The roguelite 2.5D fighting action game Shot One Fighters for PC (Steam) has raised over 20 million yen on Kickstarter, more than double its target. The campaign runs until September 12, 2026, and the game will support Japanese. Fighting game streamer John Crofts and pro player Justin Wong are cooperating in development and will appear in the game.
TheOASG Podcast Episode 250 covers a distressing investigation into Shogakukan's Manga ONE editorial department, a Kumamoto earthquake, and multiple manga hiatuses due to creator health issues. It also reports the deaths of voice actor Michael Donovan and manga artist Yoko Umezu, plus Shueisha's new digital platform MANGA MILLION.
Yen Press announced a new imprint called Avocado House, focused on international novels that fall outside its Japanese light novel line. The launch list includes Keigo Higashino's Laplace's Witch and Aya Saito's The Curse Called Mother, the Prison Called Daughter. The publisher also revealed several new manga licenses at its Sakuracon panel, including Ryoko Kui's The Dragon School Is Atop the Mountain and a Fate/Prototype manga adaptation. The imprint gives Yen Press a dedicated label for non-Japanese fiction, kept separate from the Yen On brand that remains focused on translated Japanese light novels. The split means a reader can tell at a glance which line a title belongs to: Avocado House for international fiction, Yen On for Japanese light novels. The Sakuracon panel paired the imprint news with the new manga licenses, so the company laid out both its novel direction and its manga pipeline in the same session.