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Image via Amazon Prime Japan   The online version of the EVANGELION STORE announced on its website yesterday the website has had a data breach, with 17,828 credit card numbers leaked , passwords stolen, and more identifiable information revealed from the period of June 8, 2020, to June 30, 2021.   The online store was first alerted to the breach by the credit card companies themselves on July 12, 2021, and subsequently removed the ability to pay by card that same day. The EVANGELION STORE online is currently offline due to the issues, with no announcement for when it'll come back online.   After Groundworks, who operates this Evangelion  store, was told of the issue, they hired a third-party company to investigate how it happened, as well as who was affected. The store apologized for how long it took to announce the breach but wanted to wait for the investigations to be over from the third-party company as well as the credit card companies. The investig...

    The official YouTube channel for Bushiroad's mixed-media franchise BanG Dream! has posted an anime music video for "Introduction," written and composed by Ayase ( YOASOBI composer) for "Poppin'Party x Ayase," the franchise's first artist collaboration project. The song was also digitally released at the same time.   This anime music video is full of Poppin'Party members' daily life as a high school girls, which are different from their usual visuals so far. The character designs were newly drawn based on the images of the song.   Ayase says of the song," I've provided a song called 'Introduction' to Poppin'Party. There are fun times and hard times. The song is filled with the wish that their such daily lives would shine even brighter," and adds his thought on the anime MV, "I thought it was wonderful that the video depicted the casual daily life of the Poppin'Party members, which I had imagined ...

At the end of the last episode of  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba  Mugen Train Arc on Sunday, the "next episode preview" was none other than a new trailer for the upcoming  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba  Entertainment District Arc , which is set to premiere on December 5. That trailer has now been released  with English subs readying English-speaking fans for the next chapter of the Demon Slayer story.     Get ready for a new mission within the Yoshiwara District with the premiere of #DemonSlayer : Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc on December 5th on @Crunchyroll and @Funimation ! ✨ pic.twitter.com/WIhQJsQBE7 — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (English) (@DemonSlayerUSA) December 1, 2021     Previously released visual:   The  Entertainment District Arc  is scheduled to begin airing on Japanese TV on Sunday, December 5,  and will stream on Crunchyroll and Funimation soon after its premiere. The...

    avex pictures' official YouTube channel has started steaming a seven and half minute digest of the "Welcome to Pri☆Chan Land!" concert held at Nakano Sunplaza in Tokyo on August 22, 2021.   It was the first solo concert with the audience for the voice actresses of the Kiratto Pri☆Chan anime franchise, because their first solo concert "Hello! Pri☆Chan World" was held without the audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic on July 18, 2020, and streamed online only.   The concert was held under the precautionary measures against infectious diseases: no one was allowed to stand up and no one was allowed to let out their voices. A total of 16 voice actresses gathered on the stage and performed as their characters in the anime.   For those of you who want to watch the entire concert, the Blu-ray is set to be released on March 17, 2022     Characters (In order of appearance):   GOGO! MASCOTS - KiracCHU (Nanami Yamashita), Melpan (Nichika...

  This year's winners of the Hochi Film Awards, which are sponsored by the Hochi Shimbun organization and presented by Sports Hochi, were unveiled this morning announcing that Ayumu Watanabe 's latest anime film,  Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko won the "Best Animated Film" award while  Takuya Kimura , who is best known as the voice and likeness for Yagami in the Judgment video game series, won "Best Actor" for his latest film  Masquerade Night .   The lead producer on  Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko , Japanese comedian Sanma Akashiya , said that the film and the award "doesn't belong to him" but instead belong to "director Watanabe and Studio 4℃." According to  Akashiya , he just "assisted" on the film. Director  Watanabe said that she was "glad" she made the movie.   Other winners today include the latest James Bond film No Time to Die as Best Foreign Picture, while  In the Wake won Best Picture overall....

    The official website for the Detective Conan anime film series announced today that its 25th feature film Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween is set for a release on April 15, 2022. The site and official Twitter has also posted a teaser visual drawn by the Detective Conan manga author Gosho Aoyama with a tagline: "It's okay to pledge my eternal love to you, right?"         #劇場版名探偵コナン 第25弾のタイトル決定‼️ ????『名探偵コナン #ハロウィンの花嫁 』 2022年4月15日(金)公開！ 青山先生描き下ろしビジュアルも初公開！ 永遠の愛、誓ってもいいよね？ pic.twitter.com/bpCEgMeICQ — 劇場版名探偵コナン【公式】 (@conan_movie) December 1, 2021     The film's official website has posted a story introduction as below:   Shibuya, Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, where Detective Miwako Sato of the Metropolitan Police Department is dressed in a wedding dress. While Conan and the other invited guests are watching, an assailant suddenly bursts in...

Over the past couple of days, sites like Game Rant , which we first saw surface these stats, have been keeping an eye on how Steam users are spending their time by comparing two disparate but new titles from the month of November. One is a humble farming sim, while the other is a blockbuster multiplayer shooter. Which would you guess more people are playing on the platform just weeks after launch? As of 6:30 p.m. on November 30, Farming Simulator 22 was beating Battlefield 2042 in concurrent Steam users. That's a bit of a surprise, yeah? In the image above (captured from Steam's own data you can see here ), the numbers on the left represent current active players for each game, while the numbers on the right are total players for the day. As of the time of this snapshot, Farming Simulator 22 had over 3,000 more current players than Battlefield 2042.  However, time of day does matter when collecting this data. A scant 45 minutes later, at 7:15 p.m., the tables had...

    As reported, an original short anime "Massara" ( Whole New ) inspired by Ikimonogakari singer Kiyoe Yoshioka 's first original solo song of the same name was posted on Ikimonogakari's official YouTube channel last night. And it was revealed that Yoshioka voiced one of its two protagonists, Nazuna, by herself. She previously made a guest voice appearance as Eevee in the 2013 film Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened , and this is the first time for her to play the lead role in an anime film.   Popular voice actress  Kana Hanazawa (Kuroneko in Oreimo , Mitsuri Kanroji in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba ) is also cast as another protagonist girl, Yuna.   The anime's story centers on a singer-songwriter, Nazuna, who is about to stop chasing her dream, and a very shy girl, Yuna. They meet and influence each other to create their own future. Yoshioka said of her VA debut, "I tried my best I could, and when I realized it, it was over in ...

    The official website for the Space Battleship Yamato anime franchise has released a 40-second new teaser trailer for - STASHA- , the second and final part of Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage .   The trailer was screened in theaters after the first part -TAKE OFF- , which was released in Japan on October 8, 2021, and also was included in its DVD/Blu-ray as a bonus footage. It contains important scenes and dialogues, such as Stasha's "It's time to tell the truth," which foreshadows the story's heartbreaking climax.   Space Battleship Yamato 2205 2nd Part -STASHA- is set to be screened in 36 theaters in Japan from February 4, 2022. As its title suggests, it is set three years after Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love . While its story is based on the original 1979 TV special Space Battle Ship Yamato: The New Voyage , some of the main charcaters from the 1980-1981 TV series Space Battleship Yamato III  are confirmed to a...

A new map, a new killer, and a new survivor all arrive in the asymmetrical 4v1 horror hide-and-seek game Dead by Daylight today. In fact, they’re in right now! The killer, Carmina Mora, is the Artist – commanding a twisted murder of ink crows that can highlight and harm survivors with a little savvy placement. While her projectile assault may not be as direct as the Huntress’s ax or some of the other long-range options, her kit expands with add-ons and can be used to play keep away on pallets or windows that look prime for a chase. Click here to watch embedded media Depending on how she’s played, she can either use her artistic swarm to help track down survivors and keep tabs on them over long distances or be used for direct assault at close range. However, even more\ interesting and important, especially as the Dead by Daylight meta continues to evolve, is one of her perks, Hex: Pentimento. As the survivors have gained their own boons to help utilize totems to assist with game win...

A new Starfield trailer today takes a bit of a different approach compared to the traditional sizzle reel or gameplay blast. Instead, you can take a look at Starfield in a very different fashion, with a behind-the-scenes look with game director Todd Howard, studio director Angela Browder, and art director Matt Carofano. It’s more of a micro look at Bethesda’s approach to their games, their stories, and their open worlds. It’s more of a conversational approach than a lot of game trailers, but it looks like it’s simply setting the stage for lots more to come regarding Starfield. Check out the full video right here. Click here to watch embedded media This is really just Episode One of a Starfield trailer series, so inevitably there will be a lot more on the way before Starfield’s release. In case you were wondering, Starfield is set to hit on November 11, 2022. That may seem like a long way off, but I’m sure we’ll get to see a lot more from the game as we progress into next year. Yeah ...

Media Molecule has announced Ancient Dangers: A Bat’s Tale, a new playable game the studio made in its 2019 creation game, Dreams.   The game seems to be centered on two dungeon-crawling protagonists who must battle “hideous monsters” and solve “fiendish puzzles” to advance through Ancient Danger’s medieval setting. There is, of course, loot and wealth to be found throughout each of these dungeons, and there seems to be a cute bat at the center of its story, as the name alludes to.  Click here to watch embedded media As you can see in the trailer above, Ancient Dangers looks quite great and it’s tough to picture it as a game made inside Dreams, which is itself a game. Credit to Media Molecule, though, for doing just that. Ancient Dangers looks great, too, which is especially exciting because it’s already out as of today.  Here’s the official description for Ancient Dangers: “Join the teenage orcs Scoria and Gabbro as they team up with their new friend, Herb the...

Rockstar Games has a couple of updates for its recently released collection of Grand Theft Auto games from the PS2/Xbox era. First, the physical editions are being delayed, but only by ten days. A tweet from the company announced the change in date on Twitter, saying you can get your actual mitts on Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition on December 17 instead of the originally planned December 7. The release dates for the physical versions of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition have changed. Xbox Series X / Xbox One and PS4 will now release on December 17. The Nintendo Switch version is coming in early 2022. Check your local retailer for availability. pic.twitter.com/6avP8yp6la — Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) November 30, 2021 Tangentially, The Trilogy launched digitally earlier this month in a state that fans weren't too happy about, awash with graphical issues, performance woes, and overly-intense downpours of rain . Since the...

Image courtesy Fathom Events   Following the smash success of the three-night theatrical engagement prior to Thanksgiving that wound up trending on Twitter , Home video distributor Shout! Factory has detailed the forthcoming home video release for  Gintama THE VERY FINAL .     The above BD/DVD Combo will also include the English dub and the Japanese dub with English subtitles and a bundled exclusive 16-page booklet packed with character art and storyboards that will be released on February 8th, 2022 with pre-orders available now directly from Shout! Factory online . For those that pre-order, an exclusive poster will also be bundled while supplies last. For those that can't wait until then, the Digital version will be released on January 25th on all major VOD platforms with pricing yet to be determined. Eleven Arts describes the film:     Everything I've wanted to protect is right here with me in sp...

  After less than a year, it's almost time to bid farewell to "chain combo x novel RPG" BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War . The mobile game first launched on iOS and Android devices in Japan on February 16, 2021, and Arc System Works and developer Linked Brain announced plans to end service on January 31, 2022 .    All told, nearly one million users downloaded the game, which is a spinoff of Arc System Works's fighting game series BlazBlue . The official reason for ending service has to do with the difficulty to "ensure quality service going forward."    As of today, there are no more in-app purchases in BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War . Refund requests for unused Blue Crystals will be available between February 1 and May 2, 2022.    Here's the launch trailer from February:     Via Gematsu     ------- Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine . You can read his comics at subhumanzoids . Follow...

It is important to keep in mind what is going on within Activision Blizzard at this time regarding ongoing allegations about the work culture. The ongoing lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against the company is over reported toxic workplace culture. The bulk of the suit focuses on "violations of the state's civil rights and equal pay laws," specifically regarding the treatment of women and other marginalized groups. To learn more about the proceedings thus far, including details listed in the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, please check out our previous  coverage here . Call of Duty: Vanguard Season One is just a little over a week away from the release of its new Warzone map, Caldera, and a new trailer highlighting it has been released.  Dubbed a “Call of Duty: Vanguard & Warzone - Season One” teaser trailer , it oddly has virtually nothing to do with Vanguard, the latest Call of Duty release that’s centered on Worl...

Players have had plenty of time to dive into Halo Infinite’s multiplayer experience, but as we move closer and closer to the December 8th launch date, anticipation has been building for the campaign experience as well. After weeks of throwing around the oddball and hacking up competitors with the sizzling sword, is it time to take the campaign trek? Well, here’s the first big trailer from the campaign, unveiled today. Click here to watch embedded media FPS campaigns often range from the mundane to the majestic and we don’t know just where Halo Infinite’s falls just yet. Clearly, much has changed since the underwhelming demo slice of legend that gave rise to big-time internet memes and a fair amount of concern about what the final game would play like. That said, we’ll be looking closely to see what the verdict is as we get closer to launch. While multiplayer hasn’t been without issues, especially ones related to battle pass progression, game customization, and more, overall Halo Inf...

  Otome game fans, get ready for another visual novel that's on the way next year. Idea Factory International announced plans to bring Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei over to Nintendo Switch in the west, with a physical and digital release planned for summer 2021 .    IFI will announce the contents of the Limited Edition version at a later date. In the meantime, you can see a few of the game's ridiculously attractive cast members in the announcement screens below.   Genji Clan   Yoritomo     Benkei     Shungen     Heike Clan   Tomomori     Noritsune     Synopsis: Fifteen years after the Heiji Rebellion, the Heike clan has reached the height of its power, while the Genji clan remains devastated by defeat. Hidden deep within the mountains of Kurama lives Shanao, the youngest surviving male heir to the Genji name. However, Shanao harbors a deep secret known by very few. ...

  Some cool news for fans of tokusatsu films: Maito Fujioka, the eldest son of actor Hiroshi Fujioka, will be taking over his father's role as Takeshi Hongo / Kamen Rider #1 for the scenes set in 1971 in the upcoming Kamen Rider Beyond Generations films.   When offered the role, Maito Fujioka noted he felt an obligation to perform it, and he also stated that he received advice directly from his father and also did his own research to prepare for the role.     Kamen Rider Beyond Generations spans 100 years of superheroics from 1971 (the debut of the original Kamen Rider TV series) through the present of 2021 with Kamen Rider Revice and Kamen Rider Saber and all the way to the far future year of 2071. The film is scheduled to hit theaters in Japan on December 17, 2021.   Source: Eiga.com   Copyright notice: © Ishimori Productions・TV Asashi・ADK EM・Toei     --- Paul Chapman is the host of  The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast ...

  Some quick news for all you fans of reincarnation fantasy: Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire♀ (known in Japan as Eiyuu-ou, Bu wo Kiwameru tame Tensei su, ～Soshite Sekai Saikyou no Minarai Kishi♀ ～ ), a light novel series written by Hayaken and illustrated by Nagu about a former legendary hero who reincarnates centuries later as a would-be lady knight, is getting a new anime adaptation.     So far, no further details about the new anime project (such as the format, the release window, the cast, or the crew) have yet been revealed. Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire♀ was previously adapted into a mini web anime in November of 2020.   速報 #英雄王 、武を極めるため転生す ～そして、世界最強の見習い騎士♀～ アニメ化企画進行中！ 詳細はコチラをご覧ください‼ 【 https://t.co/TxXj6Ok5zg 】 ■作品の詳細＆無料のWEB読みはコチラ https://t.co/H2cPgMXVr5 ■ミニアニメ＆作品PVも公開中！ https://t.co/nMeJ0Q35lN pic.twitter.com/N6D1LLa62B — HJ文庫 (@HJbunko) November 29, 2021   Th...