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Riot Store Japan has opened pre-orders for Youtooz products tied to FIRESTARTER, the new K/DA song released October 19. The lineup is four member figures (Ahri, Akali, Evelynn, Kai'Sa) at 5,700 yen each, plus a Poro Plush Keychain blind box at 4,400 yen. The blind box carries a 1/4 standard rate and a 1/50 secret variant. Figures ship at the end of May 2027, keychains at the end of April 2027.
Magazine Pocket's official X account announced that Shinobu Ohtaka, creator of Magi and Orient, will launch a new manga titled Geek and Crown (Geekrown) on October 27. The announcement teases a story about a treasonous military officer caught in a succession crisis. Ohtaka's Orient ran in Weekly Shonen Magazine from May 2018, moved to Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in February 2021, and ended in October 2024 with 22 compiled volumes.
Shinko Music Entertainment released the Kimi wa Natsu no Naka Memorial Book on October 21, 2026, tied to TV Tokyo's July-season drama. The 104-page volume carries 60 pages of newly shot gravure of leads Tomoya Oku and Kazuto Mokudai, a long talk between the two, interviews with original author Nagisa Furuya, screenwriter You Saito, directors Kozue Sasaki and Shun Haga, and producers Takaya Chiba and Kozue Sasaki, plus a sacred sites pilgrimage map.
Kodansha lists the 10th volume of Nana Mikoshiba's The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World light novels with a blurb teasing a story finale. The volume ships on December 2. The ninth volume shipped on June 2. Riko Korie illustrates the novels. Norihito Sasaki's manga adaptation ended in January 2024, and a sequel manga launched on May 27. The anime's second season premiered on October 8 and is ongoing.
Kodansha USA Publishing announced new licenses and Kodansha Print Club releases on Thursday. The Print Club slate has seven titles, among them Moyashi Fujisawa's Burn the House Down and When Arika Went Missing, Shikako and Tsukasa Monma's Manchuria Opium Squad, and two Daisuke Igarashi books, Kamakura Bakeneko Club: Uncanny Cat Tales and Umwelt and Other Stories. The other licenses include Jackpot Girls, Powerless Without You, and Occult Times.
Kodansha Game Creators Lab announced on October 14 that the horror adventure game 1999 Tokoyo Building will be released for PC via Steam on November 10, 2026. The game is set in December 1999 inside Tokoyo Building, a run-down indoor amusement park where people are rumored to disappear. The protagonist is Akira Hiruyuki, a boy with amnesia who is caught by the owner, Kazuto Yano, while committing burglary and is forced to work without pay in exchange for food and lodging. His coworkers include Camellia, a short-tempered fortune teller; Samejima, a servile aquarium keeper; Count, a performer who claims to be a charismatic villain; Tokoyoman, a suit actor; and Hajime Kotobuki, a serious employee. Players alternate between point-and-click exploration of 360-degree low-polygon backgrounds to pick locks and search private rooms, and conversation sections using Live2D where choices can lead to immediate dead ends. A free demo containing all of Chapter 1 is available now on Steam.
The November issue of Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age announced that manga creator Inaba will launch a new series, Nukedashi: Renai Kinshi no Koto de Ore wa Ajin Joshi to Chome Chome Suru, in Young Dragon Age's 37th issue on October 26. Inaba adapted the Killed Again, Mr. Detective? light novels, which ended at two volumes in March 2024 and inspired an April television anime.
A Real Sound Anime interview gathers Jun Furukawa, Konomi Inagaki, Anna Nagase, and Haruka Shiraishi to discuss the TV anime When I Woke Up, I Had the Strongest Equipment and a Spaceship, So I Want to Live Freely as a Mercenary Aiming for a Detached House. They describe the mix of isekai reincarnation and sci-fi, hard-to-read star and country names, and the dubbing sessions they worked through together.
At The Tenth Mosaic, a game culture festival held at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo on September 22 and 23, Kazutaka Kodaka and Masafumi Takada discussed how Danganronpa's story and music shaped each other. Takada said he wrote the theme song "DANGANRONPA" in about 20 minutes after putting the title into the lyrics, and the Monokuma design arrived in roughly five minutes.
Nao Oshiba said on X on Tuesday that the manga I Don't Want to Be Killed by You, My Crown Prince! is entering its final arc and climax. The series adapts Ema Okadachi's original story, which ran on Shosetsuka ni Naro in 2021. Oshiba launched the manga in Kodansha's Palcy app in December 2021. Kodansha ships the 10th compiled volume on October 29.
Paramount Skydance said on October 6, 2026 that it finished its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, and the combined company now operates as Skydance Corporation. The deal carried a total value of $111 billion, according to 4Gamer.net, and closed after shareholder and regulatory approvals in multiple countries. David Ellison leads the new company as CEO. The assets under one roof now include Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, Paramount+, CNN and CBS, plus the game studios each side brought in. Variety reported that the games and experiences divisions of Paramount Games Studio and Warner Bros. Games will be folded together, and Skydance press materials listed former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs and Skydance co-CEO Inon Kreiss as new board members, with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair joining as an advisor. Skydance Games titles such as Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra continue development inside the group.
At The Tenth Mosaic in Tokyo on September 22 and 23, Too Kyo Games CEO Kazutaka Kodaka and music producer Masafumi Takada discussed how they work together, from Danganronpa through Rain Code and Hundred Line. Kodaka said Danganronpa sold about 30,000 copies in its first week and grew over roughly half a year, and described why he keeps development outside the studio.
Kodansha's Young Magazine has announced a second issue of Young Magazine USA, its special edition for the U.S. The staff is seeking Japanese manga creators who want their work published for overseas readers. Applicants must submit a chapter storyboard and three sample manuscript pages by December 13. The requested theme is an outcast who is overlooked by society and struggles to fit in.
K MANGA will release Adachitoka's The Wolf at Memory's End in English on October 5. The manga, known in Japan as Yadoya no Oinu-sama, launches in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine on October 6, the same magazine where Adachitoka's Noragami: Stray God ran from 2010 until it ended in January 2024. The story follows Kasumi Kuromine, a junior high school girl in the countryside who falls down a mountainside during a school field trip.
The Spain Game Festival, an invitation-only business networking event hosted by the Spanish Trade and Investment Agency and the Embassy of Spain, was held on September 16 at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo. Gonzalo Ramos of the embassy's economic office said 35 Spanish companies and organizations exhibited as "Games from Spain" at Tokyo Game Show 2026, and six Spanish titles were selected for SELECTED INDIE 80. Kazutaka Kodaka appeared as an event VIP.
The November issue of Kodansha's Shonen Sirius announced on Friday that a new Cells at Work! spinoff, Hataraku Saibo Dental (Cells at Work! Dental), will launch in the next issue on October 26. Koma Warita and Kawede Sakaki handle the manga. It follows the end of Cells at Work! Cat, which wrapped on March 26 and shipped its fifth and final volume on May 8.
Hiroya Oku confirmed on social media Thursday that he created the Thunder 3 manga under the pen name Yuki Ikeda. He said the pen name kept a first-chapter surprise intact for new readers, one that the Oku name would have lessened. The series launched in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine in May 2022, entered its climax in January 2025, went on hiatus that March over Ikeda's health, returned in February, and ended on June 5.
Dentsu and Kodansha have entered a partnership that gives potential clients in North and South America access to Kodansha intellectual properties including Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell, and Blue Lock. Dentsu is now the central point of contact for brand marketers seeking sponsorships, tie-in campaigns, live events, and fan experiences tied to those properties.
Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine announced on Thursday that Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail Re:Fantasia manga miniseries will end in the next chapter, in the magazine's 44th issue on September 30. The miniseries launched in the 35th issue on July 29. The original Fairy Tail manga ran from 2006 to July 2017, and Mashima and Atsuo Ueda's Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest sequel inspired a television anime that premiered in July 2024.
K MANGA added Chihiro Kanisawa's Oh My Panda! (Horeta Hareta Panda) as a simulpub title on Wednesday. The story follows Hanna, a high school student with endless stamina who takes a part-time job as a performer for the local mascot Panboo, until a boy from the class next door gets close to uncovering her. Kanisawa launched the series in Kodansha's Dessert magazine in November 2025, and the second compiled volume shipped on September 11.
The 43rd issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine announced that Shuichi Shigeno's Subaru and Subaru manga will take a break and return in the magazine's 48th issue on October 26. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and will release the first compiled volume in English on April 6, 2027.
Hiroya Oku, the manga artist behind GANTZ, stated on September 24, 2026 that Yuki Ikeda, the credited author of Thunder 3, is his own pen name. Oku posted the confirmation on his X account. He said the pen name existed because a chapter 1 twist would have been weakened if his real name had been attached, and he wanted first-time readers to be surprised. Thunder 3 began serialization in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine in May 2022 and reached its final chapter in the July 2026 issue, released on June 5, 2026. The collected volumes total 10, with the last volume released on August 17. The TV anime adaptation premiered on July 8, 2026 and its final episode, Episode 12, is set to air on September 30. Online speculation about the art style resembling GANTZ had circulated for some time before Oku's post.
Kodansha's K MANGA service announced Thursday that it has added Yui Hata's manga adaptation of Nikita Kitagawa's No-Clipping My Way to Supremacy as a simulpub title. The web novel began on Shosetsuka ni Naro in February 2021. The light novels started in June 2022 with illustrations by Meto Sasame. A television anime is planned for 2027.
Kodansha and Dentsu have signed a partnership that gives marketers across the Americas access to three of the publisher's anime and manga properties: Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell, and Blue Lock. Dentsu is the primary contact for brands that want to use the Kodansha-owned intellectual property in advertising campaigns, sponsorships, promotional work, and fan events across the region. Cartoon Brew reported the agreement on September 24, 2026. OtakuKart Anime followed on September 25, 2026, describing the three franchises as globally recognized and framing the deal as a route to advertising campaigns and fan-focused experiences in the Americas. The arrangement covers promotional use of Kodansha IP. It does not name specific partner brands, campaign dates, or the terms of the agreement. The three titles are the only Kodansha properties the reports name.
Hiroya Oku revealed on X that he is Yuki Ikeda, the pen name credited as the author of Thunder 3. He said the alias protected the twist in Episode 1, so first-time readers would be surprised. Oku thanked the anime staff and said he watches every episode. Thunder 3 ran in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine, concluded in June 2026, and its anime streams on Netflix.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System has released a preview for Episode 13, which premieres on September 24. The same week, the production confirmed that Part 2 will continue in Fall 2026, with a key visual, a main promotional video, theme songs, and four additional cast members. The anime is based on the Kodansha Young Magazine series, and the work has more than 5 million copies in circulation. Part 2 picks up after Elymas and Ruche, the lead pair, and it will stream on Crunchyroll. The team behind the adaptation includes Studio GoHands, with Kodansha as the publisher of the source material. The preview arrives one day before the Episode 13 broadcast, and the Part 2 announcements land while the first part is still airing.
Tokoronyori's new game Twospeak (Working Title) appeared at the Kodansha Game Lab booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026. It is a two-player-only puzzle adventure, separate from the BOKURA series, in which each player is given a different vocabulary and the two decode each other's language while solving puzzles. The booth features 24 titles.
Tramworks is showing TRAMCITY HAKODATE at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held at Makuhari Messe from September 17 to 21. The railway driving simulator is set in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and runs an early access version on Steam. Its dedicated in-house controller has separate acceleration and braking levers, and the brake lever's feel switches between electric and pneumatic braking modes.
Kodansha FES 2026 in Animate runs from October 10 to November 15, 2026 at Animate stores nationwide and Animate mail order. Buyers of eligible Kodansha books and magazines receive one Replica Mini Shikishi drawn from a set of 40 designs. Customers pick a group from A through D, then receive one sheet from it, without choosing the design. Animate mail order distributes the bonus differently, and the source points buyers to the official site for that guidance.
On the September 17, 2026 opening day of Tokyo Game Show 2026, Shuhei Yoshida, former head of Sony Interactive Entertainment's Indies Initiative and now representative of his company yosp, spoke with 4Gamer editor-in-chief Kazuhisa Okada. Their session, "Why Does Japanese Indie Produce a Huge Hit Every Year," covered the rise of Japanese indie titles such as The Exit 8 and DarekaRe, 4Gamer's early indie coverage, and Yoshida's years of promotion work.
Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine announced on Wednesday that KOJIRO's Ura-Tokyo: Exorcist City manga will end in the next issue on September 24. The series follows Soma Kuroniwa, a student at a secret exorcist academy beneath Tokyo who is cursed to carry a dangerous spirit. KOJIRO launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine on March 17, the same day it began on K MANGA. The second compiled volume shipped on August 17.
Kodansha Game Lab opened the Steam store page for Legacy Code on September 16 and started accepting wishlist registrations. The physics simulation game is developed by indie creator Room 127 and is scheduled for release on PC in 2027. Players combine junk parts, including doll heads, electric fans, televisions, 3D puzzles, dentures, chains, and cacti, into creatures called Mechanimals, then operate them directly. Defeating enemies yields the parts they carried, and adding those parts changes both appearance and performance. Each part has its own movement quirks, and no clear correct answer exists for assembly. The game runs on the Marionette Engine, an in-house physics system built by Room 127 that moves a Mechanimal regardless of how its parts are combined, though the result sometimes walks in ways its own creator did not intend. The cycle of build, fight, and collect expands the walkable world, from deserts to snowy mountains and ruins. Legacy Code supports Japanese, English, and Simplified Chinese, with pricing undecided.
A short-format television anime of Yuka Ōshima's Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~ will premiere next January on tvk. The story follows Gen, a 70-year-old man estranged from his wife and daughter after a divorce, who takes in his three-year-old granddaughter Haru after his daughter's death. Kōdai Satō directs at IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio with Studio Nanahoshi.
Bushiroad opened the Steam store page for the digital trading card game Weiß Schwarz Online on September 15, 2026, and started taking wishlist registrations. The game is developed by Furyu and Lancarse and is scheduled for release in spring 2027 on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch. It ships in two versions with different included titles. The Weiß Edition carries Aogiri High School, Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko, The Quintessential Quintuplets, and BanG Dream! MyGO!!!!!. The Schwarz Edition carries THE IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors, Sword Art Online, Touhou Project, and BanG Dream! Ave Mujica. Support is listed for Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Spanish, and the player count is listed as one player, or one to two in online matches. A playable demo will be at the Bushiroad booth in Hall 6 of Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs from September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe.
A stage adaptation of OVER REQUIEMZ is set for February 5 to February 10, 2027 at Mitsukoshi Theater in Tokyo. The production, titled OVER REQUIEMZ -Akuma Tsuki no Ouji Hen-, is based on a work by Idea Factory and Kogado Studio and will run in two versions, a Truth Route and a Fallen to Darkness Route. Ryusei Maruyama, Isami Hiraga, Kodai Miyagi, and Ryoma Baba lead the cast, with Sho Kubota writing and directing.
4Gamer will host a talk stage at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 17, titled "Why Does Japan's Indie Scene Produce a Major Hit Every Year - Looking at the Past 10 Years and the Next 10." The speakers are Shuhei Yoshida, Representative Director of yosp Inc., and Kazuhisa Okada, 4Gamer.net Editor-in-Chief and President of Aetas Inc. The session runs 13:45 to 14:30 at the 4Gamer.net booth, 05-C04, Hall 5, Makuhari Messe, and streams on the 4GamerSP YouTube channel.
Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine addressed the ongoing Gachiakuta hiatus on September 8, stating it will announce the manga's return once decided. The magazine's last new chapter ran in the combined 36th and 37th issue shipped August 5. Issue pages since have said the break is for creator Kei Urana to conduct research. Kodansha published the 19th collected volume on July 16, and the anime adaptation premiered in July 2025.
KADOKAWA will integrate five anime production studios, ENGI, Studio KADAN, Chiptune, Bellnox Films, and Raging Bull, into a new company called Studio One Base Co., Ltd. in November 2026. The new company will be based in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, with Tsuyoshi Kikuchi as representative director and president. About 310 employees will move over, and KADOKAWA will hold 100% of the capital.
Kadath Co., Ltd. announced on September 10 the dark fantasy JRPG Under Mythos, planned for release in 2028 on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch. The studio was founded in January 2026 by producer Yoichi Miyaji, whose credits include the LUNAR and GRANDIA series, and Under Mythos is its first project. The protagonist is a single cat that wanders into another world while searching for its Mother, arrives at a mysterious hot spring inn where otherworld residents soak, and works there entertaining guests while wishing to reunite with Mother. The game system combines hot spring inn management simulation with extraction: players explore dungeons for ingredients and resources, fight action battles against grotesque transformed beings, and return safely to put the ingredients and rewards back into running the inn. Developing the inn produces new encounters and experiences that lead back to exploration. The familiar world gradually mutates into an unpredictable madness as the story progresses.
Futabasha released an ASMR video for "Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's OL Diary" on September 10, read by Yuki Takada, who voices Elma. The video marks the spin-off's 100th chapter and depicts Elma encouraging a listener. Volume 12 of the series, drawn by Ayami Kazama from a story by coolkyousinnjya, also went on sale that day.
Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine confirmed on Sep 9 that Gachiakuta is on hiatus, after chapter 174 missed its Aug 25 release with no word from the staff. The magazine apologized for the concern the unannounced delay caused but gave no cause and no resumption date. The confirmation follows weeks of silence after author Kei Urana and graffiti artist Hideyoshi Andou stepped back from X following a public fallout with toxic fans.
Canon Marketing Japan will hold a solo exhibition by Takashi Okuda, winner of the 2025 grand prize in its GRAPHGATE photo and video artist discovery audition, at Canon Gallery S in Minato-ku, Tokyo, from November 13 to December 15, 2026. The show presents four series, two video and two photo works, printed on Canon imagePROGRAF PRO printers. Admission is free.
Kodansha announced that THINKpod, its business video media launched in June 2026, has passed 300,000 subscribers on its official YouTube channel. The company says the channel is drawing support from U35 next-generation business leaders. THINKpod positions itself against the AI era with the concept that knowledge is not meant to be immediately useful, and has editors from various fields act as planning producers for daily free content.
Kodansha Creators Lab released MissMon, a looter-strategy game for PC via Steam, on September 8, 2026. The game, developed solo by Mach Habanero, tasks players with forming parties of five mythic monsters, called MissMon, to defeat the Demon King. Battles are automatic, and success hinges on pre-battle decisions about equipment and formation placement. There are 30 types of MissMon, each with a role such as tank, attacker, healer, buffer, or debuffer, and monsters can learn new abilities at certain levels, allowing for varied builds of the same type. The game features four weapon types (sword, shield, staff, great sword), nine attributes like fire and lightning, and over 140 equipment items with random skills and options. Equipment affects stats and attributes can trigger status ailments that, if chained, may wipe out enemies. A unique mechanic involves the 'struggle for equipment,' where winning battles lets players take enemy weapons, while losing risks their own weapons being taken by the Demon King's army. After defeating the final boss, endgame content unlocks with progressively stronger enemies and powerful weapons obtainable only post-story. MissMon is priced at 980 yen, with a 10% launch discount to 882 yen until September 21.
Kodansha Game Lab opened the Steam store page for Catharsis ~The Last Atelier~, an immersive art adventure by creator Mana, on September 7, 2026. The game is planned for release within 2026. Players control a nameless being who knows nothing about humans, guided by a mysterious voice through ten paintings by Van Gogh, Klimt, and Monet. Each stage changes the viewpoint and controls: some are 3D walking spaces, others side-scrolling, and one involves traveling by boat. A wolf and an owl accompany the journey, letting the player ride across plains or fly to high places. The game has no game over and no time limits, and each stage takes about 10 to 20 minutes. Wishlist registration opened with the store page. Catharsis is Mana's debut work. Mana self-taught Unreal Engine after moving abroad, won Epic Games' Unreal Quest 5 contest, and was selected for Kodansha Game Creators Lab in February 2024. The game supports Japanese, English, and Simplified Chinese, and is published by Kodansha.
Kodansha USA will host Saka Mikami, creator of The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity, at its Kodansha House pop-up in New York City on October 10 and 11. The event includes a Q&A and signing on October 10 and an additional signing on October 11. Tickets are allocated through a random drawing on kodanshahouse.com, with applications open September 3 to 10. The pop-up runs October 9 to 18 at 508 West 37th Street, during New York Comic Con.
VTuber agency Nori Pro has transitioned from individual management by founder Tsukudani Norio to an organizational structure, announced during a livestream on September 6, 2026. Tsukudani Norio has stepped down as president and now holds the roles of founder and creative advisor, while retaining input on overall management policy. The transition was prompted by concerns over the concentration of workload on Tsukudani, who said she worried, "If I collapsed, what would happen to the affiliated members and the agency?" Preparations began about three years ago, and the new system took effect in January 2026. For roughly six months after, Tsukudani remained involved to facilitate the handover. Under the new structure, Nori Pro has assigned dedicated managers and staff to each affiliated talent, with specialized sections for talent management, sales, merchandise, official channels, and 3D models. The agency also announced its second talent audition, with timing and details still being adjusted. Inuyama Tamaki, the agency's founding member, remains affiliated and will focus solely on VTuber activities with staff support. Nori Pro was launched in 2019 and now counts 16 talents, including Inuyama Tamaki, Tsukudani Norio, and Tamahime.
TELASA began streaming a second making-of special for the drama "Natsuiro no Kumo ga Koi to Arashi wo Makiokosu" on September 5. The special gathers the Takemiya family cast, including Ryusei Fukada, Koki Ukisho, Momoko Tanabe, Michiko Haneda, and Yasuharu Inoue. In the footage, Fukada shares behind-the-scenes stories about his co-star Ukisho, and the cast holds a family meeting segment. The drama faces its final episode.
Bushiroad will show the first playable demo of Weiß Schwarz Online at Tokyo Game Show 2026, running September 17-21 at Makuhari Messe. The digital card game, planned for a spring 2027 release on Nintendo Switch and Steam, will be playable at the Bushiroad booth in Hall 6. The demo covers both editions, Weiß and Schwarz, with eight announced titles across anime, games, and VTuber properties.
Adachitoka, the manga duo behind Noragami: Stray God, will launch a new series titled Yadoya no Oinu-sama (The Inn's Dog) in the November issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine, which goes on sale October 6. The story follows middle schooler Kasumi Kuromine, who lives in the countryside and falls down a mountainside during a school field trip.