Danganronpa 2 and Zozotown Collaboration Items Open for Pre-Order
The collaboration marks a fresh merchandise push for the 2012 PSP title ahead of its planned remake, with original character designs by a guest illustrator.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Ao Ashi Teams With DIME for World Cup-Themed Soccer Special
The collaboration ties Ao Ashi's fictional soccer narrative to real-world Japanese soccer history and the ongoing World Cup, using the manga's cultural weight to frame a broader feature on the sport's development in Japan.
Comic Natalie
The Apothecary Diaries Browser Game Launches With New PV
The launch marks the first online game adaptation of the popular anime series, expanding the franchise into interactive media ahead of its third season and theatrical film.
Anime Anime
Don't Fret Hands-On: Sentient Guitar Horror Game Pits Sound Against Survival
Don't Fret turns the horror genre's usual stealth logic on its head by making sound both the player's primary tool and the main threat, creating a tension that the preview suggests may be stronger than its frequent jump scares.
4Gamer.net
Jujutsu Kaisen 5th Anniversary GiGO Collaboration Launches July 31
The collaboration marks the anime's fifth anniversary with a broad slate of exclusive merchandise and food items across GiGO's nationwide locations.
Nijimen
Hunter x Hunter Greed Island Ichiban Kuji Returns With Gon, Hisoka Variants
The second Greed Island lottery expands the figure selection with multiple character variants, a common Ichiban Kuji draw for collectors.
Inside
Zoom Launches AI Teammate ZoomMate for General Availability
ZoomMate shifts Zoom from a meeting tool into an execution platform by embedding AI agents directly into the conversation flow, a move that competes with standalone AI assistants that lack real-time business context.
ASCII.jp
Tohakusha to Hold Identity V Popup Events at Six US Bookoff Stores
The popup events mark a physical retail push for Identity V merchandise in North America, bringing a Japan-focused product line to a wider audience through the BOOKOFF chain.
ASCII.jp
Yamaha Launches The Create Feat. Vocaloid Program With 1 Million Yen Prize
Yamaha, the creator of VOCALOID, is directly investing in finding new talent through a structured tournament and educational content, signaling a formal push to sustain the Vocaloid creator ecosystem.
KAI-YOU
Sanrio House Opens First Western Japan Store at LUCUA Osaka
The expansion of sanrio house into western Japan signals Sanrio's continued investment in experiential retail with photogenic spaces and limited merchandise.
Anime Anime
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Gets Seiko Collaboration Watch
The collaboration brings a high-end, everyday-wear timepiece from a major Japanese watchmaker to a classic anime series, with design details drawn directly from the show's iconography.
Anime Anime
Baby Steps Hits Lowest Steam Price at 50 Percent Off
The sale marks the cheapest entry point yet for a game that reframes walking as a physics-based challenge, from the creator of 'Getting Over It'.
Denfaminicogamer
Neighborhood Story and Sanrio Characters Collab Pop-Up Store Runs in 4 Cities
The collaboration brings together two distinct style-driven properties-Yazawa's fashion-forward manga world and Sanrio's character brand-in a merchandise event aimed at an adult fanbase.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Yandere Virus Cooperative Horror Game Demo Released, Full Version Set for August 19
The demo gives players an early look at a co-op horror game that turns infected friends into pursuers, with a proximity voice chat system that could shape how teams coordinate under pressure.
Game Spark
Takara Tomy Releases Tomica Premium Unlimited Razor Crest Model
The Razor Crest joins the Tomica Premium Unlimited lineup, offering a detailed die-cast model of a ship central to the Mandalorian story, timed with the upcoming film.
Inside
JoyPix.ai Launches AI Lip-Sync Models Motion-2.5 and Motion-2.5-Dialog
The update pushes JoyPix.ai's core lip-sync tool from a single-person model to a two-person dialogue model, expanding its use for interactive content and virtual presenter workflows.
ASCII.jp
To Love-Ru's Kentaro Yabuki Launches Charamix Project With AI Life Partner Characters
This marks Yabuki's first major foray into an AI-integrated character project, moving beyond traditional manga and anime into a behavioral-data-driven lifestyle companion service.
Denfaminicogamer, Inside, GameBusiness.jp
Rose and Camellia ~Gorgeous Edition~ Adds Online Battle on June 22
The update brings online multiplayer to a game that previously only supported local wireless versus, expanding its replay value for players who want to duel remotely.
Automaton
Life-Size Unicorn Gundam Statue Gets Final Decoration Before August Exhibition End
The final decoration marks the end of a nearly decade-long public display of one of the most recognizable life-size Gundam statues, giving fans a last chance to see a Katoki-designed variant before the statue is removed.
Cinema Today, Denfaminicogamer
Demon Slayer Infinity Castle Blu-Ray Bonus Art Shows Tanjiro and Giyu Back-To-Back
The bonus art gives fans a new look at the dynamic between the two swordsmen ahead of the home video release for the first Infinity Castle film.
Magmix
MAPPA Launches 15th Anniversary Projects With Lineup Stream and Exhibition
The anniversary stream is the first coordinated look at MAPPA's upcoming slate since the studio became a central force in the industry with global hits like Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man.
KAI-YOU
Uma Musume Gets Extra-Large Mihono Bourbon and Rice Shower Plushies
The release expands the Dokyuuto Puchi line with two popular Uma Musume characters at a premium price point, offering collectors a larger format than standard plushies.
Denfaminicogamer
Bonginkan Releases Open Source AI Agent Research Project Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale shifts the focus from the AI model itself to the workflows behind high-performance agents, aiming to make those procedures reproducible and verifiable rather than treating them as unattainable myths.
ASCII.jp
Maruzen Junkudo and PubteX Launch RFID Project to Reform Publishing Distribution
The project represents a concrete attempt to replace experience-based inventory management with RFID-driven data across a major bookstore chain, targeting structural inefficiencies that have long plagued the Japanese publishing industry.
ASCII.jp