The second episode of TBS's Friday drama LOST10, starring Ryusei Yokohama, aired on the 23rd and closed with tour guide Tabata, played by Marie Iitoyo, pushing past Komako and jumping from a rooftop. Tabata had gone missing after a phone call from someone at the hospital. Her daughter Nono has an intractable disease, and Tabata was positioned to handle the tour participants' mountain insurance.
Frontier Works released Momose An Debut 10th Anniversary Fan Book -Dear- in print and digital on Thursday, October 22, 2026, under its Daria Comics label. The volume collects character profiles for all her manga works, newly drawn short manga, an illustration gallery, making-of material for the cover, an interview and reader Q&A. Animate and Comicomi Studio are running purchase fairs with bonus items, and Animate Ikebukuro Main Store hosts a mini museum and campaign.
THQ Nordic will release an update for The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410 on October 29. The patch reworks staff management so assigned tasks can be specified in more detail and adjusts production times. The economic system changes make each city's market characteristics clearer, raising the value of trade between cities. Remarriage after a spouse's death becomes possible, parents can take a hand in their children's marriage partners, and new childbirth and inheritance events are added.
KADOKAWA's online lottery service Kujibikido opens the "Kamisama Kiss◎ Online Lottery Reading ver." at 17:00 on Thursday, October 29, 2026, and keeps it running until 16:59 on Thursday, November 26, 2026. Each draw costs 770 yen including tax, with a flat 660 yen shipping fee nationwide. The art is newly drawn for the theme: Nanami, Tomoe, Mizuki, Kurama and Kirihito each hold a book and wear glasses. The top S Prize is a Choose! BIG Acrylic Stand in five character types, and winners pick their character themselves from their purchase history, with changes allowed until 23:59 on November 26. The A Prize is a single blanket about 70cm by 100cm. Below that sit a smaller B Prize acrylic stand in five types, a C Prize acrylic keychain in ten types across round and diamond shapes, and a D Prize can badge in ten types, five standard and five close-up. Prizes are scheduled to ship around mid-February to early March 2027.
Premium Bandai has opened the product page for the MG 1/100 Seravee Gincks, the Mobile Suit Gundam 00V machine, priced at 6,050 yen with a March 2027 ship date. The kit adds new sculpting for the GN Kunai on both arms and head, waist, and foot armor, plus a deployable foot setup and beam parts for a hanging pose. Reservations were set to start at 12:00 on October 22. The site went into maintenance after the announcement, and the start has been postponed.
Hasegawa plans a 1/24 scale plastic model of the Nissan Sunny Coupe (B110) late model GX5, the sport grade added in August 1972 with a direct-drive 5-speed transmission. The kit uses all-new moldings and is set for release on Wednesday, December 2, 2026 as a limited-production item priced at 3,630 yen. Completed sample photos show a white body on genuine 12-inch wheels, with ride height selectable between normal and lowered.
DeepSeek released the open model DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17, 2026, positioned as an updated, faster version of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. On the DeepSWE v1.1 coding agent benchmark it scores above GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Fable 5 while keeping cost low, and it recorded the highest scores on multiple tests. Peak pricing is $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.2 per million output tokens, halved off-peak.
Kojima Productions announced the full contents of its 10th anniversary exhibition, BEYOND THE STRAND, which runs from October 31 to December 20 at Azabudai Hills Gallery. The show includes the first public display of the DEATH STRANDING prototype, early DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH ending proposals, a recreated red door from OD - KNOCK, and a 360-degree video installation.
BLDB, the metal model store run by Shuei Network Trading, has begun selling CISON's L100, a 3.5cc evaporative-cooled single-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine model at roughly 1/8 scale, with a release date of October 12, 2026. It runs on fuel and ignites with a spark plug, so the intake, compression, combustion and exhaust strokes can be watched on a desk. Bore is 16.6mm and stroke 17mm, with a dual balancer, adjustable carburetor and belt-driven pulley output.
A Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG product marking 10 years of the film Yu-Gi-Oh! THE DARK SIDE OF DIMENSIONS is set for December 19, priced at 4,950 yen, with each box holding 10 packs of 5 cards. Every card is Ultra Rare or higher. Three new cards are named: Gold Pride - Chimeratech Rampage Dragon, Time-Space Lock, and Warrior's Devotion. Reprints include Lemon Magician Girl in an Overframe Ultra Rare version.
Shueisha is listing two new novel adaptations for December 4. Nanao writes The Promised Neverland: A 10th Year Gift, a 10th anniversary novel following Emma and the other children after the manga's final chapter, with stories about Cislo and the Lambda group and about Phil and the younger children. The same author writes Blue Box Epilogue, set before and after that manga's ending, including Taiki and Chinatsu's drive and Hina in university rhythmic gymnastics.
The PC Steam endless flight game Fly Over! 100km! Mountains! will become a paid title on November 16, the developer announced on October 9. Players who add it to their library before then keep free access to future content. Its Steam user reviews sit at Very Positive, with 81% of 59 reviews positive, and the developer cites development and maintenance costs plus continued updates as the reason.
The Xperia 10 VIII is on sale in Japan through Docomo, au, SoftBank, and SIM-free at 99,000 yen, up from the previous model's 75,000 yen as memory and component costs rose. Its new FunSync feature changes wallpapers, sound effects, and charging voice by holding an NFC card over the device. The first content wave is Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Hello Kitty.
100Year Games released gameplay footage for Medieval Shepherd, a sheepherding simulation set in medieval Europe where the player guides a flock with sheepdogs and develops a farm. Players direct the dogs through commands such as driving, gather and follow, and wait and stay in place. Sheepdogs can be chosen from multiple breeds, each with characteristics that change how the flock is handled. The game is in development for Steam with Japanese interface support.
GKIDS announced Wednesday that it will release the anime film of Uoto's 100 Meters on Blu-ray Disc on December 1. The Collector's Edition adds five art cards and a mini-poster, and the disc carries an interview with director Kenji Iwaisawa, a rotoscoping workshop, and scene breakdowns. Netflix began streaming the film with Japanese audio and English subtitles in December 2025; it opened in Japan in September 2025.
Manga Up! Global added five manga over the past two weeks, with release dates spanning September 30 to October 8. The batch includes Siketainu's magical girl comedy Magical Girl Recruiter Puicho!, the café romance Bitter Knight in My Sweet Café, Ann Siranui's VAMPXIA, the romantic comedy 100 Things the Sheltered Lady and This Commoner Want to Do, and Renjuro Kindaichi's zombie anthology We Are All D***.
Sony will release the Xperia 10 VIII on October 8, 2026 in Japan, with the open-market model priced around 99,000 yen. Specs sit close to the Xperia 10 VII. The display is 50 percent brighter, and the redesigned speaker unit raises volume 15 percent and improves low-frequency sound pressure by 100 percent. A new Point & Pay Menu opens on a double press of the power button.
Kojima Productions has partially revealed the goods sold at the KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS 10th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION BEYOND THE STRAND, opening at Azabudai Hills Gallery from October 31 to December 20. The lineup includes exhibition-logo T-shirts at 6,600 yen, a coach jacket at 8,800 yen, a BBPOD clear pouch from DEATH STRANDING at 2,200 yen, and four delivery cargo mini pouches at 1,430 yen each. A ticket is required to enter the shop.
Ryusei Yokohama stars in LOST10, a TBS Friday drama starting October 16, 2026 at 10 PM. Set in Hokkaido, the human suspense story follows the Shikaradake Incident, a mountaineering accident on a trekking tour. Shun Oguri plays a freelance insurance investigator, Anne Nakamura a stranded participant. The cast also includes Marie Iitoyo, Satoru Iguchi, Kenji Iwatani, Kohei Matsushita, Mikako Ichikawa and Kayo Noro.
Prices on existing smartphones are climbing as semiconductor costs stay high. The Pixel 10a moved from 79,900 yen (128GB) on the Google Store to 92,800 yen. Samsung's Galaxy S26 went from 136,400 yen to 155,800 yen on the company's official online store, with the S26+ and S26 Ultra raised as well. Carrier switching programs can still bring both devices down to a 33-yen burden.
At OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026, held at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka on October 3 and 4, the free game 1000km/h Cow by samirin lets players steer a UFO that drags a 600kg cow to roughly 1000km/h so it takes off. The figure comes from a Siemens blog calculation, published in 2015, of the lift a cow would need to fly.
MBC Game Studio announced its debut title 1001 Threads of Mizan at Gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live. The co-op action-adventure supports up to three players and ships on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Creative Director Lars Bonde, who spent eight years at Ubisoft on Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2, told Automaton the game is set in the world of One Thousand and One Nights.
Panasonic announced the Technics EAH-A1000 on September 30, a high-end wireless headphone with an independently developed driver that uses magnetic fluid in the voice coil gap. The price is open, with an expected street price around 60,000 yen. Release is planned for November 19 in two colors: Platinum Gray Beige and Black.
Developer Shobota published the Steam page for 'Zankure Bahamut de Maou Toubatsu' on September 30, with a demo also released. The fantasy ADV stars Leon, lent the dragon Bahamut by God, who must repay 100,000 gold each month on a 1 billion gold contract. A residual-value credit clause means Bahamut's battle wear affects God's appraisal. It is planned for release within the year on PC (Steam) at 490 yen.
The television anime of Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers began streaming its first promotional video on Wednesday, previewing the opening theme "Mirai no Ashiato" by 310. Riki Fukushima directs at HORNETS, with Tōko Machida on scripts and Noriko Itō designing characters. Sōhei Horikane voices Makoto Takatsuki and Ikumi Hasegawa voices Noah. The anime premieres October 11 on BS Asahi and also runs on Tokyo MX and AT-X.
Sankaku Head announced in a Saturday livestream on Niconico that Umaru-chan 100, a new series in the Himouto! Umaru-chan manga, will start on Shueisha's Young Jump+ platform on October 1. The original manga ran in Weekly Young Jump from 2013 to 2017 and inspired a 12-episode television anime in July 2015, plus a second season, Himouto! Umaru-chan R, in October 2017.
Yen Press announced six new licenses on Friday: the light novels Kafka's Journey, Oh Boy, Was I Wrong About Her, and The Returned Tyrant Princess Rewrites Her Dark Past, plus the manga Lilies in Love for 101 Days, Lord Hades's Vernal Honeymoon, and Desire of the Untouchable Flower. Kafka's Journey is written by Chizuru Mizushina with illustration by Haruyuki Morisawa.
Sunny Side Up will release Happy Kuji "Disney 101 Dalmatians" at FamilyMart stores from 10:00 on October 17, 2026, at 880 yen including tax per draw. The lottery, tied to Dog Day on November 1, guarantees original goods built around Dalmatian patterns and red accents across 11 prize tiers plus a Last Prize. The A Prize is a big plush of the parent dogs Pongo and Perdita at adult-dog size, about 60cm in total length. The B Prize is a blanket, the C Prize is a tote bag in six designs, the D Prize is a kinchyaku pouch in nine designs, and the E Prize is a scarf in nine designs. Lower tiers include fur charms, canvas art, picture-matching cards, tin mirrors, multi cases, and sticker sets. The Last Prize, given to whoever draws the final ticket, is a plush set of the puppies Lucky, Rolly, and Patch. Availability may differ by store.
Turn 10 updated the Forza Code of Conduct on September 24, saying reported user-generated content goes into a single review queue and that the number of reports does not affect priority or position in the queue. A human moderator then decides the penalty based on severity and past violations. A first violation draws only a warning, with longer suspensions for repeat offenses, though content the support team defines as zero tolerance brings a permanent ban regardless of history. The update follows months of reports from players who make itasha designs, anime-decorated car liveries, saying their shared work was deleted and their accounts suspended. Some creators stopped sharing work. Turn 10 handles support for Forza Horizon 6, which is set in Japan and available on PC and Xbox Series X|S, with a PS5 release planned for later this year.
The Nagoya run of 100% Doraemon & Friends is set for late April to late August 2027, with Nagoya PARCO and other spots around the Sakae area as the venue. The Tokyo exhibition in Ariake drew more than 300,000 visitors and closed on September 30. Dates, venue details, and admission fees for Nagoya will be announced later.
Sony is taking orders for the Xperia 10 VIII Sony x Hello Kitty Collaboration Model from October 1, a Sony Store bundle that pairs all three color variants with a sacoche and tote bag set limited to 1,000 units. Separately, a launch campaign gives two Demon Slayer-designed Fan Sync cards to the first 20,000 applicants who buy the phone between October 8 and December 13 and apply through Xperia Lounge.
Doyusha is adding two racing prototypes to its electric RC car series. The 1/14 Toyota GAZOO Racing GR010 Hybrid WEC is about 352 x 143 x 93 mm, has switchable speeds of 7-9 km/h and 9-11 km/h, takes five AA batteries in the body and two in the transmitter, and costs 14,080 yen. The 1/24 Ferrari 499P is about 208 x 85 x 58 mm and costs 5,478 yen. The 1/24 Volkswagen Beetle returns at 5,478 yen. All three are scheduled for release in October 2026.
At ECS 2026, held August 27 and 28 at a Tokyo hotel, AMD laid out its physical AI strategy and put a Unified Memory architecture at the center of it, with the NPU and CPU sharing one memory space and the GPU sharing the same pool. The company argues external NPUs and GPUs on small systems force repeated exchanges over PCI Express or slower interfaces, and that overhead limits how fast the sense, infer, decide, act loop can run.
The live-action series of Mamita's 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 manga is also getting a live-action film on January 22, 2027. The TV cast returns. Chihiro Ikeda directs from a screenplay by Yo Saito, after directing the series with Noriaki Kosuge. Kohei Shoji plays Keishi Tanaka and Shunsuke Kazama plays Suzume Tojo. The series ran on TV Tokyo and other channels from July 4, 2025.
Unico's TRAVELLER ULW10, a 10-inch 4:3 LCD display styled after a retro PVM monitor, is on show at the Oscar booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026. It runs at 1280x960 and 60Hz, with HDMI, VGA and RGBs inputs, priced from $289 on Kickstarter. A storage hatch in the back fits a small PC or console.
Double H Productions has released Tape 101: Liminal Descent, a psychological horror game set in liminal spaces shaped by the five stages of grief from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Players use an RC car to enter ventilation ducts, gaps under doors, and crevices, collecting items and activating devices. Each chapter reflects one stage of the model. The game is available on Steam at 15 percent off until September 26.
The TBS Friday drama LOST10, starring Ryusei Yokohama, announced nine additional cast members and a character relationship chart ahead of its October 16 premiere. Yu Yoshizawa plays Endo, a Hokkaido Police instructor who becomes Komaru's superior, and Mirai Yamamoto plays Masu Tomo, a section manager at an insurance company tied to Oguri's character Nao. U-NEXT and Netflix will stream the series in Japan, with Netflix planning worldwide distribution.
Sunny Side Up will release the Happy Kuji "Disney 101 Dalmatians" at FamilyMart from 10:00 on Saturday, October 17, 2026. A single draw costs 880 yen including tax. The lottery lines up 11 prize tiers plus a LAST Prize, built around Dalmatian patterns with red accents. The A Prize is a set of big plush toys in two types, shaped as the parent dogs Pongo and Perdita at roughly 60 cm in total length. The rest of the tiers run from a blanket and six types of tote bag through drawstring bags, scarves, fur charms, canvas art, picture-matching cards, can mirrors, multi cases, and sticker sets. The LAST Prize, handed to whoever draws the final kuji, is a plush toy set of the three puppies Lucky, Rolly, and Patch, each about 25 cm long. Sunny Side Up announced the release to mark Dog Day on November 1. Availability may differ by store.
Ibraid Inc., a group company of Mirrativ, announced that its v-cas VTuber casting service is running the "100 VTubers x Aniimo Great Adventure Week" campaign from September 16 to September 29, 2026. The campaign starts alongside the PC and console launch of Aniimo, a free-to-play open-world monster-collecting RPG from Pawprint Interactive Entertainment. Participants earn points for streaming frequency, short video posts, and in-game progress. Interim rankings arrive September 25, with final results in early October.
Kadokawa Store is taking pre-orders for a framed reproduction genga of the group illustration drawn for the TV Anime "Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World" Exhibition -10th Anniversary-. The piece shows Emilia, Rem, Ram and others, measures about 343mm by 430mm framed, costs 16,500 yen with tax, and is scheduled to ship in December 2026. Pre-orders are set to close on October 4, 2026.
Game Spark tested the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 10 (16-inch AMD), a laptop with an AMD Ryzen processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPU. The test ran Street Fighter 6 alongside Steam, Discord voice chat, OBS streaming and recording to YouTube, and web browsing for several hours. Across roughly 60 minutes of recorded gameplay, the median frame rate during the session was 60fps.
A 1/7 scale figure of Hatsune Miku, based on the main visual Rella drew for the Hatsune Miku Symphony 2025 Yokohama and Kobe performances, is up for preorder on Rakuten Books. The G.S.Collection release from Good Smile Company lists a reference price of 55,000 yen and a Rakuten sale price of 54,497 yen. The hair sculpting is described as the largest in the series' history.
Episode 35 of Season 3 splits into two mother-focused halves. The first gives Hahari a dedicated date segment with Rentaro, who lets her dress as a high schooler and takes her to a spot built around her favorite childhood toy and TV show. The second introduces Shizuka's mother through a dreary home life, setting up a serious meet-the-parents arc. The episode holds a 4.2 community score.
Anime Anime reports that "Uoto 10th Anniversary Exhibition UO10." will run at YURAKUCHO MUSEUM from Saturday, December 19, 2026 to Tuesday, February 23, 2027. Uoto participates as organizer, and the exhibition focuses on three works: "Hyakuemu.," "Chi. -About the Movement of the Earth-," and "Welcome! To FACT (Tokyo S Ward Second Branch)." A workspace will appear at the venue, and ticket and goods details are due in October.
Pal Group Holdings' lifestyle brand 3COINS will begin selling Pokemon goods on October 10, marking the 30th anniversary of the release of Pocket Monsters Red and Green. The 62 items carry three design motifs, built around Pikachu and the evolved forms of the starter Pokemon, Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise, plus one design that packs the original 151 Pokemon into a bag. The lineup runs from kitchen goods such as mugs at 880 yen and two-piece small plate sets at 770 yen, through stationery, clear files and slide mirrors, to towels, tote bags, umbrellas and pouches. Prices start at 330 yen. Stock goes to 3COINS, 3COINS+plus, 3COINS OOOPS! and 3COINS station stores nationwide, plus the PAL CLOSET online shop. Entry to the Pokemon sales area on release day is restricted by advance lottery, and each transaction is capped at one item per product per color in stores and three on PAL CLOSET.
Uoto, the artist behind Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, announced two new manga series across Friday and Saturday. Hallucination Meat will run in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits, with a launch date still undetermined but expected this year. Test Taker/Cheaters, written by Uoto with art by Kyō Yoneshiro, will run in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon, aiming for the start of next year.
GENDA GiGO Entertainment will release the VSPO! Scale Figure -Play with paint- vol.10 prize at GiGO Group stores in three weekly installments starting Monday, September 21, 2026. Kurone Yano appears first, Yuuhi Chidori from Tuesday, September 29, and Kokage Tsumugi from Friday, October 9. The prizes are store-exclusive, limited in quantity, and end when stock runs out.
TBS announced that Kouhei Matsushita and Michiko Ichikawa will appear in LOST10, the Friday drama starring Ryusei Yokohama. Matsushita plays Nobori, a company president in Hokkaido. Ichikawa plays Akane, a Tokyo insurance company employee. With the two additions, all 10 main characters have been announced, alongside Shun Oguri, Anne Nakamura, Marie Iitoyo, Satoru Iguchi, Kenji Iwatani, Kayo Noro, and Yuki Saito. The drama airs on TBS in October.
Double H Productions will release Tape 101: Liminal Descent on PC via Steam on September 19, the studio announced in September. The psychological horror game sends players through liminal spaces built from repeating beige corridors, tiled passageways, and empty offices. Its main tool is a small camera-equipped remote-controlled car, which players drive into ventilation ducts and under doors to collect items and activate devices in places a person cannot reach. The developer says the spaces themselves work as puzzles: layouts shift as chapters progress, and players observe patterns to find a route forward. The world is structured around the five stages of grief described by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, covering denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, with each stage expressed as a location. Double H Productions is a two-person indie studio made up of Suversa and Nana. A free demo is available now on the Steam store page.
GIGABYTE will start selling the AORUS PRIME 5 AP5A7N8-5103 gaming desktop on September 12. The machine pairs an 8-core, 16-thread AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a GeForce RTX 5080 WINDFORCE OC SFF 16G, a B850-based custom motherboard, 32GB of DDR5-5600 memory, a 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSD, and an 850W UD850GM PG5 V2 power supply. Sofmap, Bic Camera, Yodobashi Camera, and Amazon.co.jp will carry it.