Ninomae Ina'nis performed her first duo concert with Takanashi Kiara at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on March 27 and 28, 2026, selling out both days.
Ninomae Ina'nis, a hololive English talent, performed her first duo concert alongside Takanashi Kiara at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on March 27 and 28, 2026. The concert, titled 'Drawn to Dawn,' sold out both days. Fans lined up as early as 7 AM. The show was delayed 20 to 30 minutes to ensure all attendees entered. Kiara opened the first day with a high-energy set featuring flames and smoke, performing songs including 'Hinotori,' 'Chimera,' 'Mirage,' 'Perfume,' and 'Tasty,' and debuted several new outfits. Ina followed with a chill set, singing 'Violet,' 'Meconopsis,' and 'Temari,' also showing new outfits. The duo performed together on songs including 'Pineapple' and closed the encore with 'Our Bright Parade,' during which orange and purple streamers shot into the crowd.
An after-party hosted by holoTakeover at Apt 503 Lounge featured DJs and live performances by indie VTubers Rachie and Yukinoshita Peo. COVER Corp CEO Motoaki Tanigo posted on social media that he was moved by the performances. The sold-out weekend and CEO acknowledgment mark the first time two hololive English talents have headlined a standalone duo concert at a major Los Angeles venue, signaling the branch's growing live-event pull.
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New deformed school uniform illustrations of 12 Inazuma Eleven characters, including Mamoru Endo and Shuuya Gouenji, will be sold as goods at the Chugai Mining booth at AGF2026 on November 7 and 8, 2026, with preorders on Chugaionline mail order. The lineup includes acrylic stands at 1,870 yen, trading glitter tin badges, a Polaroid shot collection, and Rairai-ken's miso ramen.
The film RYUJI Ryuji, starring Yuya Yagira and opening October 30, will hand out an admission bonus from opening day. The bonus is a photo strip card titled SCENES FROM RYUJI, made from scene photos of the main feature. It carries eight scene photos on one double-sided card, four to a side, including unreleased cuts, with cast members Yuya Yagira, Rina Kawaei, Riku Hagiwara, JUNON of BE:FIRST, Ken Miyake, RYUKI of MAZZEL, and Hideaki Ito appearing in the images. The card is one item per viewing, limited in quantity, and ends when supplies run out. It is distributed at theaters nationwide from October 30 through November 5. Distribution methods and notes may differ by theater, according to the announcement. The film is a new adaptation of Ryuji, set in Shinjuku's Kabukicho between 1984 and 1990, and follows Yagira's yakuza character as he tries to leave the underworld for his wife Mariko, played by Kawaei, and their newborn son.
The fifth Girls und Panzer das Finale film has revealed seven new St. Gloriana Girls' College characters, a new tank, and a fresh promotional video. The characters include Lemongrass and Rooibos Tea as Crusader commanders, Ubah as a Churchill loader, and four Centurion crew members. Orange Pekoe's new tank, the Infantry Tank A43 Black Prince, appears in the film's final scene. Visitor bonuses and a November 14 stage greeting at United Cinema Mito were also announced.
Level Infinite has set a beta test for Exterminauts, the three-player co-op shooter from Behaviour Interactive, for November 13 to November 19 Japan time on Steam. Applications are lottery-based through the Steam store page, with preload starting November 11 overseas time. The beta covers three-player co-op, combat against enemies with multiple armaments, an Overdrive mode, and work-procedure-manual-style missions. The game is planned for 2027 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Nanashi Inc. announced on October 22, 2026 that Ichika Souya is an art animator on the music video for natori's "pupa." Emi Fukayama directs the video, with illustrations by TENATEL (ARUGA Utena), who is working on a natori video for the first time. "pupa" was released digitally on October 1 and written for the drama "Chinggis - VIVANT THE ORIGIN STORY -," which streams on U-NEXT.
Nijisanji talent Rai Inami will digitally release his first mini album, Hero, on October 24, 2026. He produces the release himself and handles vocals across seven tracks. Songwriting and arrangement come from *Luna, OSTER project, Hachioji P, Ruto of Sutopuri, buzzG, and others, with brass, guitar, bass, and drums credited per track. A crossfade of all seven songs premiered on YouTube on October 22.
Kodansha's Monthly Dessert announced that Yūichirō Momose and artist Hina Hinata's Bagudan: Sono Otoko-tachi Toriatsukai Chūi ni Tsuki will end in the magazine's next issue on November 24. The reverse harem comedy follows Tokiko, an otome game fan whose five favorite characters reincarnate as classmates. It launched in Monthly Dessert on March 24, and the first compiled volume shipped on July 13.
The Takopi's Original Sin anime account posted a new trailer and visual for the compilation film Takopii no Genzai -Arigatou, Mata Ashita- (Thank You, See You Tomorrow). The trailer previews the theme song "Rabyu" (Love You) by Tele, who performed the television anime's ending theme. The film opens in Japan on November 27. The six-episode TV series ran on Netflix and other services, with Kurumi Mamiya and Reina Ueda leading the cast.
The ninth compiled volume of Yukari Takinami's Watashitachi wa Mutsū Renai ga Shitai, which shipped on Thursday, carries a jacket band announcing a live-action net adaptation. More details will come later. The manga centers on Minami, who can only express her true feelings through a private social media account, and her encounter with an older male "feminist uncle." Takinami launched it on Kodansha's &Sofa site in November 2021.
Konami Arcade Games will sell an "Original Kaiji Lottery" on Konami Premium Kuji ONLINE from 12:00 on Friday, October 23, 2026, at 880 yen per draw plus shipping. The prizes use newly drawn art from Nobuyuki Fukumoto's Kaiji, led by an S Prize BIG acrylic stand of the "Choose...! Let's Drink Together!" scene, plus a desk mat, clear pouch, compact mirror, bangs clip, acrylic card and marker charm.
Sega plans to release the Neon Genesis Evangelion Luminasta -Kaworu- prize figure at amusement facilities nationwide starting October 23. The figure comes from Luminasta, Sega Prize's line that gives each character its own distinctive shining point, and recreates one of Kaworu's representative scenes from the series.
CCMC Corp. released the Nintendo Switch 2 version of "Puchi Holo no Mura - Sword, Shop, and Country Life" on Thursday, October 22, 2026, through holo Indie, hololive production's derivative-game brand. The game, developed by Roboqlo, puts 47 hololive production talents into a village as mini characters. Its Steam version arrived in April 2026, and the Switch 2 edition is sold on the Nintendo eShop for 2,900 yen including tax. The store listing and the game's introduction video went up with the launch. CCMC, a wholly owned subsidiary of COVER Corp. based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, handles publishing. The title supports Japanese and English, and it is a single-player game. holo Indie describes itself as a brand for derivative games made with fans and creators, run through a creator support program that returns revenue to the people making the games.
Square Enix released Final Fantasy Resonance on October 22, 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC, with the Steam version following on October 23. The standard edition costs 7,678 yen, the Digital Deluxe Edition 9,878 yen, and the Collector's Edition 25,500 yen. The game was built around the concept of what Final Fantasy might look like had it kept evolving as pixel art. It uses HD-2D, combining pixel art characters with a 3DCG world, and a technique called Cinematic Pixel that turns 3DCG into pixel art for the opening movie and event scenes. Battles are turn-based command battles with a job system, and players explore by chocobo, with summoned beasts and by airship.
Isamu Kamikokuryo, a concept artist and art director on several Final Fantasy titles, will hold an original art exhibition at Boat Race Naruto UZU HALL in Tokushima Prefecture starting November 3. About 40 original artworks from Final Fantasy X, XII, XIII and XV and other titles are scheduled. The run splits into a first term from November 3 to 11 and a second term from March 5 to 10.
Embark Studios began Season 12 of THE FINALS, subtitled PRIME TIME, on October 20, 2026. The update adds Solo Showdown, a 12-player free-for-all tournament with three rounds in which the four players holding the least cash are eliminated each round and the highest earner after round three wins. Automaton reports it entered as a beta, with each round's rules drawn at random from eight mini-modes, including one where only ring-outs score kills and one where a single shot or melee hit is lethal. The Light build gains the Truesight specialization plus Mimic Device and Translocator gadgets. Dynamism 2.0 reworks destruction so buildings twist and sag in stages instead of collapsing at once. Monaco, Seoul and Skyway Stadium were remastered, and Sponsors 3.0 adds a Handler character. Dynamic Commentary, trialed on some content, has announcer Scotty call players' names during matches.
Nippon Columbia began a pre-add and pre-save campaign on October 21 for VSinger NEPHLA's major debut single 'LUMINARIA,' out digitally October 28. Registrants on Apple Music or Spotify between October 21 at 20:00 and October 27 at 23:59 receive a smartphone wallpaper with a signature and message. The 'LUMINARIA' music video premieres October 28 at 22:00, after a Major Debut Commemorative LIVE Stream from 20:00 on NEPHLA's YouTube channel.
Square Enix opened a teaser site on October 21 for "Keybound Blowler," a typing game for up to four players inside Final Fantasy XIV's Manderville Gold Saucer. A Final Fantasy VII Remake series crossover stage runs from around 17:00 on October 28 until maintenance for Patch 8.0. Players earn Manderville Gold Saucer Credit to trade for glamour gear, mounts and emotes, including a Minion: Barret and two orchestrion rolls. Gamepads and software keyboards cannot be used.
Shueisha Games pushed Chronoscript: The Endless End from 2026 to early summer 2027, adding Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC to the previously announced Steam and PS5 versions. The Steam demo holds an 85% positive rating across roughly 90 reviews. Producer Masami Yamamoto and Deskworks director Tom Fujii say user feedback led to changes in dodge invincibility timing, input buffering, and how the story is delivered.
CRITICAL REFLEX released Filthy Eden's psychological horror game Cucina Stellata for free on Steam on October 21, 2026. The first-person short game is set in the 19th-century Italian countryside of Romagna, where a reclusive writer and gourmet cooks traditional dishes in a low-polygon kitchen. Cooking involves ingredients not found in the original recipes, and the protagonist is drawn into a hunger that deepens with every meal as his body and mind begin to change. The Steam version adds new story content and improved playability over the earlier itch.io release. CRITICAL REFLEX, which published Mouthwashing and No, I'm not a Human, picked up the title in April 2026 after the improved Steam version was announced in September 2025. The game supports Japanese and carries a content warning for violence, self-harm, and disturbing imagery. A paid supporter pack, Curiosities and Recipes, is also available, with production background, the work's inspirations, and recipes from Romagna.
Roland will release the BRIDGE CAST FINAL FANTASY XIV Edition gaming audio mixer on December 12. Pre-orders open at midnight on October 31 and the price is open. The unit is an official collaboration with Square Enix's online RPG Final Fantasy XIV, built on Roland's existing BRIDGE CAST basis. The top panel carries a new Chocobo (Alpha) and Omega illustration plus the Meteor mark, and the packaging uses a design made for this model. Roland has built in official game sound effects: the dungeon entry cue players call the "shaki" sound, and the F.A.T.E. entry sound. Both fire from a single button during voice chat or a stream. The base hardware is retained, including a dual-bus mix for separate stream and monitoring audio, a microphone preamp for broadcast-grade XLR mics, and a voice transformer that adjusts pitch and formant. Sales run through the Square Enix e-STORE, Yodobashi Camera, Bic Camera, Sofmap and Bic Camera Group online stores.
Microsoft has announced the eight titles joining Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass between October 21 and November 3, 2026. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade leads, arriving October 29. Also on launch day are the light-MMO action RPG Scramble Knights Online (Game Preview) on October 26 and the horror parkour game Terrible Lizards on October 29. Both launch titles support Ultimate and PC Game Pass on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and cloud.
Amanita Design, the studio behind Machinarium, responded to an AI-generated video posted on X by Sylvio Drouin, described as CEO of Nura Studios, an AI video platform. Drouin billed the video as a love letter to Machinarium. Amanita Design said it takes nerve to feed Machinarium assets into an AI and call the result a love letter, and that the video has nothing to do with their work. Drouin had not replied at the time of writing.
Square Enix will release Final Fantasy Resonance on October 22, 2026, for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, with the Steam version set for October 23. The RPG rebuilds the first season of the smartphone title Final Fantasy Brave Exvius as a buy-to-play console game and is the first Final Fantasy entry built in HD-2D, the pixel-and-3DCG style Square Enix uses in the Octopath Traveler series. Reviews from Game Spark, 4Gamer.net, and ASCII.jp published October 20 all describe turn-based command battles where depleting an enemy's Break Gauge stuns it and lowers its defense, and breaking every enemy at once triggers a Full Break that gives the party extra actions. Character building runs through Visions, equippable crystals carrying heroes of past Final Fantasy games, including Firion, Noctis, Zidane, and Sephiroth as a boss encounter. Rain and Lasswell, knights of the Kingdom of Grandshelt, pursue the Six Knights of Paladia, who are destroying the world's crystals.
A special opening video for Episode 3 of the Kyouran Reijou Nia Liston anime has been released. The video depicts scenes from the stage play "The Woman I Loved" by the in-story theater troupe Ice Rose, and uses "Deux Livres," performed by Honoka Inoue as Nia Liston and Maaya Uchida as Sharo White. The anime airs on TOKYO MX, MBS, and BS Nippon TV, with animation production by KONAMI animation.
Haconect third-generation VTuber Chiko Kohinata will hold a 3D birthday live on October 25, 2026, at BECK Akihabara, with the singing portion streamed free on YouTube. Doors open at 18:30 and the show starts at 19:00. Tickets went on sale October 10 and cost 4,000 yen including tax, with sales closing at noon on October 25. The in-person program also includes a post-live talk and a cheki photo session, both described as venue-only and not part of the online stream. Merchandise sales follow online from 18:00 on October 26. Kohinata, whose birthday is October 13, is presented as a tiger-character talent known for the greeting "Biribiri gahh~!" and for singing. The event is organized under Haconect, the agency run by Analog Inc. of Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, which states that Haconect began activities in June 2021 and operates its own studio.
Square Enix pushed an October 19 update to Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions on iOS and Android. The patch adds game controller support, a speed-up feature, a revised battle UI, 60fps operation and bug fixes. The mobile version keeps the extra content missing from the console and PC remaster Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, including the Onion Knight and Dark Knight jobs and Balthier from FF12 as an ally.
EXO-6 is producing 1/6 scale figures of Ensign Pavel Chekov and Nurse Christine Chapel from "Star Trek: The Original Series," distributed in Japan by Platz. Chekov's sculpt follows Walter Koenig's likeness in a fabric Command gold uniform; Chapel's is a new mold based on Majel Barrett with a sky-blue medical uniform. Each costs 63,800 yen and is scheduled to ship in March 2027.
Square Enix's official Final Fantasy XIV account announced on October 19 that VTuber Kuzuha will appear at FF14 Fan Festival 2026, set for October 31 and November 1 at Makuhari Messe. Kuzuha is one of the guests on Naoki's Room, the Day 2 stage hosted by producer Naoki Yoshida and Toshio Murouchi. The posted guest list for Naoki's Room also includes k4sen, SHAKA, Karubi Akami, Clutch_Fi, Nekomugi Tororo, Obo, Uruka, Tonakaito, Sasatikk and Tatsuomi Hamada. The announcement said scheduling had been worked out, leaving the impression the booking was settled late. The event is billed as the largest FF14 Fan Festival yet, run with AEON Mall Makuhari New City and Toyosuna Park, and the venue program covers activities, food menus, a piano concert and a special live performance alongside the guest stages.
Sammy's smartphone Texas Hold'em app m HOLD'EM runs the second half of its revival collaboration with the Virtual esports Project VSPO! from Monday, October 19 to Sunday, November 8, 2026. VSPO! members Sumire Haname, Hinano Tachibana, Beni Yakumo, and Meto Komori return in a revival appearance, bringing revival avatars, newly drawn and fully voiced stamps, plus collaboration playing cards and trophies obtainable during the period. The app is free with in-app purchases on iOS and Android.
NC's cross-world MMORPG AION 2 took 1st place in this week's Steam sales ranking for Japan, surveyed October 19, 2026 at 13:00. Apex Legends is 2nd and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is 3rd. New entries include Japanese Ramen Simulator at 4th in early access and Final Fantasy Resonance at 5th, with Tales of Eternia Remaster at 10th.
Hori has opened Amazon preorders for the Electric Ocarina of Time, an officially licensed Nintendo accessory for Nintendo Switch 2, after preorders had been limited to the company's own Hori Store. The electronic ocarina is scheduled for release on November 5 at 7,980 yen, the same day as the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time it is built to work with. Amazon orders currently list delivery for November 6, one day after launch. The device is not a real ocarina and is not played by blowing into it. The Switch 2 console picks up its sound, letting players play along with performance scenes in the game. It has two modes: Free Play, where finger holes are covered as on a real ocarina, and Auto Play, where songs from the game play automatically and can be triggered with buttons. Inside counts 12 songs in Auto Play. A volume dial and earphone jack are included.
Thirdwave announced on October 19, 2026 that its GALLERIA brand will sell a set model combining the Final Fantasy XIV tournament commemorative PC with Logitech G peripherals, available from the same day through November 30. Prices start at 375,968 yen including tax. The PC on its own has been on sale since July 2026. The bundle adds a Logitech G502 X PLUS mouse, G515 RAPID TKL keyboard, and G522 headset, and comes in black or white configurations. Three PC builds are offered. The tournament-adopted model uses an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 32GB of memory and 1TB of storage, priced at 540,968 yen. The cheapest build uses an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage. The PC commemorates the Crystal Conflict Regional Championship 2026 Japan tournament, and the bundle will build the play environment for the finals at Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026 in Tokyo on October 31.
Square Enix posted a notice titled "[Important] Notice Regarding Unauthorized Access and Account Management" on the Final Fantasy XIV Players' Site and The Lodestone on October 19, and later posted a matching notice on the Dragon Quest X official site. The company says it has confirmed logins to Square Enix Accounts using email addresses, account IDs and passwords believed to have leaked from other companies' online services, and that the reused combinations are being tried as-is. Accounts that reuse the same credentials as another service are at higher risk, and Square Enix adds that easily guessed passwords such as repeated characters, repeated numbers or a date of birth carry the same danger. The company asks affected users to change passwords immediately, and it recommends one-time passwords in addition to an ID and password. Accounts believed to have been compromised have already been restricted from logging in, with instructions on lifting the restriction sent to the registered email address, and Square Enix says a reset of all Square Enix Account passwords is possible if the unauthorized access keeps increasing.
KADOKAWA announced on October 18 that Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya FINALE, the fifth TV anime season and the series finale, will air in 2027 on TOKYO MX, ABC TV, AT-X and other channels. Staff and cast return, including director Shin Onuma and Mai Kadowaki as Illyasviel. The season follows the August 2021 film Licht: The Nameless Girl.
Final Fantasy Resonance and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 headline the week of October 19 to 25, 2026, according to the release calendars published by 4Gamer.net, Game Spark and Inside. Final Fantasy Resonance arrives Thursday, October 22 on Steam, PS Store, Xbox Store and My Nintendo Store for 7,678 yen, with the Steam version following on October 23. The HD-2D RPG follows Rain, a knight of the Kingdom of Granshelt, and Fina, a girl without memories, as they pursue an armored man called Vaelius of the Eternal Dark. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches Friday, October 23 on the same four storefronts for 9,800 yen and sets its campaign on the Korean Peninsula after a large-scale North Korean invasion, cutting between young South Korean soldiers and Captain Price. Stupid Never Dies, an action RPG built on devouring enemies and implanting gears, also ships October 22 on Steam and PS Store for 7,690 yen.
The final season of League The k4sen, k4sen's League of Legends tournament, opened on October 15. Kitsunejiro Uru, who calls herself a "God" and joined k4sen's UltraLMTM brand on October 6, lines up in the NEXT tier against top laners SHAKA, Kanou, and Tachibana Hinano, all streamers past 1 million YouTube subscribers. Sixty players across four teams compete on combined results from three tiers.
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.
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 K2C Lottery for the Ace of Diamond act II -Second Season- anime opened at 12:00 on October 16, 2026 on the K2C LUCK site, with draws at 770 yen each through November 6. New band-themed artwork shows Eijun Sawamura, Satoru Furuya, Kazuya Miyuki, Yoichi Kuramochi, Haruichi Kominato and Koushu Okumura holding instruments, used across live T-shirts, face towels, acrylic stands, keychains and can badges.
The official website for the Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Final Chapter trilogy began streaming a teaser for the third and final film on Saturday. The teaser gives the film a Japanese opening date of February 5, 2027, and features the theme song "Dreaming Free" performed by the cast as their characters. The first two films sent separate groups of club members out of Tokyo, to Okinawa in the first and to Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe in the second. The final film returns the story to Tokyo. The trilogy follows the two television seasons and the Next Sky original video anime, and picks up after Isla returns to her home country, with the club invited to the School Idol GPX contest, where members compete as individuals through app-distributed performances. The first film opened in September 2024. The second opened in November 2025. Main cast and main staff return for the third film.
Studio Dragonet used the Waku Waku Games newsletter stream on October 16, 2026 to announce that Lamia's Bambina, suspended in 2025, is back in development. The Steam store page now lists it as a simulation RPG rather than an RPG. Players control Ivy, summoned to the demon world, leading the Lamia tribe against the Harpy tribe, with a Pair System pairing one front-line and one rear-line unit.
STARKIDS will hold its self-produced event STARFES THE FINAL on Saturday, November 21 at WWW X in Shibuya, Tokyo, then temporarily suspend live performances in Japan. The group said it wants time as six members to think about what comes next, with future details to be announced later. Guests include Tade Dust, awasetsumona, 6.do, N33T, Cyprus, ORCO, BHS Svve, killwiz, and Filix王.
Sega will run "SEGA POP-UP SHOP in Okinawa PARCO CITY" at the San-A Urasoe West Coast PARCO CITY 3F Green Zone special venue from Friday, October 30 to Sunday, November 29, 2026. Goods cover Sonic the Hedgehog, Like a Dragon, Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku, Puyo Puyo, and Persona. Shoppers spending 3,300 yen or more receive a shisa-themed Sega logo acrylic keychain.
Mebius said on its official X account on October 16 that new information about the Nintendo Switch version of Elminage II: Sousei no Megami to Unmei no Daichi will be revealed in November. The dungeon RPG is the second Elminage entry from Starfish SD, set in Felnas Lade, where players build a party from 12 races and 16 classes. A 3DS download version shipped on March 22, 2017.
Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu rose from #4 to #1 in its 12th weekend, selling 375,000 tickets and earning 562,647,900 yen from Friday to Sunday. The live-action Resident Evil reboot opened at #2 with 356,000 tickets and 626,567,150 yen in three days. The fifth Girls und Panzer das Finale film opened at #5 with 267,301,400 yen.
ANYCOLOR published the full product designs and store-specific bonus designs for Nijisanji liver Minato Fuwa's new single "ECLIPSE," due December 9, 2026. The release comes in three editions: Limited Edition A at 3,850 yen, Limited Edition B at 2,750 yen, and a regular edition at 1,870 yen, each with four tracks. First-press copies include a random photo card and a ticket lottery serial code for Fuwa's 2nd LIVE "VORTEX" at Nippon Budokan on March 3, 2027.
Sunny Side Up will release a Happy Kuji line for Chibi Maruko-chan on Saturday, November 7, 2026, marking 40 years since the original manga began serialization. Each draw costs 850 yen including tax, and the lineup has nine prize ranks plus a Last Prize. The Special Prize is a roughly 21cm figure of Maruko's cluttered room from the chapter "Today Is Home Visit Day" in volume 10, down to her expression and the onomatopoeia behind her. The A Prize is a 10-type Figure Collection, roughly 5.5 to 8.7cm tall, with characters on pedestals bearing their dialogue. The Last Prize reproduces the cover of manga volume 1 as a figure about 17.5cm tall. Middle ranks include tote bags with title-page art, melamine cups and plates, rubber mascot keyholders, flat pouches, mini towels, a can collection, and sticker sets themed around Class 3-4.
The non-credit ending video for the ongoing TV anime Magic Knight Rayearth was published on October 14, 2026, one week after the series began airing on October 7. The ending theme, Hoshibi, is performed by Kawaguchi Yurina and released under Universal Music. The video opens with Hikaru Shido, Umi Ryuzaki, and Fuu Hououji watching waves on a beach at night, then moves through other characters including Princess Emeraude in the same scenery. The anime is based on CLAMP's manga, first serialized in Kodansha's Nakayoshi, and this adaptation is a new project announced in 2024, roughly 30 years after the 1994 TV anime. It airs Wednesdays at 11:45 PM on TV Asahi's IMAnimation W slot across two consecutive cours, excluding some regions, with streaming after broadcast on services including ABEMA, d Anime Store, DMM TV, Hulu, U-NEXT, and Lemino. Ayane Sakura voices Hikaru Shido, Rumi Okubo voices Umi Ryuzaki, Rie Takahashi voices Fuu Hououji, and Saori Hayami voices Emeraude.
Nintendo began streaming an overview trailer on Wednesday for its Nintendo Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and opened preorders ahead of a November 5 launch. The trailer introduces the Hall of Fallen Foes, an area where statues of defeated enemies let players rematch bosses. The remake adds traditional camera controls, motion controls, a jump button, and a roll dash action. An item can be equipped to the ZR button and swapped through a pop-up menu. A Threads of Time menu recaps the story and shows the next objective, and time now passes in town. Players can hum into the Switch 2 microphone to play music in-game, and the game recognizes music from a purchasable ocarina. The game supports the Zelda Notes function in the Nintendo Switch App, including Today's Record, Gossip Quests, and an Ocarina of Time Quiz with over 2,000 questions. New amiibo for Young Link and Young Zelda ship in 2027. The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2 console, Pro Controller, and carrying case ship on October 29.
Square Enix and Mitsubishi Estate Property Management will run the holiday event Yokohama Minato Mirai Winter Holiday 2026, a Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy collaboration, from November 11, 2026 to January 11, 2027. Landmark Plaza and MARK IS Minato Mirai host holiday objects, photo spots, a six-spot stamp rally, the SuraChoco Kitchen cafe, an iron bead workshop, and a two-venue SQUARE ENIX POP UP STORE.