Veiled

The official website for the Just Because! original anime project unveiled the anime's new visual on Friday. The anime will premiere on October 5 on AT-X (9:00 p.m.), Tokyo MX (11:30 p.m.), and TV Kanagawa (1:00 a.m., effectively October 6 morning). The series will also premiere on October 6 on MBS (2:55 a.m., effectively October 7 morning), and on October 10 on BS Fuji (12:30 a.m., effectively October 11 morning). The show's official website describes the story: It is winter of their third year of high school, near the end of the second semester, when students have very little time in high school left. Everyone was just waiting for graduation. Until he suddenly came home. He was their classmate in middle school who had moved far away. He transferred in at a peculiar time, which reunited them. It was as if a go signal rang out to the feelings of the students who had just thought to end their high school life without fanfare. Atsushi Kobayashi (Girls & Panzer st

Play debuts on Wednesday The official website for the upcoming stage play based on Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) manga revealed the stage play's cast in costume last week. Nobuaki Kakuda (first image below), Keiichi Yamamoto (second image below), and Kōzō Takeda (third image below) are triple cast as Jagi, and will appear at different performances. Other additional cast members, all playing random thugs, include (from top to bottom in images below) Ryūko Isogai, Ryūnosuke Kawai, Juri, Takeshi Hayashino, and Naomichi Hanazono, and AŌP idol group member Aoi Mizuki. Other actors playing random thugs include comedians Fall Kachi Aoyama, Captain★Zako, Shimazō Z, and Pink Machiura, as well as Kazuya Ōiwa, Yūsuke Fukushima, and Teppei Yoshino. Shigeru Chiba, the voice of Joker, Jakō, the narrator, and numerous other characters in the anime adaptations, will also have a voice role in the stage play. The play, titled Hokuto no K

Bandai Namco Entertainment began streaming a teaser for a new smartphone game titled Dragon Ball Z Bucchigiri Match on Thursday. Bandai Namco Entertainment describes the game as taking advantage of HTML5 technology, and that it "will involve one's surroundings to bring a new style of playing."

Bandai Namco Entertainment began streaming a teaser for a new smartphone game titled Dragon Ball Z Bucchigiri Match on Thursday. Bandai Namco Entertainment describes the game as taking advantage of HTML5 technology, and that it "will involve one's surroundings to bring a new style of playing." Bandai Namco Entertainment and video game company Drecom founded game company BXD in May to develop a gaming platform distribution service to release HTML5-based online games. The browser games will be for smartphone use. Other games planned include Family Stadium and The [email protected].

New character visuals for anime series also revealed Square Enix revealed a teaser trailer and visual on Thursday for its smartphone game based on Studio Gokumi's original anime project Toji no Miko (The Shrine Maiden Swordwielders). The video reveals the game's full title of Toji no Miko: Kizamishi Issen no Tomoshibi (The Shrine Maiden Swordwielders: A Cutting Flash of Steel). The first part of the video is the anime's previously streamed promotional video. Yoshinori Shizuma drew the visual below the video. The game will feature the same cast as the anime series, and will feature the original character designs by Yoshinori Shizuma. The staff of the anime also revealed new character visuals for seven of the main characters on Thursday: Kaede Hondo as Kanami Etō, a second-year student in the middle school section of Minoseki Academy. She is 13 years old. Her sword is Chidori. She's in the middle school section, but she has the sword skills to be a representative for th