Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi has revealed Crash Keys, a studio founded in March 2025, after a game it spent about a year and a half on was canceled. He is asking for work and investors, as he did in 2014.
Square Enix offers 300 million yen for first place and 1 billion yen across 15 games. Only Japan residents can enter, of any nationality, and winners transfer half their copyright with no release guaranteed.
Nue's Exorcist, AnimeJapan's 2025 most-wanted manga for anime, airs in summer 2027. Headlines called its director the Gochiusa man, but he has worked with Studio Hibari, known abroad as Lerche, for a decade.
Pokémon director Shigeru Ohmori made a free-to-play phone game about magical girls, real forecasts and laundry alongside Pokopia, which shipped in 9 languages. This one is slated for Japan only.
Yamaha releases VOCALOID7 on November 11, 2026, with an AI Megpoid based on Megumi Nakajima's voice. Vocaloid voices have come from real people. In an age of AI cloning, what is a voice with a known owner worth?
Cut at 26 episodes in 1974 and saved by reruns, Yamato (Star Blazers in the U.S.) gets a new film from Evangelion's Hideaki Anno and 2199 director Yutaka Izubuchi. No release date yet.
Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun FINALS is back after about four months. Creator Yoichi Takahashi also owns the real Nankatsu SC, which finished third and has one October tournament left to keep its JFL hopes alive.
Bridgestone left F1 in 2010 and lost a bid to return in 2023. From December it supplies every Formula E car, on tyres it says are 65% recycled and renewable, a figure that partly relies on mass-balance accounting.
MARVEL | KADOKAWA plans a Shibuya-set Spider-Man manga for 2026, detailed the day Shueisha's 14 Marvel volumes left e-book stores. The story goes back to a 1978 giant robot.
Mizuno's Hyperwarp 96 weighs about 96 grams (size 27.0 cm) despite a thick sole and carbon plate. We compare it with Adidas's 97-gram Evo 3 and ask what one gram, and a 100 km lifespan, really mean.
Masahiko Inami read Ghost in the Shell as lab homework and helped build optical camouflage from reflectors and a projector. The world called it an invisibility cloak. He says that name would never have sparked the idea.