 2025. Median conversion at one month and six months after launch fell to roughly half in the later period. Zukowski points to wishlist inflation: developers chasing registrations through online events and Steam events features, while Steam UI changes make registering easier for players.
The second Detective Conan and Q-pot. accessory collection went on sale October 16, with pieces styled as sweets from the Q-pot. patisserie. The lineup includes a Black Organization teddy bear cookie charm holding APTX-4869 at 9,900 yen, a Vermouth rouge necklace at 13,200 yen, and a Sherry flask candy necklace at 16,500 yen. Q-pot CAFE. also began a limited menu based on the accessories the same day.
San-X's Korilakkuma and apparel brand OLIVE des OLIVE have a third collaboration line: roomwear at 13,200 yen, earmuffs at 6,490 yen, and a mini tote bag at 7,590 yen. The three items go on sale at OLIVE des OLIVE stores nationwide in late November 2026, with advance orders opening Saturday, October 17 on the PAL CLOSET e-commerce site.
GRAPHT will sponsor hololive Koshien 2026, the tournament hosted by VTuber Koyori Hakui, and sell commemorative items on made-to-order from 15:00 on October 17 to 18:00 on November 16, 2026. Six managers (Koyori Hakui, Mio Ookami, Marine Houshou, Noel Shirogane, Polka Omaru, Riona Hizakizaki) each raise a team in Powerful Pro Baseball 2026-2027's Eikan Nine mode and compete October 17 and 18. Merchandise: Monitor Mascots at 3,300 yen, Baseball Caps at 5,500 yen, Embroidery Stickers.