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LiSA's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Film Theme Wins Song of the Year in Japan
LiSA's "Homura" song, the theme song for the Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train film, won Song of the Year at the 62nd Japan Record Awards on Wednesday. This is the first time in four years that a female solo artist won it, since Kana Nishino won in 2016. LiSA thanked composer Yuki Kajiura, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga creator Koyoharu Gotouge, the anime studio ufotable, the production company Aniplex, Sony Music, and the fans during her acceptance speech.
The Japan Record Awards had announced in November that Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba won one of the Special Achievement Awards, which honor people or works that have garnered widespread attention or captured the zeitgeist. The other Special Achievement Award winners this year were Uru, NiziU, Seiko Matsuda, and Kenshi Yonezu.
The award ceremony aired in Japan on TBS.
LiSA's "Homura" song has ranked #1 on Oricon's weekly digital singles ranking chart for 11 consecutive weeks. It has surpassed Kenshi Yonezu's 2018 single "Lemon" as the longest-running #1 single on the chart. "Homura" sold 31,363 downloads from December 21 to 27 for a new total of 770,556.
Last week, "Homura" returned to the #1 spot in Oricon's weekly streaming chart after three weeks, with 10,632,183 downloads for a new total of 132,986,137. It has been in the #1 spot for a total of eight weeks since its release, and it is the first song to be streamed over 10 million times a week for nine straight weeks.
The song also sold 56,149 physical copies during the same week to rank #5 on the CD singles chart, and now has sold 1,004,879 physical copies. It is the first single to sell one million physical copies this year, and LiSA's second single to accomplish this feat after "Gurenge."
Earlier this month, Billboard Japan's streaming song chart recorded the song with 100 million times streamed since its October 12 release.
The song is the third ever single to rank #1 on Oricon's weekly digital singles ranking chart for at least six consecutive weeks, after Kenshi Yonezu's 2018 single "Lemon" and 2019 single "Uma to Shika" accomplished the feat. LiSA is also the first female artist to accomplish this feat.
The "Homura" single shipped on October 14, and sold 68,000 CD copies in its first week. LiSA is the first artist to rank #1 for three straight weeks in 12 years and 10 months, since the band SMAP achieved the feat with their "Dangan Fighter" single in January 2008.
Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train began screening in 38 IMAX theaters in Japan on October 16. The film has now sold a total of 24,049,907 tickets to earn 32,478,895,850 yen (about US$314 million) in 73 days — thus making it the highest-earning film ever in Japan.
LiSA's earlier single "Gurenge" (the theme song for the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba television anime) became the third most-downloaded song in the history of Oricon's digital single ranking chart in June. As of July, the single has been in the top 10 ranking for at least 27 consecutive weeks, and has been in the top 10 at least 44 weeks since the song's digital debut in April 2019. In the April 20-26 week, it rose from the fifth to the fourth most downloaded song in the history of Oricon's digital single ranking chart. In the April 27-May 3 week, the single recorded its fifth week at #1 in the ranking (including two consecutive weeks in May 2019, one week in December 2019, and the April 20-26 and April 27-May 3 weeks).
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Voice actress Erika Harlacher revealed on Cassandra Lee Morris' YouTube channel on December 22 that Persona 5 Strikers (Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers) — the new action role-playing game in the Persona franchise by Atlus, KOEI Tecmo Games, and Omega Force — was delayed due to the effects of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Erika Harlacher plays Lady Ann and Cassandra Lee Morris plays Morgana in the game.
The actress noted that the recording for the game was scheduled to begin in April 2020 but was delayed due to the staff and cast going into quarantine. The cast members were later sent equipment so that they could record remotely.
Persona 5 Strikers will release for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in the West on February 23. The Digital Deluxe Edition of the game will launch on February 19 for players that pre-order the game.
Atlus, KOEI Tecmo Games, and Omega Force released the game for the PS4 and Switch in Japan in February 2020.
The game's story is set half a year after the original Persona 5 game's story, with the game's main characters going on summer vacation, but becoming involved in a new incident that spans the whole of Japan. The original game's main characters are playable.
The original Persona 5 game shipped for the PS4 and PlayStation 3 in Japan in September 2016. The game shipped in North America in April 2017 after a delay. The game features animation sequences from Production I.G.
The 26-episode television anime series based on the game premiered in April 2018 and aired through September 2018. Aniplex of America streamed the series on Crunchyroll and Hulu as it aired. Two specials then aired in December 2018 and March 2019.
The Persona 5 Royal (Persona 5 The Royale in Japan) role-playing game launched for the PS4 in Japan in October 2019. The game launched in the Americas and Europe in March.
Source: Cassandra Lee Morris' YouTube channel via Siliconera, Neoxon on Resetera
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The company previously announced that it will begin streaming the English dub for the Attack on Titan The Final Season anime on January 10. Subsequent dubbed episodes will air as delivered via the company's "Dub from Home" updates.
The Attack on Titan The Final Season anime premiered on NHK on December 7. Funimation and Crunchyroll are streaming the anime with English subtitles. Adult Swim's Toonami programming block will start airing the anime on January 9
Yuichiro Hayashi (Dorohedoro, Garo the Animation, Kakegurui both seasons) is directing the anime at MAPPA. Hiroshi Seko (Ajin anime franchise, Vinland Saga, Mob Psycho 100 anime franchise) is returning to oversee the series scripts. Tomohiro Kishi (Dorohedoro, 91 Days) is designing the characters. Hiroyuki Sawano is returning to compose the music, alongside Kohta Yamamoto (Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments).
The anime also features a returning cast.
The first television anime season premiered in April 2013, and the second season premiered in April 2017. The first part of the third season premiered in July 2018, and the second half premiered in Japan on the NHK General channel in April 2019.
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Frontier Works posted a teaser promotional video on Sunday to announce that the "Even a Worm" arc of Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Reload manga is inspiring a television anime titled Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN-
LIDEN FILMS is animating the project, and the four main cast members of the previous Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Saiyuki Gunlock, and Saiyuki Reload Blast television anime are reprising their roles:
-Toshihiko Seki as Genjo Sanzo
-Sōichiro Hoshi as Son Goku
-Hiroaki Hirata as Sha Gojyo
-Akira Ishida as Cho Hakkai
In addition, Houchu Ohtsuka is in the new anime's voice cast.
Minekura drew a teaser visual for the Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN- anime:
Saiyuki, the original 1997 "fantasy road movie" manga series loosely inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West (Saiyuki in Japanese), has spawned the Saiyuki Gaiden and Saiyuki Ibun manga spinoffs. The Saiyuki Reload Blast sequel manga launched in Ichijinsha's Comic Zero Sum in 2009, but Minekura slowed down her publication of the manga in 2013 due to her health. The manga franchise as a whole has 25 million copies in circulation worldwide. Tokyopop published the original manga, and Kodansha re-released the manga.
The various manga series also inspired four television anime series, an anime film, three original video anime (OVA) series, and several stage musical productions.
The Saiyuki Reload Blast anime premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and Funimation offered a simuldub.
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Funimation announced on Saturday that it will stream simulcasts of the anime part of the Idoly Pride multimedia project on its platform in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland. AnimeLab will stream the anime in Australia and New Zealand.
Funimation describes the anime:
After a successful audition, high school student Kotono Nagase and her best friend move into a dorm with eight other aspiring idols. They quickly realize it takes more than cute choreography and cute outfits to reach the top—it will take blood, sweat, and tears to advance in the idol-ranking VENUS program, where the top spot is held by superstar Mana Nagase…who happens to be Kotono's older sister.
The anime premiered on Tokyo MX and other channels on January 10.
Yū Kinome (episode director for Classroom of the Elite, Scum's Wish, School-Live!) is directing the anime at CAAnimation. Tatsuya Takahaashi (Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls) is in charge of the series scripts, and Sumie Kinoshita (Forest of Piano, The Mystic Archives of Dantalian) is designing the characters. Lerche (School-Live!, Scum's Wish, Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World) is also credited for animation production.
CyberAgent subsidiary QualiArts, Straight Edge, and Music Ray'n are collaborating on the multimedia project. QP:flapper (Girlish Number, Girl Friend BETA) is providing the original character designs. YOSHIKI Minazumi (name romanization not confirmed) of QualiArts, Kaoru Adachi (Love Live! School idol project producer) of Straight Edge, and Jukki Hanada (Love Live! School idol project, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! scripts) of SATZ are credited with the original concept. Music Ray'n and QualiArts are credited for the music.
English text on the project's promotional materials reads, "No one starts from the spotlight. They all start as nobody. Only way there is to prove that she is a true idol." The multimedia project includes anime, video games, music, and several other forms of entertainment. A manga titled Idoly Pride: Stage of Asterism launched on Kadokawa's Comic Newtype website on June 10.
The anime is CAAnimation's first project. CyberAgent, the parent company of game developer Cygames and streaming service company AbemaTV, founded the CAAnimation label in October 2018.
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Funimation announced on Saturday that it will stream simulcasts of the anime part of the Idoly Pride multimedia project on its platform in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland. AnimeLab will stream the anime in Australia and New Zealand.
Funimation describes the anime:
After a successful audition, high school student Kotono Nagase and her best friend move into a dorm with eight other aspiring idols. They quickly realize it takes more than cute choreography and cute outfits to reach the top—it will take blood, sweat, and tears to advance in the idol-ranking VENUS program, where the top spot is held by superstar Mana Nagase…who happens to be Kotono's older sister.
The anime premiered on Tokyo MX and other channels on January 10.
Yū Kinome (episode director for Classroom of the Elite, Scum's Wish, School-Live!) is directing the anime at CAAnimation. Tatsuya Takahaashi (Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls) is in charge of the series scripts, and Sumie Kinoshita (Forest of Piano, The Mystic Archives of Dantalian) is designing the characters. Lerche (School-Live!, Scum's Wish, Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World) is also credited for animation production.
CyberAgent subsidiary QualiArts, Straight Edge, and Music Ray'n are collaborating on the multimedia project. QP:flapper (Girlish Number, Girl Friend BETA) is providing the original character designs. YOSHIKI Minazumi (name romanization not confirmed) of QualiArts, Kaoru Adachi (Love Live! School idol project producer) of Straight Edge, and Jukki Hanada (Love Live! School idol project, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! scripts) of SATZ are credited with the original concept. Music Ray'n and QualiArts are credited for the music.
English text on the project's promotional materials reads, "No one starts from the spotlight. They all start as nobody. Only way there is to prove that she is a true idol." The multimedia project includes anime, video games, music, and several other forms of entertainment. A manga titled Idoly Pride: Stage of Asterism launched on Kadokawa's Comic Newtype website on June 10.
The anime is CAAnimation's first project. CyberAgent, the parent company of game developer Cygames and streaming service company AbemaTV, founded the CAAnimation label in October 2018.
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Last month, we had a tease of three Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba characters as drawn by Gintama author Hideaki Sorachi. Now, we can see the entire collage, with Tanjirō surrounded by all nine Hashira, as well as another illustration of Gintama's Yorozuya trio.
In true Gintama fashion, the text on the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba illustration reads "The final battle of the Hashira (samurai)! Though most of them aren't even involved" — acknowledging that only some of the Hashira are in the Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train film's main plot.
The two illustrations will adorn a double-sided mini-poster that theaters will start handing out to audiences of the Gintama: The Final film on January 29, the start of the film's fourth weekend. Theatergoers during the film's first week are also receiving one of 10 randomly distributed cards that feature each of the characters Sorachi drew.
Sorachi also drew animation sketches for footage in the film, and theaters will hand out four more randomly distributed cards with those sketches in the second and third weeks of screenings. Written messages from 31 cast and staff members, including the director, will also be included in the audience gifts.
Gintama: The Final opened in Japan last Friday. The film isbe based on the finale of the original manga, combined with new story elements.
The manga is also inspiring a new net anime special titled Gintama The Semi-Final with a story that will be a two-episode prequel to the film. The net anime will premiere exclusively in Japan on the online dTV service on January 15. The film also has a novel by Mirei Miyamoto that also shipped last Friday.
Sorachi's original "science-fiction period-drama comedy" manga began in 2003 and ended in June 2019 with over 55 million copies in circulation. The latest anime series premiered in July 2018. The manga has also inspired various original video anime (OVA), event anime, two live-action films, and two live-action net spinoffs. Viz Media published the manga's first 23 volumes in English.
The first 49 episodes of the first television series began streaming on Hulu with a new English dub in December. Sentai Filmworks released the anime's first 49 episodes on DVD in 2010 and 2011, but that release did not include an English dub.
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As the second season of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime approaches, series protagonist Rimuru Tempest gets a new figure to celebrate the occasion. Based on an original illustration by character designer Ryōma Ebata, this latest 1/7th scale figure sees the Demon Lord Rimuru drawing his sword from its scabbard in a new outfit that will be featured in the upcoming anime season. From the hem of Rimuru's jacket to the flutter of his hair, the features of Ebata's character design has been carefully recreated in the figure.
This item is a new addition to the With Fans! merchandise label, a joint effort between Bandai Namco Arts and Good Smile Company.
Each figure costs 16,500 yen (approximately US$160) including tax. Pre-orders are open at Bandai Namco Arts official mail order site, A-on STORE as well as Good Smile's online shop until March 31. As a purchase bonus, A-on STORE will offer a A3 clear poster, while Good Smile's online shop will offer an acrylic logo stand.
The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime anime adapts Taiki Kawakami's manga, which in turn adapted author Fuse and artist Mitz Vah's light novel series. It's first season premiered in October 2018. Crunchyroll streamed the series, and Funimation streamed an English dub. The second anime season premieres on January 12 in Japan, and Crunchyroll and Funimation will both stream the season as it airs.
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Torrance, Calif. — January 12, 2021 — Aksys Games announced today that they will release both Standard and Limited Editions of Code:Realize Wintertide Miracles~ for the Nintendo Switch™ next month on February 25th. The third chapter in the beloved interactive fiction series, Code:Realize Wintertide Miracles invites fans to join the poison-skinned heroine Cardia Beckford for further escapades with a team of famous (and famously handsome) figures from Western literature as they face new challenges, new friends and foes, and new opportunities for love.
The Limited Edition of Code:Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~ includes a set of five 1.5” metal buttons featuring new holiday chibi artwork and a 3” acrylic keychain of Cardia in her winter costume. This keychain will be the third in the Code:Realize exclusive set of acrylic keychains.
Wintertide Miracles~ takes fans deeper into the world of Code:Realize and its intriguing characters. Experience the seasonal magic and chaos of two-on-one dates and play with dynamics (and hearts) by bringing multiple members of Lupin's gang on a wide variety of romantic romps. Learn more about the dashing detective Herlock Sholmés and the enigmatic Finis in continuing sagas involving the newest men in the Code:Realize universe, and join Cantarella, the mysterious young lady Cardia encountered in one of her many adventures, as she is caught up in the chaos that always seems to surround Lupin and his gang.
About the Code:Realize Universe
The story begins with the main character, Cardia, isolated and alone in a mansion on the outskirts of a 19th century steampunk version of London.A victim of a mysterious affliction that makes her blood a virulent poison and her touch instantly lethal, Cardia is shunned as a monster. Through a number of events both grand and seemingly insignificant, Cardia is pursued by the Royal Guard, kidnapped by the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, and joined by myriad other handsome figures from the best of Western literature. With her new-found friends (and suitors) Cardia ventures out in the world to unravel the mysteries surrounding her very existence.
The Code:Realize games have been rated “T for Teen” by the ESRB. For more information, visit www.aksysgames.com/wintertide/. Follow Aksys Games on Twitter and Instagram at @AksysGames, and join our Let's Play streams on Twitch at aksysgames and YouTube.
About Aksys Games
Founded in 2006 in Torrance, California, Aksys Games Localization, Inc. is a visionary video game publisher committed to publishing unique and high-quality interactive content for all current-generation platforms. Its lineup of games includes the critically acclaimed Zero Escape series, Little Dragons Café, the award-winning Spirit Hunter: Death Mark and Spirit Hunter: NG adventures and Code:Realize titles, as well as the wildly successful BlazBlue, Under Night In-Birth, and Guilty Gear franchises. More information about Aksys Games and its unique products can be found on the company's website, www.aksysgames.com.
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On Thursday, January 28, at 8 pm EST, The Japan Foundation, New York will hold the free YouTube webinar to analyze Sailor Moon from academic and professional perspectives.
Why is Sailor Moon such a hit when it first appeared, and why is it still so popular today? What led to Sailor Moon's rise outside of Japan, and what impact did it have on the generation that grew up with it?
Come join our panel discussion with Kumiko Saitō, Mari Morimoto, Samantha Close and Kathryn Hemmann as they explore the history and legacy of Sailor Moon, as well as the fandom and fan culture it helped create in the U.S.
We are also taking a character popularity poll! Please vote for your favorite character when you register.
This is a free event. Registrants will receive the link to the stream via email.
ABOUT THE JAPAN FOUNDATION: The Japan Foundation, established in 1972, is Japan's only institution dedicated to carrying out comprehensive international cultural exchange programs throughout the world. The mission of The Japan Foundation is to
promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries.
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Bandai Namco Pictures announced on Tuesday that it is producing a new original project titled Shinsengumi Kitchen Diary (Shinsengumi Chūbō Roku), with a planned web novel, manga, and anime.
The project's themes are "gourmet," "time travel," and "shinsengumi." The manga centers on Izumi Inaba, a high school girl who has cooking skills rivaling professionals. A bizarre incident leads her to accidentally travel back in time to Japan's Bakumatsu period in the middle of the 19th century. There, she meets Hijikata Toshizō, a famous commander of the shogunate's shinsengumi police, and he shows Izumi his top class cooking skills, as she also joins the shinsengumi.
SOW, the author of The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress light novels, is writing the web novel, which began serializing on Tuesday. Masatsugu Saitō, the character designer of the Expelled from Paradise and Cyborg 009 Call of Justice films, is designing the characters.
Artist Kyoko Kumagai (Hatsumei Princess, Ayakashi Hisen) is launching the manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine on February 26.
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The anime adaptation of Aneko Yusagi's The Rising of the Shield Hero turned heads with its 25-episode debut season. Last year's Crunchyroll Expo revealed the series was green-lit for second and third season, and after today the wait is over. Season two will premiere sometime in 2021, and the third season won't be as long of a wait.
This year's panel for Shield Hero features Keigo Koyanagi (series composition), Masahiro Suwa (character design and chief animation director), Junichiro Tamura (producer from Kadokawa), and MC'd by voice actress Sarah Emi Bridcutt.
Following up on the excitement of last year, the panel began with a Q&A focused on reflection and production. Tamura shared he was surprised to see a variety of languages and support from fans around the world commenting on the Shield Hero videos. Regarding what episode drove the most excitement, Koyanagi confidently claimed episode 21, aka Myne's “execution.” As reference, Crunchyroll's post of that scene has 2.8M views on YouTube, making it the most popular clip from the series.
On a more relaxed note, character designer Suwa voiced his surprise at how popular Raphtalia was, but he thought she and Naofumi make a “great combo.” Conversely, his favorite character to design was The Pope because of how hard it was to pin down. Otherwise, Suwa tried to keep the designs relatively simple to make it easier for others to draw.
The next set of questions focused on the care and level of detail taken in terms of the script and the character designs. Although Koyanagi said it was difficult to convince the audience to keep watching and build excitement for the following episodes, Bridcutt assured that he did a great job based on the sheer volume of reactions from Twitter and streams of the show.
When asked if there was anything memorable from the voice recording sessions, Tamura said his impressions of the characters had changed once he heard the voice auditions. In addition to the main cast, he had help picked the candidates that fit characters that show up later in the series. Looking back at last year, the panelists voiced how encouraged and motivated they were after interacting with fans overseas. Although the autograph sessions were more than what they expected, they all thoroughly enjoyed their time seeing fans face to face and receiving words of appreciation and fanart. They wish they had more to show last year, but luckily they have more to reveal.
Unfortunately, they couldn't reveal all their secrets for what's to come, but what they could talk about was how production for season two is rolling along. Producer Tamura divulged how the script and other parts of anime production were proceeding, but there was no information on how much of the story the next season would cover. Of course, the question that many fans—and Sarah Emi Bridcutt herself—had on their mind was, “Will Myne be back?” No clear answer was given, but Tamura encouraged people to stay tuned for characters who might return. Auditions for the upcoming season are underway.
In the meantime, because Masato Jinbo had replaced Takao Abo as director for season two, Tamura reiterated that there are many surprises to look forward to. Before closing off the panel entirely, surprise guests Kaito Ishikawa (Naofumi), Asami Seto (Raphtalia), and Rina Hidaka (Firo) all separately shared their reflection of season one and their characters through audio. Even though there was no video recording accompanying their audio, all three actors couldn't hold back their tension and excitement to reprise their roles. For those who can't wait for next year, Rina Hidaka puts it best: “Season two will be here soon!”
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With the new season of Laid-Back Camp on air and A Place Further Than the Universe anime getting a rebroadcast in Japan, now's as good a time as any to bring back a collab between the two properties. The main characters in each show swap places in their respective key visuals, meaning that the Laid-Back Camp girls are shown hanging out in Antarctica, while the A Place Further Than the Universe girls camp out in Japan. The official Twitter accounts of both series posted the visuals on Thursday:
The crossover visuals were first unveiled on April Fool's Day in 2019.
The first anime based on Afro's Laid-Back Camp manga premiered in January 2018. The ROOM CAMP (Heya Camp) short anime spinoff premiered on January 6. The second season of the anime premiered on January 7.
A Place Further Than the Universe premiered on Japanese TV in January 2018, and was streamed weekly on Crunchyroll. The story centers on high school girls going to the South Pole, "A Place Further Than the Universe." They struggle and grow together as they cope with extreme conditions.
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Players log into their favorite MMORPG, eager to experience the newest update. The next thing they know, they appear to be inside the bodies of their avatars rather than just controlling them on a screen. Somehow, the latest update to Elder Tale has pulled its users into its world, forcing them to find a way to survive in what was once nothing more than a game!
Does this sound familiar? It should – even without naming the game the characters suddenly find themselves in, it could be the plot of any number of stories in the “trapped in a game” subgenre of the now-ubiquitous isekai field of stories. But this particular iteration is one we haven't seen in anime form since 2015: Log Horizon. Although it shares a lot of similarities with the series that came both before and after it, it still stands out for the way it builds its world, its characters, and the unique details about how the players navigate their stress relief becoming their lives.
But first, why has it been so long since Log Horizon last graced our screens? Season two of the anime certainly didn't have any sort of hard conclusion, and the source light novels also had a three-year gap in their Japanese publication. The answer lies with the creator, Mamare Touno (who also is behind the earlier MAOYU series): he had a little problem with his taxes to the tune of 30 million yen. In 2016 he was found guilty of tax evasion and sentenced to ten months in prison. This sentence was suspended for three years, contingent upon his good behavior and an additional fine of 7 million yen for his rights-management company. Those three years are now over, and so Log Horizon is able to pick back up in both anime and light novel forms. The anime then suffered a setback due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but season three will at last air this January.
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Osaka, Japan, January 8, 2021 – SNK CORPORATION (Corporate HQ: Suita-city, Osaka, Japan, Company Chairman and President: Ge Zhihui) has shared today that the long-awaited next iteration of its flashy fighting game series, THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV, will launch this year. The game's first official trailer has been revealed in celebration of today's announcement. Decades after the original title took the world by storm in 1994, this sequel will etch itself into series history with burning fists and lightning-fast moves fans of all ages will enjoy.
SNK also announced that SAMURAI SHODOWN's Season Pass 3 will launch mid-March 2021 and feature SAMURAI SHODOWN II's wildly popular CHAM CHAM as its first character. Admire CHAM CHAM clawing her way back to the spotlight below:
THE LAST BLADE 2's young warrior HIBIKI TAKANE will also be joining the fray. More details regarding HIBIKI TAKANE's moveset and playstyle will be revealed shortly.
Additionally, SAMURAI SHODOWN fans will be able to Guard Crush their opponents for the first time in series history when the Season Pass 3 launches this March. Devoted players can expect to come across carefully engineered balances and improvements to battle systems alongside the update.
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Gintama: The Final, the new anime film of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga, ranked #1 in its opening weekend — ending Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train's 12 consecutive weekends at the top of the Japanese box office.
The film opened in Japan last Friday. The film is based on the finale of the original manga, combined with new story elements.
The manga is also inspiring a new net anime special titled Gintama The Semi-Final with a story that will be a two-episode prequel to the film. The net anime will premiere exclusively in Japan on the online dTV service on January 15. The film will also have a novel by Mirei Miyamoto that will ship on January 8.
Sorachi's original "science-fiction period-drama comedy" manga began in 2003 and ended in June 2019 with over 55 million copies in circulation. The latest anime series premiered in July 2018. The manga has also inspired various original video anime (OVA), event anime, two live-action films, and two live-action net spinoffs. Viz Media published the manga's first 23 volumes in English.
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The film has surpassed Hayao Miyazaki's 2002 Spirited Away, its last rival for all-time highest earnings in Japanese box office history. (Spirited Away earned 30.8 billion yen in its original run, but has since earned a total of 31.68 billion yen after this summer's revival screenings.) It is now also at least the second highest-earning anime film of all time worldwide, topping your name.'s worldwide US$357,986,087 earnings.
Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train began screening in 38 IMAX theaters in Japan on October 16. The film had the highest opening weekend globally for the October 16-18 weekend. The film sold 3,424,930 tickets and earned 4,623,117,450 yen (about US$43.85 million) in Japan in its first three days. The film sold 910,507 tickets and earned over 1,268,724,700 yen (about US$12.03 million) on its opening day alone, making it the highest weekday opening day in Japan ever. Mugen Train began holding immersive MX4D and 4DX screenings on Saturday, December 26.
The main staff members of the previous television anime returned for the sequel film. TOHO and Aniplex are handling the film's distribution in Japan. Funimation and Aniplex of America will screen the film in theaters in North America in early 2021.
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Hentai Kamen creator Keishuu Andou has jumped onboard the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba trend by posting his fanart on Twitter. His fanart, however, is rooted in the quirks of his own hit manga, which tells the story of a superhero who gains his powers from wearing panties over his head.
The illustration depicts the Hentai Kamen protagonist wearing a pair of panties with the color scheme of the coat worn by Demon Slayer protagonist Tanjiro. He exclaims: "W-what is this? These panties... It's incredibly easy to do Full Concentration Breathing...!" The Full Concentration Breathing is a technique depicted in Demon Slayer.
Andou's tweet translates to: "I jumped on the bandwagon."
Andou's original six-volume manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1992-1993. The series has inspired two live-action films.
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Synopsis:
With his goals firmly established and aided by his brother Albert's political ascension to a new branch of the intelligence office, William James Moriarty is more than ready to embark on the real work of bringing down the noble classes. He decides that turning London into a terrible den of crime and iniquity is the first step, and he frames it as putting on a sort of morality play for all the land to see. And if he's creating mysteries, then he's going to need a detective – and luckily for him, a plan carried out on the luxury steamliner Noahtic provides one for him: a young man named Sherlock Holmes.
Review:
Think of the previous volume and the first three chapters of this one as the prologue for Moriarty the Patriot. When viewed in light of the fourth chapter in this second volume – which begins retelling A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story published in 1887 – everything that comes before it is in service of establishing Moriarty as a criminal consultant prior to his meeting with the man who would become his nemesis. At this point it doesn't necessarily look as if they have a mutual antipathy (although we do need to remember the opening pages of volume one in that statement), but more a question of Moriarty finding Sherlock Holmes a useful player in the show he's staging for England's edification. After all, if there's a mystery, there simply must be a detective to solve it.
That play is something he lays out in the two-chapter adventure on the luxury steamliner Noahtic, which is a very thinly-veiled Titanic – even scenes set onboard the ship are recognizable from photos of the doomed vessel. This ship doesn't appear like she's going to meet a terrible fate on her maiden voyage, although the same cannot be said for the passengers. Moriarty's first scene in his crime drama (which sounds like he's relying at least a little on the themes of popular cheap Victorian entertainments such as melodramas and penny dreadfuls) is set on the ship and involves a particularly loathsome nobleman named Blitz Enders. (We can only hope that Blitz is one of those ridiculous nicknames that turn up in fiction sometimes, like “Bunchie” or “Wootsie.”) Count Enders not only so firmly believes in the superiority of the ruling class that he's willing to warp bible verses to suit himself, but he also insists on viewing the lower classes as subhuman to the point where he enjoys hunting them for sport on his estate(s). Moriarty essentially sets him up to reveal himself to the world by sacrificing a random third-class passenger on the ship, pretending to help Enders, and then (melo)dramatically staging a reveal of the man's murderous tendencies. It's prime theatre, and the fact that he happens to bump into the world's only consulting detective onboard is just the icing on the cake.
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PQube (London, UK) - January 14th, 2021 - PQube and developer Inti Creates are excited to confirm GalGun Returns will offer 10% off the launch price for Nintendo Switch Pre-Orders and Steam. GalGun Returns graces PC and Nintendo Switch on February 12th 2021.
In order to celebrate the series' 10th Anniversary, the 10% launch discount will be available to digital pre-orders placed through the Nintendo eShop and Steam purchases at launch. Players can add GalGun Returns to their Steam wishlist, while pre-orders for Nintendo Switch are live on the eShop from today!
We are also releasing a selection of brand new, never before seen screenshots featuring game modes, dialogue and artwork to give players a sneak peek at GalGun's goodies!
GalGun Returns brings the original GalGun to life for a new generation with tons of brand new features and improvements including game modes, beautiful new in-game artwork, mini-games, full voice acting, and lots of past DLC!
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The music video for BEASTARS and YOASOBI'S song "Kaibutsu" premiered on YouTube on Wednesday morning. The song is the opener for the second season of Studio Orange's animated adaptation of Paru Itagaki's manga series. Orange noted that Itagaki along with Hyperbole's Toshiyuki Yamashita and Rinna Miwa worked on the music video.
YOASOBI is a musical duo that includes vocalist Ikura and Vocaloid music producer Ayase. Ayase previously topped iTunes charts in 2019 with the release of their EP Yūrei Tōkyō. The duo's previous single "Yoru ni Kakeru" released in 2019 rose in popularity on TikTok and Spotify. They held their first live performance during last year's New Year's Eve program Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
The first episode of BEASTARS premiered exclusively on Netflix in Japan on January 5 followed by its Fuji TV premiere on January 6 in the +Ultra timeslot. Netflix will stream the series outside of Japan in July.
Itagaki launched her BEASTARS manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion in September 2016. The manga ended on October 8, and Akita Shoten published the manga's 21st volume on the same day.
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Netflix unveiled a new trailer for the anime series of Tsuina Miura and Takahiro Ōba's survival horror manga High-Rise Invasion (Tenkū Shinpan) on Thursday. The anime's official website also unveiled more cast and staff members, theme song artists, and the anime's February 25 Netflix debut date in Japan.
Netflix describes the anime's story:
The unhinged and gory death-game manga High-Rise Invasion, created by Tsuina Miura (Ajin - Demi-Human) and Takahiro Ōba (Box!), finally gets an anime adaptation! High school student Yuri Honjo finds herself lost in an “abnormal space” where countless skyscrapers are connected by suspension bridges and “masked figures” mercilessly slaughter their confused and fleeing victims. To survive in this hellish world, she has two choices: kill the masked figures or be killed. Yuri is determined to survive in order to destroy this irrational world, but what will be her ultimate fate?
Masahiro Takata (Super Seisyun Brothers, Libra of Nil Admirari) is directing the anime at Zero-G. Touko Machida (7SEEDS, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan) is supervising the series scripts. Yōichi Ueda (Gangsta.) serves as character designer and chief animation director. The artists tatsuo and Youichi Sakai are composing the music.
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Welcome to Anime News Network's Winter 2021 Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics write up their impressions instantly, to be posted here as they go along. Each critic will cover as many shows as they can handle, giving you alternate takes on most every show.
The guide is ongoing, organized by series and updated multiple times a day. Throughout the next week or two, we'll be updating as often as possible with new perspectives on new episodes from our team of critics. New reviews will be posted as soon as they're written, with each critic's name being added to the roster beneath the show's title. Check back a couple of times every day during the guide, and you're likely to see new shows pop up with multiple takes to enjoy!
Please remember that this is a preview guide. It is designed to give you a taste of the first episode of a show with a preliminary opinion and a few thoughts on whether or not the show has potential. These are not intended to be blanket judgments of these series as a whole. All reviews use the same ratings scale: 1-5, with 1 being the lowest.
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Sorawo has been exploring the strange dream-like world she calls the Otherside ever since she stumbled upon it during her days as an urban explorer, but her most recent trip has gotten her into serious trouble. That's when she meets Toriko, a strange young woman searching the Otherside for her missing friend. Toriko helps Sorawo out of her predicament, and Sorawo falls into helping Toriko in her mission. But each journey into the Otherside brings strange new dangers and skills, and Sorawo isn't sure that the search is worth it. (from manga)
Otherside Picnic is based on Iori Miyazawa's novel series and streams on Funimation on Mondays.
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You know, I can't for the life of me think of a yuri anime about adults, let alone a cool speculative fiction one without fan service that combines an influential Russian science fiction novel with modern Japanese urban myth. Or am I being too specific here?
The point is, Otherside Picnic is one of a kind, and a welcome addition to a landscape that's almost entirely about teenagers falling blushingly in love for the first time, often with a camera ogling their thighs in a way that's not consistent with character point-of-view. Those series can be lovely and sweet but tend to fall by the wayside by midseason for me, so I'm happy to see something that's a bit more tailored to my interests.
The novel that inspired the series, Roadside Picnic, is titled for an analogy between the aliens who came to Earth and left behind the ruined zones, and humans having a picnic and leaving behind litter and trampled grass. Otherside Picnic, with its focus on Sorao's state of mind and incorporation of urban legends, turns the metaphor inward. At the opening of the episode, Sorao is lying in the grass, prepared for death and reflecting on how no one will notice she's gone until her student loans go into collection. She feels empty and haunted, just like the landscape around her.
That metaphor is what makes her relationship with Toriko as powerful as it is. The vivacious extrovert and depressed introvert may be a pretty typical dynamic for a main pairing, but neither girl feels totally built on stereotypes either. I enjoyed their connection, although I do think their chemistry could have come through stronger.
The visuals are a mixed bag as well. The hand-drawn stuff looks great, with plenty of personality to its character acting, and the Otherside is appropriately eerie and atmospheric. However, there's some use of CG, and it varies from pretty cool and effective to honestly kind of baffling. The shapeless, ever-shifting monster they call the wiggle-waggle is spooky and effective, and even when it doesn't look great, it at least looks weird. However, for some reason there are some CG shots of Toriko and Sorao just moving through the landscape, and I cannot for the life of me understand why they did that because it looks terrible.
There's been a real lack of queer genre fiction in anime lately. Otherside Picnic would be a welcome addition to the season in any case, but in that light, I'm all the more excited to explore it.
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