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AI燦鳥ノム

No Yomimono stories in this cluster cover AI Sontori Nomu. Coverage during this period is a general merchandise, event, and anime release run, and the character does not appear in any of it.

Synthesized from 30 Yomimono stories · updated Sep 24

No Yomimono story in this cluster concerns AI Sontori Nomu. The stories gathered here cover other entities entirely: model kits and figures from Medicom Toy, Platz, BEEMAX, Hasegawa, AK Interactive, and EFT; anime announcements for My Hero Academia, hololive, Black Clover, Overgeared, and Fate/EXTRA Record; game releases including Silent Hill: Townfall, Persona 4 Revival, and Suikoden STAR LEAP; and convention and event news such as Shinkai Fest 2026, MegaHobby EXPO 2026, and STARTO's Netflix countdown stream.

Several items touch on VTuber music and streaming. Shinkai Fest 2026, organized by ProjectBLUE, completed its lineup with AZKi, YuNi, Fuji Aoi, Moemi, and 12 other acts, and runs October 17 and 18 at Shibuya Stream Hall with more than 100 artists. Cover Corporation named its long-teased hololive project Odekake hololive, with the English title hololive: Let's Head Out!, a TV anime bringing 29 hololive members together as an ensemble cast. Neither item names AI Sontori Nomu.

Because none of the 30 stories establishes anything about AI Sontori Nomu, there is no current status to report and no facts to cite. This dossier is empty by design rather than incomplete.

Timeline

Synthesized by Yomimono from the cited Yomimono stories below, each itself sourced, then editorially reviewed. Every fact links the story it came from.

Facts

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music_video · Animal Welfare Week, September 20 to 26, 2026 · YouTube · 2026-09-21
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game · 2026-08-21 · 2026-08-21
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ona · 2026-07-02 · YouTube · 2026-07-02
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game · 2026-08-28 · 2026-08-29
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game · 2026-05-18 · Japan · 2026-05-29
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Tokyo Animal Rescue produced two community cat support songs, "Sotto Mimamotte" and "Chiisana Inochi" · 2026-09-21
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supervised by Akihiko Shirai · 2026-09-08
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carries interviews with 12 figures, including Kumiko Endo · 2026-09-08
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covers production methods, tools, and copyright guidance · 2026-09-08
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publisher plans to turn it into a periodical · 2026-09-08
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The character is based on Daiha Uka from PANDORA's VTuber training project Human Emergence Plan. · 2026-07-02
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It uses interactive AI avatar technology from TIGEREYE Inc. to operate 24 hours a day on YouTube. · 2026-07-02
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The tool detects new videos on specified YouTube channels, creates transcribed articles and short videos, then posts them to websites, YouTube Shorts, and X. · 2026-08-29
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Applications are open for 10 initial test companies at one month's fee for three months. · 2026-08-29
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acquired its first paid users roughly two weeks after launching a closed beta · 2026-05-29
Announced
release on October 6 · 2026-09-08
Announced
development of AI Suntori Nomu, an AI version of Suntory's official VTuber Suntori Nomu · 2026-05-27

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Claim activity

When a claim about AI燦鳥ノム was confirmed, debunked, or disputed against open-web sources. The record stays even after a claim drops off the facts list.

  • Debunked game 2026-05-18 Japan May 30 · source
  • Confirmed development of AI Suntori Nomu, an AI version of Suntory's official VTuber Suntori Nomu May 28 · source

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2m ago

Chiikawa Shisa Lottery Runs October 28 to November 3 With 12 Prizes

The Chiikawa Shisa Darake Kuji online lottery was announced on October 22, 2026, and sells from 11:00 on Wednesday, October 28 to 23:59 on Tuesday, November 3 at Chiikawa Market Chiikawa Kuji. Each draw costs 1,100 yen including tax. All 12 types are Shisa goods with no losing prizes, spanning A Prize Super BIG Plush, B Prize Armor Shisa Plush, C Prize Face Cushion, D Prize Plush Pochette and E Prize Mascot, plus a bonus for buying 10 at once.

2m ago

KB Securities Projects Double-Digit DRAM Price Rise In Early 2027

KB Securities analyst Kim Dong-won, in an October 20 report, said Samsung Electronics has locked in five-year supply contracts for about 70% of its general-purpose memory production for 2027, and full annual HBM output. Total contracted memory comes to roughly 80% of 2027 production. The report projects HBM average selling prices up 100 to 150% year on year in 2027 and DRAM prices up a double-digit percentage in the first quarter.

2m ago

The Sinking City 2 Trades Open World for Density, and That Is the Point

Frogwares released The Sinking City 2 on August 18, 2026, a third-person survival horror game set in Lovecraft's world. The sequel moves away from the open-world detective adventure of the 2019 original and toward exploration, combat, and resource management with clear Resident Evil influence. Its 1920s Arkham is flooded, with roads turned to waterways, so protagonist Calvin Rafferty detours through buildings and operates sluice gates while searching for his comatose lover Faye.

2m ago

Desktop Mate Adds IA as a 2,200 Yen DLC

Desktop Mate now offers a DLC character based on 1st PLACE's virtual artist IA, released October 15, 2026 and priced at 2,200 yen including tax. The character appears on the desktop with sparkling effects, poses, sits on the taskbar, can be picked up and moved, resized with a scroll wheel, and set as an alarm that brings IA onto the full screen to announce the time.

2m ago

Solo Developer of eXoSpace Combat Engineer Wants Japanese and Multi-Language Localization

A mini-interview with Bas, the Netherlands-based solo developer behind Fantastimaker's spaceship-building shooter eXoSpace Combat Engineer, covers the game's design and reception. The PC and Linux title released on September 22, costs 1,700 yen, and carries over 600 spaceship designs and more than 200 parts. Japanese is not supported as of writing, and Bas says official localization in Japanese and other languages is a future goal.

2m ago

NTE's New Horror Commissions Vary Widely in Scare Level

NTE: Neverness to Everness added four Anomaly commissions in Ver.1.4, all with horror elements: a tiny-person escape from a giant kitten, a haunted house, a nightmare world, and a ghost bus full of mannequins. The horror varies sharply across them, and new character Kurobane's flight and item use can skip puzzles and chases outright.

2m ago

REDMAGIC 12 Pro+ Pairs 185Hz Display With Under-Display Camera

ZTE subsidiary nubia announced the REDMAGIC 12 Pro+ gaming phone in China, with a global rollout planned. It runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Chinese pricing is 6,999 yuan for 12GB + 256GB, 7,999 yuan for 16GB + 512GB, and 8,999 yuan for 16GB + 1TB, with a 24GB + 1TB Golden Saga model also planned. The display rises from 144Hz to 185Hz and hides a 16-megapixel under-display camera.

2m ago

ARCHIVESTOCK Raises Third-Party Allotment from SAZABY LEAGUE

ARCHIVESTOCK Inc., the Tokyo operator of a luxury resale platform, completed a funding round on April 8, 2026 through a third-party allotment of new shares to SAZABY LEAGUE, Ltd. The amount is undisclosed. The company says monthly gross merchandise value in August 2026 grew more than 340% year on year, and that more than 85% of items listed to date are high-end brands.

1h ago

Chofu PARCO Hosts GeGeGe no Kitaro Tie-in With Yokai Rally and Photo Booth

Chofu PARCO in Chofu City will hold "GeGeGe PARCO," a GeGeGe no Kitaro tie-in event, from November 18 to November 30, overlapping with the city's GeGeGe-ki 2026 program. Under the concept "Beware of Yokai," visitors can run a stamp-style rally to find hidden yokai, use a photo booth with the Kitaro family, and buy eight original collaboration menu items plus goods at three limited-time shops.

1h ago

Valor Mortis Opens At 78 On Metacritic, Critics Split On Boss Quality

Valor Mortis, the first-person soulslike from Ghostrunner developer One More Level, released October 14, 2026 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5, and its review scores have landed at a 78 Metascore on PC across 53 reviews and 79 on PS5 across 16. Critics agree on the combat and disagree on bosses, story, and technical polish, with scores running from 88 at LevelUp down to 60 at GameSpot.

1h ago

Bandai Releases HG Ultraman 60th Anniversary Gashapon in Late October

Bandai will release the HG Ultraman 60th Anniversary Edition gashapon in the fifth week of October 2026, at 500 yen per play. The lineup has four figures: Ultraman Zero LunaMiracle, Ultraman Belial, Ultraman (Type A), and Frilled Dinosaur Jirahs. Jirahs comes with a gimmick that lets you remove its frill. Bandai labels the set a special edition tied to the 60th anniversary of HG Ultraman.

1h ago

Xbox COO Helen Chiang Departs Three Months After Taking Role

Helen Chiang, appointed as Xbox's first chief operating officer in July 2026 amid roughly 1,600 layoffs and a business reset, has left the company just over three months later. CEO Asha Sharma said she is grateful for Chiang's years of contribution and will share COO leadership details once plans are finalized. Corporate vice president Kari Perez said the company does not discuss personal private matters.

1h ago

Blue Bite Brings Six Heroines and Massage Healing to Tokyo Game Show 2026

ULTRANOVA Entertainment exhibited Blue Bite at Tokyo Game Show 2026, a 3D romance action adventure set for winter 2026. The game takes place in a world of only women, where six heroines are threatened by a disease called Blue Bite. The protagonist cures them through massage, and choices lead to six endings. The booth introduced the heroines with panels, and no playable demo was offered.

2h ago

Chibi Maruko-chan And LOWRYS FARM Launch 18-Piece Collection On October 31

The first collaboration between Momoko Sakura's Chibi Maruko-chan and fashion brand LOWRYS FARM goes on sale Saturday, October 31, 2026. The lineup runs to 18 items of apparel and lifestyle goods, organized around matching parent-and-child clothing and character accessories. Pieces include a lip cap key charm in four expressions, eco bags with plush pouches, cushions with stored blankets, plush drawstring pouches, PVC hairpin sets, a famous-scene pullover in women's and kids' versions, and a tote bag.

2h ago

Fujiya's Milky and Look x Green Parks Line Brings 13 Lounge Items on October 30

A second Green Parks collaboration marking Milky's 75th anniversary goes on sale Friday, October 30, 2026. The theme is "Which side are you on?" and spans 13 items: seven Milky pieces featuring Peko-chan and wrapper motifs, and Look (A La Mode) pieces drawing on its four flavors and yellow packaging. The lineup includes fluffy cardigans and pants, sweatshirts, blankets, hairbands, socks, pouches, and charms, all free size and tax included.

2h ago

Gyaban Infinity VS Riya Releases 18 Stills Ahead of December Screening

Anime Anime reports that 18 scene cuts from "Cho Uchu Keiji Gyaban Infinity VS Riya" were released together. The V-Cinext screens for a limited run at Shinjuku Wald 9 and other theaters from December 11, with Blu-ray and DVD on June 9, 2027. A November 1 watch party on the PROJECT R.E.D. channel features Kohei Nagata, Ruka Akabane, Kokona Sumi, and Shinka Arisaka alongside producers Ryohei Takahashi and Takuto Watanabe.

2h ago

Bandai Ships Touken Ranbu Marker Accessories From Fifth Week Of October

Bandai will release the gashapon line "Touken Ranbu ONLINE Mejirushi Accessories" from the fifth week of October, priced at 300 yen per play with tax included. The set has six Sword Boys in original raincoat designs: Mikazuki Munechika, Kashuu Kiyomitsu, Kasen Kanesada, Mutsu no Kami Yoshiyuki, Yamambagiri Kunihiro and Hachisuka Kotetsu. Each comes with carabiner and ring parts for attaching to bags and other items. Bandai plans shipments multiple times after the initial release.

2h ago

Marida Cruz Tops Gundam Heroine Poll With 3,243 Voters

A Minna no Ranking poll with 3,243 participants and 14,626 votes placed Marida Cruz of Mobile Suit Gundam UC first among all-time Gundam heroines at 90.9 points, ahead of Aina Sahalin at 85.6. Sayla Mass is third and Elpeo Ple and Haman Karn tie at 81.1 points. Nine of the top 10 come from Universal Century works; Tiffa Adill of After War Gundam X is the exception at seventh.

2h ago

Phantom Blade Zero Leads October 29 in a Crowded Week of Japanese Releases

The week of October 26 to 31 brings a wide slate of releases across PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and Switch. Phantom Blade Zero, ANOMALITH, Dune: Awakening, Hunting Simulator 3, and the Hatsune Miku puzzle game arrive on PS5 on October 29, alongside STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT on Xbox Series X|S. Minecraft and Culdcept Begins land on Switch 2 and PC midweek.

2h ago

Bandai Launches CAPSULEVERSE Gashapon Line With Four Godzilla Figures

Bandai will release CAPSULEVERSE Godzilla in the fifth week of October 2026, priced at 800 yen per play. The set is the launch of CAPSULEVERSE, a new figure brand for capsule display in which figures stand against a relief background drawn from each film. The lineup has four types: Godzilla (1974), Mechagodzilla (1974), Godzilla (1954), and Godzilla (2023). Two figures placed back to back cross their battles inside the capsule.

2h ago

Sega Lucky Kuji Pingu Donut Shop Lineup Starts October 29

Sega Fave will release the lottery product "Sega Lucky Kuji PINGU ~PINGU'S Donut Shop~" sequentially from Thursday, October 29, 2026, at Ministop and various hobby shops. Each draw costs 770 yen including tax. Prizes include a shopper-style shoulder bag, plush mascots of Pingu and Pinga, patch badges, hand towels and sticker sets, plus a Last Lucky Prize donut shop Pingu plush about 30 cm long.

2h ago

SENA Launches Solo Project, Sets November 11 Single

SENA, active in the idol groups Sanmyu~ and MELLOW MELLOW, launched a solo project under Fegment Inc. on October 24, 2026, with new artist photos released. Her first digital single, "Midnight Showtime," will be distributed on November 11. The song is written and composed by sailon and depicts a romance built on push and pull. SENA debuted in 2013 as Seira Niihara of Sanmyu~.

3h ago

Bandai's One Piece Yura Yura Squad Gashapon Adds Luffy, Nami, Shanks, Buggy

Bandai will release a One Piece set in its Yura Yura Squad gashapon line in the fifth week of October 2026, priced at 500 yen per play with tax included. The Yura Yura Squad format is a bobblehead spec in which the head sits on a spring and wobbles. The One Piece set has four types: Monkey D. Luffy, Nami, Shanks, and Buggy. The characters are deformed into figures of roughly 6cm, according to Inside. Bandai's vendor division handles the release. The copyright line credits Eiichiro Oda, Shueisha, Fuji TV, and Toei Animation. Release timing may differ by region and store. The set is the One Piece entry in a series that Bandai is building as its own gashapon brand rather than a one-off tie-in.

3h ago

PandoraHearts Musical Retrace II Sets Two Nico Nico Live Archive Dates

The musical PandoraHearts Retrace II -madness of lost memory- will archive its October 10 performances on Nico Nico Live. The 12:00 performance streams as a full-view video and the 17:30 performance as a switching video that closes in on the cast. Both play October 31 and again November 8, at 17:00 and 21:00 each day, with time-shift viewing after the broadcast.

3h ago

Mochiwasa Day Cafe Opens At S-PiCK CAFE On November 3 With Eight Menu Items

The Mochiwasa Day collaboration cafe runs at S-PiCK CAFE in Tokyo from November 3 to November 29, 2026. The menu has eight items named for the four cats, Mochi, Chikuwa, Warabi, and Satsuma: four food and dessert plates from 1,320 to 1,760 yen, and four drinks at 990 yen each, all tax included. Orders bring an A4 luncheon mat and one random coaster from five designs. Nine goods use newly drawn illustrations.

3h ago

Cosmic Princess Kaguya Builds a Japanese Franchise While English Coverage Stalls

Studio Colorido and Studio Chromato's Cosmic Princess Kaguya, a musical sci-fi retelling of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, drew favorable English reviews after its January release but little sustained coverage, with 10 Rotten Tomatoes reviews as of the article. In Japan, the film has become one of the year's bigger hits and is generating talk of a larger media franchise. Anime Herald's recap covers what English-speaking audiences missed across roughly six months.

4h ago

ShipCrafter Adds Co-op Mode for Joint Shipbuilding and Shared Campaign Missions

Myrmecoman and MoreButterGames added a Co-op mode to the naval sandbox sim ShipCrafter in an October 23 update. Lobbies can be public or restricted to Steam friends. Players can build the same ship together and run campaign missions as a group, with enemy HP and attack power scaled to the number of participants. The update also reworks cloud and sea rendering with ray tracing and changes turret controls.

4h ago

Furyu Plans Three Bread Thief Prize Items From Late October

Furyu will roll out three prize items based on the anime Bread Thief, starting in the fifth week of October. The lineup is a super BIG plush about 29cm tall, a mascot ballpoint pen offered in three types including one of the character holding bread, and a large blanket about 145cm wide by 205cm tall showing Bread Thief running with bread.

12h ago

Black Cat Runs 52 Free Chapters On Shonen Jump+ Until November 5

Shonen Jump+ is offering 52 chapters of Kentaro Yabuki's Black Cat for free until November 5. The action manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2000 to 2004, following Train Heartnet, an assassin known as Black Cat who leaves the organization Chronos and works as a sweeper with his partner Sven until a figure from his past reappears. Yabuki said on X that he began preparing the series in his late teens and serialized it from age 20.

12h ago

Amifa's 2026 Pingu Series Goes on Sale at Seria Stores

Amifa announced the 2026 Pingu Series on October 22, 2026. The lineup has eight products: a slider case, rubber keychain, patch, A7 zip bag five-pack, water seal with sequins, flake stickers 24-pack, stamp 2-pack, and acrylic stand stamp. Designs show Pingu and his Antarctic friends in daily life, with candy-bag cases, fruit-patterned zip bags, and glitter stickers. All items are on sale at Seria stores nationwide, though stock varies by store.

12h ago

Vertex Force's Haruka Todo Gets S.H.Figuarts Set With Graviton Engine

Bandai Spirits will open preorders on Monday, November 2, 2026 for an S.H.Figuarts set pairing Haruka Todo from the original TV anime Vertex Force with the Graviton Engine. The figure stands about 140mm; the Graviton Engine is an assembly kit that reaches roughly 230mm after building. The set costs 22,000 yen including tax, ships in March 2027, and includes three expression parts, interchangeable hands, a Graviton Hammer armed part, and a dedicated base.

13h ago

Uma Musume Adds Shundai Festival Scenario And Shrine Maiden NPC Azuma

Cygames will add the training scenario "Tomo, History Unraveling - Horse-Style Shundai Festival" to Uma Musume Pretty Derby on October 26 at 12:00. The scenario centers on a Shinto ritual held once every 12 years, with a Performance Rehearsal system tied to a Performance Gauge. The new NPC Azuma, voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi, is a shrine maiden who joins as a scenario link character and arrives as an SSR support card in the same-day gacha.

13h ago

The Apothecary Diaries Turns Episode 52 to Joka and Maomao's Shared Position

Episode 52 of The Apothecary Diaries season 3 spends its quiet scene on Joka, one of Maomao's sisters at Verdigris House. After Granny and Pairin press Maomao to admit she likes Jinshi, Joka stays silent, then tells Maomao they are alike: society reads both of them by their work and parentage. The episode also keeps the locust threat and the ergot-laced cake in the slums in play, tied by food.

13h ago

Scriptwriter Toyoto Kogisu Dies at 69

The Writers Guild of Japan announced that screenwriter Toyoto Kogisu died on September 29. He was 69. Kogisu wrote several episodes of the Detective Conan anime between 2000 and 2018, including the 733rd episode, "The Wedding Reception and the Two Gunshots." His work outside anime went to live-action television, with credits on Taiyo ni Hoero!, Hagure Keiji: Junjoha, Sasurai Keiji Ryojou-hen, and Bengoshi Takabayashi Ayuko. The guild announced his death on Monday and did not disclose a cause of death. Kogisu's Detective Conan episodes sit inside a run of more than two decades of the mystery series, which follows the young detective Shinichi Kudo after his body is shrunk. The guild is the organization that confirmed the death, and its notice is the primary record of the date.

14h ago

SpiralAI Launches SpiralLLM, an AI Game Master Built from AI Ryza Development

SpiralAI announced SpiralLLM on October 21, 2026, an orchestration model for entertainment that grew out of RyzaChat, the AI chat RPG it runs under license from Koei Tecmo Games since August 25, 2026. Instead of leaving everything to one model, SpiralLLM picks specialized AIs and processes for conversation, long-term memory, game state, story progression, and consistency checks, and reconciles their output. SpiralAI has filed patents on the functions.

14h ago

Steel Ball Run Episode 5 Turns Gyro's Backstory Into the Show's Thematic Core

Episode 5 of STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure devotes itself to Gyro's childhood rather than spreading that material between other beats as the manga does. The episode shows his father as both a doctor and the King of Naples' executioner, a role the Zepelli family has filled for generations, and Gyro's Steel Balls as tools built for executions. Gyro is set to inherit the post at twenty-five, until a boy named Marco is named the first to face his blade.

14h ago

ESPERA AdHoc Live Festival 2026 Sets Full VRChat Lineup

RIOT MUSIC and Culture Entertainment have announced the full performer list for ESPERA -AdHoc Live Festival 2026-, a virtual music festival on VRChat running November 20 to 22, 2026. The first two days are free, and the November 22 final day is ticketed. Performers include Kiwa Suu, VESPERBELL, Yomi, Kizuna AI, Harusaruhi, Tsukishiro Rui, Shirakawa Shirase, Shikibu Meguri, and Doo/Sakujaku kaza. Tickets went on sale October 24 on ZAIKO, with S tickets at 15,000 yen, on-site tickets at 4,000 yen, and streaming tickets at 3,000 yen.

14h ago

K/DA's FIRESTARTER Illustrator Fujiwara Speaks on Completing the Art

Ryo Fujiwara drew the visual illustration for FIRESTARTER, the new song from League of Legends virtual group K/DA. The piece shows Ahri, Akali, Evelynn and Kai'Sa in the song's outfits. Fujiwara called the work "super fun and the best" and said he loves K/DA way too much. K/DA released FIRESTARTER on October 19, their first new song in about six years, with MIYEON and SOYEON continuing and two new vocalists joining.

15h ago

Furyu's Kirby★Diary Vol. 4 okaimono Prizes Arrive From Late October With Kirby, Waddle Dee

Furyu's Kirby★Diary prize series returns for a fourth installment, themed okaimono (shopping), at amusement facilities across Japan from the fourth week of October 2026. Three items arrive first: three Kirby sweets plushies about 11cm, four shopping mascots about 10cm, and a pink or blue register basket about W50 by D34 by H24cm. The article names a register-style piggy bank among later items.

15h ago

Inazuma Eleven School Ver. Goods Head to AGF2026 and Chugaionline

New deformed school uniform illustrations of 12 Inazuma Eleven characters, including Mamoru Endo and Shuuya Gouenji, will be sold as goods at the Chugai Mining booth at AGF2026 on November 7 and 8, 2026, with preorders on Chugaionline mail order. The lineup includes acrylic stands at 1,870 yen, trading glitter tin badges, a Polaroid shot collection, and Rairai-ken's miso ramen.

15h ago

ABEMA's MOGURA Sequel Sets Pxrge Trxxxper Opposite Hannya

The sequel to ABEMA's crime drama Metropolitan Police Department Narcotics Division MOGURA will stream all six episodes free from 21:00 on Wednesday, December 23. Rapper Hannya returns as lead, playing former police officer and rapper Shokichi Izanagi. RAPSTAR 2025 winner Pxrge Trxxxper joins as co-lead Legion, a young rapper drawn into crime, in his acting debut.

16h ago

KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO Sets ASU And BEMA Two-Man Live For February 14

KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO announced that ASU and BEMA will play a two-man live titled "I" on February 14, 2027 at Fuchu no Mori Arts Theater Dream Hall in Tokyo. The article calls it the first in-person live for the two, whose music runs on the theme of love, with new key art by illustrator Yoneyama Mai. ASU's third album "BELOVED" and BEMA's first album "LOVELES" get a simultaneous digital release on October 28, 2026.

16h ago

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro Tops Artificial Analysis Index at 55

Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 24, 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model with 104 billion active parameters and a 1-million-token context window. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 it scored 55, above Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Gemini 4 Argon at 53. The model arrives free of charge on November 4, 2026, with API pricing at $2.00 input and $10.00 output per million tokens.

16h ago

Worlds 2026 Meme Swaps 369's Champion Pool for VALORANT Agents

At Worlds 2026 in the United States, the official LoL Esports account posted a matchup image comparing Top Esports top laner 369's champion pool with Zeus's. 369's side listed VALORANT agents Clove, Reyna, and Iso. 369 had returned to TES's starting lineup after Zuian's travel trouble, and before the tournament he streamed VALORANT three days in a row. On October 24 Japan time, TES lost 0-1 to Hanwha Life Esports.

17h ago

NIKKE Adds Marian: Queen, Voiced By Kana Hanazawa, After October 29 Update

Level Infinite announced Marian: Queen for Goddess of Victory: NIKKE during the 4th anniversary livestream "To the Promised Land, Goddesses Assemble" on October 24, 2026. The SSR Nikke is voiced by Kana Hanazawa and enters PickUp Recruitment after the October 29 maintenance, running until November 19 at 04:59. She is an attacker-type unit with a machine gun, Burst Skill III, and the Burning code, and her Burst Skill raises her own attack power while hitting multiple targets. Her squad is Counters, and she arrives with a dedicated background. The same stream announced the 4th anniversary story event "MARIA-n," which covers Marian's past, a separate costume called "Last Affection" shown as a white wedding dress with its own combat effect, plus new outfits for Neon, Nayuta, and Snow White: Heavy Arms, six returning costumes, a Pilgrim selective recruitment, and main scenario chapters 49 and 50.

17h ago

Love Live! and Yamato REBEL3199 Reveal Akihabara Collaboration Visual

A collaboration visual pairing Honoka Kosaka of μ's from Love Live! with Sasha from Yamato yo Towa ni: REBEL3199 was released on October 24. The image shows the two characters running together through the streets of Akihabara in Tokyo. The pairing follows a scene in the final chapter of REBEL3199, Chapter 7: Rainbow-colored Reincarnation, in which Sasha sets foot in Akihabara, a district the sources also describe as a setting associated with Love Live!. Chapter 7 begins screening in theaters nationwide on October 30. Two YouTube videos arrived alongside the visual: a recap of the story told from Sasha's perspective and a short video taken from footage in which Sasha appears in Akihabara. REBEL3199 is the latest entry in the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 series, rebuilt from the 1980 film Yamato yo Towa ni, and runs seven chapters and 26 episodes. Harutoshi Fukui is chief director and writes series composition and screenplay, Naomichi Yamato directs, and Satellite handles animation production.

17h ago

Prime 1 Studio Opens A-SYMBOL Series With Katamari Damacy Prince And King Figures

Prime 1 Studio has opened pre-orders for Prince and King figures from Katamari Damacy, the first release in its new A-SYMBOL series. Pre-orders began October 22, with both figures scheduled for November 2027. The Prince stands 15cm with a magnetized Katamari that accepts included objects or metal items; the King stands 50cm with a movable neck and cloth cape. Bonus editions cost 10,120 yen and 32,340 yen.

17h ago

Limbus Company Exhibition Comes to Fukuoka Mitsukoshi in November

The Limbus Company -Hell Chapter- EXHIBITION runs from November 21 to December 13, 2026, on the ninth floor of Fukuoka Mitsukoshi, the game's Project Moon announced. Advance tickets went on sale October 24 at 10:00 through eplus. The first three days are date-and-time specified; from November 24 a ticket valid once during the period is used. Both cost 2,000 yen. Paid visitors get one of 13 mini shikishi at random.

17h ago

Rin Oizumi's Third DVD Sets Romance Drama in Kochi

Rin Oizumi held a release event at Sofmap AKIBA Amusement Hall on September 21 for her third DVD, "Totemo Urusai Kimi ga Suki," which runs 145 minutes and is priced at 4,620 yen. Shot in Kochi Prefecture, it is built on a romance drama with a boyfriend the same age as the viewer. A fourth DVD is set for December 18.

18h ago

Kuroko's Basketball Christmas Cake 2026 Opens Reservations With 16 Designs

Reservations for the Kuroko's Basketball Christmas Cake 2026 opened on the Priroll online store on Monday, October 19, 2026. Applications through Sunday, October 25 get a 5 percent early reservation discount. There are 16 designs: two group cakes and 14 individual character cakes, each including a can badge with the same design. The No. 5 cake measures 15 cm across and 7 cm tall and costs 5,886 yen including tax.