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The official X/Twitter account of the upcomingEven the Student Council Has Its Holes!TV anime series has revealed itsnewest character visual and trailerconfirming the cast addition ofYumi Uchiyama. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan in October 2026. 

The Digimonfranchise has posted its highest profit level in its 27-year history, surpassing the peak it hit during the original Digimon Adventure boom in 2000. Bandai Namco Entertainment President Nao Udagawa revealed the milestone in an interview with Weekly Famitsu.

Shueisha has launched Manga Million, a new multilingual manga platform that will make more than one million pages of manga available in over 100 languages, including English and Hindi. The initiative debuted on Aug 6 as part of Shueisha’s 100th anniversary celebrations.

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman recently went on “Side Jams With Bryan Reesman” for an anime round table with singer/harpist Lindsay Schoolcraft and CROWN LANDS drummer/singer Cody Bowles. During the conversation, which can be viewed in its entirety at this location, Friedman talked about the different challenges of performing on or developing anime songs in…

A Texas man has been charged with making a terroristic threat to the state government after he believed a new law prevented him from watching anime.

TOKYO – The average circulation of Weekly Shonen Jump fell below 1 million copies for the first time since official figures began, marking another milestone in the long-term decline of Japan’s print manga magazine market.

Jakarta, Aug. 8 (Jiji Press)–A number of Indonesians have names inspired by Japanese manga and anime, with 16 people, for example, confirmed to be named “Doraemon,” the name of an earless robotic cat and a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title, it has been learned.

Japanese authorities have reportedly called on the U.S. government to stop using characters from some of Japan’s most famous entertainment franchises in political memes, arguing that such content may violate intellectual property rights and harm the image of beloved characters, AzerNEWS reports.

The story and preview images for Episode 28 of the new anime Star Detective Precure! (JP: 名探偵プリキュア！), the 23rd installment in the long running Precure series, have been revealed. The episode will air on August 9 at 8:30 AM (JST).

Gojo Stock: Why Traders Piled Into Manifold’s Anime Sentiment Market. A play-money market on Manifold called “Gojo Stock” is suddenly one of the platform’s busiest, with roughly 78% of its all-time volume changing hands in a single day and its reading sitting at 50% as of August 07, 2026. The market is not tied to…