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The Fall 2026 season is almost here, and Crunchyroll is gearing up for many new anime debuts, making the final season of 2026 an exciting one. A trend has emerged in the anime industry recently, beginning with Solo Leveling‘s anime adaptation. Based on the Korean webcomic of the same name, the anime became one of…

Disney Korea has struck a deal with Kakao Entertainment to launch what they are calling a “K-culture fund” and the pair are aiming to pursue around 10 projects over the medium to long term.

At Character.ai, our goal has always been to power new formats for users to interact with their favorite characters, stories, and communities. 

Move over blind boxes. Make room for CruffleNuts. They are a new kind of collectible that you don’t simply purchase, you make them yourself. Experimenting, making unexpected choices, laughing at what you’ve created and feeling the satisfaction of watching a character emerge from your own hands. When you make something yourself, it becomes personal. It…

Judge Dreddeasily ranks among the most influential science fiction properties of all time. Despite not having too many major appearances outside of his native comic books, the character and world of Dreddhas remained iconic, naturally making a wide variety of creators eager to put their own spin on the property. While fans might be waiting…

Six months after our interview with COVER CEO Motoaki Tanigo in March, the September 7 edition of “hololive Next” announced a series of initiatives leading up to hololive production’s 10th anniversary, including plans to unify regional and group branches under a single umbrella: “hololive.” What will happen to everything that talents and fans have built…

For ten years this industry has argued about how to bring a billion people into crypto. The conversation has often been centered on better wallets, simpler onboarding, gasless transactions, education campaigns. Entire conferences were built around the question. I attended many of them. The answer, when it finally arrived, came from a direction almost nobody…

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When we introduced Pulse Elite in 2024, our first wireless headset featuring planar magnetic drivers and PlayStation Link connectivity, we saw positive feedback from players who enjoyed the greater precision, clarity, and level of detail it brought to their games and entertainment.

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