Streaming Announcements
HIDIVE Adds Toka Gettan: The Moonlight Lady Returns AnimeHIDIVE to Stream Farming Life in Another World, Ippon! again AnimeThe Girl From the Other Side Anime Gets English DubTomo-chan is a Girl Anime Gets Same-Day English Dub on January 4Crunchyroll Streams Fate/Grand Order Stage Play on December 31New Anime
Tenchi Muyo! GXP Project Gets New Paradise Shidō-hen AnimeNew Manga/Novel
Alice in Borderland, Zom 100’s Haro Aso Launches New MangaTV/OVA Release Dates
Mahō Shōjo Magical Destroyers Anime’s 1st Promo Video Reveals Theme Song Artists, April 2023 DebutBleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime’s Video Announces Return in JulySpecial Events
TATSUKI’s Hentatsu Anime Airs ‘New Year’s Eve Specialty Edition’Director confirms no important announcement this yearSeries Ending
Love of Kill Manga Ends on January 14Hiro Mashima’s Edens Zero Manga Enters Final ArcSakuya Kuroda’s Rich Police Cash Manga Ends in 9th VolumeDelays
KanColle Season 2 Anime’s 6th Episode Delayed to January 19Megaton Musashi Anime Delays Final 5 Episodes to February Due to COVID-19Uncle From Another World Anime Delays 13th Episode Due to COVID-19Hunter x Hunter Manga Goes Back on HiatusMisc
Dropkick on My Devil! Anime’s Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches 200% of GoalCat Sh*t One Anime Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Fund Blu-ray 3D HD Release, BD/DVD Re-releaseKenji Studio Launches Kickstarter Campaigns for English Releases of Santa Company Anime Films, MangaSeven Seas States Amazon in Europe Has Stopped Purchasing its TitlesPokémon Company Sues Company Advertising ‘PokéWorld’ NFT GamePinocchio Star Finn Wolfhard, Director Guillermo del Toro Discuss Chainsaw Man Anime in VideoKodansha’s Evening Magazine Ends Publication in February After 22 YearsStudio Pierrot Founder Yūji Nunokawa Passes AwayOnline Petition to Redo Chainsaw Man Anime Gets 2,000 SignaturesOne-Punch Man Anime Twitter Account Warns of MisinformationSupreme Court of Texas Denies Petition to Review Vic Mignogna’s LawsuitRight Stuf Top 10 Best Sellers of the Week
BlurayMushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation Season 1 Part 2 Blu-Ray/DVDAttack On Titan The Final Season Part 2 Limited Edition Blu-Ray/DVDCrusher Joe The Movie Blu-RayDear Brother Blu-RayGirls Und Panzer Das Finale Part 3 Blu-RayLupin The 3rd The Mystery Of Mamo Blu-RayYu Yu Hakusho 30th Anniversary Box Set Blu-RayLupin The 3rd Part I Blu-RayGuilty Crown Complete Series Essentials Blu-RayQwaser Of Stigmata Complete Series Blu-RayMangaI Cannot Reach You Manga Volume 5Beastars Manga Volume 20Chainsaw Man Manga Volume 4Chainsaw Man Manga Volume 3Kaiju No. 8 Manga Volume 5Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Volume 18Beastars Manga Volume 21One Piece Manga Box Set 1Prince Freya Manga Volume 1Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Manga Volume 1DVDShuffle Complete Series DVD SAVE EditionGolden Boy DVDGhost Stories Complete Collection DVDGhost Hound Collection 1 DVDWelcome To Pia Carrot! 2 DX DVDCLAMP Double Feature DVD SAVE EditionRurouni Kenshin New Kyoto Arc DVDOne Piece Collection 2 DVDGatchaman Collector’s Edition Box 2 DVDDNA Squared Complete Collection (TV + OVA) DVDTop Stories of 2022
January
10 years since Bandai Entertainment shut downAkira Film Easter Egg Hints at Artist’s Exasperation With the WorkloadRumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura Manga Gets New TV Anime in 2022AMC Networks Acquires Sentai Holdings, Sentai Filmworks, HIDIVECinedigm to Acquire AsianCrush, RetroCrush’s Owner Digital Media RightsAdult Swim, Cartoon Network’s Viewership Falls Over 25% in 2021Viz Media, Manga Plus Also Do Not Publish 75th Chapter of Ayakashi Triangle MangaViz Teases “Exciting” Shonen Jump Announcement, Then Clarifies It’s Not NFTsFinal Fantasy VII Tifa Pornography Interrupts Italian Senate MeetingJujutsu Kaisen 0 Anime Film Opens in U.S., Canada on March 18Niigata Government Blames ‘Girl Running With Toast’ Anime Trope For Decline in Rice ConsumptionYouTuber SuedeBlade received court complaint from ShoPro (Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions) for like $700 because of their Pokemon “reviews.”Final Fantasy VII 25th AnniversaryFebruary
Mangasplaining Podcast Launches Newsletter With English Releases of Okinawa, ‘These Days’ MangaOtakon 2022 Event to Require COVID-19 Vaccination, MasksYu-Gi-Oh! TCG Finally Surpasses Magic: The Gathering’s Search Term Popularity in U.S.Netflix’s Live-Action One Piece Series Begins FilmingEiichiro Oda Requested One Piece Film Red To Give “Important Role to a Female Character”Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi Launch Podcast About Vic Mignogna Defamation CaseChihayafuru Manga Ends with 49th VolumeEarthBound/EarthBound Beginnings Games Are Now Available on Switch Online ServiceLive a Live RPG Gets Switch ‘HD-2D’ Remake on July 22Attack on Titan “Do you think genocide is cool?” pollParamount Plans 3rd Sonic the Hedgehog Film, Live-Action Series About KnucklesBookWalker Global to Remove Series from Sol Press/Panty Press on February 21Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Anime Film to Open in N. America This SummerCDC Study on COVID-19: ‘Evidence of Widespread Transmission Was Not Identified’ at Anime NYCCapcom Announces Street Fighter 6 Game (Ryu’s dick)Yaoi Paddle Kickstarter Aims to Revitalize Anime Fandom HistoryMarch
Grand Jury Advances 8 Felony Charges Against Former Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Translator Stefan Koza, Trial Set for JuneEVO 2022 Tournament Will Not Include Super Smash Bros. GameICv2 Report: U.S. Manga Sales More than Doubled in 2021Anime Studio White Fox Apologizes For Alleged Gender Discriminatory Hiring PracticesMangaPlaza Digital Service Launches, Offers Free Trial to U.S. AudienceFunimation’s Anime Content Heads to CrunchyrollAzuki Has Raised $500K from Y Combinator!Voice Actor, ADR Director Daman Mills Accused of Sexual MisconductMan Who Used U.S. COVID Relief Loan To Buy Pokémon Card Sentenced To PrisonThe New Best-Selling TV Anime (Uma Musume 2)Tokyo Mew Mew Artist Mia Ikumi Passes Away Due to HemorrhageGainax’s Wings of Honneamise Film Gets 4K Remaster With Theatrical ScreeningsAdult Swim to Produce 2 New FLCL Seasons, Housing Complex C AnimeDragon Ball Super: Super Hero Film Delayed Due to Toei Animation HackSol Press: Company ‘Can No Longer Provide Refunds’Inio Asano’s Dead Dead Demon’s Dededededestruction Manga Gets AnimeBaki Hanma Anime Gets 2nd SeasonCrunchyroll to Remove Food Wars!, Akame Ga Kill, BanG Dream!, Girls und Panzer, No Game No Life, More AnimeCrunchyroll to Halt Ad-Supported Streaming Starting With Spring 2022 SeasonApril
Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Anime Reveals Franchise’s 1st ‘Female Hero’ in Main SeriesCourt Hands Suspended Sentence to Please Tell Me! Galko-chan Creator Kenya SuzukiNetflix: More Than Half of Members Globally Watched ‘Anime’ Last YearNew Jersey’s AnimeNEXT Cancels 2022 Event Due to Issues with Convention CenterE3 Game Show Cancels 2022 EventBookLive Suspends Ranking of Kings Manga’s English Release for RetranslationThe Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Anime Casts Tomokazu Seki as Entire Greek TeamCrunchyroll pushes towards ending remote recordingDark Horse to Publish 1st Berserk Manga Volume Since Kentarou Miura’s Passing in November‘SPY X FAMILY CANCELLED’ TRENDS WORLDWIDE AS ANIME FANS DISPUTE VIRAL TIKTOKSquidward Recommendation Helps Erotic Manga Dick Fight Island Trend on TwitterNetflix Considers Low-Cost Streaming Tier With Ads, After 1st Drop in Subscribers in a DecadeMay
Crunchyroll Launches 1st Italian Dubs With The Rising of the Shield Hero, My Dress-Up Darling, Ranking of Kings AnimeJujutsu Kaisen 0 Film Becomes 15th Highest-Earning Film Ever in JapanRica Matsumoto Says She Earned No Royalties From Iconic Japanese Pokémon Theme SongAnime Central 2022 Reverses Mask Policy, No Longer Requires COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative TestAnime Central 2022 to Require Masks in Certain Areas, EventsYoshihiro Togashi Teases Hunter x Hunter Manga’s Return (Updated)Digital Manga Service Azuki Licenses Mai Matsuda’s Hikaru in the Light! MangaManga Publisher Seven Seas’ Workers Form UnionJune
Anime Expo 2022 Reinstates Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test RequirementChainsaw Man Manga’s 2nd Part Launches on Shonen Jump+ on July 13July
Uzumaki Anime Gets Another DelayMacross Frontier, Macross Delta Anime Offered on Home Video Outside JapanMacross Plus, Macross II Anime Offered Overseas on Blu-ray DiscRight Stuf, Nozomi Ent. to Release Macross 7 on Home Video in N. America for 1st TimeYu-Gi-Oh Manga Creator Kazuki Takahashi Passes Away at 60French Politician Misidentifies PM Shinzo Abe’s Alleged Assassin as Game Creator Hideo KojimaManga Creator Ken Akamatsu Wins Seat in Japan’s House of CouncillorsAnd Yet The Town Moves Manga Artist Says No Anime On the Horizon (Ironically, Heavenly Delusion did get an anime a few months later)Resident Evil Netflix Series Name Drops Deca-Dence Anime, Nyaa Torrent SiteBooty Royale’s Rui Takatō Retires From Manga IndustryMoto Hagio Inducted into Eisner Hall of FameMike Reynolds passed awayAnime Matsuri Creates A New Dubbing Studio With Vic MignognaTatami Time Machine Blues Anime Launches on Disney+ in Japan on September 14August
Discotek Licenses Classic Urusei Yatsura Anime, City Hunter Films, MoreOne Piece Manga Sets Guinness World Record With Over 500 Million PublishedCrunchyroll Purchases Anime Retailer Right StufFrench Dub Voice Actress on Classroom of the Elite Let Go Due to Fandub Connections90s American Live-Action Sailor Moon Pilot Has Finally Gone PublicAnime DVD/BD Market in Japan Shrank in 2022September
Netflix to Add 13 Anime Titles in Nippon TV Deal (Berserk)GONZO Launches Crowdfunding Campaign For Studio’s 30th AnniversaryRiver City Ransom Game Creator Mitsuhiro Yoshida Passes AwayToby Fox Reacts To Sans Undertale’s Win Against Reigen As Ultimate Tumblr SexymanRose of Versailles Manga Gets New Anime FilmKyle McCarley May Not Star in Mob Psycho 100 III Anime Due to Disagreement with Crunchyroll about Union Dubs (Updated)Tubi TV Streams B’t X Anime, B’t X Neo OVAOctober
Golden Kamuy Penis Sizes Officially Ranked By Manga’s CreatorAdult Swim Stops Streaming Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Shenmue, Fena AnimeViral One-Punch Man Mobile Game Ad Delivers Fistful of CringeMy Dress-Up Darling Manga Tops 7.5 Million in CirculationPLAION PICTURES’ Acquisition of Anime Limited is Confirmed (Updated)Gaming, Technology TV Channel G4 Shuts DownNovember
Kaguya-sama Creator Aka Akasaka Retires from Drawing Manga to Focus on WritingKADOKAWA Announces Acquisition of Anime News Network’s Media BusinessThe Simpson’s Death Note Parody Episodes Garners 3.7 Million ViewersBayonetta Voice Actress Hellena Taylor Disputes Claims in New StatementCrunchyroll Reveals Hime’s Quest Game Boy Color Adventure GameVoice Actor William Frederick Knight Passes AwayMan Arrested For Selling Bootleg Copy of Dragon Ball Manga’s Debut IssueDecember
Locke the Superman Manga Creator Yuki Hijiri Passes Away at 72Local Manga Localization Company Struggles to Settle Debts By December 31 DeadlineViz Media Raises Shonen Jump Service’s Subscription Price to US$2.99Singer Ichiro Mizuki Passes Away at 74Penguin Random House CEO Resigns Following Unsuccessful Attempted Acquisition of Simon & SchusterHIDIVE: Some Temporarily Unavailable Series Expected to Return to HIDIVE in Early 2023Right Stuf President, Co-Founder Shawne Klecker Leaves Right Stuf/CrunchyrollHideaki Anno’s Legendary Gundam Doujinshi Gets Reprint at Comiket 101Vendor Hospitalized After Anime NYC Accident, GoFundMe Campaign UnderwayCrunchyroll: Some Home Video Releases May Be Unavailable While SKUs Refresh