Both anime begin streaming on Monday Crunchyroll announced on Monday that it is adding the VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fresh original video anime (OVA) and the third season of the Kyo kara Maoh! television anime to its catalog. The company will begin streaming both anime in the United States and Canada on Monday at

Visual Art’s/Key‘s Campfire crowdfunding campaign for a new planetarian Snow Globe original video anime (OVA) surpassed its goal to raise 30 million yen (about US$276,000) on Sunday. As of press time, the campaign has raised 32,967,126 yen (about US$300,000). The crowdfunding campaign launched on Friday, which marked the 15th anniversary of the PC release of

Maeda Jun, the creator behind iconic works like Air, Clannad, Little Busters, and Angel Beats!, has announced his first new game in 13 years, titled Heaven Burns Red! Produced by Key and WFS, it will be released for iOS and Android in 2020. Yuugen is handling character design based on Na-ga, Humuyun, and Maroyaka’s original

New guidelines cut back on including drawings, cartoons in definition of child pornography The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Committee for the Rights of the Child published a new version of its “Guidelines on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on

Airing before Spring 2020’s separate Argonavis anime The second day of the “Rausch und/and Craziness” concerts announced with a teaser video on Sunday that the third season of the BanG Dream! anime will premiere on January 23. The concerts also announced that the RAISE A SUILEN band will hold “The Creation ~We are RAISE A

More playable characters, bonuses, special editions also detailed KOEI Tecmo Games revealed in a livestream video and a trailer on Friday that it will release Gust‘s Fairy Tail role-playing game on March 19, 2020 for PlayStation 4, Nintendo witch, and Steam. KOEI Tecmo Europe will also release the game on the same date. KOEI Tecmo

The official website for the television anime of the 22/7 idol project unveiled the anime’s January 11 premiere date, pre-broadcast plans, second key visual, and information about the first episode “Sayonara, Watashi no Sasayaka na Sekai” (Farewell, My Small World) on Saturday. The visual and other details debuted during the streamed AbemaTV special for 22/7

Video previews ClariS‘ ending theme song Aniplex began streaming the second promotional video on Saturday for the Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story television anime series. The video reveals that the anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 on January 4 at 24:00 (effectively January 5 at 12:00

1st film opened on Friday, will screen for 2 weeks in Japan The official website for the Gundam: Reconguista in G series revealed on Friday the musical unit Dreams Come True are performing the theme song for Gekijōban Gundam G no Reconguista I: Ike! Core Fighter (Go! Core Fighter), the first of the planned five

Japanese domestic market grows for 1st time since 2014 The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) will publish its “Anime Industry Report 2019,” which examines industry trends from 2018, on December 9. According to a preview of the report published on Friday, the anime market was valued at 2.1814 trillion yen (about US$19.9 billion) in 2018,

Magazine’s final volume ships on February 13 The January 2020 issue of Kodansha‘s Be-Love magazine revealed on Saturday that Miwa Ueda‘s Peach Girl NEXT manga will end in the magazine’s February 2020 issue on December 28. The manga’s seventh volume, which shipped in August, had revealed that the manga will end in its eighth volume.