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ano's self-produced event Neko Haki Sai is set for February 28, 2027 at Toyosu PIT in Tokyo, with fan club lottery tickets issued through the ano Official App that launched September 4, 2026. She also appears in the cast of the film Shadow Work, which opens September 25, 2026.
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Yomimono stories · updated
Sep 13
ano's activity in the current stories runs on two tracks: a live event she controls herself and a film role. Neko Haki Sai, her self-produced event, is set for February 28, 2027 at Toyosu PIT in Tokyo. The CLUB DENTAL MOUSE fan club advance lottery ran September 4 through September 15, 2026, with standing tickets at 9,900 yen plus a drink fee. Tickets are issued through the ano Official App, which launched September 4 with Ticketplus e-ticket support, folding fan club membership and ticket purchase into one mobile flow.
On screen, ano is one of the women tied to a shelter for abuse survivors in Shadow Work, the adaptation of Hiromi Sano's novel. The film stars Riho Yoshioka and Nao, and director Ryuhei Yoshino told co-star Yoshitaka Hara, who plays a murder suspect, to blink as little as possible to make the character unsettling. Shadow Work opens September 25.
Coverage on ano in this run is otherwise quiet. The remaining stories touch other creators, games, and events, including another Eden's console rebuild and the anime Dandivine, and carry no claims about her. What is settled from the stories that do concern her: the event date, venue, and ticket structure, and her place in the Shadow Work cast alongside Yoshioka and Nao.
Key facts
- Self-produced event
- Neko Haki Sai, set for February 28, 2027 at Toyosu PIT in Tokyo ↗
- Fan club lottery
- CLUB DENTAL MOUSE advance lottery ran September 4 through September 15, 2026; standing tickets 9,900 yen plus a drink fee ↗
- Ticketing
- Tickets are issued through the ano Official App, which launched September 4 with Ticketplus e-ticket support ↗
- Film role
- Cast in Shadow Work, the adaptation of Hiromi Sano's novel, with Riho Yoshioka and Nao as women tied to a shelter for abuse survivors ↗
- Film release
- Shadow Work opens September 25 ↗
- Film director
- Ryuhei Yoshino directs Shadow Work ↗
Timeline
- Sep 12, 2026 Dandivine Anime Reveals Promo Video and Theme Songs Ahead of October 7 Debut
- Sep 12, 2026 Another Eden Begins Reworks Part 1 As A Standalone Console RPG
- Sep 11, 2026 Truck-Kun Isekai Premise Becomes a Driving Auto-Battler on PC and Xbox
- Sep 11, 2026 ANIAFF Returns in November with Kenji Kamiyama All-Night Retrospective
- Sep 10, 2026 Square Enix Opens Gallery Cards Line With Final Fantasy 40th Anniversary Set
- Sep 10, 2026 Anomaly Inspector Simulator Renamed to Avoid Confusion with CONTROL
- Sep 10, 2026 Kalanoro Sets TGS 2026 Demo at Sega Booth
- Sep 10, 2026 Blue Bite Announced For PC And Consoles With Winter 2026 Window
- Sep 9, 2026 N LITE Builds Original Anime Slate on African Lore in Public
- Sep 9, 2026 Redoing My Youth in Another World BL Manga Gets AniComi Motion Comic on TV
- Sep 9, 2026 ano Sets Self-Produced Event Neko Haki Sai for February 2027
- Sep 9, 2026 Yoshitaka Hara Plays Domestic Violence Suspect in Shadow Work
- Sep 8, 2026 Re:ZERO Season 4 Episode 16 Preview Shows Tracksuit Subaru
- Sep 8, 2026 Hotel Inhumans Season 2 Sets October 4 Debut, Reveals Theme Songs
- Sep 8, 2026 Satoshi Kon Birth Festival 2026 Screens Five Works at HUMAX Cinemas
- Sep 7, 2026 Madoka Magica Film Gets NYLON JAPAN Cover Visual
- Sep 7, 2026 Skeleton Knight in Another World Game Passes 30,000 Pre-Registrations
- Sep 7, 2026 Adult 3D Action Game Dekanomos Launches on DLsite
- Sep 6, 2026 Kana Delays Inio Asano's Before Dawn and the End of the World Manga to March 4
- Sep 5, 2026 Yowaki MAX Reijo Anime Reveals Theme Songs, Cast, October 4 Debut
- Sep 5, 2026 BANDAI SPIRITS Adds Steller's Sea Cow to PlanoSaurus Gachikoseibutsu Club Line
- Sep 4, 2026 FURYU's Anomalith System Trailer Explains Missions in Training Video Style
- Sep 4, 2026 Panolive! Vol.9 Sets September 26 Lineup of Eight VTubers
- Sep 4, 2026 Shiraku Utano Acoustic Live at Yamaha Sound Crossing Set for October 10
- Sep 4, 2026 ANOMALITH System Trailer Details Exploration, Combat, and Anomalies
- Sep 4, 2026 FIIO Snowsky ECHO NANO: Why a 33.5g Dedicated Music Player Still Matters
- Sep 4, 2026 Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers Sets October 11 Debut
- Sep 3, 2026 Concept Art Awards to Honor Yoshitaka Amano for Lifetime Achievement
- Sep 3, 2026 Another Eden Begins Free Demo Now Live With Save Transfer
- Sep 2, 2026 From Far Away Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, Theme Songs in New Promo
Synthesized by Yomimono from the cited Yomimono stories below, each itself
sourced, then editorially reviewed. Every
fact links the story it came from.
Facts
- Announced
- self-produced event Neko Haki Sai (Neko Haki Sai) · 2026-09-09
- Noted
- ano will be a July talk guest on FM802's EVENING TAP · 2026-07-01
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Claim activity
When a claim about ano was confirmed, debunked, or disputed against
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- Confirmed ano voices sgt frog May 28 · source
- Disputed ano voices sgt frog May 28 · source
All coverage
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3d ago
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3d ago
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3d ago
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3d ago
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3d ago
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4d ago
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4d ago
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Oct 9
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Oct 9
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Oct 9
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Oct 8
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Oct 8
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Oct 7
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Oct 7
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Oct 6
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Oct 6
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Oct 6
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Oct 6
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Oct 6
A Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World pop-up event will run from October 2 to October 25, 2026, in Asakusa's Okuyama Omairimachi and Asakusa Nishi-Sando Shopping Street. Decorations, character panels, and banners with newly drawn illustrations go up across both streets, participating stores give a random bonus card to customers spending 1,000 yen or more, and a stamp rally kit goes on sale.
Oct 5
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Oct 5
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Oct 5
Novemtails will open early access for Under Canopies on October 23 for PC via Steam. The relaxed nature survival sim has no combat or danger. Novemtails said it improved progression and the tutorial, expanded building, added farming elements, and changed animal behavior. Building trust with animals is gradual, through food and care. The demo was removed because the current version no longer reflects it.
Oct 5
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Oct 5
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, that smartphones will not disappear, and that what follows them is another smartphone rather than a new device category. He framed the coming period as the AI agent smartphone era, a phone that acts through an agent rather than simply running apps. Watches, VR goggles, and smart glasses had been floated as candidates for the post-phone device.
Oct 5
Arganoid Industries will release Reality Drift on November 12 for PC via Steam, with a Japanese release appearing on November 11 in-store depending on time zone. The roguelike racer sends players through 26 delivery missions, races 99 opponents who also collect upgrades, and uses a card deck drawn between areas. Some course designs are handled by Keita Takahashi.
Oct 4
TELASA began streaming the second part of the Sano Masaya-produced Kanagawa trip, the fifth installment of the Ae! group original series "Acchikocchi Ae! Chotto Hitoiki, Ae! Jikan ~ Motto Ae! Tabi Ikimasu Nen ~," on September 26. The four members drive to a studio for bungee exercise training, then visit a retro arcade and take sunset photos by a lake.
Oct 4
Miyabi Nagano, a former HKT48 member who has focused on gravure work since this summer, held a release event for her second DVD, Boku dake no Idol, on August 23 at Sofmap Akiba Amusement Hall. The Spice Visual release runs 125 minutes and costs 4620 yen. It was shot in Okinawa this spring around the concept of a southern getaway date with a boyfriend, the viewer. A third DVD is scheduled for November 20.
Oct 4
The November issue of Shogakukan's Cheese! magazine, announced on September 24, says Kotomi Aoki will launch a new work for her Kanojo wa Uso o Ai Shisugiteru manga to mark the 10-year anniversary. It runs in the next issue on October 23 and will have 45 pages. The magazine does not state whether it is a new series or a new chapter.
Oct 4
The television anime of Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers began streaming its first promotional video on Wednesday, previewing the opening theme "Mirai no Ashiato" by 310. Riki Fukushima directs at HORNETS, with Tōko Machida on scripts and Noriko Itō designing characters. Sōhei Horikane voices Makoto Takatsuki and Ikumi Hasegawa voices Noah. The anime premieres October 11 on BS Asahi and also runs on Tokyo MX and AT-X.
Oct 4
Glacier Bay Books said on Bluesky on Friday that its manga are being added to Sweet Shop, a new digital comics platform. Available now on the app are Pandora, Dream Another Dream, Mothers, Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice, Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice II, Rabbit Game, Children of Mu-Town, and Ripples. More titles are on the way.
Oct 4
Amata Games said Monday that Shinjuku Anomaly, its horror visual novel, launches for PC via Steam on September 30. A trailer went out with the date. On Steam, the game casts the player as a part-time photographer sent to capture anomalies in Shinjuku at night under four rules, including staying close enough for a clear shot but not too close, and returning to the agency when the film runs out. It supports English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
Oct 4
Episodes 17 and 18 of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 are character pieces. Episode 17 centers on Julius and why Reid dislikes him, since Reid sees his own origins in Julius and wants him to drop the noble facade he clings to. Episode 18 covers Ram's fight with Lye, where she takes Rem's oni power into her body and defeats the Archbishop of Sin.
Oct 4
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 has released preview stills and a web trailer for Episode 19, which is Episode 85 of the series overall and the finale of the season's second cour. The episode premieres on September 30, 2026 with an extended 45-minute broadcast slot. Its title is "Shaula / Hero." The second cour is The Recapture Arc, which comprises eight episodes and began broadcasting on August 12. The first cour, The Loss Arc, has 11 episodes. The finale's staff includes scriptwriter Masahiro Yokotani, storyboard artist and episode director Masahiro Shinohara, and episode directors Kazue Otsuki and Yusuke Maruyama, with Haruka Sagawa, Chie Mishima, and Yasuyuki Noda as chief animation directors. WHITE FOX is animating. A synopsis says Emilia discovers a black monolith and six handprints on the topmost floor, and that Volcanica, having regained consciousness, addresses her as Satella, the Witch of Envy, and attacks her again. Preview stills for the accompanying mini anime episode were also released.
Oct 4
The fourth season of Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- ended with a 45-minute extended finale broadcast on September 30, 2026. The final episode, the 19th of the season and the 85th overall, is titled Shaula / Hero. It marks Rem's return to the screen after roughly six years of story absence, and the episode prompted an epilogue visual released on the official account after broadcast. The art carries the line Rem, I wanted to see you, and shows Rem looking at Natsuki Subaru. Comments arrived from Yusuke Kobayashi, who voices Subaru, and Inori Minase, who voices Rem. Both speak about Rem's awakening and about what comes next for the series. The season's Recapture Arc had aired since August 12, 2026, with Masahiro Shinohara directing and WHITE FOX on animation production.
Oct 4
VTuber agency Haconect will sell Shizukawa Nanoka Birthday Goods & Voice from September 27, 2026 to October 27, 2026 at 23:59. The items are listed on the Haconect official BOOTH, with overseas listings through Geek Jack in English and Chinese. The full set costs 10,000 yen and includes a newly drawn B2 silk suede wall hanging by Mimomo Mamu, an acrylic panel about A5 size carrying a handwritten signature, a 57mm can badge, and two birthday voice recordings in wav format. Buyers of the full set receive Shizukawa Nanoka's handwritten signature on the acrylic panel. A separate acrylic panel set costs 5,000 yen and pairs the panel and badge with the same two voice recordings. The wall hanging sells alone for 4,000 yen, and the two-voice set sells for 500 yen. The recordings are titled "Hey senpai, don't you have something to say~?" and "From Shizukawa to senpai." Shizukawa Nanoka's birthday is September 27.
Oct 3
Publisher Sano-gumi opened the Steam store page for the horror novel game Yumemiru Sakura no Sotsugyoushiki, developed by the circle Aa Uo Uguzu Pegi, with a release date of October 22, 2026 and a price of 550 yen. The story follows three close friends, Sakura, Shion, and Hina, on the day of a graduation ceremony. The player chooses whether Sakura talks to Shion or Hina first, and the conversation content changes with that order. After both conversations end, the screen fades to black and returns to the title screen. Each loop alters the dialogue and presentation until the ceremony turns into a nightmare. The Steam version is a commercial release based on the free browser version that appeared on unityroom on August 27, 2026, and it adds new stills, new scenes, a bonus episode, short stories, achievements, a jukebox, and controller support. Playtime is about 30 minutes to 1 hour. The browser version stays free after release.