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JINS will release eight collaboration eyewear models based on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure protagonists at its stores nationwide and online shop from October 29, 2026. Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, Josuke Higashikata, Giorno Giovanna, Jolyne Cujoh, Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli each get a model. Frames carry the Joestar star birthmark, plus motifs such as the Stone Mask and Red Stone of Aja.
The November issue of Asahi Shimbun Publications' Nemuki+ announced Tuesday that Ei Ohitsuji's Ochibure Zeus to Dorei no Ko will move to Ichijinsha's Zero-Sum Online manga website in spring next year. Digital sales halt on October 31, though purchased volumes stay available. Ohitsuji said the series resumes from chapter one with revisions and corrections.
SAMANSA announced on September 29, 2026, that its documentary film ReBEAST: Umehara, a Life Bet on 1/60 of a Second will open nationwide in Japan on Friday, January 29, 2027, at Theatre Shinjuku and other theaters, with distribution handled by Tokyo Theatres. A teaser visual and teaser trailer were released the same day. The film follows Daigo Umehara, known as Umehara, over roughly one year, starting when he joined the professional esports team REJECT and entered a new environment. It covers his attempt at a different style of fighting alongside teammates, the pressure to win, the pain of not getting the results he wanted, and his confrontation with his own limits, building to his match at Kemonomichi, the fighting game event he founded. Yuichi Iwanaga and Naoto Kawashima directed. The teaser trailer includes REJECT members and commentator Aru.
Real Sound reports the WEB preview, advance cuts, and two episode posters for Episode 11 of Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai, titled Muku. Sheena faces a practical exam while remembering her arm being cut off by the enemy, and Mimi begins to wish Sheena would not go out to fight. A call-up order then sends Mimi to the battlefield, and Mimi returns without injury.
The TV anime Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai has released the WEB preview, advance cuts, and two episode posters for episode 10, titled "Wasurenai Hi". The episode follows Shina as she begins learning healing magic from Fran-sensei to stay by Mimi's side. Mimi, bored with less time together, meets classmate Haru and grows complicated feelings when Shina tends to Haru's fever.
Takara Tomy will release the board game Dragon Quest Life Game on October 24 for 7,150 yen. Preorders are open on Amazon. Players become adventurers, gather gold with companions, and the one with the most gold at the end wins. The game includes familiar monsters, job changes, and small medals.
Toho announced the fourth live-action Kaiji film, 'Kaiji: Life Revenge Game', starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, will release on January 29, 2027. The film comes seven years after 'Kaiji: Final Game' and features a teaser poster with the tagline 'Welcome back, you scum.' Kaiji faces a new antagonist, Kazuya Hyodo, a representative of the Teiai Group.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has become the first film of 2026 to earn over US$1 billion at the global box office, according to Box Office Mojo. The sequel from Nintendo, Illumination, and Universal Pictures has earned an estimated US$1,000,028,930 worldwide, including US$428,527,930 in the U.S. and US$571,501,000 internationally. The film opened in April and has sold 5.18 million tickets in Japan as of May 31.
Japanese filmmaker Ryuya Suzuki taught himself animation on an iPad during the COVID-19 lockdowns and completed his debut feature 'Jinsei' as a one-man crew over 18 months. The film, which tells a century-long story about a pop idol, opened in Japan in May 2025, screened at Annecy, and arrives in U.S. theaters on June 12, 2026, distributed by Greenwich Media.
Greenwich Entertainment released the first trailer for Ryuya Suzuki's indie feature Jinsei, which opens in New York on June 5 and nationwide on June 12. The hand-drawn film follows one protagonist across a hundred years, voiced by rapper Ace Cool, and has already won a Special Jury Prize at the New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival.