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Developer Dan released a demo of the PC game POISONED on unityroom and itch.io on October 14, 2026. Players face off one on one at a dinner table, poisoning their own plate, placing three plates on a tray, and passing it to the opponent. A Steam version is planned later. The demo covers one match, from appetizer to conclusion, and supports online versus play.
Fine released Satori Chuunibyou Consultation Room -Translator of the Second Reality- into Steam Early Access on October 9 at 1,280 yen. The psychological mystery adventure casts the player as Kogoro Sunatori, who reads the hidden feelings of chuunibyou visitors through dialogue, translation, and mind-reading. Early Access covers up to Chapter 4, roughly 7 to 9 hours. Eight user reviews are posted, all favorable. The price rises to 1,980 yen on November 13.
Daichi Banjou, the artist behind the golf manga DAN DOH!!, said on social media last Wednesday that a PET scan found several cancerous recurrences after his surgery. Banjou wrote that further surgery is not practical and that he must decide on chemotherapy. He said he is less afraid of dying than of the pain he felt after his cancer surgery.
Kodansha Game Creators Lab announced on October 14 that the horror adventure game 1999 Tokoyo Building will be released for PC via Steam on November 10, 2026. The game is set in December 1999 inside Tokoyo Building, a run-down indoor amusement park where people are rumored to disappear. The protagonist is Akira Hiruyuki, a boy with amnesia who is caught by the owner, Kazuto Yano, while committing burglary and is forced to work without pay in exchange for food and lodging. His coworkers include Camellia, a short-tempered fortune teller; Samejima, a servile aquarium keeper; Count, a performer who claims to be a charismatic villain; Tokoyoman, a suit actor; and Hajime Kotobuki, a serious employee. Players alternate between point-and-click exploration of 360-degree low-polygon backgrounds to pick locks and search private rooms, and conversation sections using Live2D where choices can lead to immediate dead ends. A free demo containing all of Chapter 1 is available now on Steam.
DANGEN Entertainment has released a demo for I SHALL NAME THE DEAD, an indie mystery horror adventure from developer Tiago Rech, on Steam. The game follows Imaclada, who talks with nameless dead in the cemetery Necropolis, follows their clues, and cremates them by speaking their names. A curse called the Worm erodes her dialogue choices; lighting a match purifies them. The full game is scheduled for 2027 with Japanese display support.
An Ichiban Kuji lottery based on the Hidan and Kakuzu Arc of Naruto: Shippuden goes on sale October 26, 2026 at 790 yen per draw. Prizes A through D are MASTERLISE figures of Shikamaru Nara, Asuma Sarutobi, Hidan, and Kakuzu, sculpted at roughly 25 to 27 centimeters, with a Jashinism rug mat, Akatsuki mini figures, charms, and stickers filling out the lower tiers.
Fine released the Early Access version of Satori Chunibyo Consultation Room -Translator of the Second Reality- on Steam for PC on October 9, 2026. Developed by Shadow Glove, the psychological mystery adventure costs 1980 yen, with a 1280 yen price through November 12. Players act as director of the Satori Second Reality Consultation Room, reading visitors' inner worlds through Dialogue, Mind Reading, and Translation. Early Access covers the prologue through Chapter 4, roughly 7 to 9 hours.
Dark Horse announced at its New York Comic Con 2026 panel that it will release Gou Tanabe's The Outsider and Other Early Adaptations collection, translated by Zack Davisson, gathering Tanabe's take on H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider plus his Ju-Ga and adaptations of Anton Chekhov's The House with a Mezzanine and Maxim Gorky's 26 Men and a Girl. Dark Horse also announced Martial War, a graphic novel co-created by Hiroyuki Takei, Will Carter, and Aidan White, and the comic Blue Eye Samurai: Cry of the Yurei.
An original mecha anime, Dandivine, streams on Crunchyroll after a premiere that leans on the super robot era. Twenty years after the unit sealed away the Aposdolls, it is remembered as a fading toy from Casgar Company. Student Gekiha Shijima, seen as average by his friends and girlfriend, gets pulled into its comeback. The first episode pairs a retro Dandivine design with a kaiju fight and a dynamic between Gekiha and his uncle.
At The Tenth Mosaic, a game culture festival held at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo on September 22 and 23, Kazutaka Kodaka and Masafumi Takada discussed how Danganronpa's story and music shaped each other. Takada said he wrote the theme song "DANGANRONPA" in about 20 minutes after putting the title into the lyrics, and the Monokuma design arrived in roughly five minutes.
Paramount Skydance said on October 6, 2026 that it finished its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, and the combined company now operates as Skydance Corporation. The deal carried a total value of $111 billion, according to 4Gamer.net, and closed after shareholder and regulatory approvals in multiple countries. David Ellison leads the new company as CEO. The assets under one roof now include Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, Paramount+, CNN and CBS, plus the game studios each side brought in. Variety reported that the games and experiences divisions of Paramount Games Studio and Warner Bros. Games will be folded together, and Skydance press materials listed former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs and Skydance co-CEO Inon Kreiss as new board members, with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair joining as an advisor. Skydance Games titles such as Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra continue development inside the group.
The digital distribution service Number Nine has started handling Touhou Project derivative works under official permission from Team Shanghai Alice. Works that mix in derivative content from other properties are not eligible. A campaign tied to the launch pays creators up to 85% instead of the usual 75%, applied through the end of March 2027. New registrations are accepted from October 2, 2026 to January 31, 2027.
At The Tenth Mosaic in Tokyo on September 22 and 23, Too Kyo Games CEO Kazutaka Kodaka and music producer Masafumi Takada discussed how they work together, from Danganronpa through Rain Code and Hundred Line. Kodaka said Danganronpa sold about 30,000 copies in its first week and grew over roughly half a year, and described why he keeps development outside the studio.
DANGEN Entertainment outlined the roguelite RPG LitGirls: Bungaku Meikyu at a media briefing, where it also detailed the Update 4 version of Turret to Shoujo. LitGirls draws on Darkest Dungeon and casts classic literature heroines, including Alice, Dante, Juliet, and Raven. Update 4 adds Mami, a support character with attack drones, plus three-player multiplayer and four stages.
Kodansha's Young Magazine has announced a second issue of Young Magazine USA, its special edition for the U.S. The staff is seeking Japanese manga creators who want their work published for overseas readers. Applicants must submit a chapter storyboard and three sample manuscript pages by December 13. The requested theme is an outcast who is overlooked by society and struggles to fit in.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked select domestic companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to report how many NVIDIA RTX Pro 5500 GPUs they want and what they will be used for, and plans to approve the purchases, The Information reports. The RTX Pro 5500 is a workstation GPU NVIDIA announced in September 2026 for large-scale AI models and simulations.
A first-person report on GameBusiness.jp timed an RTX 5090 running MiniMax H3 locally. One 5-second i2v clip went from 193.5 seconds to 31.6 seconds in 41 days, a 6.12x gain, using a 20-step baseline, the official Turbo 8-step LoRA, Hao AI Lab's FastH3 4-step, a community-converted TaoMate 3-step LoRA, INT8 attention, and sparse attention. H3 Max weights have not been released 28 days after fal said on X that it would publish them. Cloud H3 Max Turbo ran at 1.49 seconds on different hardware.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy gave a keynote and then sat for a one-on-one interview. He said VTubing began in Japan and keeps growing outside it, but remains at an early stage because building a VTuber character has been expensive. He expects lower entry costs, more 3D models, and VTubers interacting with virtual environments.
K MANGA will release Adachitoka's The Wolf at Memory's End in English on October 5. The manga, known in Japan as Yadoya no Oinu-sama, launches in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine on October 6, the same magazine where Adachitoka's Noragami: Stray God ran from 2010 until it ended in January 2024. The story follows Kasumi Kuromine, a junior high school girl in the countryside who falls down a mountainside during a school field trip.
A media conference for Super Danganronpa 2x2 was held behind the scenes at Tokyo Game Show, which ran from September 17. The new information segment lasted about five minutes. Attendees played roughly 10 minutes of the Kyoki mode, starting after Monokuma appears at Jabberwock Park. In Kyoki mode the victim and culprit differ from the original, and Monokuma distributes weapons called Kyoki.
Techno-Speech released the VoiSona voice library Bennett Fantasia on September 27, 2026. The character is produced by the Australian company VoCreatures Pty, Ltd., with Du Du Danyon as CV and Staircatte on illustration. It sings in Australian English and Japanese across Natural, Boisterous, and Operatic styles. Download plans run from 880 yen per month to 13,200 yen perpetual, and a limited package version ships in late 2026 at 180 Australian dollars.
TWIN PIXELS announced Dance Dance Incremental on September 25. The incremental rhythm game is set for PC via Steam in the first quarter of 2027. It draws on Dance Dance Revolution and Tamagotchi. Players hit falling arrows, playable with DDR dance pads, a keyboard, or a gamepad, and collect a currency called Byte to speed up song downloads on an MP3 player interface modeled after 2000s Windows Media Player.
The staff of the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime announced on Saturday that part 4 of Miya Kazuki's light novels, Founder of the Royal Academy's So-Called Library Committee, will get a television anime, with Wit Studio animating again. The announcement came after the Part 3 anime, Adopted Daughter of an Archduke, ended its two-cour run on Yomiuri TV and NTV.
DAN DA DAN and the Formula 1 team Atlassian Williams announced that Twice member TZUYU is performing the theme song for their joint collaboration. TZUYU, the group's Taiwanese member, will appear at the F1 Singapore GP 2026 race on October 11. The collaboration also includes a line of shirts for the Singapore GP.
OceanVeil announced it will begin streaming the English dub of The Shy Snow Woman and the Cursed Ring on October 4. Jordan Woollen voices Satoru Takahashi, Leah Booth voices Mifuyu Yukino, and CottontailVA voices Kaede Kiryuin. Kevin Frane is the ADR director, with Laura K. Welsh on adaptation. The series started streaming early on AnimeFesta and OceanVeil on September 11, ahead of its Japanese television premiere on BS11 and Tokyo MX.
The November issue of Kodansha's Shonen Sirius announced on Friday that a new Cells at Work! spinoff, Hataraku Saibo Dental (Cells at Work! Dental), will launch in the next issue on October 26. Koma Warita and Kawede Sakaki handle the manga. It follows the end of Cells at Work! Cat, which wrapped on March 26 and shipped its fifth and final volume on May 8.
Dentsu and Kodansha have entered a partnership that gives potential clients in North and South America access to Kodansha intellectual properties including Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell, and Blue Lock. Dentsu is now the central point of contact for brand marketers seeking sponsorships, tie-in campaigns, live events, and fan experiences tied to those properties.
Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine announced on Thursday that Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail Re:Fantasia manga miniseries will end in the next chapter, in the magazine's 44th issue on September 30. The miniseries launched in the 35th issue on July 29. The original Fairy Tail manga ran from 2006 to July 2017, and Mashima and Atsuo Ueda's Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest sequel inspired a television anime that premiered in July 2024.
K MANGA added Chihiro Kanisawa's Oh My Panda! (Horeta Hareta Panda) as a simulpub title on Wednesday. The story follows Hanna, a high school student with endless stamina who takes a part-time job as a performer for the local mascot Panboo, until a boy from the class next door gets close to uncovering her. Kanisawa launched the series in Kodansha's Dessert magazine in November 2025, and the second compiled volume shipped on September 11.
The 43rd issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine announced that Shuichi Shigeno's Subaru and Subaru manga will take a break and return in the magazine's 48th issue on October 26. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and will release the first compiled volume in English on April 6, 2027.
Sony Interactive Entertainment will hold PlayStation Festival on October 24 at Grand Front Osaka North Building 1F Knowledge Plaza, running from 11:00 to 19:00. Attendees can play PS5 titles that appeared at the PlayStation booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026 in September. Advance trial reservations opened October 2 for PlayStation Plus subscribers and close October 21 at 23:59, handled first-come, first-served through the event's special site. The reservable titles are Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance from Capcom, Final Fantasy VII Revelation from Square Enix, ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE from Bandai Namco Entertainment, and GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT from Bandai Namco Entertainment. The day also includes a PLAY! PLAY! PLAY! special stream, sales of PlayStation goods with limited-quantity Astro Bot items, hands-on time with the PlayStation Portal Remote Player, and novelty giveaways tied to trying a game, posting at the venue, or adding the official PlayStation LINE account.
Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that it will stream nine anime for the fall 2026 season, including Super Psychic Policeman Chojo, Dandivine, and Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers. The slate runs from October 2 with Tougen Anki: Nikko Kegon Falls Arc through October 11 with Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers. Magic Repo Man, From Far Away, and The Cold Sato-san is Only Sweet to Me arrive October 3, 4, and 6. A Certain Dark Item, HORROR COLLECTOR, and the Chinese-animated Paw & Palaces fill the October 9 and 10 slots. Crunchyroll also began streaming Detective Conan: The Counterfeit Crime Case of Ultra 30, which the outlet describes as the Detective Conan franchise's first new two-hour special in 10 years. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo adapts Shun Numa's manga about psychic officer Meguru Chojo and his partner Nao Ippongi. The anime premieres October 6 at 11:00 p.m. on Kansai TV and Fuji TV.
DANGEN Entertainment announced LitGirls: Literary Labyrinth and the Girls on October 1, 2026. The dungeon-crawling RPG is developed by Nanairo Enterprise, the team behind Turret and Girls, with GIANTY as development support and DANGEN as publisher. It is planned for release on PC via Steam in the first half of 2027, with the price yet to be determined and a console version undecided. Players form a party of girls based on classic literature, including Alice, Juliet, Dante, and Raven, and explore dungeons holding monsters, traps, treasure, and bosses. Combat is turn-based, with girls arranged in four rows front and back against enemies in the same formation. Two parameters, HP and Mental, govern survival. Characters also lose equipment as they take damage. Music is by Yoshitaka Hirota, who worked on Shadow Hearts. An 18+ version is also planned for a separate PC platform.
Bandai Spirits will release the Ichiban Kuji Naruto Shippuden Hidan and Kakuzu Edition on October 26, priced at 790 yen per draw including tax, sold through Ichiban Kuji ONLINE and the official Ichiban Kuji shop. Online sales open at 5:00 p.m. the same day. Prizes A through D are MASTERLISE figures of Shikamaru Nara, Asuma Sarutobi, Hidan, and Kakuzu. Prize E is a rug mat themed after the Jashinism religion. Prize F is a Chokonokko Figure Akatsuki Ver. with ten kinds total, Prize G is a Pokotto Charm in six kinds, Prize H is a NARUTO 72 series acrylic charm in nine kinds, and Prize I is a variety sticker in ten kinds. The Last One Prize is a Naruto Uzumaki Wind Style: Rasenshuriken MASTERLISE figure.
Kodansha's K MANGA service announced Thursday that it has added Yui Hata's manga adaptation of Nikita Kitagawa's No-Clipping My Way to Supremacy as a simulpub title. The web novel began on Shosetsuka ni Naro in February 2021. The light novels started in June 2022 with illustrations by Meto Sasame. A television anime is planned for 2027.
Shueisha announced on September 30 that its outsourcing contract with editor Shihei Lin and with Mix Green Inc., the company where Lin is representative, ended as of July 31. The arrangement covered editorial operations for titles on the Shonen Jump+ app. Lin has worked as an editor on Chainsaw Man, SPY x FAMILY, and Dandadan. According to the announcement, the works he oversaw will continue serialization on Shonen Jump+ under a new structure. Shueisha did not name a replacement editor or give a reason for the end of the contract. The three titles named in the cluster are among the platform's best known. Shonen Jump+ is Shueisha's manga app and web platform. The announcement addresses only the outsourcing arrangement, not the status of any individual series. No date was given for when the new editorial structure takes effect beyond the July 31 end of the contract.
TZUYU, a member of TWICE, will perform the official theme song for the Atlassian Williams F1 Team and anime DAN DA DAN collaboration. The original song is planned for release in early 2027, ahead of the F1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and an original music video is confirmed. The song title, release date, and video details will be announced later. Special collaboration merchandise is also planned.
Kodansha and Dentsu have signed a partnership that gives marketers across the Americas access to three of the publisher's anime and manga properties: Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell, and Blue Lock. Dentsu is the primary contact for brands that want to use the Kodansha-owned intellectual property in advertising campaigns, sponsorships, promotional work, and fan events across the region. Cartoon Brew reported the agreement on September 24, 2026. OtakuKart Anime followed on September 25, 2026, describing the three franchises as globally recognized and framing the deal as a route to advertising campaigns and fan-focused experiences in the Americas. The arrangement covers promotional use of Kodansha IP. It does not name specific partner brands, campaign dates, or the terms of the agreement. The three titles are the only Kodansha properties the reports name.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System has released a preview for Episode 13, which premieres on September 24. The same week, the production confirmed that Part 2 will continue in Fall 2026, with a key visual, a main promotional video, theme songs, and four additional cast members. The anime is based on the Kodansha Young Magazine series, and the work has more than 5 million copies in circulation. Part 2 picks up after Elymas and Ruche, the lead pair, and it will stream on Crunchyroll. The team behind the adaptation includes Studio GoHands, with Kodansha as the publisher of the source material. The preview arrives one day before the Episode 13 broadcast, and the Part 2 announcements land while the first part is still airing.
Tokoronyori's new game Twospeak (Working Title) appeared at the Kodansha Game Lab booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026. It is a two-player-only puzzle adventure, separate from the BOKURA series, in which each player is given a different vocabulary and the two decode each other's language while solving puzzles. The booth features 24 titles.
Sazae-san leads the Kanto region animation ratings for September 7 to 13 with an 8.1 household figure, per Video Research data published by Anime News Network. Detective Conan follows at 6.0 and Chibi Maruko-chan at 5.3. Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 ranks fourth at 3.1, while That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime season 3 sits fifth at 2.8 and Doraemon sixth at 2.7.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy gave a keynote and a media roundtable, then spoke one on one with Inside. He said Vtubing started in Japan and keeps growing abroad but is still at an early stage, because making a Vtuber character has been expensive. He expects cheaper entry, more 3D models, and virtual environments that other people enter and leave.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, CAPCOM demoed Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, an expansion for Monster Hunter Wilds. The demo hunt pits players against Apha Araketa, classified as one monster but made up of three individuals that fight as a unit. A brighter, larger main Apha Araketa is the target, and the writer says the fight turns on pattern recognition, timing, and resource management.
A Danganronpa pop-up store featuring new Mephisto illustrations will run from October 2 to October 20 at SHIBUYA109 Shibuya Store 8th floor and SHIBUYA109 Abeno Store 2nd floor. The lineup includes acrylic stands at 1,980 yen, two trading can badge sets, trading acrylic coasters, keychains, photo-style cards with gold foil rares, acrylic art at 4,400 yen, clear file sets and sticker sets. Purchases of 3,000 yen or more earn one random bromide.
Nexon implemented the September update for The First Descendant on September 17, 2026, adding Ultimate Hailey, the Ultimate version of the Ice-attribute sniper Hailey. The update also adds the new dungeon Cradle of Evolution, lifts the ban on Exceed weapon trading, introduces the Lounge Vault Trade system, and adjusts the Descendants Luna and Lepic.
The Happinet booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026 hosts a photo spot themed to Super Danganronpa 2x2, the January 14, 2027 release built on Super Danganronpa 2. Visitors can shoot the Monokuma set alone or pose with cosplayers, using the series' "Refute!" and "Agree!" gestures. The game ships for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Epic Games Store, and pairs a rebuilt Original Mode with a new Kyoki Mode.
Kodansha FES 2026 in Animate runs from October 10 to November 15, 2026 at Animate stores nationwide and Animate mail order. Buyers of eligible Kodansha books and magazines receive one Replica Mini Shikishi drawn from a set of 40 designs. Customers pick a group from A through D, then receive one sheet from it, without choosing the design. Animate mail order distributes the bonus differently, and the source points buyers to the official site for that guidance.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy gave a keynote at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 17, presenting the platform as a live streaming service built around community rather than an algorithm-driven feed. He said viewers average 72 minutes on Twitch, and that among 500 surveyed Generation Z viewers in Japan, live content is favored over on-demand. Clancy also said two-thirds of Twitch users report they can be their true selves on the platform, a rate more than double that of other social media in Twitch's comparison. Riot Games' Whalen Rozelle joined the second half of the session, saying Riot's publishing division treats community as strategy itself and that players who feel belonging become co-creators. Rozelle described streamers as today's broadcasters and said more than half of VALORANT esports fans watch through creators. Clancy cited VALORANT Champions 2025 at 47.58 million viewing hours, with 58.4 percent of that from co-streams rather than the official broadcast.
Capcom announced on September 16 that Monster Hunter Wilds will receive a free Refine Update alongside the 2027 release of the Ascendance expansion, and that the changes apply to players who do not buy the expansion. The update adds faster weapon swapping, letting hunters switch between two weapon types without mounting the Seikret, and equipment changes at item boxes outside tents. A new Hunter My Set feature registers item sets, equipment sets, and equipment appearance sets so they can be recalled together. Paid Grooming Tickets are abolished, making character re-editing free and unlimited. Monster hitzones become visible as numbers in the monster encyclopedia, and HUD options let players move the clock, restyle health and stamina gauges, and change the item box's display method. Capcom said more refinements are planned. Ascendance adds Master Rank, a sky setting, Boost Drivers, and the Elder Dragons Kushala Daora, Teostra, Lao-Shan Lung, and Gundoraja.
Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine announced on Wednesday that KOJIRO's Ura-Tokyo: Exorcist City manga will end in the next issue on September 24. The series follows Soma Kuroniwa, a student at a secret exorcist academy beneath Tokyo who is cursed to carry a dangerous spirit. KOJIRO launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine on March 17, the same day it began on K MANGA. The second compiled volume shipped on August 17.