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NHK will air a three-part NHK Special series, Hyper-AI Society, asking what AI brings to humanity. Episode 1, on the intelligence explosion and work, airs November 29; Episode 2, on creativity, December 6; Episode 3, on humanity, January 24, 2027. All run from 9:00 to 9:49 p.m., with simultaneous and catch-up streaming on NHK ONE. Comedian and Akutagawa Prize-winning author Naoki Matayoshi is the MC.
RetBear will perform "No Reaction" as the opening theme for the TV anime adaptation of In a World Full of Zombies I'm the Only One Who Doesn't Get Attacked. The song is produced by Kairiki Bear, the Vocaloid creator behind "Venom" and "Darling Dance," and features a guest vocalist credited only as unknown Vo: 0in. The announcement was made on October 10, which is also World Zombie Day, alongside the reveal of the anime's key visual and main promotional video. The series is scheduled to begin airing on AT-X in January 2027. The source manga has recorded more than 9.5 million downloads and sold over 750,000 copies, including spin-offs. "No Reaction" is RetBear's first new release in almost four years, following "Down Timer" in January 2023. Digital streaming details for the song have not yet been announced.
Jagex announced the 2027 roadmap for RuneScape: Dragonwilds at RuneFest 2026, held October 3 and 4 in Birmingham with over 6,000 attendees. A free update, Luminance, arrives in December 2026 as a prologue to the 2027 Blood Crystal Saga, which spans Song of Rebellion and Crown of Night. A PC sale runs two weeks from October 16 on Steam, Epic Games Store, and Jagex Launcher.
Kenshi Yonezu will tour 14 shows in 11 cities from December 26, 2026 to February 28, 2027 under the banner KENSHI YONEZU 2026-2027 WORLD TOUR / GHOST. The run covers Taipei, Seoul, Singapore, Oakland, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Newark, Toronto, London, Paris, and Amsterdam, with expected attendance around 200,000. Singapore, Oakland, Mexico City, Toronto, and Amsterdam are performance locations for Yonezu for the first time.
Bandai Namco Entertainment announced Gundam Blitz Order, described as an RPG-style idle simulation game, on Thursday. The company is accepting applications for a network test running November 18-24. An English website and X/Twitter account are open. Players collect and strengthen mobile suit units, warships, and Mobile Armors from across the Gundam franchise, build formations around each unit's battle style, and boost combat power.
Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, has released the BRUTAL game development framework and its source code through his studio RocketWerkz. BRUTAL is used in RocketWerkz's Kitten Space Agency and was provided as the foundation for Waylith, the engine built for Ludeon Studios' RimWorld. It is open source under the MIT License and free for commercial works, with conditions: credit, copyright and logo on the startup screen, and the NOTICE file.
The television anime of Ryon's Are You a Landmine, Chihara-san? manga will debut on January 7 in the Super Animeism Turbo block on MBS, TBS, and 26 affiliated channels, airing Thursdays at 00:26. Sayumi Suzushiro, Kazuki Ura, Maaya Uchida, Tomokazu Sugita, and Daisuke Ono star. Yasuaki Fujii directs at Synergy SP, with Keiichiro Ochi on scripts and Arisa Okehazama composing music at King Records.
PROJECT NEBULA announced on October 15 that it will end activities as an agency on February 28, 2027. A final event as an agency is set for January 31, 2027, and the official BOOTH shop ends sales handling on March 31, 2027. Members Asuwa Yura, Natori Hinata, and Murasaki Shigure continue as individuals.
KRAFTON implemented the 43.2 update for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, adding a Bentley collaboration with three vehicle skins based on the Flying Spur Mulliner and Continental GTC Mulliner, each with dedicated driving, engine start, and horn sounds. The update also adds the four-player co-op PvE mode "SLB: Dawnbreakers of Rondo," developed with People Can Fly, plus UGC contest winning works in PUBG: Playgrounds. The PC version went live on October 14, 2026; the console version is scheduled for October 22, 2026.
Kadokawa revealed the first teaser video, first key visual, and a January 2027 debut for the second season of the I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too anime on Thursday. Ikumi Hasegawa joins as Iris Knowblade, a Sword Saint who faces the protagonist Yuya Tenjo in an official match, and Sora Amamiya joins as Mai Kagurazaka, a former shrine maiden summoned to another world as the Saintess. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka returns as Yuya, with Akari Kito as Kaori Hojo, Kaori Maeda as Lexia von Arcelia, Ai Kakuma as Luna, Rina Hidaka as Yuti, and Marina Inoue as Kuro. Shin Itagaki returns to direct at Millepensee, with Hiromi Kimura on character design and UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS handling planning and production. Akiyuki Tateyama returns for music, joined by SHIKI.
Toei Animation has revealed the key visual and details for "DIGIMON CONCERT ~2026 Anniversary & BEATBREAK~," set for December 28 and 29 at Tokyo International Forum Hall C. The visual gathers 38 characters, protagonists and partner Digimon from Digimon Tamers, Digimon Savers, Digimon Universe: App Monsters, Digimon Ghost Game and Digimon Beatbreak, in formal attire. Act one covers anniversary theme songs, act two features Beatbreak music arranged under Arisa Okehazama.
Figma announced new features at Config India in Bengaluru, including Code Layers, Figma Specs, and Payload. Code Layers lets teams build code-running prototypes on the Figma Design canvas and deploy them to production, created through the Figma AI agent, GitHub imports, or MCP. Figma Specs compiles production intent into specifications, and Payload releases websites and internal tools using real data. Figma MCP adds 20 new partners, including Meta Muse, Open Code, and Sarvam AI.
AlphaTheta will release the HDJ-F9, a professional on-ear wireless DJ headphone, on October 28, 2026, priced at 54,780 yen including tax. The model carries SonicLink, the company's ultra-low-latency wireless technology, rated at 9 ms of latency. SonicLink touch pairing connects the headphones to compatible DJ equipment, and the separately sold HP-TX01 transmitter extends that connection to other devices.
Kitamura Co., Ltd. will open Akusta STUDIO on the first floor of Shinjuku Kitamura Camera on October 15, 2026. The in-store lab turns photos into acrylic goods in as little as 30 minutes, against a normal delivery time of 2 to 3 weeks. Orders can use smartphone photos or shots taken at the store's PICmii and Kitamura Photo Studio by MERCI. Shinjuku is the third location for the service and the first in Tokyo.
GU's official X account posted on October 15 a teaser hinting at a collaboration with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The image shows silhouettes of villains including Dio Brando, Kars, Wham, Esidisi, DIO, Yoshikage Kira, Diavolo, Vinegar Doppio, Enrico Pucci, and Diego Brando against the GU logo. The post carries the tag #GU Collaboration Quiz, and details are scheduled for October 16.
Prime 1 Studio is adding an Ultimate Premium Masterline Batman (Comic) Batman VS Clayface statue, built from a Jim Lee illustration from Batman: One Bad Day. The 1/4 scale piece stands about 83cm tall and weighs roughly 44.55kg, priced at 340,890 yen. Pre-orders run from October 15 to December 15, 2026, with release set between March and June 2028. A DX Version and DX Bonus Version add extra parts.
The television anime of Manimani Ononata's light novel series I Lost My Adventurer's License will debut in January 2027, with a teaser video and visual released on Thursday. Hiroki Yasumoto voices Douglas and Yuka Iguchi voices Rabi. Yuki Inaba directs at Studio Palette and also writes and oversees the series scripts, with Kaori Yoshikawa designing characters and serving as chief animation director.
Worlds 2026 watch party streamers for Japan have been announced, with eight people selected: Enty, Evi, Raijin, Gingaji Signe, Shallur, Takaya Special, Chisen Yuhi, and Yutapon. The lineup mixes names who have held watch parties at past international tournaments with new additions. Evi, who said in September he will retire from competitive play at the end of this season, joins as a streamer. LoL Esports said more streamers may still be added.
Sakana AI announced on October 15, 2026 that it added a feature called My Fish to its Sakana Chat service. My Fish shows a list of what the AI remembers, a heatmap of days memories were used or stored, a diagram of how memories connect, and a chronological history. Memories unused for 30 days or more appear lighter.
Touken Ranbu ONLINE added the sword warrior Asakura Toushirou to smithing after maintenance on October 13, 2026. He costs 700 of each resource and is available until 12:59 on October 27. He is a tantou of the Awataguchi school, voiced by Sho Komura with art by ZeroGo Iwamoto. A support pack and a Refinement Enhancement 2x Campaign run alongside.
Summer Eternal, a studio that includes former Disco Elysium developer Argo Tuulik, announced the RPG Red Rooster. The lead is Redrick "Rooster" Roost, serving a life sentence, who infiltrates a fire department where his brother is fire chief to identify a serial arsonist in exchange for a full pardon. The setting is the three-part city Arta-Tantor. PC is planned first, followed by PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2.
EXNOA has announced Night Shift Ward Online -New Operation-, a card battle RPG social game operated by NeuralPicks, with pre-registration open on the official website. The game is based on the 1999 adult title Night Shift Ward, released by Mink, and follows a protagonist scouted by St. Lupinus General Hospital to help build a Special Ward. A DMM points campaign runs alongside pre-registration. It is planned free-to-play for FANZA GAMES.
Premium Bandai is taking lottery applications for a third preorder round of the METAL ROBOT Spirits (Ka signature) Enhanced ZZ Gundam, a figure marking the 40th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. It stands about 150mm at head height, uses ABS, PVC, and die-cast, and includes a Double Beam Rifle, Missile Pod, and Hyper Beam Saber. It costs 26,400 yen with tax and is scheduled to ship in June 2027. Applications close October 25, with winners announced in late October.
Variety reported on October 13 that a reboot of The X-Files is being made into a series. Ryan Coogler, executive producer and director of the pilot, also wrote the pilot. Chris Carter, creator of the original, is an executive producer. Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel lead as two FBI agents assigned to a long-closed department handling unexplained phenomena. No distribution date, episode count, or Japanese distribution has been announced.
ANBERNIC is showing a dual-screen handheld called the RG DDS. The top display is about 4.7 inches at 1200x720, the bottom about 4 inches at 960x720, both at 300ppi and 500 nits, for a total pixel count reported as three times the Nintendo 3DS. It runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 with a 6000mAh battery, and does not support glasses-free stereoscopic 3D.
QREATION handled planning and production for Yoshinoya's vertical short home comedy 'Yoshino-san Chi no Yonshimai'. The series follows four sisters who love gyudon and their father, Kazuya Yoshino, played by Kazuya Kojima. The eldest daughter Wako is played by Mikey Sato, the second daughter Sakura by Sakura, the third daughter Osaki by Osaki, and the fourth daughter Risa by Risa Masuda. QREATION runs the account from planning through operation.
Real Akiba Communications has produced nine original characters called REAL AKIBA CHIBEES that call to mind members of the anison dance group REAL AKIBA BOYZ, and it revealed the key visual on October 15. The nine are described as characters who appeared in the streets of Akihabara. Names, profiles, and the development story will follow, with updates on official social media and a special site.
Atbase released Temahera, a free collection of 88 business tools on October 15, 2026, as part of its AI utilization support service AI no Sensei. The tools cover PDF, image, video processing, invoice creation, and website security diagnostics. Atbase says it plans to expand to over 500 tools within the year. Source code for every tool is published, and most work offline once the page loads.
The Pokemon Company will release the board game "Are You Perhaps Team Rocket?" on November 12. It costs 2,200 yen, supports 4 to 6 players, is aimed at ages 10 and up, and runs 30 minutes or more. It is co-developed by YOKA Games. The TV commercial features Megumi Hayashibara, Shin-ichiro Miki, and Inuko Inuyama, the Team Rocket voices from the Pokemon anime.
Zoff will take web pre-orders for "Zoff | Bungo Stray Dogs," its first collaboration with the TV anime, from 10:00 on October 21, 2026 to November 25, 2026. Frames carry the abilities and image motifs of six characters, and each pair ships with a scene-still glasses cloth and an original case. Five stores host try-on corners and sell capsule toys. Shipping runs from late July 2027.
Bandai Spirits opened reservations at general retail stores and online for the HG 1/144 Gouf Ignited Custom on Thursday, October 15, 2026. The kit builds the mobile suit from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM ZERO, which opens in theaters on January 15, 2027. The sword stores and extends without part swapping, the whip ships in extended and bent states, and the Shield Gatling rotates. Release is April 2027 at 3,190 yen.
HP Japan announced the HP OmniBook Ultra 16 AI PC on October 15. The 16-inch notebook runs NVIDIA RTX Spark and offers up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. Three launch models are listed: an Extreme Plus with 64GB memory and a 1TB SSD, an Extreme with 32GB and a 1TB SSD, and an Extreme Pro with 128GB and a 2TB SSD. Orders open October 29, with prices starting at 596,200 yen, or 796,400 yen for the Extreme Plus.
SpaceXAI announced Grok Voice 3.0 on October 14, 2026. In Artificial Analysis tests, each metric improved over Grok Voice 2.0 and surpassed GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) and Gemini 3.8 Live (Ext. Thinking, High). On the Speech to Speech Index it ranked first at 86.9. Input audio costs $4.80 per hour, the same as version 2.0, and the Voice Agent API costs $0.08 per minute.
Good Smile Company is adding Hitagi Senjougahara and Shinobu Oshino from the Monogatari Series to HELLO! GOOD SMILE, its deformed figure line. Each painted plastic figure stands about 100mm, is non-scale, and has a movable neck. Sculptor NEQ and creative director Shigeto Koyama worked on both. Each costs 1,700 yen with tax and is scheduled for release in March 2027.
Square, the payment service founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, announced Square Kiosk, a restaurant payment terminal with a 21.5-inch display and three directional microphones. It shows menus, suggests items based on store location and time of day, takes orders by voice, and accepts card payments. Price is $1,999 with a $99 monthly software fee. At the time of writing it is sold only in the United States, in English.
ASUS JAPAN announced four products for local AI processing: the UGen300 series of edge AI accelerators and a cost-focused UGen200. Sales begin October 16. The USB and M.2 models run from 24,980 yen to 49,800 yen, with the flagship UGen300 at up to 40 TOPS on the Hailo-10H chipset and the UGen200 at up to 13 TOPS on the Hailo-8L.
Gaming Factory announced the open-world racing game JDM: Ph4ntom Driver on October 15, with a Steam store page going live the same day. The PC game is set in Gunkon Prefecture, a spirit-world version of the fictional Guntama Prefecture from JDM: Japanese Drift Master, where oni and yokai have overrun the land. Players use modified cars as weapons, ramming enemies at high speed or drifting to swing the rear end, since the vehicles carry no swords or guns. A supernatural power called Hakai adds a score element. The single-player campaign tells its story through hand-drawn manga cutscenes and a conversation system, and a multiplayer mode is planned. The release date and price are undecided, and Japanese is supported. The project began as an expansion for JDM: Japanese Drift Master but became a standalone spin-off after the team changed the game's fundamental mechanics.
Nintendo announced an Expansion Pass for Fire Emblem: The Thousand Blooms on October 15 and released it the same day. Part 1, available now, adds four new weapons modeled after the Heroes' Relics from Three Houses, one for each of the four past warriors. Part 2 arrives this winter with three divine allies named Aurora, Smilnos, and Jura, plus costumes. Part 3 follows in 2027 with new stories for the four rivals.
Ulearn Inc. began offering Drawspire, an AI manga production platform, on October 15, 2026. The browser-based service generates manga panels from rough line drawings and text prompts, supports reference images, and adds free panel layout, layer editing, speech bubbles, typefaces, and sound effect materials. It also includes an AI similarity check that flags images resembling existing works, characters, or logos. The first 100 registrants receive 1,500 credits.
Harman International will release three JBL COVE wireless home audio models on October 22, 2026. The line is the X1, a Dolby Atmos Music top model with six speakers driven by a 200W amplifier; the P1, a portable with up to 14 hours of playback, IP56 dust and water resistance, and a charging cradle; and the M1, an entry model with three tweeters and one woofer.
Meta announced the Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full AI models on October 12 US time, both already available through the Meta Model API and the Muse Code coding tool. Meta says Wonder scored 85.6 on MemoryBench and, paired with Muse Code, 68 on Artificial Analysis's coding agent evaluation. Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said the company aimed for practical work, not 3D demos, and the model card lists 3D spatial reasoning as a known limitation.
Manavu Kashimoto launched a new manga, Tantei Neko Machida (Detective Neko Machida), on Shogakukan's Weekly Coro Coro Comic online magazine on Tuesday. The mystery series follows detective Neko Machida and his assistant Myako as they solve difficult cases. Kashimoto's Croquette! debuted in Monthly Coro Coro Comics in 2001 and inspired a 2003 television anime; its sequel, Croquette! Black Label, ended in May 2025.
A feature-length documentary on Osamu Tezuka titled Tezuka: God of Manga launched its Kickstarter campaign on Wednesday, aiming for US$49,999 and closing November 13. It has raised US$10,726 so far. Directed by Jason Andrew Cohn and produced by Bread & Butter Films, the film is scheduled to complete in 2028, the 100th anniversary of Tezuka's birth, with backer rewards shipping July 2028.
Kotaro Uchikoshi, the writer behind the Zero Escape series and AI: The Somnium Files, announced on October 15, 2026, that he established a new company called Crash Keys in March 2025. The studio is named after a fictional organization in Zero Escape and is headquartered in the Miyamasuzaka Building in Shibuya, Tokyo, the same building as Izanagi Games. Uchikoshi is representative director. Crash Keys will pursue original projects using his experience, with game development in planning, direction, and scenario writing, plus video and anime work in composition, original concept, and script. The company is seeking investment partners. Uchikoshi said he had planned to reveal the company in 2027 with a new game he and his team had worked on for about a year and a half, but the game was cancelled, so he announced early. The Crash Keys website lists members including Akira Mine and scriptwriter Muri Sasaki, plus two encrypted biographies and the phrases RHIZOME-9 and a Virtue's Last Reward line.
Hytacka announced OVERSEEKER on October 14, with a roughly 9-minute story trailer on YouTube showing part of the story and some action. The new 3D action game follows Rise of Rebellion: When the Dragon Falls Upon the Earth's Punishment, which holds a 43% positive rating from 207 Steam user reviews, a Mixed status. A meteorite-like event starts the siblings' fight.
N LITE, a media company and anime studio based in the U.S. and Tokyo, has appointed four industry veterans to its board of directors, including former Disney Television Animation vice president Jay Francis. The appointments come as the studio expands across feature films, TV, consumer products and publishing, led by its flagship original fantasy epic MFINDA, made with partners including GKIDS, JuVee Productions, Miniature Geant and Jaden Smith.
STP WORKS released the Nintendo Switch version of French Fries Pusher Friends on October 15 for 470 yen including tax. Players fire fries to fend off training robots while assembling burger sets, solo or with up to four players, and compete on a ranking for sets served before HP reaches zero. Permanent upgrades use saved wages, and items and skills appear during runs. A Steam version has been available since January 12, 2024.
On October 13, HypeTrain Digital announced Modulink, a third-person action roguelite in development at brainglyph for Steam. The game takes place several centuries after a great disaster cost humanity its understanding of its own technology. The player is Tinker, a young researcher who leaves their hometown with Repo, a floating companion and digital journal, to reconnect a divided world.
A website opened on Wednesday to announce a smartphone game for illustrator neco's Heavily Armed High School Girls project. NextNinja is developing JJK: Ju Heisogata Joshi Kosei Wordless Record, a casual idle RPG where players watch over the characters from a cat's perspective. Rie Takahashi plays Touka, Sayumi Suzushiro plays Kanade, and Yoshino Aoyama plays Honami. The project is also getting a television anime in 2027.
Hytacka, the developer of the action RPG Rise of Rebellion, has released a trailer for OVERSEEKER. The roughly nine-minute video is built from conversation scenes about a female hitman named Ivy and a murder she says she committed for herself. Hytacka handles direction, game design, and co-writing, with Yuka Nishibe on original story and co-script. Genre, release timing, and supported platforms are unknown.