Coop is a This Week in Anime columnist. The column's most recent survey covered Japanese dramas streaming on Netflix and HBO Max, and landed on Baby Assassins Everyday! as the smoothest watch of the slate.
Coop's presence in the coverage is as a columnist. In the This Week in Anime survey of Japanese dramas, Coop and Sylvia worked through seven titles streaming on Netflix and HBO Max. They landed on Baby Assassins Everyday! as the smoothest watch of the bunch, with Kensuke Sonomura's action direction and the chemistry between Saori Izawa and Akari Takaishi carrying the pick. Unnatural's opening episode, they noted, is anything but comfort food. The rest of the slate, including Doctor-X, Miss King, Cinderella Closet, Beautiful Life, and Rikuoh, streams on Netflix. The survey followed an earlier column that covered Korean dramas.
Coop's name also appears on two anime and game stories whose summaries do not describe a column credit. Timber Truck: Chaos Coop, announced by Polden Publishing and Pitstop Panic, is a physics-based co-op adventure for PC via Steam in which players cut trees, load logs onto trucks, cross rivers and crumbling bridges, and deliver them to a sawmill to earn money, while hostile geese disrupt the run. Nijisanji and Karaoke Manekineko's 'Sweet Scoop Sundae' collaboration ran from July 15 to August 16, 2026, at nationwide Manekineko stores with ice cream parlor visuals, original goods, collaboration menu items, themed rooms, standing panels, and a singing campaign offering digital wallpapers. Kadokawa's mid-term management plan addressed financial losses tied to an over-reliance on proven genres like isekai, with over 30 isekai anime releasing annually and signs of saturation prompting a search for replacement genres.
Coverage is consistent on what Coop does: a This Week in Anime columnist whose beat moved from Korean dramas to Japanese dramas in the latest survey. The other stories do not describe a role for Coop, so nothing more can be established about that work from these items.
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1d ago
Anime News Network's This Week in Anime column pairs Coop and Sylvia for a career survey of director Sayo Yamamoto, prompted by Coop's recent first viewing of Yuri!!! on Ice. The chatlog follows her from storyboard work at Studio Madhouse and episode direction on Samurai Champloo through series she directed, and the hosts frame the piece around her absence from the industry. Crunchyroll streams Michiko & Hatchin, Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Space Dandy and Yuri!!! on Ice.
2d ago
Zemore Indie Games announced Pooper Scooper on October 20, a PC (Steam) simulation game about carrying cat poop to the trash with a scoop. Each piece has its own shape and size, physics simulation is in effect, and the cats wobble, fly, and spin to interfere. Release is planned for Q4 2026, with playtests scheduled soon.
Sep 17
Cure Answer from Detective Precure! will appear as a special commissioner on the September 18 broadcast of Detective! Knight Scoop on ABC TV in Kansai. On the show she meets the senior detectives and is asked about Master Kanpei's gags; she says she does not know them, so Kanpei teaches her one. A one-week catch-up stream runs on TVer after the broadcast, while other regions, including TOKYO MX on Sundays, air the episode several weeks later.
Sep 8
The This Week in Anime column shifts from Korean to Japanese dramas, surveying seven titles now streaming on Netflix and HBO Max. Coop and Sylvia land on Baby Assassins Everyday! as the smoothest watch of the bunch, praising Kensuke Sonomura's action direction and the chemistry between Saori Izawa and Akari Takaishi. Unnatural's opening episode, they note, is anything but comfort food. The rest of the slate, including Doctor-X, Miss King, Cinderella Closet, Beautiful Life, and Rikuoh, streams on Netflix.
Aug 10
Polden Publishing and Pitstop Panic announced Timber Truck: Chaos Coop, a physics-based co-op adventure for PC via Steam. Players take on the role of the world's worst lumberjack team, drowning in debt, and must work together to cut trees, load logs onto trucks, cross rivers and crumbling bridges, and deliver them to the sawmill to earn money. Geese that aim to do away with the players appear along the way, resulting in utter chaos.
Jul 15
Nijisanji and Karaoke Manekineko have announced a summer collaboration campaign titled 'Sweet Scoop Sundae,' running from July 15 to August 16, 2026, at nationwide Manekineko stores. The campaign features new ice cream parlor-themed visuals, original goods, collaboration menu items, themed rooms, standing panels, and a singing campaign offering digital wallpapers.
May 26
In its new mid-term management plan, Kadokawa addresses recent financial losses tied to an over-reliance on proven genres like isekai. The company and others are still profitable but seeing reduced margins, with over 30 isekai anime releasing annually. The trend, rooted in self-published web novels on Narou, has been a low-cost, high-return model for publishers, but signs of saturation are prompting exploration of replacement genres.