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.
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.
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.
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.
A new Ghost in the Shell manga launched on Yanmaga Web on September 9, and Kodansha credits Masamune Shirow with the script and character design, not just the concept. No English version has been announced.
France announced three theme parks near Paris, €6 billion of Saudi money, and the region said one would be Dragon Ball. Toei Animation says it granted no license; Paris now says it never put that name forward.
Saint Seiya creator Masami Kurumada sued his ex-manager on September 2, 2026, over 4.686 billion yen (about $29.3 million) allegedly embezzled. A trusted editor walled him off for 25 years, his lawyers say.
Some 21 years after launch, the developer of the 2005 arcade fighter Fist of the North Star explains where the basket bug came from. The code meant to stop infinite combos is what created them.
ONE PIECE FILM BAAD opens in 2029, and so far it is four handwritten letters and nothing else. Japanese fans have landed on 5 readings; overseas forums reached for Arabic and Urdu dictionaries instead.
Good Smile Company's Gyaru Tomie x Hello Kitty figure ships from May 2027 at 18,800 yen. The all-gray sculpt with one red bow, the Junji Ito and Sanrio crossover behind it, and how to preorder from outside Japan.
Broke adventurers eating monsters: Delicious in Dungeon is a respected award-winner at home and a Netflix phenomenon abroad. We trace its path from Ryoko Kui's short-story years through the Harta serialization and Studio Trigger's anime to global success, and preview Season 2's Falin rescue arc, arriving October 2027.