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Evi, the League of Legends pro for Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS gaming, announced on September 4 that he will retire after the 2026 season. In a YouTube video titled "Thank you for 11 years," he said he approached 2026 as his last year of full effort and used up his motivation completely. He was the first Japanese player to reach a Worlds group stage and the first to compete in the LEC.
ASCII.jp's gadget column makes the case for carrying a dedicated audio player in the streaming era. The FIIO sub-brand Snowsky ECHO NANO weighs about 33.5g, uses a 6000-series aluminum-magnesium alloy body, has a 0.91-inch OLED display and a metal multi-function dial, and packs a CS43131 DAC chip for hi-res and lossless playback. It also works as an external DAC for a smartphone.
Colopl will end the Devil May Cry collaboration content in the Steam version of KAZUMA KANEKO'S TSUKUYOMI after finding that internal confirmation procedures were deficient. Steam store sales paused on September 4, 2026. Players who already bought the game can keep playing during the pause. A patch expected around late September will remove the collab content. Refund handling is still being confirmed. The Switch version is unchanged and keeps the collaboration.
FIXER and Tokyo Metropolitan Television have jointly developed GaiXer Review Agent, an AI system that checks TV programs and commercials against broadcasting standards and related laws. The system reviews video, audio, scripts, and storyboards, and handles long-form content including anime programs of 30 minutes or more. A 30-minute infomercial review that took skilled staff about five hours now takes about two hours, with the system alone making an initial determination in under 10 minutes.
Publisher Harrison World is bringing Hope of Elements: The Journey of the Witch and the Dragon to PC via Steam with Japanese display support, and the demo, which just received a large update, is live now. The turn-based strategy roguelike follows witch Iris and dragon Pipi through five-element regions, with battles built on element reactions that spread across the field and a companion whose support skills cost his own HP.
Finding Polka, released August 12 on Steam by PARCO GAMES, is a non-verbal adventure from lidlocks, the studio of solo developer Shinnosuke Kumazawa. The ballpoint pen art took more than two years and 13 pens. Players guide girl Frendy and dachshund Jazz as they chase the French bulldog Polka, following yellow guides into detours packed with gags and minigames. Helping characters earns a high-five. The main story runs two to three hours.
Episode nine of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You spends its full runtime on miscommunication, as chief Maezawa presents solid evidence that Sasaki may be married. The story works to convince both Yamada and the audience that Sasaki might not be single, while the B-side has Tamaya and Sasaki discussing his Mie dialect and the past.
Square Enix releases Final Fantasy Resonance on October 22 as the first HD-2D Final Fantasy title, reconstructing the story of the discontinued mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius for consoles. A demo covering all of Chapter 1 launched September 4. A Denfaminicogamer hands-on report after about five hours of play finds the game aimed squarely at the feel of the dot-matrix era FF, with crystals, espers, and a cast built from golden-age RPG archetypes given added depth.
RayNeo begins selling the RayNeo GT series AR glasses and the RayNeo iO AI glasses in Japan on September 4 at 16:00. The GT Max model features a 59-degree field of view, single-device 3DoF support, and Dolby Vision compatibility when paired with the RayNeo Pocket TV Pro.
Anime News Network reviews episode 9 of Saga of Tanya the Evil II, giving it a community score of 4.4. The episode centers on Idola, a neutral country whose delusions of grandeur and poor neutrality leave it unprepared for war. The review argues Idola is a likely target for the Empire.
Sony Pictures Entertainment showed a video clip for the new live-action Resident Evil reboot film during Sony's State of Play livestream on Thursday. The film stars Austin Abrams as Bryan and opens in North American theaters on September 18, followed by a Japanese release on October 9. Zach Cregger directs the new production.
Atlus will sell official Persona 4 Revival goods early at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe. The lineup includes eight acrylic stands, keychains, T-shirts, plates, and Juness-themed items like an apron with Yosuke Hanamura and Kuma badges. Mail order via Atlus D Shop follows later. The game releases February 18, 2027.
Crunchyroll began streaming an English dub for The Saga of Tanya the Evil: Operation Desert Pasta special on Wednesday. The 17-minute short debuted during a livestreamed event in June 2021 and was added to Crunchyroll's library that same month. The listing does not note the dub's cast or staff.
BANDAI SPIRITS announced a re-release of the Saint Cloth Myth EX Pisces Aphrodite <Revival Edition> figure, available through a pre-order lottery for CLUB TAMASHII MEMBERS at TAMASHII NATIONS STORE. The figure includes the full Cloth set, rose parts, and a decomposition diagram, priced at 16,500 yen.
Game Spark's play report covers He Who Watches, a PC puzzle game inspired by Zelda's bow-and-arrow gimmick. Players shoot blocks with eyes to carry them, walk on walls and ceilings, and solve Sokoban-style puzzles in a first-person, grid-based view. The game is available on Steam and itch.io.
Cocoon - One Summer of Girlhood is a 63-minute historical drama set in 1945 Okinawa, following schoolgirls mobilized through the Himeyuri Student Corps. Based on the manga by Machiko Kyo, the film is the debut of studio Sasayuri and first-time director Yukimitsu Ina. The review praises the restrained dialogue, the oil-painting backgrounds, and the silkworm metaphor at the story's center, calling the film a quietly joyful affirmation of life.
Beneath the Tangles' Reader's Corner column for September 1, 2026 catches up on six manga and light novel volumes, including two new releases: The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse Vol. 4 and Shiba Inu Rooms Vol. 1. The column calls The Color of the End's fourth volume brilliant, and urges readers of Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture not to skip the EX side-story volume, which it says enriches the main series.
Episode 9 of Ghost in the Shell finds Major Motoko Kusanagi changed since meeting the Puppet Master, colder and more pensive, and on trial for manslaughter in the line of duty. Her boss Aramaki prompts her to escape before the verdict, playing it off as her going rogue while secretly backing her, with Batou in on the ruse. The adaptation renames the manga's real nations, Israel to Gerantl and Russia to Volgarena, to avoid political controversy.
The latest review of The World Is Dancing episode 10 finds the installment well made but emotionally inert. The performance of "The Brine Maidens" wins the crowd and the shogun, yet Oniyasha calls it unfinished, and the reviewer reads the show's restrained art direction as deliberate. The assassination attempt on Yoshimitsu, the execution of Kogane, and the friends parting ways all fail to land. A time-skip at the end offers hope for the rest of the season. The show streams on HIDIVE. Community score: 4.1.
Anime News Network's review of Iron Wok Jan! episode 9 reads the installment as a setup for the grand finals. Jan's fountain confrontation makes clear he values victory above all, treating a cooking competition as the crystallization of the craft. The fall into the fountain sidelines Kiriko while the episode builds backstory with Celene and Akiyama, then brings her back in a closing stinger. The review also notes the framing of Chinese versus French cuisine, including the absence of dessert in traditional Chinese cooking.
Anime News Network's review of Red River episode 9, which carries a community score of 3.2, reads Yuri's ditzy act at the banquet as a genuine character turn. The episode grounds itself in real history: Malatya is a thriving city in Türkiye, and senet, the game Kail and Yuri play, is a real Ancient Egyptian board game. It ends with Urhi knocking Yuri out and the Mitanni Prince of Darkness adding her to his loot.
Kotobukiya has opened orders for Heavy Weapon Unit 80 Evil Axe Gray Ver., a new M.S.G Modeling Support Goods kit built around an oversized battle axe with a clear blue blade and gray frame. The kit recombines into dagger, spear, and hand axe forms, and its frame parts are shared with the Evil Scythe for cross-combination. It is priced at 1,980 yen and ships in January 2027.
PLAYISM, the indie game publishing brand operated by Active Gaming Media, announced on September 2 that it will stream a pre-Tokyo Game Show event titled "PLAYISM GAME SHOW: TGS 2026 Preview" on September 10 at 19:30. The online show will present the latest information on all 11 titles the brand will exhibit at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs from September 17 to September 21 at Makuhari Messe. Some of the titles are being revealed for the first time at this event. After the announcements, the four performers will play trial versions of the games in advance. The performers are Matsuzawa Neki, Shunji Mizutani of PLAYISM, and guests Kirin and Shuhei Yoshida. The broadcast is scheduled to last about three hours and 30 minutes and will be viewable on YouTube and Niconico Live. PLAYISM, which began activities in 2011, celebrated its 15th anniversary in May 2026 with a previous game show. Recent publishing titles include "Dyping Escape" and "Enhime," and the brand handled the console version of "The Exit 8" and sales of "Gnosia" on some platforms.
Roland DG announced the TrueVis AG-640, a water-based Latex ink Print & Cut large-format printer. A new print head, waveform control, and variable dot technology with three dot sizes drive high-definition output, and the company says the model keeps color consistency and positional accuracy on long rolls. Roland DG positions it as overturning the conventional image of Latex printers, which it says have lagged on vividness and long-roll accuracy.
Atlus announced on September 2 the lineup for the Sega/Atlus booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026, running September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe. Persona 4 Revival gets a playable demo with two selectable modes: Story Main, which covers the early story and exploration of the strange shopping district, and Dungeon Main, which sends players through Yukiko's Castle against shadows and a boss. A new photo experience, the Persona Summon Experience Photo, lets attendees summon a Persona and take a commemorative photo with a special frame, delivered by QR code, alongside a Kuma cosplay spot. Booth novelties include paper glasses that let visitors become the Persona 4 Revival protagonist and a large shopper bag printed with both Persona 4 Revival and Metaphor: ReFantazio artwork. Stage events include DJ RAM RIDER's Persona series 30th anniversary music live, a dancing stage, an Enako talk show with general producer Wada Kazuhisa, a ZETA DIVISION stage with k4sen and Clutch_Fi, and a live by singer Shiori Sasaki. All stages stream on the Sega official YouTube channel. Metaphor: ReFantazio's Nintendo Switch 2 version gets a hands-on Sword Trial based on its Fast & Squad battle system, plus a September 20 talk stage on villain Louis.
Shapefarm's two-player cooperative adventure game Orbitals launched on September 3, 2026 for the Nintendo Switch 2, published by Kepler Interactive. The retro anime-style title follows explorers Maki and Omura as they save their space station from a cosmic storm. Reviews from Automaton and Game Spark highlight the game's cel-animation-inspired visuals, which are rendered in 3D, and its cooperative mechanics that require players to work together using tools like the Scrap Hook, Liquid Launcher, and Beam Cannon. The game supports local play, online split-screen, and local wireless sharing, with a free Global Friend Pass available on the Nintendo eShop. Automaton praised the game as the polar opposite of friendship-destroying co-op games, noting its heartwarming exchanges and well-designed two-player puzzles. Game Spark's review was more mixed, praising the action and nostalgic charm but criticizing the story's pacing, which it compared to a 12-episode anime season rushing its final three episodes. The game also features minigames, a theme song by singer-songwriter Maya Ayukawa, and a pop-up store at Kyoto Takashimaya S.C. running through September 9.
Shohei Fujita reviewed lucid blocks, a Steam game that plays like Minecraft but renames its systems. The world is a Qualia, not a world, and crafting is Apotheosis, not crafting. The game keeps Minecraft's block-breaking and building basics, but the procedural world is full of fog, low resolution, and biomes that follow their own logic. The review reads the experience as dreamlike, closer to Yume Nikki and LSD than to Minecraft itself.
Saber Interactive showed a playable demo of Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival at gamescom 2026. The first-person survival horror follows Aidan, who uses the Genesis Configuration puzzle box to enter the Labyrinth and rescue his lover Sunny. The game leans on classic survival horror mechanics: scarce ammunition, melee combat, and spatial puzzles. It releases October 8, 2026 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Episode 6 of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity earns a 5-star review. The episode pulls a Breaking Dawn Part 2 style fake-out, showing a vision of a potential but unrealized future that subverts expectations while staying true to the story. The Uryu vs Jugram fight finally gets substantial screen time after weeks of being background material, and Orihime gets time in the spotlight. The community score sits at 4.3.
Anime News Network reviews One Piece episode 1176, praising the weekly broadcast's movie-level animation. The episode focuses on Gunko and her arrows, with a match cut and a fight against the Straw Hats singled out. The supporting cast gets standout moments: Jinbei and Brook team up, Franky fires a nipple blast, and Nami turns Zeus into a lightning-shark-missile. Saul's scene is called a tearjerker. Community score: 4.2.
Anime News Network's review of Goodbye, Lara episode 9 reads the episode through Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, arguing Lara's light is a two-faced force. The light meant to restore the merfolk is also the fire Kota used to burn down a building to free Lisa. The episode's turning point is an attempted kiss that Luca rejects, inverting the folklore pattern where princesses are the ones kissed without consent. The episode holds a community score of 4.5.
Episode 21 of Daemons of the Shadow Realm brings the confrontation between Yuru, Asa, and the Daemons who deceived them. Kiri and Danji lied to Yuru for years, binding and controlling him, yet the betrayal carried no malice. Asa, who tried to kill Kiri in the first episode, now sees her as a victim. The episode reveals Asa's obsession with Yuru as a coping mechanism after a decade of isolation.
At Anime NYC, Aoashi producer Junichi Katsutani explained how the soccer anime's action scenes are planned with the same bird's-eye view the protagonist uses. The team builds a top-down movie tracking all 22 players and the ball, uses it as the basis for motion capture broken into individual plays, then models the plays in 3D CG to reposition cameras and adjust timing. Foreground characters are animated traditionally.
The review of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation III episode 10 says the quest to cure Nanahoshi's mana buildup disease resolves too easily. Kishirika Kishirisu knows the cure, it sits in the city the party already occupies, and it is handed over without resistance after Rudeus turns the Demon Emperor over to the guards. A fight with Demon King Atoferatofe Rybak follows, and Perugius ends it. The reviewer credits the episode with Rudeus' most selfless act yet.
The ANN review of episode 9 of Sparks of Tomorrow criticizes the episode for confirming that Yosuke, a schoolmate of the late inventor Seiroku, was romantically in love with him, while also casting Yosuke as a man trying to marry a child. The reviewer calls the combination homophobic, and argues the episode's conflict could be resolved by a single conversation. The review also notes the episode lacks prior animation flair.
Episode 8 of Draw This, Then Die! follows Miss Teshima as she resigns herself to being unable to create manga and decides to get her teaching license. The episode frames her past and present through the same image of her at a desk with a blank book. The girls take a field trip to find inspiration and craft a fantasy story about giants. The payoff comes when Teshima opens the book she passed to Yasumi and finds it filled with hundreds of creative ideas.
Anime News Network's review of The Elusive Samurai Season 2 episode 7 gives it a community score of 3.8. The episode introduces Tokiyuki's scheming uncle Yasuie Hojo. The reviewer argues the season has lost the balance between comedy and stakes that defined season 1, and that the recent multi-episode battle ended with little consequence.
ASCII.jp's Disaster Prevention Gadget 2026 series reviewed two CIO mobile batteries built around semi-solid battery cells, a design that replaces the liquid electrolyte in standard lithium-ion cells with a gel-like semi-solid one to lower the risk of leaks and ignition. The SMARTCOBY Ex04 Wireless2.2 CABLE SS5K is a 5000mAh MagSafe battery with a built-in cable, pitched as a unit that stays cooler and carries a reduced fire risk compared with conventional packs. The SMARTCOBY SLIMII Wireless2.2 SS10K holds 10000mAh, supports Qi2 magnetic wireless charging, measures 14mm thick, and delivers up to 30W of output. Both reviews frame the semi-solid cells as the main safety feature, and both were originally published on November 25, 2026 before being republished. The series positions the batteries as disaster-preparedness gear, with the reviews citing recent incidents of batteries catching fire on trains and in garbage trucks as the concern the products address.
Captain Tsubasa 2: World Fighters, the soccer action game from Bandai Namco Entertainment, launched on August 27, 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, with the Steam version following on August 28. The PS5 version holds a Metascore of 76 from 21 reviews at the time of writing. Reviewers broadly praised the gameplay and its fidelity to the original manga, while several flagged limited modes and shallow progression as weaknesses. The game is based on the World Youth arc of the Captain Tsubasa manga and features an original scenario supervised by the original author Yoichi Takahashi. The Games Machine review summed up the consensus positioning, writing that the game is better thought of as an 11-a-side Tekken than compared to EA SPORTS FC. PlayStation LifeStyle gave it 90/100, calling it what a sequel should be, while Video Chums awarded 86/100 and called it possibly their favorite team sports game ever made. Noisy Pixel was more critical at 60/100, describing the game as a refinement of the predecessor rather than an ambitious sequel.
Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the first fully new console entry in the series in roughly 20 years, is drawing strong early reviews ahead of its September 4 release. The game, which launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store, holds an average Metascore of 85 on Metacritic based on over 80 PS5 reviews, a figure that matches the series' previous high mark set by 2004's Onimusha 3. Reviewers widely praise the sword-fighting combat, which centers on timing-based actions like the parry-like Ukenagashi, the deflect, and the signature Issen counter. IGN awarded a perfect 100, while Forbes gave 90 and Eurogamer 80, with the latter noting the game's deliberate departure from common Soulslike design. The game stars a young Miyamoto Musashi, modeled on the late actor Toshiro Mifune and voiced by Yoshimasa Hosono, who is forced to wield the Oni Gauntlet after being killed by demons called Genma. The demo has surpassed 2 million downloads, with over 10 million Issen executions recorded.
Atlus began early distribution of the new battle song "Prime Time Golden Hour Show" from "Persona 4 Revival" on August 31. The track is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, with a lyric video on the Atlus Game Music YouTube channel. Shiori Sasaki performs vocals, with composition by ATLUS Sound Team and lyrics by ATLUS. A second battle song, "Reach Out To The Truth -Revival-", is scheduled for distribution soon.
Tencent released the AI model Hy4 preview on August 28, 2026. It is an open model with 770 billion total parameters, 490 billion active parameters, and a 1 million token context length. It surpasses GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks and is free under Apache License 2.0.
Hie: The Dream Of A Cockspur, a point-and-click horror adventure released on Steam on July 22, 2026, places the player as a researcher on an island investigating a fallen celestial body. The game requires gathering fragmented information to solve mysteries, features an ominous atmosphere, and warns of depictions of injured animals and spiders.
Sankaku Head's My Darling Devilish Daughter manga will end in its sixth volume, which ships in 2027. The announcement came in the fifth volume on Friday. The author is stepping away from weekly serialization due to deteriorating health and a desire to focus on his children, and will move to a monthly pace.
ASCII.jp's second-part review of PC Shop SEVEN's ZEFT R65YC gaming PC checks performance, noise, and real-game results. The unit, priced at 758,780 yen, uses a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 5070 Ti inside a Noctua and Antec collaboration case. It delivered comfortable play at max quality in Forza Horizon 6 while staying in the 30dB range.
COSPA is releasing a Tanya "Welcome to Hell" T-shirt and pass case, plus 203rd Aerial Mage Battalion goods including a pass case, reel keyholder, and thin dry parka from "Saga of Tanya the Evil II." Early sales happen at the Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair 2026 on September 19 and 20, 2026. General sales start mid-November 2026, with reservations at the COSPA online shop.
A Japan Powered review of Agents of the Four Seasons Dance of Spring argues the story sidesteps the folktale damsel trope by making the prince unnecessary. The review notes Hinagiku, Agent of Spring, frees herself after a decade of captivity, with guard Sakura coaxing her back. Rosei, Agent of Winter, later acts as the prince, but Hinagiku saves him spiritually, and both women stand as equals to their male counterparts.
Anime News Network reviewed Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for Nintendo Switch 2, praising the graphical improvements but criticizing poor tutorials, audio mixing issues, and an Amiibo glitch in New Game+ that erases party members' third Item Pouch. The review notes the game remains maximalist and hard-hitting despite these flaws.
GAME Watch previews Minecraft Dungeons II ahead of its September 29 release. The game adds 4-player local multiplayer with individual inventory screens that do not pause the action, plus a full auto-matchmaking system for online play. Matchmaking uses item level and progression, preset phrases, per-player drops, mid-game join and leave, and cross-platform support.
Point-and-click adventure Servant of the Lake launched on PC, iOS, and Android on August 13, 2026. The PC version holds a Metascore of 86 from nine reviews. Critics praised the puzzle design and the continuation of the Rusty Lake series' eerie atmosphere, with several recommending it for play after dark.