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    Anime voice actress Kaori Ishihara (Seira Otoshiro in Aikatsu! , Luna Elegant in Demon Lord, Retry! ) visited Kawasui Kawasaki Aquarium , the first aquarium in Kawasaki-city, Kanagawa Prefecture, for a collaboration photo shoot. Her singles and albums have been released by Pony Canyon and the aquarium, opened in July, is funded by that record company.   The photos shot at the aquarium will be used for the limited-merchandise for "Ishihara Kaori AUTUMN EVENT 'ONE DROP'" to be held at Hulic Hall Tokyo on September 27, 2020. In addition to her talk, she will perform her new songs for the first time after her second album "Water Drop" was released on August 5.   She says, "There are so many beautifully patterned creatures I've never seen before that I can lose track of time and just keep looking! I also learned a lot about how many creatures live in the Tama River. I was very impressed by the kindness of the staff. I'm going to come ba...

    It is officially confirmed today that a short TV anime adaptation of Guraburu! , an official four-panel spin-off manga of Cygame's popular smartphone game GRANBLUE FANTASY , is set to premiere on Tokyo MX and BS11 on October 18, 2020. The gag manga illustrated by Hitomozi Kiku has been serialized in the game since its launch and has released nine tankobon volumes from KADOKAWA.   Kenshiro Morii ( BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico ) serves as the director, while the manga's illustrator Hitomozi Kiku joins the anime as the series composition writer. DMM.futureworks and W-Toon Studio ( UMAYON ) co-work on anime production.   All of the main voice cast members from the 2019 TV anime  Granblue Fantasy The Animation will reprise their roles.   Vyrn: Rie Kugimiya Lyria: Nao Toyama Katalina Alize: Miyuki Sawashiro Rackam: Hiroaki Hirata Io Euclase: Yukari Tamura Eugen: Kazuhiro Yamaji Rosetta: Rie Tanaka Sierokarte: Emiri Kato ...

    In cooperation with the Iwaki Tourism Joint Campaign Executive Committee, Bandai Namco Pictures has started producing a character named  Hiwa Natsunagi to support the tourism of Iwaki-city in Fukushima Prefecture. The 19-year-old girl is designed by Hiroko Yaguchi , best known as the character designer of the Aikatsu! anime franchise that the company has worked on its anime production since 2012.   Bandai Namco Pictures opened a production studio in Iwaki-city in October 2019 intending to realize the diverse ways of working in animation production and has delivered many of their works from there. Due to this connection, the company has decided to produce the character to deliver the charm of Iwaki-city and Fukushima Prefecture.   Hiwa Natsunagi is a 19-year-old native and resident of Iwaki-city. She is the newest hula girl at Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, and is struggling to become a member of Hawaiians Dancing Team. She has already opened her o...

    On August 31, which is a very important day in the story, the Zegapain anime franchise's official Twitter announced that an all-new original hard science fiction novel is set to be released in 2021. While its author is not mentioned yet, the tweet suggests that it will be linked to Yuya Takashima's spin-off novel Entangle:Girl published just one year ago.    The Sunrise-animated sci-fi robot TV anime was aired for 26 episodes from April to September 2006, and its complex worldview, which incorporated elements of singularity, virtual reality, and time-loops, was highly praised among critics and viewers.   Entangle:Girl , a spin-off story without giant robots, was serialized for 30 chapters on the Hayate Bunko website, then its print edition was published from Tokyo Sogensha on August 31, 2019. Its story centers on the anime's main heroine Ryoko Kaminagi. She and her fellow students at the movie club begin to make a feature film for a contest. The de...

  Following its initial announcement last month, the Higurashi When They Cry Mei mobile game now has a launch date in Japan. Featuring a brand new scenario in cooperation with creator Ryukishi07, the iOS and Android RPG is coming to Japan on September 3 .   Pre-registration for Higurashi When They Cry Mei is now live. If you missed our previous post , some of the new characters were recently introduced along with the debut promo below.     Via Gematsu     ------- Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine . You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids . Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox .   Source: Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

Ninja , MrBeast , Aim Lab , and  G2 Esports  have teamed up for a massive one million dollar donation to SpecialEffect , a UK-based charity that helps gamers with disabilities. Unbelievable! THANK YOU to the winners @aimlab , @G2esports , @MrBeastYT , @Ninja & everyone who bid, and to @FallGuysGame for making it all possible. Your generosity will enable us to continue making gaming dreams come true for people with physical disabilities around the world!💙 https://t.co/cBKDIBwN4p pic.twitter.com/HD16H07BML — SpecialEffect (@SpecialEffect) August 31, 2020 That's a noble cause and a huge donation for sure. How did it all start? Well, Fall Guys. 🔥 BATTLE OF THE BRANDS 🔥 The thirst from brands has been unreal... so we're turning it into something positive! Prize: Your brand inside Fall Guys as a costume! 👉 To enter: Reply to this tweet with the highest amount of money you would be willing to donate to @SpecialEffect — Fall Guys 👑 (@FallGuysGame) August 17,...

Riot Games has all kinds of projects going on right now. You know, they just launched an expansion for Legends of Runeterra that's pretty awesome , I've been summoning Celestials left and right and man it's a pip. But anyway, this is about a new board game. That's right, those things we play in physical reality. Honestly, outside of this teaser trailer and what amounts to a skeleton website , we don't know much about Tellstones: King's Gambit. We do know it's based inside the world of League of Legends. Shocker there, hunh? But hey, whenever Riot is making a new game or something it's probably a good idea to check it out. You can watch the cool trailer below! Click here to watch embedded media   Source: Game Informer

According to a post by Gematsu , the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee has rated a game called Immortals: Fenyx Rising by Ubisoft. Of course, Ubisoft has not announced any title by that name, leading many to believe this is a name change from the already announced adventure title Gods & Monsters. The storybook steeped in mythology game hasn't shown us much since it was originally teased, so we're all waiting to see what magic it conjures up when it starts throwing big gameplay chunks at us. So, if this is in fact a name change... why? To avoid confusion with that old movie? To sow confusion in the ranks? To bring about the rise of Cthulhu from ancient Grecian waters? What do you think? [Source: Gematsu] Source: Game Informer

Are your ready to catch them all? Wait, that's another game. In this one, you fight monsters on your mobile device, in the scariest environment of them all - the real world! Ready to take on giant ogres, scorpion things, and griffins at your local park or take on a dragon on a water slide or something? Nothing, not even training from Geralt himself, could prepare you for this! Take a look at some gameplay from the upcoming augmented reality experience where you can pop a poison lizard in the mouth while Grandma rants at Thanksgiving dinner (All socially distanced and safe of course!). Check out the trailer to see what all the monster mashing fuss is about! Click here to watch embedded media   Source: Game Informer

  Fictional techno-pop band εpsilonΦ is bringing a cool surprise for Vocaloid fans!   The boy band, one of the five in mixed media project  ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream! , has just released a lyric video for their cover of the Vocaloid tune "ROKI." The song, composed by Mikito-P and originally performed by Mikito-P and Kagamine Rin, is one of the Internet's most popular original Vocaloid songs, having racked up more than 30 million hits on YouTube.   Check out εpsilonΦ's cover:     (Note: the video will only be available until November 29.)   Additionally, the project's official channel has released a gameplay video for the band's song "Cynicaltic Fakestar," which will feature in the upcoming mobile game  ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream! AASide :     ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream!  premiered as an anime in April 2020, and as a digital manga this month on Shonen Jump+ . The mobile game is expected to be released in ...

According to an Ubisoft support page, the PlayStation 5 will not feature backwards compatibility for PS1, PS2, or PS3 games. While not exactly a shocker, any scrap of information regarding the upcoming console release is a tall drink of water in a knowledge desert, as we wait patiently for pricing and release date information. PS5 is not backwards compatible with PS3/PS2/PS1 games, according to a Ubisoft supprot page https://t.co/j1wTcAApZ3 pic.twitter.com/hnbpndATPi — Wario64 (@Wario64) August 31, 2020 While Microsoft provided a release window for Xbox Series X, Sony has yet to unveil any details of this nature. With console launches expected to hit the holiday window this year, both video game industry titans are holding critical information until what appears to be the last possible moment.  Source: Game Informer

  Every 5 years, Japan holds a national census, giving every household in the country the chance to get their voice heard and make the country a better place to live. This year, to drive awareness for the program, Kyoto Animation's much-loved series Sound! Euphonium will be advertising the census in Kyoto prefecture, the home of the series, and the studio that made it.   Twitter user  @rinoneutral saw the first advertisement today on their morning commute on a local train:     電車の広告を見上げると、国勢調査のお知らせが。京都ではここ最近、アニメーション作品が採用されており、今回は響けユーフォニアムでした。 pic.twitter.com/qzbA8aWK4u — すうふゃみ (@rinoneutral) August 31, 2020     Kumiko is saying: "All households and people living in Kyoto are eligible, so let's cooperate together!"    The Japanese census is be based on where the householder lives on October 1 and is due before October 7. Mailed out ballots will start on September 14, but an online version – in multiple languages, including E...

  Hello everyone, and welcome back to Why It Works. The summer is basically over at this point, and even moreso than most years, it kind of feels like it was barely here at all. Without the ability to really go out for events or enjoy the beach or whatnot, this summer has largely just been a succession of the same day over and over again. Our conception of a “summer vacation” has been reduced to a trip to the grocery store, and all of the public hallmarks of summer have been canceled for the year. And now we’re expected to have had our fill of summer, and already feel nostalgic for the cold winter ahead?     Boo to that, I say. And while I can’t exactly restore the season we lost, I can at least recommend you all a few anime that encapsulate a certain aspect of summer, and remind us of how nice it is when summers actually exist. So without further ado, I present some of Crunchyroll’s finest summer selections, as we attempt to make up for the season that never w...