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The official YouTube channel for KAFUNÉ, a musical unit featuring vocalist Jinsei and trackmaker Takakuzo, is now streaming a #music video for "Myaku Myaku," the ending theme for the fall 2025 TV #anime Shabake .

KAFUNÉ "Myaku Myaku" #music Video Shabake Creditless Ending Movie KAFUNÉ was launched

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1h

The official YouTube channel for singer Yuka Nagase started streaming a #music video for her new digital single song "Migi Hidari" ("Right-Left"), which is now featured as the ending theme for the fall 2025 TV #anime A Wild Last Boss Appeared!

Yuka Nagase "Migi Hidari" #music Video A Wild Last Boss

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 6h

Kingdom Season 6 continues the epic seinen #manga adaptation this season, following Xin on his journey to become a great general.

Today, creditless versions of the show's new opening and ending are now available, as well as digital versions of both new singles!

Check out the opening, set to Ikimon

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 6h

KADOKAWA's official #anime YouTube channel is now streaming a #music video for "Kimiiro, Bokuiro" ("Your Color, My Color"), the ending theme for the ongoing third season of the TV #anime Isekai Quartet .

This song is anisong singer Konomi Suzuki and singer-songwriter Kashitaro Ito's second collabor

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 7h

Just as Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc opens in most English-speaking countries this Friday, October 24, Japan will also be getting English screenings of the film across the country on the same day.

What’s more, Reze Arc will also open in 24 Screen X and Ultra 4DX theaters in Japan on Friday.

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 8h

The tiny, adorable stars of Nagano's web #manga series Chiikawa have transformed!

An ongoing "Magical Chiikawa" campaign reimagines the mascots as pretty heroes of love and justice for an exclusive line of goods.

And now, we can see them in action in their own #music video!

Singer yama, who has p

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 8h

Joker from Persona 5 is hitting the raceway!

SEGA announced plans to launch the RPG’s protagonist as the latest playable character in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds , which will introduce Joker as part of a free update on October 22.

The celebration continues the following day, as the in-game Joker Fes

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anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 9h

Based on the #manga by Kei Urana and graffiti artist Hideyoshi Andou, Gachiakuta is the story of Rudo, a boy from the slums of an idyllic floating city known as the Sphere.

Framed for a crime he didn’t commit and tossed into the rancid garbage pit far below the Sphere, Rudo will do whatever it take

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 11h

The upcoming theatrical #anime film Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Sora no Okoku to Futari no Ko (“Sumikko Gurashi The Movie: The Sky Kingdom and the Two Children”) published a new trailer today featuring Kaela Kimura performing the song “Kimi no Kasa” (“Your Umbrella”).

The fourth film in the series based

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 11h

#anime #holidays #animegirl #animeboy #otaku #halloween #halloween2025 #diademuertos 🎃💀

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 12h

Jason Fuchs was recently announced as the screenwriter for Netflix and Legendary’s live-action My Hero Academia film, and Entertainment Weekly caught up with him during promotion for HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry .

Fuchs is co-creator and co-showrunner for the episodic prequel to the It films, and he

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 15h

Previously announced back in March 2025 , the upcoming original magical girls TV #anime Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly (known as Mahou no Shimai Lulutto Lilly in the original Japanese) revealed a wealth of new information today, including the main staff, the main cast, a teaser trailer and art as wel

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 21h

Following the ending theme song " Yume heno Hitokakera" by voice actor idol unit i☆Ris, the official YouTube channel for voice actor Kiyono Yasuno (Megumi Kato in Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend ) started streaming a #music video for her fifth CD single song "Algorithm," which is now featu

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 23h

Virtual singer KAF released a new digital single song, "Arifuretetai" ("Just the way we are.") on October 15, and the song's #music video is now available on KAF's official YouTube channel .

The song themed around heartwarming "family" stories is now featured as the ending theme for the fall 2025 T

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

The top four films at the Japanese box office for the weekend of October 17-19 remained unchanged from last weekend, according to Kogyo Tsushinsha .

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc stayed in first place, earning 582 million yen (3.86 million USD) on 375,000 admissions in its fifth weekend.

It w

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a Bleach: Rebirth of Souls Season Pass owner, you’ll be able to take its latest DLC character for a spin as early as tomorrow.

That’s when Ichibe Hyosube makes his initial debut, followed by a launch for everyone else one week later on October 28.

You can see how Ichibe plays in the reve

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

The spirit of Dragon Ball fans around the world will head to the Makuhari Messe in Japan this January to celebrate the final event of the series' 40th anniversary celebrations.

On October 16, the official accounts for the Dragon Ball series announced the dates for the "Dragon Ball Genki Damatsuri,"

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

On a special October 20 day in 1999, Luffy set sail in a barrel to look for the One Piece in the first episode of Eiichiro Oda’s epic #manga series adaptation.

Twenty-six years later, that journey continues every Sunday night on Japanese TV screens and through streaming services worldwide, bringing

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of Senran Kagura Run , it’s been a few years since we got a new entry in the series.

That’s about to change, because Marvelous and developer Honey∞Parade Games announced a new mobile Senran Kagura game currently just known as Project N . Details are light at the moment, but the new game wi

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

As the title of upcoming film The Obsessed (known as Toritsukareotoko in Japanese) implies, protagonist Giuseppe gets wrapped up in all sorts of pursuits.

But what and how many?

A sample of a new song from the film, "Giuseppe's Theme," shows us!

Masaya Sano, who hails from male idol unit Ae!

Gro

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

During a talk show at Sakai City today, the next #anime from the Kaiju Decode project, a co-production between Tsuburaya Productions and Toei Animation, was officially unveiled as the Kaiju Decode: The Ring of Aidara #anime film.

A visual for the film was released alongside the reveal of the two le

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

The upcoming TV #anime based on the fantasy #manga The Daily Life of a Single 29-Year-Old Adventurer published its main trailer today along with announcements for additional cast members and the opening and ending theme song performers for the series.

The series broadcasts in Japan beginning Januar

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

An official website and X (formerly Twitter) account opened today announced that a TV #anime adaptation of Atekichi and Shigaraki's Saikyo no Shokugyo wa Yusha demo Kenja demo Naku Kanteishi (Kari) Rashii desu yo?

( The Strongest Job is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage, but an Appraiser (Provisional

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

Ahead of a planned 2026 broadcast, the #anime adaptation of Asari Endo and Maruino's Magical Girl Raising Proiect Restart light novels today unveiled a teaser visual and a full trailer featuring the series' opening song, "No tears here" by Minori Chihara ( Violet Evergarden ED).

Daisy x Daisy ( Fai

anizeen.com 🎃 @anizeen.bsky.social · 1d

The official website and accounts for the TV #anime adaptation of Yuya Sakamoto's The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind!!

( Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!!

) #manga today confirmed a January 2026 broadcast and released three character trailers introducing Dou, Jahy and Ahriman.

The Demon King'