Author: James

Full Metal Panic! Family 4 took No. 1 in Japan’s latest weekly light novel ranking with estimated sales of 10,956 copies. Asobi no Kankei 4 followed at No. 2 with 6,528 copies, while the latest Kirby novel held No. 3 with 4,550 copies. Across the Top 10, estimated weekly sales totaled 43,331 copies, up 8.6%…

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Panelists on the DEG.AI Steering Committe panel included (L-R) moderator Ian Fried, DEG.AI Alliance; Bryan Yee, Innovative Dreams; Olga Krasovski, Amazon Web Services; and Randy Lake, Universal Entertainment and Dreamworks Animation.

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The market for “on-chain TCGs” — platforms where physical trading card game cards such as Pokémon, One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh! are bought and sold on blockchain networks like crypto assets — is growing rapidly. By cutting the time required for grading, storage, shipping and settlement, and lowering barriers to cross-border transactions, the model is drawing…

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