JO is a member of the nine-member boy group &TEAM and is set to make his film debut and first lead role in the live-action adaptation of the manga Wandance, which is currently in post-production for a November 27, 2026 release.
JO, a member of the nine-member boy group &TEAM, is preparing for his first film lead role in the live-action adaptation of Coffee's manga Wandance. The film is set for a nationwide release on November 27, 2026, and is currently in post-production after filming took place in winter 2025. JO commented that he initially felt shock rather than joy at the casting, but after reading the original work he found similarities between himself and the protagonist Kabo. The film is directed by Naoya Kusaba, with a script by Keiichi Kobayashi and dance supervision by Charisma Kantaro, founder of the professional dance league D.LEAGUE. Production and distribution is handled by Happinet Phantom Studios.
The Wandance manga, serialized in Monthly Afternoon, has 15 volumes published and received a TV anime adaptation in 2025. The live-action film marks a notable crossover between K-pop idol work and Japanese manga filmmaking. Two character visuals and a character video have been released. JO makes his film debut and first lead role with this project.
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An original art fair for Shogakukan works opened September 20 at Ginza Tsutaya Books GINZA ATRIUM. The lineup includes metal canvas art of BLACK LAGOON and reproduction original artwork of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, part of more than 100 original art goods items. Preorders for a Frieren and Vermeer reproduction piece also begin, sold on Shogakukan's LIFETUNES MALL, with availability in 10 countries and regions.
Acacia, the developer behind Magical Girl Witch Trial, is showing the first playable demo of Streamer Girl's Secret Account Labyrinth at Tokyo Game Show 2026. The vocalist, Neon Hino, is dead at the start, and the remaining members of the band Rugged Drops are suspected of killing her. A mysterious app drags them into the Secret Account Dungeon, where they have to find a way out. The demo covers the opening, including guitarist-vocalist Riru Aiya's suicide attempt.
G-Mode's Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth drew crowds that forced staff to repeatedly pause and restart the line, director Koichi Takeshita said. The booth paired The Portopia Serial Murder Case Continued: Burial of Oblivion, a full remake of the Famicom adventure with a new scenario, set for 2027, with Streamer Girl's Secret Account Labyrinth, a novel RPG from Magical Girl Witch Trial studio Acacia, planned for 2026.
Episode 13 of Mushoku Tensei III: Jobless Reincarnation, titled "Diary," airs September 20 at 24:00 on TOKYO MX and BS11. ABEMA and d Anime Store stream it alongside the broadcast. The episode opens the diary left in the care of old Rudeus: a half-life that begins with Roxy's death. Advance cuts show Rudeus despairing, Roxy, Sylphie and Eris in pain, and Hitogami.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, LeadJoy displayed the Xeno Pro gamepad, now on sale for 9,980 yen including tax. The pad works with PC, Nintendo Switch, and smartphones over 2.4GHz, Bluetooth, or USB wired, and uses TMR sticks, micro switch buttons, dual-mode triggers, and four rear buttons. Assignments and sensitivity are set through a dedicated app for PC and smartphones.
System Service's prize figure brand One-Seventh Carat is releasing a Roxy Bunny Polarized Color Ver. figure based on Mushoku Tensei II: Jobless Reincarnation. The figure is scheduled to appear sequentially from the third week of September 2026 as a prize item at amusement facilities, and distribution ends once supplies run out. The brand focuses on volume and figures that can be displayed without a base.
G-MODE's Streamer Girl's Secret Account Labyrinth is a labyrinth novel RPG about girls trapped in UraU, a place where the darkness of social media is made real. Riiru Saika, a streamer and member of the band Lag Drops, is haunted by the death of bandmate Neon Hino. The trial play covers an ADV section, and a dungeon exploration part has you fight malice monsters while seeking the master of the secret accounts. Release is set for 2026 on PC via Steam.
Dengeki Hobby Web compiled Amazon.co.jp's Kindle manga sales ranking for tankobon volumes as of September 18, 2026. The JOJOLands volume 9 tops the chart, followed by Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation volume 25, Gushing over Magical Girls volume 13, The Star of the Girls' Garden volume 5, and Benri-ya Saito-san, Isekai ni Iku volume 15.
The National Gallery, London and hololive ReGLOSS VTuber Raden Juufuutei will hold a pop-up store at Yurakucho Marui from October 3 to October 12, 2026, IP mixer announced. The store opens on the eighth floor Event Space SPACE5 from 11:00 to 19:00, with free admission. It sells the full lineup of collaboration goods supervised by Raden Juufuutei and based on works by J.M.W. Turner, Vincent van Gogh, and Claude Monet from the museum's collection. Products include fragrance mist sets, scarves, a bone china cup and saucer set, a brass rollerball pen, tote bags, canvas art, acrylic stands, and random clear cards, with some cards carrying foil-stamped signed messages. Buyers receive ticket-style cards at one per 3,500 yen and an original shopper at one per 11,000 yen. Life-size panels using the collaboration illustration go up inside the store. IP mixer handled product design and store operation.
DMM GAMES announced on September 18 that ANGELICA ASTER will end service on October 19, about one year and eleven months after its December 2024 launch on DMM GAMES for PC, PC browser, and Android, with an iOS version following later. The operation team said it had worked on its operation structure, schedule adjustments, and development of functions and content, but judged it could not keep providing sufficient service. Jewel purchases stopped on September 18 and unused jewels will be refunded from October 19.
Rapper G PLANTS released his second single, "Downer's Inner Circle," on Friday, September 18. The track centers on the expression "TRIP" and draws on memories and sensations G PLANTS experienced himself, sampling a phrase from a classic song and rebuilding it as hip-hop. Production was handled by T33-K, which the source describes as T33-K's debut work. It arrives about a month after his debut single "Ryuchijo."
HIJIKI released the short adventure game Teakano: The Girl Who Only Says Cliches for free on browser and PC. The player dates Kurishie Moka, a Class 1-A classmate who answers every conversation with internet memes. Normal choices do not change the ending. The game branches into 5 endings depending on which of 4 chapters the player goes home in. One run takes about 10 minutes.
One or Eight's village-building action RPG Warota, Ore no Ie no Tonari Maoujou www was playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on Switch 2 and PS5. The game has finished its closed and open beta tests and is set to begin early access on November 13, 2026. Players reincarnate as a Bounder, build a village, assign more than 20 jobs through hats, and fight off fan monsters drawn by the neighboring idol demon lord's live.
Music creator john released a new Hatsune Miku song, "Dream Core," with an MV now streaming on 39ch. The release date is September 17, 2026. john drew the Miku illustration used in the video himself, and Meri handled production. Distribution of the song has also started on KARENT, the Vocaloid music specialty label. The track pairs a shadowy worldview with a light, upbeat rhythm.
Medicos Entertainment has opened Amazon.co.jp preorders for two JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 figure releases, both scheduled for May 31, 2027. The Super Action Statue set pairs Joseph Joestar and Iggy, with Joseph at roughly 150mm tall and Iggy at roughly 35mm. It includes wrist parts for summoning Joseph's Stand, Hermit Purple, plus a Polaroid camera and photos from the story, and Iggy ships with both his early and late faces for swapping. The set is priced at 9,176 yen including tax and is made of ABS, nylon, and polyvinyl chloride. Separately, The Fool returns to the Statue Legend line at 8,182 yen including tax, standing about 95mm with a silver-based color scheme. Medicos lists the distributor for both items. The figures do not stand on their own and require the included base.
Real Sound Anime published advance scene cuts from Episode 13 of Mushoku Tensei III: Jobless Reincarnation, titled Diary. The episode follows Old Rudeus, who arrived from the future in Episode 12 via past-transfer magic and left Rudeus a diary recording what is to come. The cuts show Rudeus holding the diary and an old man describing a shocking future. The series airs Sundays at 24:00 on TOKYO MX, BS11 and others.
Acacia announced on September 16 that Reina Ueda will voice Chihane Shiba in its upcoming game Magical Girl Occult Village. The sacrifice suspense title is scheduled for release on Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam within 2026. Chihane is the daughter of the Shiba family, who have presided over sacred rites for generations, and the character believes herself to be a god.
Manga UP! Global added three manga this week: Yū Yukishiro's I Need to Quit this Antique Store, the nns, Skyfarm, and Dr. Mine collaboration The Journey of the Half-Elf Dwarven Master Blacksmith, and Mare Tuzumiya's Tsukimi Is All Dolled Up. The first two arrived consecutively, with the third following on Thursday. All three originally serialized in Square Enix's Manga UP! or Gangan Joker.
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions will open advance orders on September 18 at 11:00 for two merchandise lines tied to the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency anime. JOJO LEATHER COLLECTION covers pass cases, Stone Mask ID card holders, leather keyholders and a leather pouch. JOJO CRAFT SERIES adds Kutani Ware plates and chopstick rests and foil-stamped tenugui. Both sit under the new everyday-goods project J,in Life.
BookWalker Global is partnering with Mahjong Pros Publishing, the imprint of mahjong set company Mahjong Pros, and added four titles on the same day: Senba Kurono's 136 Ready-to-Use Mahjong Strategies and Tactics, volumes 1 and 2 of Hideki Ohwada's Reform with No Wasted Draws - The Legend of Koizumi, Crybaby Mermaid - Illustrated Memoir of Yuumi Uotani by Mio Junta and Suda Yoshiki, and volume 1 of Ayato Sasakura's Vermilion Stella - Illustrated Memoir of Arisa Date. The imprint licenses, localizes, and distributes mahjong-themed manga and textbooks.
City Connection announced on Tuesday that the 2009 arcade mahjong game Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jong is getting a remaster. The Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jong Remaster will launch in Japan in 2027 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam. The original game came to arcades in July 2009 and reached PlayStation Portable that same year.
The Japan Internet Media Association announced a second round of speakers for Internet Media Day 2026, set for Saturday, November 7, 2026. SESSION 04 covers media subscriptions with speakers from Nikkei, Diamond, AbemaTV and Oita Godo Shimbun. SESSION 05 covers video content strategy with speakers from Bungeishunju, TBS Television and Diamond. Ticket applications close Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
Episode 12 of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation III is two men talking in a dimly lit room, and the review treats it as the hinge of the whole story. Future Rudeus arrives to warn his younger self that opening a door leads to the deaths of the three women he loves, a futile lifelong hunt for the Man-God, and a rift with Eris he never repairs. Rudeus is urged to deceive the Man-God rather than fight him.
Bandai is reselling two sets of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Capsule Figure Collection gashapon, tied to illustrations from JOJO WORLD 2 and JOJO WORLD 3. Each set has six types at 700 yen per play, scheduled for the third week of September 2026. The JOJO WORLD EDITION matches the November 2022 release; the JOJO WORLD 3 EDITION matches the April 2025 release. Both are sold at Bandai Namco Amusement.
Sega NET Mahjong MJ is running a collaboration tournament with the Twin Angel series, the Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel 20th Anniv. CUP, from Monday, September 14, 2026. Qualifier A runs September 14 to 20, Qualifier B runs September 21 to 27, and the finals run September 28 to October 4. Tonpuusen and three-player mahjong run in parallel. Rewards include an evolution-type SP character (UR), table backgrounds, EX backgrounds, and BGM.
Neo-Porte announced on September 13, 2026 that Neozeroki Event 2026 "Duel" will be held Monday, December 28, 2026 at TACHIKAWA STAGE GARDEN in Tachikawa, Tokyo. The event is performed by Generation 0 members Shibuya Hal and Shirayuki Reid, who will present a mini live alongside variety and interaction segments. Doors open at 17:00, the show starts at 18:00, and it closes at 20:30. Tickets are split three ways: a standard in-person ticket at 11,000 yen, an upgrade ticket at 3,000 yen that moves the holder to the first-floor front area, and a streaming ticket at 6,600 yen with archive access through January 27, 2027. All in-person ticket buyers receive a postcard. The fastest advance lottery opened September 13 at 19:00 and closes September 23. Goods advance sales also began September 13, running to October 1, with T-shirts at 4,500 yen and other items. A second event, Neo-Porte Live 2026 "Contre-Jour," follows at the same venue on December 29.
Benevo Inc. will hold AIgekijo2026, an AI film screening event, on September 20, 2026 at United Cinemas Odaiba. Forty 90-second works selected from creators across Japan will be shown, along with screenings by guest creators ICO, AI-sama no Geshuku, AI FREAK, AI Taro, Tanaka, Touya, YUUUKI, and Lime Light. A 15-second AI commercial competition presented by aicrew is also on the program.
VTuber Kujo Ringo is publishing "Zero kara Wakaru VTuber no Hajimekata! Haishin Debut kara Fan-zukuri, Shuekika made" through Sotechsha on September 28, 2026. The 240-page A5 book is priced at 2,200 yen and printed in two colors. It covers the work of starting as a VTuber and of staying one: concept planning, ordering art and models from illustrators and modelers, streaming software and equipment, publicity plans, pre-stream testing, collaborations, merchandise, 3D modeling and 3D live performances, taking on work, and health and mental care for the long run. Illustrator LAM, who designed Kujo Ringo's own look, drew the cover. Advance sales opened at 11:00 on September 14 at Shosen Book Tower in Akihabara, Tokyo. Kujo Ringo is also active in the VR community and writes columns, including a serialized one titled "Oshiete, Kujo Ringo-sama!"
Neo-Porte will hold its 2026 live show Contre-Jour on Tuesday, December 29, 2026, at TACHIKAWA STAGE GARDEN, in two parts across one day. Twelve members appear, including Shibuya Hal, Shirayuki Reid, Aruse Inu, Hizuki Yui, Yozuna Niu, Minase, Tentei Forte, Koshira Teto, Kuga Leo, Itoi Toi, Kurakura Aria and Shirana Shizuku. Standard in-person tickets are 11,000 yen, all-performance tickets 20,000 yen, upgrades 3,000 yen, and streaming tickets 6,600 yen. The fastest advance lottery opened Sunday, September 13, 2026.
Cover Corp. will hold an AR online live for its hololive unit ReGLOSS on Sunday, November 29, 2026. The event, titled ReGLOSS AR LIVE "X-ReCHORD", streams only online with no venue viewing. Doors open at 17:30 and the performance starts at 18:00. Kanade Izuru, Ririka Ichijo, Raden Juufuutei, and Hajime Todoroki all perform. In the AR setup, the four appear on a real stage built from live-action sets and lighting, and when a member touches the pin badge on her chest, comments sent to her float around her. Viewers' support is also displayed inside the live space itself. A free partial stream runs on the ReGLOSS official YouTube channel for part of the first half. Paid streams go through SPWN and ZAIKO. Streaming tickets cost 6,500 yen with tax, and a Holo Focus add-on ticket costs 2,500 yen.
COSPA is releasing new Frieren: Beyond Journey's End goods: a domestically produced Frieren Necktie at 6,050 yen, a Frieren's Seductive T-Shirt in WHITE and SUMI, a Frieren & Fern 'Mimic Escape' T-Shirt in BLACK, and three Detachable Full-Color Patches. Each item sells early at the COSPA booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026 and Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair 2026, with general release in early December 2026.
A new live-action television series based on Ryō Kurashina and Issaku Wake's Jotei Super Queen manga will premiere on October 22 in the YTV channel's late-night Drama DiVE block. Nagisa Saitō stars as Ayaka Tachibana, a woman who loses her single mother to cancer and tries to become the Empress of Ginza through its hostess clubs. Kurashina and Wake serialized the manga in Houbunsha's Weekly Manga Times from 1996 to 2001.
GAZE IN GAMES released the co-op adventure Shady job for PC via Steam. Up to four players work as construction workers who also handle mafia disposal jobs, carrying body bags to the top of high-rise buildings and burying them in concrete. The bags are alive and thrash harder the more roughly they are handled. The game is 980 yen, discounted 38 percent to 607 yen until September 18.
ABEMA will run free marathon broadcasts of six sports anime starting Saturday, September 12, 2026. The lineup includes Major, Kuroko's Basketball, and Haikyu!!, plus Inazuma Eleven the Movie 2025, the Hajime no Ippo TV special Champion Road, the OVA Mashiba vs Kimura Execution, and the New Challenger and Rising seasons. Episodes stay free for one week after broadcast.
Rapper Daichi Yamamoto announced the co-performing artists for his two-man live tour, "Daichi Yamamoto Joint Show Series 'Hakka,'" across four Japanese cities. Yuta Orisaka performs in Fukuoka, Miko Suzuki in Sapporo, Watson in Nagoya, and Kaho Nakamura in Hiroshima. The second advance ticket lottery runs from September 11 at 18:00 to September 20 at 23:59, with all-standing tickets at 6,500 yen.
Zero Place ran a participatory promotion for Saitama City at Saitama Stadium Fireworks John Williams Fireworks 2026. Four gacha machines were installed, with free plays conditioned on following the city's official SNS accounts, plus a survey-linked digital gacha called ELP. The day produced 440 free gacha plays and 48 ELP digital plays, a total of 488 experiences, and gathered visitor opinions for future event planning.
C4 Connect's Houchishoujo is holding a collaboration with the TV anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime from September 8 to September 28. Rimuru (CV: Miho Okasaki), Milim (CV: Rina Hidaka), and Shion (CV: M・A・O) appear in Houchishoujo-original bunny girl costumes with newly recorded voices. In the event "Longing and Watching Over," Shion can be obtained for free.
Hatano Seisakusho, the Osaka maker of bath fittings, will open a CAMPFIRE crowdfunding project for AiR JOKER on September 16. The device electrolyzes a teaspoon of salt and tap water into electrolyzed hypochlorous water, spraying it as mist about twice a month for roughly 25 minutes to suppress mold. Planned general price is 29,810 yen, with backer-only early-bird pricing.
Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that ACE COMBAT HOUR ZERO, a live-action prequel to ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE, will stream in four parts starting September 15. Josh Holloway plays a pilot, Brandon Routh a doctor, and Tamlyn Tomita a news anchor, three survivors of the invasion whose stories lead into the game's campaign. The full series finishes before the game's October 2 release.
The Korean Culture Center Los Angeles and the Korea Creative Content Agency will host the 2026 K-Comics Origin Los Angeles exhibition from September 11 to October 17. It covers Korean comics' move into the webtoon format and features All of Us Are Dead, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, and Solo Leveling, with installations and interactive kiosks. Dong-geun Joo, creator of All of Us Are Dead, attends the September 11 opening.
The live-action film of Shohei Manabe's Sins of Kujo began streaming a new teaser on Thursday, adding six cast members. Kiyohiko Shibukawa plays Takehito Mitarashi, Haru Kuroki plays Kanako Kujo, Yui Narumi plays Rui Ota, Eita Okuno plays Uji, Mutsuo Yoshioka plays Karigane, and Yu Tokui plays Kajiya. The film opens in Japan on January 8, 2027.
Live2D Inc. announced on September 10, 2026 that a Live2D model of Kasukabe Tsumugi, illustrated by Sakamoto Ahiru, is now available in the browser-based online video editor "nizima ACTION!! β version." The model includes more than 40 types of expressions and motions and can be used for free. It can be operated through tracking apps such as nizima LIVE and VTube Studio, and it supports hand tracking. The model also works with the text-to-speech system VOICEVOX, which was added to the editor in May, so text input, voice synthesis, and lip sync can be completed inside nizima ACTION!!. The same model is also being distributed free on KASUKABEproject's Booth. Use requires compliance with the character's terms of use and credit notation such as "VOICEVOX: Kasukabe Tsumugi." The editor is free for anyone with a nizima account. A desktop version and collaborative editing features are in development.
USERJOY Technology released Genseiroku Remake on September 10 for PC via Steam, with Japanese display and subtitles. The simulation RPG revives the 1998 title Genseiroku, set on the continent of Farcion where five races once fought the Demon God War. It adds renewed portraits and battlefields, branching story choices with multiple endings, a card game, Steam Workshop mod support, and includes the original 1998 version.
Future Friends Games released the climbing action game Sunset Summit on Steam on September 9, 2026. Developed by Joe Fender and Andrew Fender, the PC title supports solo play and online co-op for up to eight players. Players control a grandpa and grandma who must reach the summit before sunset across 16 climbing courses spread over four floating islands. Each course offers multiple routes, and players need to pick a path they can finish within the time limit. Standard gear includes an ice axe and rope, while drone delivery can bring odd items like parasols, pogo sticks, suspicious medicine, and canned boiled beans. Falling is not the end, as checkpoints allow players to resume, and the game encourages a climb hard, fall hard approach. Communication tools include proximity voice chat and radio transceivers, and a photo mode lets players take selfies. The game supports Japanese and is priced at 580 yen. Joe Fender noted that the game began development in 2021 after DEVOUR, and that seeing the success of PEAK restored his confidence to finish the project.
Beneath the Tangles published a video interview with Madeleine Morris, the English voice of Rudeus Greyrat in Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3. Morris discusses Rudeus's humanity, the challenge of voicing him as he ages, and the difficult conversations the series prompts. The interview is part of a three-part Season 2 finale feature.
Advance scene cuts for episode 12 of TV anime Mushoku Tensei III have been released. Titled The End and the Beginning, the episode reveals the identity of a mysterious old man who tells Rudeus he came from the future and speaks of tragic events about to befall him. The released photos show Rudeus's surprised expression.
Nekkyou developed and launched ≒JOY LINK, the official per-member fan club app for idol group ≒JOY, on August 10, 2026. It is the third group in the LINK series after =LOVE and ≠ME. The app runs on iOS, Android, and web. Nekkyou took over the LINK business from Cosmo in July 2026, making this the first new group under its own operation.
Episode 11 of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation III spends its runtime closing out subplots. Rudeus decides Nanahoshi must return home, Cliff gets a magic eye, and Ariel keeps pushing for Perugius' support. The closing moments set up the Man-God's manipulation: his basement directive will trigger a disaster that sends Rudeus down a time travel path. The episode holds a community score of 4.2.
The column covers Gamescom's Opening Night Live, where China-based developers took many of the splashiest announcement slots. HoYoVerse led with a tease for Nodusfall, a dark fantasy co-op action game with no platforms specified. The company also showed Petit Planet, an Animal Crossing-esque life sim with a final beta open for sign-ups that explicitly includes mobile platforms, and offered a demo of Honkai Nexus Anima on the show floor.
C4 Connect's idle RPG Houchishoujo began a collaboration with the anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime on September 8. Rimuru, Milim, and Shion appear in original bunny girl designs with newly recorded voice lines. MR Shion is the headline reward, earned free through the collab event running September 8 to September 28, with item exchange open until October 1. An X campaign and a gift code are also live.