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The supplied stories do not cover a work, franchise, or series called IA. The thirty items span separate subjects: Ankama's streaming plans for Aoki Densho Welsh & Shedar, Manga UP! Global's catalog additions, the third season of The Apothecary Diaries, ABEMA's fall lineup, NIJISANJI EN at Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2026, and G-MODE's Tokyo Game Dungeon 14 booth.
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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.
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.
CIAOPANIC TYPY will release a 20-item triple collaboration collection with Sanrio Characters and wiggle wiggle. The lineup covers bags, pouches and apparel for Hello Kitty, Pompompurin and Kero Kero Keroppi, with apparel sized from KIDS to adult so parents and children can wear matching pieces. Designs use wiggle wiggle's Smile We Love motifs, with flowers, ribbons and hearts worked in embroidery and all-over patterns. Advance reservations at the PALCLOSET store open October 24, 2026, and general sales start November 7.
Magmix polled readers about which 2026 fall anime they had decided to watch before broadcast, drawing 168 votes. The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 topped the list with 24 votes, a 14-vote margin over second place. Magic Knight Rayearth followed with 10 votes and The Ice Wall Season 2 took third with 9. Respondents cited trust in the sequel, nostalgia for the older version, and pacing across the three titles.
A first-person account of seven failed runs in Cinderia, the roguelite action game from MyACG Studio that has been in early access on Steam since March 30, 2026. The writer, a newcomer to the genre, loses the first run in 16 minutes and the next two in 8 minutes each, reaches the first-area boss around run four, and on run seven falls to the third-area boss after 45 minutes without reaching the final boss.
Pre-orders for the duck-shaped robot Microduck surpassed 20,000 units after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang operated one by voice command on stage at GTC 2026 in Berlin. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue posted that the keynote drove the surge and said Pollen Robotics, the developer, needs to grow its team. Microduck is 25 cm tall, weighs 800 g, carries 15 motors plus a camera and sensors, and costs $399 before tax and shipping.
Banpresto is starting a new prize figure series called B: IMAGIAR, built around window packaging meant to be displayed as-is. The first product is an Ojamajo Doremi apprentice tap, roughly 4 cm tall and 10 cm wide, that doubles as a small accessory case. It is scheduled to appear sequentially from Tuesday, October 27, 2026, as a crane game prize from BANDAI SPIRITS under the Banpresto brand.
A week of physical anime and print manga releases ships on October 20. Crunchyroll handles the Blu-ray side with Dr. Stone: Science Future Part 2, Kaiju No. 8 Season 1 in Steelbook, My Hero Academia Season 7, and One Piece Collection 40, while Aniplex of America puts out the Puella Magi Madoka Magica film trilogy on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. Seven Seas leads the manga slate, with Viz, Kodansha USA, Square Enix Manga, and Vertical filling out the rest.
Medicom Toy will release 400% size BE@RBRICK figures of The Mandalorian in Beskar armor and Boba Fett in recovered armor in November 2026. Each figure is roughly 28 cm tall and priced at 16,500 yen including tax. Both are planned for Medicom Toy directly operated stores and online stores. The published photos are samples still in development and may differ in part from the finished products.
The Sylvanian Families anime, following the rabbit Freya in Sylvanian Village, has aired on TOKYO MX since October 1 and streams on DMM TV, U-NEXT, Amazon Prime Video, d Anime Store, Hulu, FOD and TELASA. d Anime Store began a Thursday 19:35 early release on October 1, with other services following from October 6. TVer offers episode one free.
HanaBee opened pre-orders at AmiAmi for a 1/6 scale figure of KEKI's original character Soft Summer Mia. The standard edition is priced at 22,470 yen and includes a can badge. A deluxe edition at 23,950 yen adds a hanging cloth. Both are sculpted by K-10 with paintwork by Peng, stand about 265mm including the base, and are scheduled for release in August 2027.
Sega detailed the houses and placeable objects coming in the Beans & Alpacas expansion for Farming Simulator 25, due October 27 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Mac. Six house types come with different interiors, let players enter to change clothes and save, and age over time; delivering paint restores them. More than 80 new objects, including sheds and fences, can be placed around the farm.
A pop up shop for The Apothecary Diaries opens at Ximen Underground Market Shop No. 6 in Taipei from Thursday, November 5 to Monday, November 30, 2026, running 11:00 to 21:00 with a 12:00 opening on the first day. It sells goods using original iced sweets themed illustrations of Maomao and Jinshi, following a Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka collaboration cafe held from July 24, 2026. Purchases of 770 yuan earn one random bromide from four designs, and web sales at the Anique shop in Taiwan follow from December 8.
G.O.P will begin official service for AVA RE:BIRTH on October 28, 2026, the same day its predecessor Alliance of Valiant Arms ends service. The free-to-play PC online FPS is developed by VALOFE and runs on Windows through the Pmang and VFUN platforms. Pre-downloading of the game client opened on October 23 at 17:00. At launch the game adds a Trading Post for player-to-player item sales and a Battle Pass that grants rewards through play, and the build incorporates changes gathered during a closed beta test held October 1 to 7. Players pick from three classes, Pointman, Rifleman, and Sniper, and modes range from solo AI play to large-scale battles holding up to 16 players. The new PvPvE extraction mode Hunting Field has squads collect supplies on urban and desert maps and try to escape. Global advance registrations have passed 300,000, enough to unlock every staged campaign reward for all players.
Takahashi Shoten's Zannen na Ikimono Jiten series and Dragon Quest Monsters 4: Bianca and Flora of the Withered Tree Kingdom are collaborating. Under the title Zannen na Mamono Jiten, posts introducing the slightly disappointing ecology of the game's monsters began October 23 on the official Dragon Quest PR X account. The book series has surpassed 5.55 million cumulative copies in print. The game releases December 3 on Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and December 4 on Steam.
The Tempozan Ferris Wheel in Osaka is recruiting 10 additional VTubers and V-livers for a collaboration that began in September, after applications exceeded the available places. The project, run with the cooperation of operator Senyo Kogyo, includes wrapped gondolas, in-ride voice content, and ride tickets bundled with limited collaboration goods.
Yostar announced on October 23, 2026 that Azur Promilia, a new RPG co-published with Manjuu Games, will launch on November 26, 2026 for iOS, Android, and PC. The game is free-to-play with in-app purchases. Azur Promilia is set on the continent of Promilia, where players take the role of a prophesied figure and travel alongside fantastical creatures called Kibo. The game combines exploration, combat, and farm management with Kibo, and the cast includes anime-style characters. The global pre-registration campaign has reached 25 million registrants, and the character Anis has been confirmed as a reward for that milestone. If registrations surpass 30 million, all pre-registration rewards will be obtainable. A web campaign, Kibo Camp Great Operation, also began on October 23 and runs until December 31, offering in-game items and an event-limited outfit for the Kibo named Cabard. Rewards require linking a Yostar ID or logging in.
Inti Creates will bring a playable Nintendo Switch 2 demo of Grim Guardians: Servants of the Dark to Tokyo Game Dungeon 14 on October 31, 2026, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho Hall. The demo is the same build shown at TGS2026, running from the game's opening through the encounter with head maid Raisa. Demo players get one of two 57mm can badges while supplies last. The Switch 2 version releases January 28, 2027.
Clouded Leopard Entertainment and developer Mixed Realms released the second trailer for 13Z -Jusanza Senki- on October 23. The roguelike 3D action game supports up to four-player co-op and is set in a world where the twelve zodiac guardians have weakened, opening a contest to choose a 13th zodiac god. Players control warriors possessed by a Fox, Crow, or Panda. It launches January 14, 2027 on PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PS5.
The Portopia Serial Murder Case Continues: Burial of Oblivion, with Yuji Horii as original creator and general director, arrives Thursday, March 4, 2027, on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam. The full remake of the 1983 mystery adventure adds five new investigation files set in 1980s Kobe. Packaged Switch editions include the 1985 Famicom version on the cartridge; download and Steam versions do not. Prices run from 4,800 to 9,878 yen.
Nintendo is adding three Game Boy titles to the Game Boy Nintendo Classics line for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers on October 27: Mole Mania, Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade, and Phantasm. All three are available at no extra charge to subscribers, playable on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Mole Mania is the 1996 action puzzle game produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, directed by Masayuki Kameyama, and developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development Division with Pax Softnica; players guide a mole through more than 200 stages, and the original cartridge included a two-player VS Mode. Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade is HAL Laboratory's 1989 pinball game with four crocodile-themed tables. Phantasm is Jaleco's 1992 side-scrolling action game, ported from a 1991 arcade release, in which a murdered protagonist possesses enemies to rescue his girlfriend.
A mod called "Cat Huffing" for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is out on Nexus Mods, made by creator and streamer haggy. It lets players sniff the cats added by the separate "House Cats" mod in first or third person. Sniffing a cat fully restores health, magicka, and stamina, and grants Cure Disease plus doubled gold acquisition for 24 in-game hours.
The Psyren television anime's official account announced Thursday that Reiko Suzuki voices Elmore Tenjuin and Ayumu Murase voices Van Tenjuin. The series debuted on October 5, with Crunchyroll streaming it worldwide outside Japan and China alongside an English dub. Satelight animates, Katsumi Ono directs, and Shin Yoshida oversees series scripts. REMOW has said the anime will adapt the manga to its conclusion.
The Video Game History Foundation published the Colin Williamson Photography Collection on its digital archive on October 21, 2026. More than 300 photos are free to view, most taken in Japan between 1999 and 2005. They cover Tokyo Game Show 1999 and 2000, Nintendo Space World 2000, the Amusement Machine Show, and Akihabara game shops and arcades.
Anime News Network's This Week in Anime column pairs Coop and Sylvia for a career survey of director Sayo Yamamoto, prompted by Coop's recent first viewing of Yuri!!! on Ice. The chatlog follows her from storyboard work at Studio Madhouse and episode direction on Samurai Champloo through series she directed, and the hosts frame the piece around her absence from the industry. Crunchyroll streams Michiko & Hatchin, Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Space Dandy and Yuri!!! on Ice.
The official website for The Apothecary Diaries: The Late Lady's Treasure presented a new trailer, main visual and character relationship chart on Thursday. The trailer names and previews the theme song "Haru ga Tomori" by singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu. The film adapts a new story by original light novel author Hyuganatsu, following Maomao and Jinshi as they travel to the homeland of a concubine who died five years ago to return her remains. The site also announced a film novelization written by Hyuganatsu, on sale December 9, containing material not used in the film, with a first-edition wraparound band carrying the key visual. A short story by Hyuganatsu about Maomao and Jinshi, described as an epilogue, will appear in 1.5 million booklets distributed at participating theaters from opening day while supplies last. The film opens in Japan on December 11, with Norihiro Naganuma directing and TOHO Animation STUDIO on animation. Crunchyroll holds North American and worldwide rights excluding Asia but including India.
Kiva Co., Ltd. has added a proxy bot feature to Samurai App, the business AI agent OS inside its SamuraiAX service. Each employee turns on a personal proxy bot and sets the scope of questions it may answer. Colleagues ask the bot directly; the bot drafts a reply from that person's own materials and memory, and only drafts the person edits and approves reach the colleague. Unanswered requests expire after 72 hours.
The latest Washagana TV video, released October 22, 2026, features voice actor Yuichi Nakamura and writer Mafia Kajita trying Mabinogi Mobile, the online RPG Nexon launched October 7, 2026 for iOS, Android, and PC. The episode covers character creation, with each man building a character to the other's wishes, plus the game's life content: cooking, fishing, music performance, the Stellagram dress-up feature, and automatic matchmaking.
Chris Pratt said on The Playlist's Bingeworthy podcast that he and Marvel Studios are still working on Star-Lord's return. He said talks with Kevin Feige and Louis D'Esposito have led to concrete steps to deliver on the promise made after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Pratt said Star-Lord will appear again but would not give a date. He is not in the cast of Avengers: Doomsday, which opens on December 18.
Dream Operator creative director Oleksii Furman discussed Tukoni: Forest Keeper in an interview, tracing the point-and-click puzzle adventure's design to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and games by Amanita Design. Furman said the studio chose not to bind the game to a single fixed screen so it could carry richer puzzles, and described the project as an outgrowth of the free Tukoni: Prologue. The PC game released on August 17 and costs 1,050 yen.
NVIDIA released Kumo Relational, a pretrained foundation model that makes predictions directly against corporate relational databases. Given a prediction query, it gathers up to 10,000 past cases as context and forecasts churn, supply and demand, and fraud in a single instruction. NVIDIA says it needs no task-specific training, no feature engineering, and no flattening of tables, and that it surpassed supervised machine learning models on benchmarks of common relational databases.
At the Tokyo Game Show 2026 event stage on September 20, the teams behind three action roguelites met at UKIYO GAME BAR in Yurakucho, Tokyo, for a cross-border discussion. The participants were Xiao Yu, producer of MyACG Studio's Cinderia from China; Kim Minseu, lead programmer of Team Tapas's Witch's Garden from Korea; and Takumi Isogai, producer and director of Furyu's CRYMELIGHT from Japan. Asked why they built roguelites, the answers split. Xiao Yu said the genre keeps production costs down because the same scenes can be reused, which suits small teams. Kim Minseu said an early prototype closer to Vampire Survivors led the team to look for a genre that would let strong animation and action carry a project at limited cost. Isogai said CRYMELIGHT needed repeated retries for its story and staging, and that Hades raised the genre's recognition in Japan.
Electronic Arts announced on October 22 that it is closing BioWare, the Canadian studio it acquired in 2007. BioWare was founded in 1995 and built its reputation on RPGs, including the Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age series. Its most recent release was Dragon Age: The Veilguard in November 2024. A new Mass Effect title was in development, and EA canceled that project as part of the closure. EA said the decision was not made lightly and called BioWare a legendary studio that contributed to the formation of the RPG genre. Tributes followed from across the industry. Michal Nowakowski, co-CEO of CD Projekt Red, said BioWare was "extremely important to the history of CD Projekt Red" and that "it's sad to see a legendary studio disappear." Swen Vincke, CEO of Larian Studios, said "it's hard to imagine that no RPG will be released under the BioWare name in the future" and thanked the studio: "Be proud of everything you accomplished."
Death Kumiai and Flashlight Games will release the 27-track original soundtrack for the PC RPG The Hero's Party Has Been Wiped Out. on November 10, the same day as the game itself. The digital edition goes out on Steam that day. Pre-orders for the CD edition opened October 22 at composer Yuji Ninomiya's official shop, priced at 2,750 yen, with a jacket drawn by Death Kumiai illustrator Sabotenshi and a booklet of development anecdotes. The CD will also be sold early at the M3-2026 Autumn doujin event at Tokyo Ryutsu Center on October 25 for 2,500 yen at the venue; pre-ordered copies ship on or after November 10, so the event is the fastest way to get one. A preview video lets listeners hear 9 of the 27 tracks, drawn mainly from the early part of the game. The soundtrack announcement came a day before a separate demo release.
Sugar Slip released a Japanese localization update for Serial Lover on October 22, 2026. The game is a dark comedy visual novel fused with a rhythm game, in which the protagonist wakes in an unfamiliar mansion with no memory and must win the hearts of six serial killers or be killed by them. Sugar Slip is a Toronto indie studio founded in 2019 by solo creator Slip, and Serial Lover is its debut title. The full version launched on Steam and itch.io on January 16, 2026. The price is 1,200 yen including tax, and a 20 percent discount brings it to 960 yen until October 29. Automaton reports the game has 167 Steam user reviews, 91 percent positive, for a Very Positive rating. The update also adds Simplified Chinese and Korean, localized by KURONO STUDIOS, with final LQA by Active Gaming Media.
THQ Nordic Japan announced on October 22 that the Steam Early Access version of Fatekeeper has surpassed 500,000 copies sold. The first-person dark fantasy RPG is developed by Paraglacial, a studio of 13 developers. It combines melee offense and defense with magic, plus character builds and equipment collection. The Early Access version does not support Japanese. THQ Nordic thanked players and everyone who sent feedback.
The GN-XIII variant assault landing MS Superbia GN-X from Mobile Suit Gundam 00V is being produced as a 1/100 Master Grade kit, with preorders opening at Premium Bandai on Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 12:00. Bandai Spirits prices the kit at 6,050 yen including tax, with shipping scheduled for March 2027. New sculpting covers the head, waist, and leg armor, and the GN Kunai blades mount on both arms.
Zetteria's first collaboration with The Powerpuff Girls began Wednesday, October 21, 2026, with the "Yummy Power Up! Wakuwaku Set." Buyers of an eligible set get an original round can pouch, about 7.5 cm across and 3 cm thick, with a carabiner. The pouches come in four designs distributed at random: Blossom with a burger, Bubbles with fries, Buttercup with a shake, and a secret all-together design. More collaboration details are planned for later.
Max Factory's PLAMAX line is issuing two 1/72 VF-1J Super Battroid kits from Super Dimension Fortress Macross, one for Maximilian Jenius and one for Milia Fallyna Jenius. Each builds as the Super Valkyrie configuration with propellant tanks and booster-mounted missile pods, or as a standard Battroid. Molded parts run to 9 colors for Max and 8 for Milia, with water-transfer decals and a same-scale pilot figure.
Koei Tecmo streamed a gameplay trailer for The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother and dated it for March 18 on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam. Players control Maomao as she explores, compounds, and investigates across the rear palace, red-light district, and capital. A Digital Deluxe Edition adds costume packs. The story follows Maomao working to uncover the truth behind the False Imperial Brother.
Anime News Network's review of Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden episodes 1 to 3 describes a reincarnation story in which an all-powerful hero wakes in the body of a sickly young girl. As Nia, she keeps her past life's knowledge and abilities, becomes a child actor to popularize magivision, and beats down unsavory types on the side. Community scores for the three episodes land between 4.2 and 4.3.
Nippon Columbia began a pre-add and pre-save campaign on October 21 for VSinger NEPHLA's major debut single 'LUMINARIA,' out digitally October 28. Registrants on Apple Music or Spotify between October 21 at 20:00 and October 27 at 23:59 receive a smartphone wallpaper with a signature and message. The 'LUMINARIA' music video premieres October 28 at 22:00, after a Major Debut Commemorative LIVE Stream from 20:00 on NEPHLA's YouTube channel.
Hobby Sakura is making a 1/7-scale figure of Skeltia, the skeleton witch from DISH's original character line. The painted PVC and ABS figure stands about 270mm including the base and is listed on Amazon.co.jp at 26,950 yen, with release scheduled for June 30, 2027. A Deluxe Edition at 29,700 yen adds an original art bonus. Pre-orders are open.
Shueisha Games has released a trial version of The Season of Books and Keys, a PC adventure game built on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. The trial covers Chapter 1, "913," in which library committee members Jiro Horikawa and Shimon Matsukura take on a safe left behind by their deceased grandfather. iMel handles development, with mystery design by Nozomu Unabara of Liar-soft. The full version is scheduled for this winter, price undecided.
Black Lantern Collective and Momentum Games have opened early access for Athanasia, a horror FPS on Steam for PC priced at 2,050 yen, with a 10% discount until November 3. Players control researcher Carmen Flores in a facility overrun by dinosaurs, using observation, crafting, and hacking to survive. The full 1.0 version is planned for around mid-2027, and three levels will be added through updates during early access.
Shinko Music Entertainment released the Kimi wa Natsu no Naka Memorial Book on October 21, 2026, tied to TV Tokyo's July-season drama. The 104-page volume carries 60 pages of newly shot gravure of leads Tomoya Oku and Kazuto Mokudai, a long talk between the two, interviews with original author Nagisa Furuya, screenwriter You Saito, directors Kozue Sasaki and Shun Haga, and producers Takaya Chiba and Kozue Sasaki, plus a sacred sites pilgrimage map.
PuraPura Soft began distributing Team Liars as free software on October 21, 2026, for PC through Free Game Mugen. The 3D dungeon RPG follows five adventurers in a certain town who accumulate lies and eventually form the party Team Liars. It has item synthesis, hack-and-slash elements, per-character auto-battle tactics and auto-explore, and full automation of grinding once a floor reaches 100 percent exploration. Estimated play time is 12 to 14 hours.
NHK announced the cast for its live-action adaptation of Kazumi Yamashita's Twisted Sisters manga on Tuesday. Yumia Fujisaki plays Tiara Ioroi, Hikari Ishida plays Junko Ioroi, Miori Takimoto plays Rikako Ioroi, and Hisako Manda plays Ryoko Ioroi. Takashi Ninomiya directs, with Masao Iketani and Tomomi Maruyama co-writing. The series debuts on BS and BSP4K in January 2027.
The first three episodes of Romelia War Chronicle take Romelia and her recruits into their first fight, and the show lets her be a poor fighter who leads through strategy and tactics. Al and Ray serve as onlookers trying to read their commander. Episode 1 and 2 both carry a community score of 4.0, and episode 3 a 4.1.
A special opening video for Episode 3 of the Kyouran Reijou Nia Liston anime has been released. The video depicts scenes from the stage play "The Woman I Loved" by the in-story theater troupe Ice Rose, and uses "Deux Livres," performed by Honoka Inoue as Nia Liston and Maaya Uchida as Sharo White. The anime airs on TOKYO MX, MBS, and BS Nippon TV, with animation production by KONAMI animation.