Sony Music Entertainment Japan is set to become GungHo's largest shareholder, putting its IP catalog behind joint game development with the Puzzle & Dragons maker.
The review argues the season has lost the comedy-stakes balance that carried season 1, and that over halfway through, the story needs to start securing victories.
The headline loss widened, but currency-adjusted revenue grew 5.2%, and the quarter's real story is the split between Korea's 16% revenue jump and a 15.6% decline in Japan, WEBTOON's largest market.
The interview lays out the design logic behind the X Dash and the team's aim to turn BEYBLADE into a competitive sport, backed by first-year domestic sales that tripled the prior generation.
The episode makes competence the definition of cute and raises a question about gendered demon tails that feels new for the series.
With a confirmed October 1 premiere and Aina Suzuki performing both theme songs, the FX trading comedy now has a concrete launch plan across four broadcasters and a streaming service.
The suspension sidelines a member of the DayRe: vocal unit for the rest of 2026 while the agency reviews its management system to prevent a repeat.
The adaptation now has a full staff, a lead actor who also wrote and performs the image song, and a 2027 debut window, confirming the project is moving into production.
The trailers arrive as the Kagurabachi manga has passed four million copies in circulation, giving the April 2027 adaptation a large built-in readership before it reaches Crunchyroll.
The dissolution, which the agency said followed a review of its business direction and operations, leaves three of four talents graduating while Yoi Rayura continues as an independent VTuber.
The announcement arrives just days after a free outdoor screening at Meiji Park on August 29 and 30, and the new visual's focus on Ryota Miyagi, rather than the series' nominal protagonist Hanamichi Sakuragi, keeps attention on the film's point-of-view character as fans push for additional episodes.
The Budokan booking moves Fuwa Minato into a venue previously reached only by female VTubers and virtual singers, making the show a first for male VTubers in the industry.
The campaign uses a familiar VTuber to address the hesitation the sources say keeps bystanders from acting, moving the message from knowing about AEDs to actually using them.
The launch is a structural play rather than a single release: PANDORA is consolidating label and publishing rights under one roof, and the rumored identity of iTVY is the hook drawing attention to a model the company says will make it a hub for real and virtual creators.
The no-install demo arrives right after a free update that added Japanese voice support and main story improvements, giving players a low-friction way to try the Enhanced version without buying it.
The collaboration turns a fictional series' theme of networked survival into a practical consumer product, marking a rare crossover between anime merchandise and disaster-preparedness gear.
The re-release of the demon progression form, rather than a new Nezuko design, shows the Entertainment District arc look remains the anchor of the FIGURIZMα line.
Tatara moves AI characters from a catalog users pick from to a tool users build themselves, opening the character creation pipeline Livetoon kept internal in kaiwa to outside creators.
The dissolution follows the February 2024 end of WORLD FLIPPER's online service by roughly two and a half years, leaving the studio that built the game's pinball system with no active live-service product to support.
The release turns a real-world celebrity stage act into purchasable VRChat digital fashion, with the in-world event running concurrently with the sale and the dance gimmick explicitly built for desktop users.
The SELECTION is a reissue of the original Tomodachi Doll lineup rather than a new character set, a sign Bandai is betting on repeat demand for the existing designs instead of fresh molds.
The commission's decision places ChatGPT in the same regulatory category as Google Search and Bing, a classification that treats AI chatbots answering queries as information services and extends the DSA's strictest tier beyond traditional keyword search engines.
The shortage is already showing up in consumer hardware prices, with Microsoft raising Xbox Series prices in Japan by 30,000 yen, and a Miyagi factory would be the first large-scale South Korean semiconductor investment in Japan.
The withdrawal of the YouTube subpoena and the narrowed Discord request indicate Take-Two has already identified at least one new user, shifting the investigation from broad platform sweeps to specific targets.