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The A Tale of the Secret Saint anime will debut October 3 on Tokyo MX, BS11, and Sun TV, with AT-X following October 5. Kikunosuke Toya joins the cast as Curtis Bannister, captain of the 13th Knight Brigade. The series was delayed from April to October to improve the work.
Sonic Powered announced the sixth entry in the Tetsudou Nippon! RealPro series on September 4. The game covers the Hida limited express from Nagoya to Toyama, the series' longest route at 256.1km and about 3.5 hours of driving, and releases December 17 on Switch. Players drive the HC85 series hybrid train. The fifth entry, XROSS OVER Nagoya, releases October 29.
Archipel will hold The Tenth Mosaic, a two-day game culture festival, on September 22-23 at Tokyo Nichi-Futsu Gakuen. The lineup includes talks with Kazutaka Kodaka and Masafumi Takada, a Rez 25th anniversary session with Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Ken Ishii, a horror panel with Keiichiro Toyama and Frederic Raynal, and a Persona 30th anniversary talk. Shuhei Yoshida curates an indie legacy showcase with 15-plus titles, and music sets include Yuzo Koshiro and Saori Kobayashi. Several talk sessions have already sold out.
Voice actor Kikunosuke Toya will release his first digital single "Off to the Groove" on July 26. He wrote the lyrics and music himself. His first solo live event, a two-city showcase, follows in August. Toya, known for roles including Denji in Chainsaw Man, won the Best Lead Actor award at the 20th Seiyuu Awards.
A developer used Claude Fable 5 to build a "Twilight Ballad Generator" that composes ballads in the style of early Yumi Matsutoya. The system encodes six harmonic techniques, melodic rules such as 9th suspensions and leaps, and a pivot modulation called the "Time River" modulation. The project tests whether melancholy can be reduced to structural musical elements rather than relying on AI training.
Kadokawa announced on June 12 that the television anime adaptation of Kureha's light novel series Bride of the Barrier Master will premiere in January 2027. The announcement came with a teaser visual, a teaser video, and the main cast. Akari Kitō will voice Hana Ichise, and Kikunosuke Toya will voice Saku Ichinomiya. Tōru Kitahata is directing the series at studio TROYCA. Minami Murayama is designing the characters, and Yūko Kakihara is handling series scripts. The music is composed by Yukari Hashimoto, Ruka Kawada, and R.O.N. The light novels, published by Kadokawa since December 2021 with illustrations by Bodax, have over 2.5 million copies in circulation. The seventh volume is due on June 16. A manga adaptation by Odayaka began in March 2022. Yen Press publishes both the novels and manga in English. The story follows Hana, an eighteen-year-old from a branch family of a barrier-weaving clan, who hides her powerful magic to avoid attention until clan head Saku seeks a bride strong enough to stand by his side.
Director Sou Toyama discussed his approach to the upcoming Kirio Fan Club anime adaptation in an interview published on April 1. The series, based on Chikyu no Osakana Ponchan's manga, follows two high school girls, Aimi and Nami, who have a crush on a classmate named Kirio. Toyama said the most important thing is to portray the characters realistically as ordinary high school girls, not idealized versions. To achieve this, the anime avoids typical exaggerated expressions like heavy deformation or symbolic visual effects. He described the story as a real human drama that shifts between comedy and serious moments. The director noted that Kirio's face is never shown, a choice meant to let viewers imagine their own version of the character and become more immersed in the girls' emotions. Toyama said being a fan of someone enriches one's life and creates motivation. The series streams on HIDIVE.
Kodansha's K Manga platform added Ema Toyama's fantasy romance manga A Thousand Years Behind the Veil (Sen-nen no Hanayome) to its English-language lineup on Thursday. The manga, which launched in May 2025 in the inaugural issue of Kodansha's josei digital magazine ARTEMIS by sirius, follows Chitose, the youngest daughter of the Totsuki clan. After her older sister Kuon curses her, Chitose is transformed into an old woman and endures abuse until a mysterious man named Kotaro appears and offers to grant her wish. Kodansha published the manga's third compiled volume in Japan on Friday. The English translation is by Florin E, with lettering by Chris Burgener and editing by Sam Saphr. Toyama is known for previous works including Vampire Dormitory, which inspired a 2024 television anime, and the long-running Missions of Love. K Manga also added Aika and Meshiko Iida's The Tale of How My Cheap, Stingy Sister-in-Law Lost It All in the same announcement.