Steam's 'From Poland With Love 2026' sale is underway, featuring titles from Polish studios and publishers. The sale includes 'Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales' at 80% off and 'Moonlighter' at 85% off, with genre-organized pages to help players find games.
Anthropic has created a new technology called J-Lens that allows observation of the internal processes of large language models. Applied to Claude Opus 4.6, J-Lens reveals a 'J-space' where upcoming output words emerge. When the model decides to fabricate information, the words 'panic' and 'fake' repeatedly appear in this space.
Anime Feminist reviewed the first episode of The Insipid Prince's Furtive Grab for The Throne, finding the animation bland and the pacing rushed. The review notes the protagonist Arnold is a standard overpowered hidden-identity type, and the episode fails to develop supporting characters or build emotional investment.
ASCII.jp's 2026 Summer Anime Special Part 7 highlights five titles: Grand Blue Season 3, The Cat and the Dragon, The Strongest Dregs Prince's Secret Imperial Succession Struggle, The Case of the Transfer Student's Pure and Lovely Beautiful Girl Being a Childhood Friend I Used to Play with Thinking She Was a Boy, and X-Men '97. Grand Blue Season 3 premieres July 6.
The anime adaptation of Tanba and Yuunagi's light novel series The Insipid Prince's Furtive Grab for The Throne has cast Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Traugott Lakes Adler and Ai Kayano as Mitsuba. The series premieres July 6 on Tokyo MX and other Japanese networks, with Crunchyroll streaming it internationally.
The Hosoda Mamoru: Origins/Exhibition opens June 20 at CREATIVE MUSEUM TOKYO, marking 20 years since The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. The show displays about 450 storyboards from that film, plus materials from Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and Hosoda's early work, including a student film screened for the first time in 44 years.
The anime adaptation of Tanba and Yuunagi's light novel series The Insipid Prince's Furtive Grab for The Throne will premiere on July 6. The second promotional video, key visual, and theme song performers were revealed. BUDDiiS performs the opening "Script" and Kurawan performs the ending "Suteki na Kanchigai."
The TV anime adaptation of the light novel series "The Strongest Drained Prince's Covert Imperial Succession Battle" will premiere on July 6 on TOKYO MX and BS Fuji. A key visual and second promotional video were released, along with the opening and ending theme performers: BUDDiiS and Kurawan.
Publisher Harrison World released a demo for Night Blood W: Cutthroat Wolf, a side-scrolling cyberpunk action game from developer Midnight Fantasy Games. The PC game features high-speed combo action with bullet time and chain hooks, inspired by Devil May Cry and Katana ZERO. The demo includes Story Mode on Normal difficulty and supports gamepad play.
Filmarks announced temporary arm tattoos based on the time leap counter from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time will be handed out during the film's 4K revival screenings in Japan starting July 3. Limited-edition mini hand fans featuring a "what if" date scene will also be given out on July 13.
Filmarks announced limited advance MoviTicke Cards for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 4K revival screenings, featuring exclusive art by animation director Hiroyuki Aoyama that imagines Makoto and Kōsuke on a date at a summer festival. The cards go on sale June 19, with screenings starting July 3 in 166 theaters and 4DX engagements from August 21.
The largest-ever Mamoru Hosoda exhibition, 'Mamoru Hosoda: Origins/Exhibition,' opens June 20 at CREATIVE MUSEUM TOKYO. Menu details for the attached 'OZ cafe,' exclusive 'niko and...' collaboration items, and a digital stamp rally tied to Hosoda's works have been announced.
Anime Feminist published a strongly negative review of the first episode of "A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans," a new series that premiered in the winter 2026 season. The review criticizes the show for failing to commit to its premise of monster girls learning to be human, noting that the characters are essentially normal moe archetypes with animal ears and no meaningful exploration of what becoming human entails. The protagonist, Rei Hitoma, is described as a former NEET and burned-out teacher who openly tells his students he hates humans, a characterization the reviewer found insufferable. The review draws comparisons to similar misanthropic protagonists in "Monogatari" and "Kaguya-sama: Love is War," but argues that those shows succeed by demonstrating the harm of such attitudes, while this show's premise prevents that because the harm would fall on children. The direction and boarding are criticized for repetitive camera angles, and the headmaster's fatness is played for laughs. The review also flags content warnings for sexualization of children, fatphobia, and fan service.
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Tanba and Yuunagi's light novel series The Insipid Prince's Furtive Grab for The Throne announced two new cast members on Monday. Yuki Kuwahara, known for voicing Tohru in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, will play Christa Lakes Adler. Masahiko Tanaka, who voiced Kyoichi Sudo in Initial D, will play Sebastian. The anime is set to premiere in Japan in July 2026. Yuji Yanase is directing the series at Maho Film, with Kazuyuki Fudeyasu handling series scripts and Kazuko Tadano designing the characters. The previously announced cast includes Yuma Uchida as Arnold Lakes Adler, Kikunosuke Toya as Leonard Lakes Adler, Manaka Iwami as Fine von Kleinert, Maaya Uchida as Elna von Amsberg, Kaede Hondo as Lynfia, Atsushi Tamaru as Eric Lakes Adler, Ryota Takeuchi as Gordon Lakes Adler, Mitsuki Saiga as Zandora Lakes Adler, and Kazuhiko Inoue as Johannes Lakes Adler. The light novel series began on Shosetsuka ni Narou in February 2019, and Kadokawa published the 16th volume in April 2026.
The anime adaptation of Tanba and Yuunagi's light novel series revealed its first promotional video and four new cast members on Monday. The show will debut in July. Atsushi Tamaru, Ryōta Takeuchi, Mitsuki Saiga, and Kazuhiko Inoue join the cast as members of the Lakes Adler family.
Love Through a Prism is a Netflix original anime, a historical romance set in 1910s England, and a new review takes its measure. The review praises the series' lush background art and romantic tone but finds its treatment of the period's social realities hollow. Class divides, sexism, and racism are reduced to personal obstacles easily overcome by earnest speech, while the British Empire and colonialism go unmentioned. The final act introduces major historical events only to gloss over them in favor of adventure-novel plot points, which forces the reviewer to accept the show as pure fantasy rather than grounded fiction. The verdict is that the romanticism is real and the craft is real, but the chosen setting is decoration the story declines to engage. The complaint lands harder because the show picked a real time and place and a diverse, international cast, then stepped around the history that came with that choice rather than confronting it.